Have Camera Will Film
Standard 8mm film Black & White Silent c.1958-1964 14:06
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.
Title number: 20355
LSA ID: LSA/26855
Further information: Bernard Chaplin bought his first camera with savings from work in 1958. He continued to shoot on film until he made the transfer to video in 1990. His films form part of a collection, which documents his family life and events in the Borough of Redbridge, as well as trips to central London, family holidays in the UK and abroad.
Whilst not all of these films show the London Borough of Redbridge, they are kept together as an archive of his filmmaking.
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