Boys Brigade outing in West Country
16mm film Black & White Mute ? 4:00
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Summary: Opening shot of a coach party of boys. View from window shows a church spire. Shot of boys and some adults standing in front of coach (orange company-sign at the front of the coach). Young boy holds a small plane in foreground. Group of people milling around the coach eating. Cut to shot of a man in a uniform with stick talking to boys at the back of the bus-possibly a boys brigade(BB) officer. Group of boys milling around in busy car park, with boys getting back on bus, Shot of countryside views from window.
Title number: 20973
LSA ID: LSA/27534
Description: Opening shot of a coach party of boys. View from window shows a church spire. Shot of boys and some adults standing in front of coach (orange company-sign at the front of the coach). Young boy holds a small plane in foreground. Group of people milling around the coach eating. Cut to shot of a man in a uniform with stick talking to boys at the back of the bus-possibly a boys brigade(BB) officer. Group of boys milling around in busy car park, with boys getting back on bus, Shot of countryside views from window.
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.
Keywords: coach trip; Boys Brigade
Locations: United Kingdom; Somerset, Rode
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