Description: Title Card "This film was highly commended by Mr Alexander Mackendrick in the 1950 Scottish Amateur Film Festival"

The film opens with a series of painted title cards with yellow text on a green patterned background that read "Perchance"; "Introducing Eileen Patricia"; "Recorded in Kodachrome by Her Proud Daddy"; "S.F.Martin, ARPS"; "It is only a tiny garden but it holds my love and you."

The first actual shots are of a montage of colourful flowers blowing in the wind against a bright blue sky. One final cut takes us from a pink flowery shrub as the camera moves down to reveal a suburban back garden. A woman (Mary Martin) is sitting in a deckchair on a very neatly kept lawn, reading a magazine. Next to her is a bird bath. From over her shoulder we see that the magazine is entitled "Illustrated" and has a spring lamb on the front cover. Mary hears a noise to one side and we see her get up and walk over to a newly revealed baby basinet standing on legs in the garden. A CU on a small newborn baby who is crying and red faced. Mary picks up baby and bounces her in her arms. Baby Eileen is fed milk from a double ended "banana" bottle, whilst Mum sits back in the deck chair.

Intertitle: Three months later.

Mary has baby Eileen in her arms as she adjusts the bedding in a pram in the garden before carefully placing the baby inside. She puts the shade up and over the pram, making sure baby Eileen is out of direct sun. Bob the dog is sleeping by the pram wheels. We briefly see a fluffy tabby cat in the garden before we cut back to see Sydney Martin digging in his garden, he moves a shovel of soil from one spot in the garden to another whilst wearing a straw boater hat. He stretches and rubs his back, then mops his brow, all the while still smoking a pipe. CU of baby Eileen, asleep in her pram. Meanwhile Mary carries over a tin bath full of water which she places down next to a deckchair. She gestures to Bob the dog who starts to back away. She picks him up and moves towards the bath. We cut to Mary bathing the dog. she soaps him up, including his tail but he seems to take it all in good spirits as he stays put in the bath. a swift rinse follows and then a dripping dog is lifted from the bath and placed on the lawn where he gets a vigorous towelling down, whilst the cat looks on from the safe distance of a nearby plant. Soon the dog is dry, but he finishes off with a roll on the grass whilst the cat intertwines between Mary's legs. the cat and dog enjoy a meal in the garden from dishes side by side. Sydney has his feet up and is relaxing in a deckchair. Mary walks from the back of the house to the garden, baby Eileen in her arms. Mary is wearing her coat and is carrying gloves and looks ready to go out. She says something to Sydney - probably instructions - as he nods in agreement and she waves goodbye. CU of Sydney and Eileen before we cut back to a wide shot of Sydney asleep in his deckchair with baby Eileen asleep in her pram.

Quick CU of Sydney's sleeping face before we see the prow of the pleasure steamer Royal Eagle with packed upper decks. We cut back to Sydney asleep in his deckchair. View across the Harbour Arm in Margate showing Margate Lighthouse. A quick montage of hotel signs and entrances follows: St George's Hotel; Regent Court Private Hotel, B&B Roseleigh; The Rest - Hot & Cold Water in all bedrooms. Next is a "vacancies" sign in a window. A woman in an apron is banging a gong, then we see that she is standing in the outside doorway of a hotel still banging the gong to announce that dinner is ready to the guests, a mixture of young and old, who are sitting on chairs and the wall in the front garden.

We see a stream of people making their way down to the beach front , men, women and children, some carrying bags and deckchairs. Sign on wall above the steps warns "No bathing allowed. Dangerous undercurrents". Most are going down the steps - whilst a few are braving the crowd and going against the flow of people. The beach is crowded with lots of holiday makers as the camera looks back to the beach front. Sydney is floating on his back in the sea, kicking out occasionally. He is wearing a 1940s all-in-one swim suit. We cut to Mary in the same single view but in a mirror image cut together as if they are swimming together. She is also wearing an all-in-one and has her hair partially tied under a converted bag. Families and children play amongst the waves - three little girls are jumping over the gentle waves. Women in dresses are holding up the bottoms of their skirts to keep the edges dry. A man is smoking as he holds onto the back of a wooden boat full of women and children in swimwear. He is wearing a flatcap and has his trousers rolled up past his knees. A sign on the back of the boat reads "For hire, Sea Trips, Adults 1s Children 6d.

Now the sea has gone out and families play on the wet sand. One small child sits next to a teddy bear bigger than they are. A woman sitting on the seafront, picks pieces off a very fluffy pink candyfloss and eats them. Two young women in bathing costumes share a joke together. On the beach a small wooden hut advertises "Charles D. Smith Punch & Judy" whilst above the puppets perform to a rapt crowd of children and adults. A wide shot shows a a covered seafront stage for "Arthur Illston's Margate Frolics". a man at the back of the stage plays the piano, two older men in front sing together. Next a blonde woman in green shorts plays the accordion for the crowd. A little girl sits on a donkey whose headband proclaims him to be called Winston, another behind is called Daisy. An older man in a brown suit and hat talks to a another man in a black captains outfit in front of a fish food shed - whose closed front panel reads"Whelks, Cockles & Mussels".

A crowd on the sea front enjoy a sing-song arm-in-arm. some of the men have rolled up their trouser legs revealing very knobbly knees. Elsewhere on the seafront a fishmonger sells fresh shell fish by the cupful. He smokes a cigarette as he exchanges some money for a small bag of the shell fish. People relax on the lawn by the front, some snooze, whilst others sunbathe.

A sign reads" The Lido Bathing Pool, Cliftonville. The Grace & Bearing Competition. Open to all Ladies in Beach or Bathing Wear. 15 Grand Prizes. Tuesday August 3rd." Standing by the side of the outdoor swimming pool is a long line of young women in a variety of swimwear. The beauty contest is interrupted by a comic interlude where a man dressed up in a bikini top and makeup runs past the line of women. He is frogmarched back by two men in white uniforms who then ceremonially throw him off the diving board and into the pool. the young women take it in turns to parade up and down, some are awarded places in the competition as they start to show numbers as a man in a dark suit and hat takes notes. The first place goes to a blonde woman in a light blue twin piece swimsuit.

CU of Sydney smiling to himself in his sleep.

The young woman walk in a line in scoring order behind one of the men in white uniform, the ones near the front seem to be holding larger prizes.

CU of Sydney making himself comfortable in his sleep.

Further beach montage shots including three women in a boat.

CU of baby Eileen crying in her pram, suddenly Sydney wakes up and rushes over to the pram. He rocks the pram and jokingly raises his fist to her. He picks her up to comfort her in his arms. Whilst the dog runs around his legs, Sydney feeds the baby another bottle of milk, he then puts her over his shoulder to wind her. As he smiles at her, he pulls a face and looks down at her nappy. Next we see him pegging out a pair of trousers onto the washing line.

CU of baby Eileen sleeping in her pram. Mum walks towards the pram, she laughs and holds the baby up into the air, then supports her to dance about.

IT "and Autumn still finds us in our garden"

Baby Eileen, now a little older sits in a brightly painted dark pink high chair and she plays with a toy. She looks to the side to a shot of two small clear dishes of baby food on a chair. Mum feeds baby and afterwards she plays with a spoon. Eileen begins to cry and Mum wipes her face clean then lifts her up from her chair and takes her inside. Next she wheels the baby out in her pram, whilst she is holding a bottle. The cat and dog sit on deckchairs.

CU Eileen sleeps in the pram drinking from her bottle.

IT "To be continued".