"Duplicate Ashton Cambridge Ascott 1934 from May onwards 4/6"

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). Watch this video.

Digitised version can be found at PP/RKF/A.6/1a.

1929?

1 reel of film Date is derived from the edge code on the film. This film is acetic and stored in fridge B.

Christopher, Michael and Sebastian Freudenberg.

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A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.