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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

8743

Title

[OUR FIRST FILM]

Producer

Harry Aspin

Date

1948-50

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

12 mins 55 secs

Description

Aspin family domestic and leisure footage, including a Christmas display on Morecambe promenade and family party; boats on Queen's Park lake in Blackburn and Lake Windermere; scenes at the family bakery in Blackburn, where staff dance around a makeshift maypole held by Mrs Aspin with her young baby; fun at a local playground and at the seaside - Heysham, and Morecambe, where a dukw is seen crossing the sands.

 

 



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