Home movies Ashton, Cambridge, Ascot 1934 from May onwards.

Date:
1929
  • Film

About this work

Description

Amateur footage featuring a man under the chassis of a car; miscellaneous shots of flowers and shrubs; a woman playing with a dog in a garden (she throws a pillow at the dog and he jumps to catch it); various people taking tea on a lawn in the summer looking relaxed; a woman smokes a pipe; interiors of older people seated; younger people larking around; two men swim in an ornamental pool (with water lillies in shot); a man, then a woman pose as they exit a house; a man drives a vintage vehicle; a group play records on a gramophone player relaxing on the lawn; an elderly women walks to camera; other people smile self-consciously at the camera; a man plays a form of swing ball (he is earing a suit); further shots of young people playing tennis; a woman drives the vintage car seen earlier; departure with everyone dressed up; more tennis (ends abruptly).

Publication/Creation

1929.

Physical description

1 film reel (8 mins.) : silent; black and white .

Notes

More material (archives and papers) of Rudolph Karl Freudenberg (1908-1993) and Gerda (née Vorster) Freudenberg (1906-1995) is held in the Wellcome Library reference PP/RKF.
Family shots of country house activities, swimming and tennis.
Date is derived from the edge code on the film.
This film is acetic and stored in fridge B.

Copyright note

Christopher, Michael and Sebastian Freudenberg.

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    5638F
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