Short film showing some of the activities on a Boys Brigade camp
16mm film Black & White Silent 1946 6:20
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Summary: Short film showing some of the activities on a Boys Brigade camp
Title number: 20982
LSA ID: LSA/27544
Description: TC Preparing the camp fire. Boys carrying wood on a campsite, tents are in the back ground. Summertime because the boys are wearing shorts and tee shirts. Flag on a pole in the camp. the campsite is in a valley with a forest surrounding. Large number of boys 15+. In the distance we can see a substantial farmhouse with out buildings. IT Tent Parties on Parade number six the winner today. Tent with a boy holding a flag. Standing to attention outside tent. Tent inspection with the boys - some in uniform, standing to attention with their kit. IT The camp group 48 of us. Scene of all of the boys waving to the camera with the tents in the background. IT Packing up day with the pigs to help. Tents, bicycles, clothing hanging on a line. Pigs in the undergrowth of the forest. IT The journey back miles and miles and miles. Jolt, jolt, jolt, cant't get a wink of sleep and so back to BELMONT. Film taken from the back of a vehicle showing a lorry following on behind down the road. Second shot possibly rom the roof of the vehicle. Shot of boys resting in the back of the lorry. Multiple shots rom the back of the vehicle, country lanes including some cows.
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.
Keywords: Camping; vehicles; Boys Brigade
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