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Title: OUR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: 24 JANUARY 1932

Reference number: 3836

Date: 1932

Director: filmed by Frank Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.19 mins

Description: Film about the Marshall family (Frank, his wife and their two children, Nairn and Muriel). Taken during ther course of their fifth year of marriage. Scenes with children, dogs, on the beach and visiting relatives at the seaside.

Credits: The Marshall Cine-Magazine

Shotlist: credits and title (0.06) gvs of family (mother, father, little girl and baby boy) in back garden with pram. Tenements in background and father (Frank Marshall) smoking cigarette (0.55) maid taking baby for a walk in pram (1.07) gvs gran and grandad arriving and general family scenes outside house, playing with children (1.56) February. Nairn age 10 months- Muriel 3 and a half years (2.01) mother bathing and feeding children (2.59) Muriel blowing bubbles and giving milk bottles to milkman in the garden (3.24) children and maid (with pram) leave for a walk wearing winter coats and hats (3.53) gvs indoors, mother and father sitting with their children (4.10) March. Gran's at Whitecraigs (4.12) general greetings at door of gran's house with maid and older woman (gran in fur coat) shot of Nairn eating cake and meeting another little boy dressed in kilt (4.31) mother and gran sitting reading outside (5.16) April. At Home (5.18) mother and children in garden (5.29) [bad join/flash frame and bad quality still of previous shot] (5.35) family in garden again with children clapping and singing, tulips in background (6.04) shot of father playing ball with Muriel with baby Nairn in playpen (6.36) shots of children playing on tricycle, with ball and toy bus, mother helping them (7.11) Nairn (toddler) in playpen (7.14) Muriel and young woman playing building bricks on lawn (7.23) mother and children walking in garden among flowers, pose near water fountain (8.15) gvs family in garden (8.39) shot of gardener mowing the lawn, young Muriel riding tricycle alongside (9.02) Seamill. Sunshine and Bathing (9.08) young Muriel paddling in sea and making sandcastles with her gran (9.28) Muriel playing in garden with toy lawnmower and camera (9.43) gvs family in garden, children crawling around and playing on rugs with toys (10.56) shots of family splashing and playing in the water with dog. Good shots of swimwear of the period (11.46) everyone builds sandcastles (12.40) shot of woman and child throwing stones in sea (12.51) ints Muriel and a little boy watch bird in cage (12.59) children playing on swing with four women looking on (wearing dresses, polka-dots and floral) (13.21) girls playing in sandpit, one of them is hammering nails into the wood surround (13.31) children playing with toys in garden (13.38) July to September. Summer Sundays at Dalvait (13.43) family running about with dog, general family scenes with children and grandparents walking about the garden (15.34) Muriel, (her grandad following behind) walk down the path (15.39) Muriel and some older woman sitting outside in the sun (15.46) Muriel running around haystack chasing dog (15.51) shot of women and children with pram (15.57) car arrives to take family home (16.19)