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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

5055

Title

[CUBS IN WALES AND CONISTON]

Producer

Eric Smith

Date

1967-9

Gauge

std8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

19 mins 39 secs

Description

Cubs board the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog and Mr Smith films their journey as they pass through Minffordd and stop at Tan-Y-Bwlch. Footage of the boys staying on the Coniston Hall campsite in the Lake District. They hike up to the summit of the Old Man of Coniston and also do some rock climbing. They drive to Tarn Hows and build shelters in the woods. Next, scenes from the trip to Coniston the following year. They brush their teeth at the lakeside, go for a hike and stop for a picnic. They do some abseiling and climbing in the snow, and return to the bottom of the mountain.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]

 

 



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