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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

3125

Title

[FOUR WEDDINGS AND VARIOUS VISITS]

Producer

Walter Roylance Riding

Date

*1954/56/66

Gauge

std8mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

32 mins 55 secs

Description

Film featuring Horwich County Secondary School sports day - the school choir is also seen singing in a field and pupils are seen disembarking from a bus at school. There is footage from the Heysham area including shots of docks, a sailing ship and water-skiing. People are seen in the grounds of a stately home, in a Bolton Park and there are shots of Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens(?) and a woman playing with two dogs. The events surrounding four weddings are seen - such as people posing for photographs - as is a Whit Walk. Closes with footage of a holiday in East Anglia - there are shots of a beauty contest on Yarmouth Beach, boats on the Norfolk Broads and the Oulton Broad Yacht Station near Lowestoft.

 

 



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