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Title: FAMILY HOLIDAYS ON THE ISLE OF MAN AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Reference number: 9480

Date: 1975*

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 32.43 mins

Description: Family holidays to the Isle of Man and the Solway Lido Holiday Camp in Cumbria, plus a lively Christmas party and first communion procession in Dumbarton.

See also refs 9479 9481 and 9482

Shotlist: [no title] Gvs family with toddler on board car ferry, family with toddlers on beach sunbathing on deckchairs, paddling in the sea, family board horse drawn vehicle reading 'to the Manx electric railway' (2.12) gvs women pushing prams along street in Douglas, Isle of Man with parked cars, toddler in pram with ice cream, family in street beside putting green, family on motor boats on pond (4.45) gvs people racing miniature racing cars on racetrack, man directing cars, sign advertising midget racing cars, people putting helmets on then driving off, people getting out of cars (7.46) Gvs family walking along pier next to ferry at night, family walking in daytime along sea front, man sunbathing on a wall, family sitting on bench watching children playing at boating pond (9.57) gvs women crossing road, people leaving theatre, family with luggage cross road with busy traffic, women wearing rain bonnets and pushing prams cross road (10.45) family smoking and eating on deck of ferry, army cadets pass by, women in house smoking and tweezing eyebrows, man enters and shields his eyes from the camera (12.06) gvs women in house dancing and smoking, man joins in, gala queen entering building with escorts and piper, boys playing football with referee on a muddy pitch (14.44) gvs Christmas or New Year party, bottles and cans of alcohol in kitchen, man dancing beside a Christmas tree, woman feeding baby with bottle, other people sitting nearby, woman brandishing bottle of J&B whisky and pretending to drink from it, people drinking and chatting, man raises two fingers to the camera, woman smoking with baby on lap, men in kitchen drinking, man puts arm round woman and kisses her (18.04) gvs family sitting on deckchairs on the beach, boy pulls jumper over woman's head, woman lifts jumper of another woman, girl playing with bucket and spade, children on donkeys on the beach, family paddling in the sea, man lifts girl onto his shoulders and walks into the sea, the girl starts crying and he returns her to a woman on the beach (20.44) children on dodgems going round a small track, family departing from the Manx electric railway on the Isle of Man, man and two boys on motor boat 'Ben Ain' on boating pond, women and children on roundabout, children on slide (22.27) gvs family leaving bus and waving to camera, sign at entrance to Solway Lido Holiday Camp, Cumbria, woman in car with children, she wipes her face with cotton wool pad, woman and children get out of car and stand in front of camera, other people arrive (24.13) family on beach, children with towels changing out of swimsuits, man gets out of car, lies down on grass then runs in and out of the men's toilet (26.02) gvs women in swimming pool, woman in bikini slides down chute, [overexposed] the women get out of the pool and wrap towels round themselves (27.43) people skating round an outdoor roller skating rink, child going down a slide, young girl in pyjamas running about a house, smiling woman getting into a car on caravan park, followed by many other people (presumably exiting on the other side) (29.21) gvs three girls in first communion dresses running down the street beside a block of flats (probably Dumbarton) past McLoughlins licenced grocer, the girls hold hands and walk towards the camera, procession of girls in communion dresses walk past the camera with hands in prayer, followed by procession of boys, one boy runs to catch up, procession of girl guides holding Union flag, Girl Guide flag and Vatican City flag, procession of altar boys holding candles, priest walks past, rows of girl guides and boy scouts line pavement leading towards a block of flats, altar boys lead procession of children from the church (possibly in Bellsmyre, Dumbarton), followed by priest, girl guides and the rest of the congregation (32.43)