Belvoir Castle
9.5mm film Black & White Silent 1937 1:19
Summary: Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire
Title number: 1454
LSA ID: LSA/1946
Description: Opening shot is shaky, shot from the passenger seat of a car as it drives past a large house. We next see a wooden crane of some sort, with a hanging chain; the camera pans left towards a stream spanned by a stone bridge. Abandoned farming equipment sits in a field with trees in the background. A rusty wheel is seen in close-up followed by a shaky hand-held shot and a hand touching some wood on the ground. We then see a rusty wheel and a track (an abandoned train line?) Various shots show pieces of wood and metal amongst the grass. We then see a boy's feet - wearing shorts and socks - walk across the grass, cut off from just above the knees. The boy steps forward carefully. A shot of a large flat board on the ground is followed by a shot of a small roofed building next to a tree and a farm gate, the crane in the background. Train tracks, overgrown with grass, recede into the trees. A long shot then shows the hill on which Belvoir Castle sits, gloomy in the distance, with trees in the foreground.
Keywords: Belvoir Castle; Leicestershire; disused train tracks; river
Locations: United Kingdom; England; Leicestershire; Vale of Belvoir; Belvoir Castle
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