Rangers and Rovers
16mm film Black & White Silent c.1952 18:08
Summary: Film of activities under taken by members of the Rovers and Rangers youth organisations.
Title number: 708
LSA ID: LSA/925
Description: This compilation film includes Rangers (young women scouts) riding horses and climbing in Snowdonia around Glaslyn Falls. They are also filmed at a joint Ranger-Rover camp of 500 people visited by Olave, Lady Baden Powell (the Chief Guide) who lights the camp bonfire.Other scenes show Sea Rangers giving a display to international guests, including a semaphore presentation at a waterside location. The Sea Rangers are also seen engaged in a range of boating activities including crossing the English Channel to Dieppe. The film concludes with footage taken at the first Air Ranger flying pageant held at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire on June 14th 1952, an event attended by Air Rangers from across the UK as well as invited guests The Hon. Sir Ralph Cochrane, and H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester accompanied by her son Prince Richard. There is film of a march past by the rangers and some shots of a single-seater aeroplane and a glider in action.
Further information: Rangers and Rovers, or Ranger Scouts and Rover Guides, were young adult developments of the scouting movement for men and women. Sir Ralph Cochrane, visitor to the Air Rangers pageant, was the Air Chief Marshall of the RAF and during World War II had commanded the famous 'Dambusters' raid.
Keywords: Boating; Horse riding; Scouting; Youth organizations
Locations: United Kingdom; Wales; Gwynedd; Northamptonshire; Sywell; France; Haute-Normandie; Departement de la Seine-Maritime; Dieppe
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