Unidentified (Holiday)
Standard 8mm film Colour Mute ? 4:35
Summary: Short home movie showing children on holiday, digging sandcastles and exploring rock pools on an unidentified location in the UK.
Title number: 19587
LSA ID: LSA/25973
Description: Through a shaky image a small rock alcove becomes clear. There is a young girl sitting underneath the hanging rock. Water runs down a small stream over dark mossy rocks. A woman in a fold-out chair picks at some food, she is wearing a white bikini top and blue shorts. A young boy at sitting at the woman's feet wears a green top, he is also eating. A toddler in a sun-hat sucks on a red ice-lolly. A young girl in yellow is sitting next to the toddler and is also eating, behind them both is a large grey rock. The woman in the fold-out chair shovels sand with a small plastic shovel. The three children are playing together in a small shallow stream of water. The toddler throws her empty ice-lolly stick into the stream and watches it float away. The toddler chases after and picks up her lolly stick before throwing it away again. The young boy picks up two buckets full of sand, one yellow, one red. A very tiny crab creature crawls sideways across a rock, a finger points at it. The young girl rubs a slightly sunburnt leg with a towel. The tiny crab is poked at by a finger and then stumbles down the rock. The toddler holds a small red toy with a string. A man on a fold-out chair tries to catch some shade underneath a rock. The image goes black for 22 seconds. The young boy stands on the beach, beyond the seaweed and rocks the sea glistens in the sunlight. The toddler and the young boy play together in the rock pools. A dog squats on the beach. Large rocks loom over the beach, in the sandy spots between the rock pools many families have gathered to sunbathe and play. A gathering of four adults on fold-out chairs watch the toddler play with a red bucket. The toddler joins the young boy in a rock pool. The toddler gathers water in the bucket then pours it back into the pool. The young boy digs up rocks at the edge of the pool to release the water into a stream back to the sea. We watch the water float back to the glistening sea.
Further information: Mr Victor Ashlee was a local resident and keen filmmaker.
He lived at Eversley Avenue, Barnehurst and later at Caithness Gardens, Sidcup. His four children named Christine, Peter, Diane and Andrew were born between 1957 and 1969 and feature in many of the films in this collection.
Keywords: paddling; swimming costumes; beaches; rock pools; sun hat; ice lollies; bucket and spade; crabs; sunshine; sunbathing; family holiday; seaweed
Locations: United Kingdom; England
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