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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

4220

Title

[PLAYING BRIDGE AT THE CALF'S HEAD HOTEL; TRIP TO KNARESBOROUGH AND BRIMHAM ROCKS]

Producer

Jack Wells [?]

Date

*1937/8/40

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

9 mins 45 secs

Description

A group of people, mainly middle-aged women, are seen in the garden of the Calf's Head Hotel in Worston, Lancashire. They do stretching exercises, dance around and then are seen playing bridge. Brief shot of a girl in a canoe, then the same group are seen fooling around on a tricycle and playing cricket in a garden. There are shots of a group visit to Knaresborough and Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire. The film ends with a woman playing banjo, and a family group eating dinner and messing around on bikes in the back garden.

 

 



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