Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY KATHLEEN LOCKWOOD [Alternative Title]
Summary: Black and white amateur film shot by Kathleen Lockwood of visits to St Annes, Fairhaven and Blackpool in Lancashire and the Lake District during 1940.
Description: Title "St ANNES" brief views of a busy street, two women walking along a stone path under a small bridge by a small stream and then crossing the stream using stepping-stones. Long shot of an aircraft passing low over the beach and past the pier. Birds in an aviary. Man and woman walking towards the camera, the same couple and another couple on the beach and posing in front of a large hotel. The two couples playing with sand on the beach.
Title "FAIRHAVEN" brief shot of a man and woman walking towards the camera. Rowing boat on a lake.
Title "BLACKPOOL" brief view of a boating pond for model boats which is surrounded by various styles of classical arches, followed by brief view of crowds on the Promenade and shot of Blackpool Tower.
Titles "KESWICK" "FITZ PARK" brief views of the park, trees, bowling green and tennis court. Woman pulling a large rowing boat on to the shore. Man and woman paddling in the water of the lake, presumably Derwentwater. Title "FRIAR'S CRAG" long shot of the promontory. Close-up of a woman drinking from a public water fountain, a man then attempts to drink from the same fountain. Horse drawn passenger cart driving up a small street towards the camera. View of a large house on a distant hillside.
"LAKE DERWENTWATER" pleasure boat on the lake, views of the boat landing stages and of several small boats on the lake. Title"FRIAR'S CRAG" long shot of the crag and of a small church.
Title "THE HEADS" panning shot of buildings and shot of man and woman walking towards the camera and looking out over the lake.
Title "KESWICK from Portinscale", view of the water and bathers in the lake.
Title "THE LAKE HOTEL" two women seated on the verandah. Man and woman seated at a table on the verandah drinking from glasses using drinking straws. Man jokingly posing for the camera holding a drinking straw as a cigarette. (Film ends abruptly.)
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY KATHLEEN LOCKWOOD [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 3580-5
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1940
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Lockwood, Kathleen (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 8mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 165 ft; Running time: 7 mins
