Description: The film opens by showing the modern building and grounds of Brandon Estate. It is a grey day. There is a shot from the side of one of the tower blocks, showing windows and enclosed balconies. In front of one of the tower blocks is a Henry Moore sculpture - Two Piece Reclining Figure No 3 1961. A shot of the estate from above shows the extent of modern housing development in the area. From within a precinct in the estate, we see a coach waiting on the road.

Colourful homemade title cards (TCs) appear.

(TC): Brandon Estate Cine Club Presents

(TC): A Day At The Sea

(TC): or 'Ave A Blow Bill

Over the titles, a soundtrack begins. We hear a Pathé fanfare-style sound, before the music changes to the Beatles, 'Ticket to Ride'. We see two shots of the 'Beatles For Sale' album LP sleeve, front and back covers.

(00:38) The front of the coach is seen. It is a Bedford Bella Vega coach, that has the name 'StarDuster', where the number plate should be. The number plate FML 516B has been moved up onto the radiator grille.

Children and adults from the estate wait and mill around by the coach door. Two of the children are wearing bright red jumpers, and one girl has a distinctive 60s hairstyle of fringe and and two 'pigtails' covering her ears. There is an older man in a trilby and jacket with a clipboard. A woman with a blonde beehive hairstyle is crossing the road with her two small children. They all look very smart and the girl is clutching a picture book. There is a shot of people in the flats on their covered balconies.

More shots of residents waiting. We can see that all the children are wearing badges with their names on (the process of making these is shown in the film Canvey for the Cup). People are seen boarding and waiting on the coach. One young girl peers out of one of the windows.

(01:13) The camera shows a map and zooms into it. We see coaches in some sort of car park, presumably some sort of canteen/service stop. Inside, children and adults sit at tables to have refreshments. We see shots of children in what look like hand-knitted jumpers and an older woman in a summer suit holding a baby while drinking a hot drink.

(01:37) We see people leaving the canteen and making their way back to the coach. Children inside the coach look excited and wave to the camera. Back on the road, the camera films from the front window of the coach at the next coach in front. Children look out of the back of the coach in front and excitedly bounce in their seats. The weather still looks grey!

Inside one of the coaches, we see mainly women and children sitting in seats that say 'Starduster Coaches' on the headrests. We see the man driving the coach who is smoking a cigarette. The driver realises he is being filmed and pulls a funny face at the camera. On the map, the coach's route by a simple stop motion animation - dots appear marking the way from London to Canvey Island. We see a close up of their destination on the map

Intertitle: Canvey 1966

Fantastic shot of children on mechanical horses by an amusement arcade. A woman with a tall 'up do' hairstyle and cat eye glasses supervises the children. The young girl riding the mechanical horse has a large white ribbon in her hair. You get the feeling that the trip was a special occasion and that residents have made an effort in dressing up for it.

Shot of family group outside a casino/amusement arcade. We see an Illuminated sign saying 'Fresh Peanuts, Popcorns, Toffee Apples and Candy Floss'. The family are buying candy floss. There is a small girl with a massive candy floss - her mother is trying to tie her hair back as she eats it.

(02:54) We see the entrance to a bingo hall. Inside there is a row of women in front of bingo boards. There is a girl in a pushchair in an overcoat outside, whilst the women are playing bingo. It seems that some of the women are also wearing identifying badges. At this point, the song 'Ticket to Ride' mixes with the sounds of the bingo hall.

(03:07) We are now in the funfair. The soundtrack stops and we hear the natural ambient sounds of the amusement arcade and park before some playful circus-style music begins.

A girl stands in front of some attractions - a Hall of Mirrors that costs 6 old pence for an adult and 3 old pence for a child, and another attraction called 'Laughs in the Dark' . We see children muck around on the balcony of one of the attractions. They seem to be holding a mat to sit on when going down a helter skelter. There is a man by the side of the dodgems giving two boys money for the rides. There are different shots of different fairground attractions. There is a great shot from above of a spinning ride which we see is called 'Thriller'. We see people having been on the ride. One teenage girl is dizzy, holding their head while her friend smiles. Lovely shots of the top and bottom of the Helter Skelter and a great one as someone goes down it and films from their point of view. There is a ride called 'Wild Mouse' which is a roller coaster. We see the same young woman who was holding her head along with her friend getting on the 'Wild Mouse'. Behind in another rollercoaster car three children wait for the ride to begin. Lovely point of view shots up and down and round the track and then shots of other carriages with people in them. We hear the sounds of the rollercoaster and the thrilled shrieks of those riding it!

(05:03) We are now at the dodgems. We see children and adults driving lovely multicoloured cars. A scene by a building with 'saloon' on the window. A group of women with bags and pushchairs and children are outside. The same woman with the cat eye glasses from earlier in the film, now with her 'up-do' hairstyle covered in a scarf, is smoking and drinking half a pint of what looks like bitter or a coke. Light-hearted, comic music begins on the soundtrack.

(05:31) Shots of older and younger members of the party outside of arcade and eating candy floss. A group of women are larking around dancing and lifting up their skirts, whilst on another part of the green they are on, a family is sitting quietly, watching as their children play, rolling down the hill etc. There is a shot back towards the building where the coach had been parked at the top of the beach.

(06:00) A woman walks along a path at top of beach with her children. On the beach, other women are putting up deckchairs. Another woman helps a small boy into a bathing costume. Various shots of residents, mostly women, relaxing in deckchairs on the beach. Lots of shots of children playing on the beach and paddling in the water. Groups of boys are playing at the seashore, shrimping with buckets and building sandcastles. It is clearly breeezy and chilly as children have jumpers and vest on over their swimming trunks and women and girls have jackets and cardigans on. Lots of activity on the beach and paddling, with boys splashing each other with their shrimping nets. Three black children, a boy and two girl, paddle in the sea. Boys dig a hole on the beach. A little boy and a group of girls with their dresses rolled up into their pants paddle in what looks like a marked off section of sea.

(09:01) A group of men and boys are blowing up an inflatable dinghy... making it look like hard work. The music cuts out for this scene so that all we hear is the sound of the men and boys blowing. The comic music starts again. It is clear they are having no luck! We cut to a street. Three men are walking to a Mobil garage. They have the inflatable dinghy and are going to use the tyre pump at the garage to inflate it! One of the men walks out of the garage in the direction of the beach, with the dinghy on his back. We see him go onto the beach whilst people look on. We see three boys in the boat, which seems to be semi- sinking, whilst an older man is getting changed at the top of the beach, whilst his daughter(?) holds a towel in front of him. Amusing, as the wind is blowing the towel. A larger group of children play with the dinghy. The man who was changing, shoos the children from the boat and gets in it and lies down. One of the boys appears to open a valve on the boat, which then starts sinking. The man hams it up as he drags the boat up onto the beach and pretends to fall down. A man in a uniform appears to give him life saving exercises. We then see him in shirt and boxer pants and socks walking away, with two other man, carrying the deflated dinghy. More shots of the busy beach, full of activity and people. The film finishes as two young women walk past the camera. The camera appears to linger on their rear view...

Intertitle: The End