Dr Barnardo's and Migration (Emigration)
16mm film Black & White Sound 1937 14:00
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Summary: Film showing children migrating by ship, then at Picton Farm School in Australia.
Title number: 10743
LSA ID: LSA/13653
Description: Captions tell of Barnardo's helping to populate The Empire. Train full of migrants leaves station; children on board ship walk across deck; W.W. Hind Smith on deck with children; waving goodbye; ship leaves quayside; on the bridge; playing deck games; egg and spoon race; sack race; swimming; in Australia. Picton Farm School; Barnardo inspectors call at homes where Barnardo children have been employed, a boy as a farmhand and a girl as a domestic servant. Mr Gree, Chairman of the Australian committee, visits a girls' home; girls dressed in Rangers uniform; before and after contrasts in still form.
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