Life in Belmont, Sutton
16mm film Colour;Black & White Silent 1920s 18:10
Summary: A year in the life of Belmont
Title number: 20649
LSA ID: LSA/27207
Description: Black and white Around 1.30 mins of shots of different people in garden standing for a portrait from the camera, women playing with dog; moves on to garden covered in snow. Man is captured cross-country skiing. Girl wading through dense snow (up to her knees) in forest; snow covered area with houses around the outside. with great fun scenes of diving into deep snow, playing with dogs who chases snow balls and girls posing with mounds of snow 3.45; Colour scenes of children in garden; 4.31 B&W Shots of locals going to church in Belmont. good shots of the streets and people saluting the camera. More shots of people outside the church playing around for camera. People walking away from the church; 5:52 IT Transport Drill, Jumping and games - Boys Brigade doing various drills and games; 8:00 IT Field Day Tent Pitching cook tea. After these scenes theres a dramatisation of an explosion in a building and a boy rushes to get help IT B.B to the rescue, injuries tended, off to the hospital. Various shots of Boys brigade saving the mock wounded. 10:00 - Boys Brigade parade final minute - shots of boys in uniform marching through streets with crowd watching
Credits: Bawtree, Ivan (Filmmaker)
Further information: Shot by amateur filmmaker Ivan Bawtree, formerly a Corporal with a British Army Graves Registration Unit working as a photographer in France and Flanders, 1915-1920 during the First World War.
During the war, British soldier death counts were rising rapidly which inspired Sir Fabian Ware to set up the Graves Registration Commission in 1915, funded by the British Red Cross.
He acquired the services of three photographers, including 21-year-old Ivan Bawtree, to visit the cemeteries in British held areas of the Western Front to document the dead.
Locations: United Kingdom; London; Sutton
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