Lyn and Joanna
Super 8mm film Colour Mute 1974 3:22
Summary: Lyn Brookes in the first years of her marriage, including interior shots of home as she bottle feeds her new baby daughter.
Title number: 19433
LSA ID: LSA/25811
Description: The pale green front door of a suburban semi at Ashburton Avenue, Goodmayes, Ilford. A young woman, Lyn, dressed in a short, pink, flouncy maternity frock comes out and shuts the door behind her. She walks down the path, into the street and off down the road clutching her small grey suitcase, then pauses to turn back, smile and wave.
A tiny new born baby in a white knitted bonnet and shawl lies sleeping peacefully in the arms of her mother, Lyn, in the front seat of a car. Lyn is dressed in a short-sleeved black dress. She gets out and, smiling a little apprehensively, carries her baby through the garden towards the house.
Inside the house, Lyn sits on a white rocking chair in front of a window and bottle feeds her baby. She wears a lilac dress with a frilly collar and large sleeves. The baby wrapped in a white shawl sucks away placidly. Lyn reaches inside the wrappings, feeling for a tiny hand which she gently pulls out and waves at the camera. Now she 'burps' the baby - holding her firmly upright with one hand while she rubs her back with the other. The camera pans around their 1970s sitting room, with its brown and beige 3 piece suite and potted plants. Then back to the baby still waving at the camera.
Lyn walks into the sitting room carrying the baby who is a little bigger now, and dressed in an orange and white top over a white babygro. The baby is still having her hand waved at the camera by her clearly adoring mother. Lyn wears a short, loose red and white flowered dress. They sit down on the white rocking chair, by the large white teddy, where Lyn holds the baby up for the camera.
Credits: Richard Brookes
Cast: Richard and Lyn Brookes with baby daughter, Joanna.
Further information: A home movie made by Redbridge residents Richard and Lyn Brookes in the first years of their marriage and after the birth of their first child.
Keywords: Family; babies; Pregnancy; Bottle feeding
Locations: United Kingdom; England; Essex; Ilford
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