Brandon Summer Fete 1971
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 1971 6:41
Summary: 1971 amateur film of the annual summer fete at the Brandon Estate, Southwark, including games, stalls, a raffle, and bingo.
Title number: 1085
LSA ID: LSA/1503
Description: Hand-painted title card: Brandon Summer Fete 1971.
A very small boy runs on the grass and laughs.
[00:16] Boys throw soft balls at stacked tin cans to knock them over. The boys standing behind the cans to catch the balls and restack the tins laugh as the tins fall on them as they reach to pick up the balls.
[00:47] People at the white elephants stalls look at the second-hand goods. [01:26] At the 'Clear the Lines' game, children roll pennies onto a board of numbers divided by lines. An inter-racial group of children stands around the table.
[02:04] At a food stall, women sell bags of popcorn and slices of honey dew melon.
[02:38] Shots of a flower stall and two girls talking to the stallholder.
[03:13] At another games table, people stick a strip of white paper into sand (the one closest to the buried prize must win it). At a stall of squash and pies. [03:46] Shots of the raffle stall's prizes. A woman picks a winning number out of a box and hands over a prize. Shot of all the old raffle tickets on the grass.
[04:17] At another stall where people knock down tin cans with soft balls, winners get a goldfish.
[04:55] In the bingo area, a woman with a microphone calls out the numbers. The participants, including a woman in a wheelchair, sit in rows or around tables marking their cards.
[05:51] As the day winds down, people leave, some with their prizes, and a man picks up the rubbish.
Credits: Richard Morgan (Filmmaker); Brian Waterman (Filmmaker)
Further information: The Brandon Estate was built in 1958 and housed people from Bermondsey whose houses had been demolished in slum clearance. The residents formed several clubs, and the cine club filmed events run by the social club, which met above the library. Filmmaker Brian Waterman joined the cine club age 17 and bought his camera with his first pay packet (he worked for London Underground).
Keywords: Brandon Estate; Summer; Fete
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Southwark
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