Home Movies of the Phillips Family
9.5mm film Colour;Black & White Silent 1930s 13:54
Summary: A compilation of family films from the 1930s.
Title number: 439
LSA ID: LSA/588
Description: A jumble of home movie film of various subjects shot at different locations. It begins in a field with biplanes taxiing about observed by bystanders (this is probably Ford Aerodrome in West Sussex). The planes include a Handley Page W.10, an AS4 Ferry and an Avro 504k. Some aerial shots from one of the planes show factory-type buildings and fields before a coastline appears with beach and a pier and the plane heads out over sea. Various pieces of film appear to show holidays in Lands End and elsewhere in Cornwall, with views of beaches, rocks. The film also includes a journey by the boat MV Royal Daffodil, east from Tower Pier by Tower Bridge, passing the docks area, the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, Greenwich power station and several large vessels including the Blue Star Liner SS Sultan Star and the P&O liner SS Ranchi moored at Tilbury Docks. Many people leave the boat at Tilbury Docks to board a liner (possibly the SS Ranchi). Some large flying boats are filmed moored on a river (they appear to be Short Empire seaplanes and maybe on the River Medway near Rochester, as the Short Brothers aviation company built these at a factory in nearby Borstal). There is also film of pet dogs at play, and a brief section in colour of flowers in a back garden.
Further information: Some of the transportation seen in the film suffered tragic ends. One of the planes in the early scenes, the Handley Page W.10 known as 'Youth of New Zealand', crashed in an air show at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire in September 1934. While the Blue Star Liner 'Sultan Star' seen in the film was sunk in 1940 by a German U-boat.
Keywords: Holidays; Transportation
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Greenwich; Tower Hamlets; Thames (river); Essex; Tilbury; Cornwall; Land's End
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