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Title: SEASIDE ESCAPADES

Reference number: 3809

Date: 1938

Director: [filmed by Frank Marshall]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.14 mins

Description: The film shows the adventures of children on a day at the seaside. They get trapped by the tide and have to climb up the cliff face.

Mr Frank Marshall began making amateur films in 1932, always using 16mm. Specially commended by the board of Amateur Cine World.

Credits: Played by; Muriel, Nairn, Ray & Kenneth

Shotlist: Opening Credits (0.10) Children in field, they find a nest, they then head down to the beach to explore (1.36) Shot of sheep in cave. Children run from caves to beach (2.53) Children playing cricket on beach, score being scribed into sand, children playing 'races' (4.41) Children changed into swimming clothes and go for a swim in the sea, dry and get dressed (7.24) The tide comes in and trap the children, they climb up the cliff face. girl falls. (9.30) Boy climbs back down to help her, they then try to climb again. They make it to the top (14.27) Their clothes are washed up on the beach (14.33) The boys carry the girl away in a fireman's lift (15.12) THE END (15.14)