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Title: FAMILY FILM - J. REID

Reference number: 4695

Date: 1947*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.57 mins

Description: Family film, of children playing, partaking in various activities, and family life in a country home.

Shotlist: a mother greets children outside grand building - perhaps boarding school (?) Organised outdoor sports day - sprint races for children and adults, egg and spoon race, long jump. Stopping for picnic. Children are presented with awards and trophy (2.32) father and son leave country house with rifles - they shoot a rabbit (3.44) children petting lambs, cuts to them angling in river, cuts to them playing in their house's garden (6.56) family portraits - posing for camera (7.49) boys chopping down tree with axe (10.38) family members inside and outside house - inside living room they relax drinking tea; mother at dressing table in bedroom (13.47) playing table tennis (14.19) gvs golfing (16.41) elderly ladies walking in garden (17.45)