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Film Number

10452

Title

[SCHOOL SPORTS DAY & PLAYGROUND SCENES]

Producer

David Mills

Date

1976

Gauge

std8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

17 mins 21 secs

Description

In a garden a boy and girl sit at a table drinking tea and eating biscuits then pick flowers and plant seeds The little boy plays with a spider while his sister cuts the lawn. Children folk dancing at a school show then the Mills children riding horses and playing cricket in a caravan park. It's a knockout style games at a school's sports day then a steam traction engine rally with funfair rides. The children enjoy donkey rides then in a playground take turns on the slide, see saw and swings followed by the little boy fishing with a net.

 

 



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