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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

5066

Title

[HOLIDAY SCENES IN NORTH WALES AND LONDON]

Producer

Harry Barlow

Date

c1957

Gauge

9.5mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

15 mins 07 secs

Description

Barlow family holidays in North Wales - beach scenes including the two boys paddling, swimming, fishing, rowing in a rubber dinghy and on a raft and playing cricket. The family watch the steam train, 'Prince', pass on the Ffestiniog Railway and visit Penman Point on Anglesey, with views of Trwyn Du Lighthouse and Puffin Island. Countryside scenes including the boys shooting bow and arrows, playing and fishing in a river, climbing on rocks, sawing wood, seeing horses and calves, and watching dogs rounding up sheep. Concludes in London with the Trooping the Colour ceremony and a visit to the zoo.

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

 

 



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