Have Camera Will Film

Standard 8mm film Black & White Silent c.1958-1964 14:06

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Summary: Early attempts at filming with Bernard Chaplin's first camera (Bolex). The film includes his maternal grandparents at home at 10 Quilter Street ,Bethnal Green. They had lived here since the late 1920’s. There are also views of Tower Bridge, the Pool of London taken from the top of the Monument, a family holiday to Dordogne and the South of France (Cauterets falls near Lourdes), Josephine Baker’s Chateaux des Milandes, Bordeaux Roman Amphitheatre, the fun fair at Battersea Park, London Zoo, a day trip to Brighton, a day trip to Canvey Island with parents, sister and Aunt Hetty, and a day trip to Clacton with Aunt Rose. Other shots are on a scooter with friend Arthur Booth at Stoke Newington on the way to Highbury (Arsenal v Sheffield Wednesday August 1959 score 0-1. There is a nice shot of the trolley buses.

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