Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY ARTHUR GREEN [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Arthur Green, a Greater London Council Assistant Scientific Officer, recording a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads.
Description: The film opens with brief shots of the cameraman Arthur Green, and an unidentified young woman, leaving a house (possibly 40 Glenhouse Road, Eltham, South London), travelling by car and transferring their luggage to a small boat at an unidentified boat yard in Norfolk.
Shot of the hull of their motor cabin cruiser Delight X B773. Arthur Green cleaning the outside of the boat's hull with a round headed mop. Green and his female companion seated, eating a meal in the boat's cabin. Ducks and swans on the water. Green mopping out a small rowing boat tied behind the motor cabin cruiser, pulling up the land anchor and starting the cruiser. Various motor and sail boats on the Broads. Shots of and from Delight X: the wheel, the rowing boat on tow and view of the cruiser from the towed rowing boat, portrait shot of the unidentified woman, several windmills, sail boats and several shots of the Delight X proceeding along the Broads. Green disembarking from the moored motor cabin cruiser and walking along a deserted country lane, arriving at a small village and entering a shop "D A Pratt Butcher. Families and Yachts supplied". Green and his companion seated in the boat's cabin eating a meal of sausages. Green seated in the open air smoking a pipe. Dusk shot of a sail boat on the water. The film ends with a hand seen pulling the cabin door closed, curtains being drawn and a darkening shot of the motor cabin cruiser moored by trees. "The End"
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY ARTHUR GREEN [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 5108
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1937
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Green, Arthur F2001 (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: Std 8mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 75 ft ca; Running time: 6 mins (16 fps)
