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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221535-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: England,United Kingdom
Location: Whitby,York
TC Begins: 16:00:11
TC Ends: 16:10:50
Duration: 00:10:39
English Children (Life In The City) Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. 16:00:34 Boys shoot marbles in school yard as girls jump rope, dancing; go back inside. Boys wear ties & coats. Tommy & class drawing; outside watching older brother Frank playing cricket, batting & scoring runs. Tommy & others wearing school caps. 16:02:43 Girl out of corner grocery store; his sister Joan & mother go in; shopping, buy apples & pay w/ shilling, six-pence & pennies, CU. 16:03:21 Walking home on York, England old city wall w/ traffic, railroad & rooftops beyond. Pan over York Minster Cathedral. Father, engineer / engine driver, meets boys in railyard. Sign: York. 16:04:14 Suburban semi-detached houses along street; Joan picks flowers in yard / garden. 16:04:41 Mother butters bread for tea, heats water over fire & pours over tea in pot. Family sits down to cold meat, tomatoes, bread & butter; jam & cake. Clock 6:00. Frank turns on radio sitting on piano. 16:05:52 Family sits down. MCUs boy grins, Joan talking. Takes food out to dog. Father works in garden. 16:06:35 Holiday at seaside; family walks into station, past ticket collector & train arrives. 16:07:14 Int. of passenger car, people boarding; family into compartment, put bags up & look out window. View of train leaving from platform. CU Mother holds dog. Shots out window of countryside, farms, hedges. Boys at train windows in corridor. 16:08:31 Whitby, North Yorkshire harbor; looking at fishing boats. Walk & village seen across boats w/ fishermen tying nets & smoking pipes in MCU. Village streets, family walks up steps to grandmother’s cottage. Slate rooftops. Views of town behind. Walking on lane past hedge & thru gate to door. She & grandfather greet. 16:10:38 Sitting & talking around fire in living room. Post War England; Post-WWII; Family life; Culture; Sociology; Home life; Food; Meals; Vacation; Sports Cricket;