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Title: AT HOME 1958

Reference number: 6639

Date: 1958

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.45 minsc

Description: Amateur general views children playing in garden, family at home, visiting Roman ruins, at funfair and sledging in snow.

Shotlist: Two young children, one boy one girl, playing in garden, wiping down tricycle. Woman with white gloves on holding toy mouse on string and playing with cat. People outside Sunderland railway station. Sign for 'Holiday Trips'. Child in hat putting money in platform tickets machine. She hands it to guard. Steam engine arriving at platform. Child climbs aboard. Guard gesticulating at train. Sign 'Seaham, West Hartlepool etc'. Train departs, child waving. Steam train passing by at high speed. Child and family depart station. Child with cushions and blanket in garden. C/u sign and arrow 'Roman Wall Brunton Turret'. Family walking on grass in distance. C/u sign 'Roman Wall Brunton Turret No. 26b Ministry of Works'. Gvs children at Roman ruins. Sign 'The Bath House'. Family, young girl climbing fence. Family paddling in sea, waves breaking. Children digging moat in sand as tide comes in. Brief view family on beach, other people in b/ground. Pan ruins of abbey. Family seated in grass beside car having picnic. Steam tractor with 'Hates Iveston' painted on it. C/u mechanism. Gvs steam tractors. Gvs fairground, pan trinkets on stall. Children on rides. Children on street, boarding buses. Houses. Sign 'Hardy Road'. Gvs house, several children playing in garden, on swings and with toys. Railway station, young boys sitting on edge of platform. Gvs funfair at dusk, attractions lit up. Carousel, dodgems. Small train on carousel called 'Doncaster Belle'. Car departs from street, people on pavement waving it off. Pan grass and trees covered in snow. Gvs children sledging down hill on toboggans. Young boy sitting on floor in sunlight reading book. Young girl joins him and flicks through picture book. They lean on floor together reading books. Gvs children sledging down snow covered hill. Ext house, snow on roof.