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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.

Copyright note

Christopher, Michael and Sebastian Freudenberg.

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.

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