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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

2224

Title

[BABY RUTH]

Producer

Unknown

Date

c1940s

Gauge

9.5mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

6 mins 10 secs

Description

Family film of a baby. Includes interior shots of a woman washing the child in a bowl on the floor. Various items of clothes are seen drying on a clothes horse in the background. Also features scenes of the baby on its christening day - members of the family are seen standing in a garden with the vicar. Includes scenes of several different people holding the baby. Concludes with miscellaneous shots of the baby in a pram; sitting on a blanket; learning to walk and sitting inside a play pen.

 

 



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