Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY KATHLEEN LOCKWOOD [Alternative Title]
Summary: Black and white and colour amateur film shot by Kathleen Lockwood in Hepworth during the Second World War, plus brief shots of a school Christmas tree probably post-war.
Description: 1941. The film opens with brief views of the countryside followed by footage of the children of Hepworth School. Six young children, wrapped in blankets, asleep on camp beds in a school playground . Small children doing somersaults on a mat in the school playground. Children running and jumping in a circle in the playground. Brief view of a group of young children walking away from the camera (each carrying a gas mask box ). Group of children playing various musical instruments, triangle, drums, bells, tambourines and cymbals. Children standing in the playground drinking (milk?) from cups using straws. Group of children exercising in the playground, "jumping jacks", touching their toes, squatting with their arms outstretched, "bunny jumping", "wheel-barrows" and "tug-of-war". Close-ups of several young girls sewing.
1941. Procession to commemorate the centenary of the Hepworth Village Co-op (co-operative) shop. Brass Band leading a parade of children and adults wearing all sorts of fancy dress, (including a man on horseback dressed as King Henry VIII followed on foot by his six wives). Prize winners for the decorated bicycle and decorated pram competitions. Close-up shot of a small boy dressed as a drummer.
Colour. Late spring/early summer 1941. Children picking bluebells and looking at the blossom on trees. Shot of Mr Alsop an elderly bearded man, walking with his granddaughter Audrey.
Colour. Shepley Junior and Infant School, probably after 1948. Dark interior shots of a large decorated Christmas tree. Group of children looking at the Christmas tree. Further shots of the decorated Christmas tree.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY KATHLEEN LOCKWOOD [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 3580-4
Sound:Colour
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1941 1948
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Lockwood, Kathleen (Production individual)
