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Title: FAMILY NEWSREEL 1940, 1941, 1942, 1948

Reference number: 12514

Date: 1940 - 1942 / 1948

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.23 mins

Description: Family home movies including children playing in gardens and trips to the park, the beach and Loch Lomond.

See also ref. 12513

Shotlist: The 1940 Family News Reel. A Holiday by the Seaside. Children playing at the beach with a model yacht. Children paddling and playing in the sand. Pan of beach huts. Family sitting on picnic rug on the sand as small girl and boy play. The Leisure Hour. Family outside a house in a garden. Girls play with a bat and ball. Girl playing by a tree stump. Older members of the family sit and read. Acrobatics and Eurthmics. Family in garden. Children demonstrate gymnastics, some adults try too. Girl dancing for the camera. A Picnic in the Garden. Two girls having milk outside in the garden seated at a small table. C/u of the girls as they have their picnic of milk and biscuits. Older woman in the garden. Oh Boys What Is this. Sliders. Family eating sliders and ice cream cones in the garden. Scullery Beauties. Three women in the garden playing up to the camera. That was work! Now for some play. Three women dancing and playing leap frog in the garden. Reflections on Loch Lomondside. Gv of landscape. A Modern Reaper at Work. Reaper in a field. Queens Park winter. Snow covered streets. Man clearing a pavement path. View of frozen park. Feeding birds in the park by a small pond. A Visit to No. 6. Toy car track. Small boy and girl playing in a garden. Some Animal studies. Children with rabbits. Girl feeding chickens. A sheep and lamb in a field. Family with baby outside a house. Two girls walk towards the camera. Older girl holding the baby. Girl playing in the garden with toy spade and rake. Girl rolling in the grass. Older family members sunbathe. Girl playing on a swing. Family sitting together on a rug. Baby in a pram. Children playing. Adults sunbathing and playing with children. C/u of baby. Two girls in a garden. Family play ring-a-ring-a-roses. Children playing. Children playing in a different garden. Girl skipping. Boy tries to copy the older girl.