Other titles:THE CALDECOTT COMMUNITY, THE MOTE, MAIDSTONE [Allocated Title]
AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur black and white film, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, showing the Caldecott Community near Maidstone, a progressive boarding school for working class children, 1938 or 1939.
Description: Opening title "The Caldecott Community, The Moat, Maidstone". (sic. The Mote) View of a large house with a long shot of a nurse with three small children standing on the pathway. View of roof and clock tower.
Caption "Miss Rendel started Caldecott 28 years ago as a nursery school in St Pancras, to give unfortunate children a chance in life. It was turned into a boarding school during the war, and 6 years ago they moved to Maidstone." View of a woman (presumably Miss Rendel) standing over four young girls seated at a table
Women grooming a pony outside stables with a young girl and young boy standing by stroking the horse. Shot of a small herd of deer. Cows walking through a large gate herded by a young boy. Barefoot girl, seated on a three legged stool, milking a cow. Boy feeding a calf from a bucket. Boy leaning over a stable door feeding a calf from a bucket.
View of thatched roofed outbuildings. Young girl feeding chickens. Five young children seated grooming large long haired rabbits. Two young girls playing. Young girl on a swing. Nurse and young children playing in a sandpit. Young boys playing with wooden building blocks. Boy painting at an easel. Children seated in a classroom. Girl working at a crude loom. Girl working at a spinning wheel.
Caption "The Children, proud of the puppets they have cleverly made." Shots of children putting on an open air performance with their marionettes.
Large group of children exercising in the open air. Children jumping over a vaulting horse, rope climbing and practising gymnastics on two ropes.
Caption " The House of Prayer" dark interior shots inside a small church.
Nurse seated at a table taking tea with a group of young children Close-up of a young girl drinking. Film ends abruptly.
Alternative Title:THE CALDECOTT COMMUNITY, THE MOTE, MAIDSTONE [Allocated Title]
AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
