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Date:
1929
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About this work

Description

Amateur footage featuring ladies dressed in tennis attire (white dresses to mid-calf length) posing for camera; numerous rabbits in cages and running free; a baby rabbit is held; young people pose and a couple leave in a sports car; young people sunbathe on a stony beach; the beach party light up cigarettes and stand on shoreline; interior shots people relaxing (a board game in progress); a pin ball machine being played; a group of various ages at a shooting party (they have shot a stag; they are wearing Austrian/German dress); tennis; a woman with a small black dog; several men exit a lodge - one wrapped in an animal hide; top shot of a car departing; a man and a woman play with a ukelele; an old man is shown drinking a pint of beer which he spills as it has too much froth.

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.
Country house with tennis and rabbits; English beach; stag hunting in Germany or Austria, with large country house.
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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