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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

1154

Title

WILMSLOW CARNIVAL 1932

Producer

Preston Brothers

Date

1932

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

14 mins 05 secs

Description

Footage of Wilmslow Carnival in 1932. The procession includes the Westwood Morris Dancers from Oldham, the Rainbow Fairies, acrobats, decorated bicycles, horse-drawn floats and a Poynton Colliery Lorry. People wearing various fancy dress costumes collect money from spectators lining the streets.
[The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]

 

 



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