Ruislip - Various 1941
16mm film Colour;Black & White Silent 1941-1942 16:15
Summary: Family scenes in a Ruislip garden, including a baby's haircut and fun in a straw pile.
Title number: 21023
LSA ID: LSA/27586
Description: Two women wearing coats walk through a wood with fallen leaves on the ground. One is pushing a pushchair and a young girl skips by with a ribbon in her hair and there's another young girl with bunches. Women and girls walk past a coppice tree and fence. One of the women is running away from the camera accompanied by the two young girls. Girl with ribbon is on her back playing with leaves of ground. Children generally clambering around while dog digs in a hole. Group approach from other side of the gate, and it leads to the back of a house. Cut to Dufaycolor sequence: mock Tudor house with modern leaded windows. Mother is holding a baby and pushing a pram by the front door - this is likely the house on Evelyn Avenue. Colour is faded but evidence of blue woodwork still remaining. Close-up of mother putting sunshield over the pram as a young boy looks on from the doorway. Close-up of baby in pram, sitting up and looking unimpressed. Cut to young boy and baby sitting on a garden bench. The children are playing with large woollen pom-pom. Back to black & white stock, family sitting in garden deck chairs, while boy gets into a toy car and another child is on a tricycle. Baby playing building blocks is helped by an unseen man. Woman pushing pram along a narrow road and parks the pram by the side of a field and the baby smiles at the camera. Back to garden, boy is marching in front of the camera with tricycle in background. IT: 1942. Mother and another woman leave same house as in colour section, and everyone is wearing coats while baby is wrapped in blanket. Dark shot of baby sitting in wicker basket. Baby sitting on a woman's lap and other boy, presumably brother of the baby, leans in for a kiss. Grandparents are walking with the baby between them backwards and forwards in the garden, and then the older boy joins them. Boy in his pedal car, sideview. Older boy is holding a stills camera - he holds it up to his eye before mother comes to help. Grandparent has baby on his shoulder. Group of young smartly dressed boys and a dog sitting on a large pile of straw, and playing about/throwing it at each other. Eventually they all climb out of the hay before hiding inside the pile and bursting out. Father is cutting the baby's hair with great care, while in foreground older boy rides around on some kind of push-a-long. Close-up of baby looking smart post-haircut and he smiles for camera. Mother is surrounded by three boys. All the family are sitting in the garden having tea and the oldest boy pushes the baby in the pram down the garden. Two older children rush around and the baby is sat on the grass.
Credits: Edmonds. Eric (Filmmaker)
Keywords: Domestic life; lawn; teatime; boy's toys
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Hillingdon; Ruislip; Evelyn Avenue
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