Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, 1940s
Year: 1945
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp
Keywords: scouting
Description: Amateur home movie film made in the summer of 1945 or later, featuring young Brownies, Girl Guides and Scouts playing in the grounds of a stately home in Britain 1940's. /Huntley archives, film 1739/
Video Added: 20.07.2021

Camp Schools
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, swimming
Description: This video made by the Government after the war, introduces the term Camp Schools and includes scenes from a number schools including Sheephatch School Tilford Surrey.
Video Added: 10.10.2020

The Heat Wave (1914-1918)
Year: 1914
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Keywords: Pathe
Description: London children solve the problem of how to keep cool.
Video Added: 06.09.2020

Happy Schooldays
Year: 1932
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing
Keywords: Pathe
Description: "Here's a French babies' school, where they believe in the open-air treatment." L/S of large group of children sitting in the open air. "A good start - a drink for thirsty little ones." C/U of woman pouring liquid from a bottle into little metal cups held by the children. C/U of a group of five children - they all wear the same romper suits and hats.
"Lessons for the puzzled ones..." High angle of group of children at a table. L/S of children sitting at tables, little girl walks around giving out pencils. C/U of boy drawing or practising his writing. C/U of boy with head in his hands. "Diversions of all sorts to build up little bodies..." L/S of children doing ring-a-ring-a-roses holding hands. They put their hands in the air and clap them. Cute shot of the kids lying on their backs and kicking their legs in the air - some kind of keep fit exercise. The children then do "wheelbarrows" - propelling each other around the garden.
M/S of the children sitting in three lines hanging onto each others ankles and rowing (like the "Oops Upside Your Head" dance so popular in the early 1980s!) C/U of a naked girl having her chest measured. The nurse or teacher is telling the girl to take deep breaths. C/U of two little rascals. L/S of two women watching over the children as they all lie on the ground for a snooze. "And, of course, a rest, well-earned - whether on the ground..." Cute shot of some of the kids dozing. "...or the regular siesta." M/S of some of the other children sleeping on canvas beds. C/U of one child asleep. C/U of another child, lying on its tummy with its bum in the air! Cute.
Video Added: 23.08.2020

No Longer Alone (1961)
Year: 1961
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Documentary about special schools for blind children with additional handicaps.
Video Added: 17.08.2020

Bulgarian Refugees (1948)
Year: 1948
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Sofia, Bulgaria. Abducted Greek children reach Sofia for upbringing on the East European plan.
Greek refugee children disembarking from train in Sofia, Bulgaria. Several shots of the refugee children. Little boy carrying his younger sister. Bulgaria Red Cross nurses with refugee children. Doctor and nurse examine refugee children. Refugee boy has hair cropped. Two young girl refugees. Emaciated boy refugee is washed. Child crying. Nurses washing children. Nurses putting clean clothes on refugee children. Old woman refugee with children in her lap looking on. Refugee boy feeding younger brother from enamel mug. Two cropped haired boys eating at the table, pan to another boy.
Video Added: 15.08.2020

Broken Wings (1950-1959)
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Cottages in an idyllic rural setting of large trees. Kittens playing. Newly hatched Chicks next to eggs in their nest. Below a little girl with her legs in irons and a club foot (Betty) picks up a fallen chick. She takes it to "Sister", and together they go inside. Betty nursing her doll remembers how she arrived at the home.
A train arrives and Betty is lifted into a stroller. Other handicapped children play in the garden. Flash back to the slums they have come from. The children sit in their beds in a ward playing with toys and dolls. WS chalets. School activities. Resting on stretchers. Babies in prams. Children going to bed and taking a shower.
The children are being led into church, and listen to a sermon. Children playing and pushing prams, playing sports and chess. Ex-boy working as a type setter. Printers at work. Magazine cover showing two Brownie's with the title "Children".
The narrator, Leslie Banks, with Betty sitting on his lap talks to camera. He tells of the great work of the National Children's Home, and Betty says "Thank you very much"
Video Added: 13.08.2020

Scout Camp
Year: 1941
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, summer camp, swimming
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Various shots of scouts gathered together outdoors. Various shots as they cook in a field oven and take food out of a makeshift larder / cooler covered with leaves. M/S's as they sit and eat outside. C/U of one boy eating a sausage. They wash the dishes and set up a drying rack, three boys nudge each other as they watch. Various shots as all the boys swim in the outdoor pool. One boy stands on a hill and signals to other scouts with flags. A scoutmaster points out landmarks to a boy as they look over the scenery.
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Busigny Village for Homeless Children
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Orphanage in France, 1950s/
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Childrens Hospital The Road To Happiness
Year: 1929
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Scenes from paediatric orthopaedic hospital with fresh air & sunshine treatment. London.
Opens with footage of nearly naked children playing in a pasture; picking flowers. They wear only black triangles over their groins; various plaster casts; & sunhats! (In fact they never wear any more throughout the story). MS girl c. age 3 with leg in cast sitting on ground holding bunch of flowers. CU as some of the children pose with bouquets. Children cross pasture with their flowers; walking with difficulty; a nurse walks with them carrying the smallest girl. Children coming back through gates of hospital. Pan on exterior part of hospital. MS pan with small girl carrying plate across room; turns & smiles. MS child eating at table on patio. CU same. CU as girl sits on bed; eating. MS nurse spoon feeds sick girl lying flat on bed. Pan on girls eating at table. Wide shot patio: 2 children at table; others sit on very low chairs; nurse walks across. CU children in beds on patio under tree. Nurses walk on patio; past beds tucked under eaves. Wide shot section with greenhouse roof; no wall in front many beds inside; children play catch outside. MS prepubescent girl on bed; reading; with doll. LS she & another girl play catch from their beds. MS 2 children asleep in their beds. CU happy baby in pram. Doctors & nurses taking cast off child's upper body. CU putting cast on leg.
Van from Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital pulls up at building on city street. Driver opens back doors. Some more nearly nude children walk towards camera into building as people in street stare. 2 men carry in an older girl on stretcher. Next a man enters carrying girl (she is wearing a dress). Shot of waiting room with high ceiling; many people sit. Nurses examine several different patients in one largish room. MS girl c. age 12 in street clothes sits while nurse does test on girl's arm. 2 men (doctor; intern; ?) pick up girl from bed & put her in big metal brace contraption. Children wading in water at seashore. CU 2 toddlers on beach playing in sand with buckets & shovels. No one in these shots has braces; casts; etc. Then back to hospital. The 2 men lift girl from couch & stand her on the floor supporting her. She wears braces to the hips; which are connected to a sort of corset around her torso. She walks stiffly while holding doctor's hand. Nurse & a few other children sit at left. Title - 'Appeal Secretary Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 234 Great Portland Street, London'.
Video Added: 24.07.2020