Description: This is a tape recording of a film being projected, featuring voice commentary from an unconfirmed figure. Our narrator recalls particular details of the film, including pointing to actors playing various roles in the narrative film and identifying local places of interest.

The film interweaves documentary footage with a fictional narrative story of a young courting couple, used to introduce and frame footage of the Corpus Christi procession. The young woman thinks about the Catholic Corpus Christi procession, what she will wear on it and her own religious devotion. The man is more interested in the racing press and initially dismissive of the procession. Later however he decides to go and watch to catch a glimpse of the woman, walking up the stone bridge to watch. The procession leads through the streets between St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake and Sheen Gate and back again via Sheen Lane, with churchmen carrying religious banners, schoolchildren, the parish band, and smartly dressed men and women and young women in white robes and veils. In Sheen several people stand on the streets watching the Corpus Christi procession.

The film begins with the intertitle: 'St Mary Magdalen's Film Society Presents', while the voice narrates that the film is from 1939, shot by Joe Walsh and later found by Ted McCormack who granted permission for the video recording of the projection. The scenes depicted at this point are now the same as those at the beginning of this recording, indicating an additional recording of the film with different voiceover commentary this time. Hymns accompany the film this time.

It records the visit of Alderman Conlan, the first Catholic Mayor of Barnes on 12th November 1939 to High Mass at St Magdalen Church where he is met by a large congregation. The blessed sacrament is being carried by Father Eric West. The narrator identifies Bill Kennedy in the foreground of the procession at one point, as well as other figures he can recall such as Charlie Saunders carrying a banner, noting that he and his wife Nell were caretakers and lived in the little stone house at end of the church drive. The narrator also makes reference to named teachers in local schools who he points out among the procession and parishioners.

Father West offers benediction in the scenes filmed, while in the fictional narrative playing out alongside, the young male character appears to still be questioning the meaning of it all. As parishioners enter the church, it appears that the young man eventually follows before the film repeats and the intertitle from earlier is once more depicted.

The visit of the Archbishop to the church is also featured, and the film repeats, this time with music and more commentary (commentary is muffled by the copyrighted music; audio has been removed for this upload) with a new film from the late 1930s featuring a procession walking around St Mary Magdalen Church led by Canon Bert without leaving the church grounds. Canon Bert takes a photograph with a large format camera. Another new film shows the filmmaker Joe Walsh in a military uniform and putting on a gas mask.

Some audio on this file is omitted due to the addition of copyrighted soundtrack which was retrospectively added to the silent film. Further information offered by the narrator that could be heard in this omitted audio:

The narrator identifies Joe Whitmore and the two Whitmore boys: Charlie Whitmore was unfortunately killed in a raid over Germany during the war a few years later.

Just prior to outbreak of the war, parishioners are depicted sand bagging outside the Church. Narrator points out Laurie Wright walking arm in arm with Mr (Doris?) Hunt; the two smile and laugh. Narrator notes that this is shortly before children were evacuated to Stoke Poges before the outbreak of the war. Scenes of goodbye soon follow, as children are evacuated to Stoke Poges in September 1939. The house that the children went to is featured with the children playing outside.

Three 'well known parishioners': Mr Brown, Paddy (surname possibly Conners) , and Bill Kennedy on the right. Kennedy was taken prisoner after an air drop during the war but came home safe. The narrator notes that the children all seem quite happy.

He points out that Laura Conners does a 'little Irish jig' for us. Two young girls are featured running towards the camera: 'well known parishioners' Sheila Walls and Nora Clarke. Football match follows, featuring Fr West coming to see the lads play.

Following scenes of a football match, footage depicts the first Catholic Mayor of Barnes Alderman Conlan) attending High Mass.

The Mayor is later featured talking with locals at a meet-up outside and the narrator points out that he is wearing a poppy, indicating it is around Remembrance Day 1939.

Ted McCormack is identified walking behind the archbishop, aged 16 at the time.

The men of the guild soon follow.

The final film once more features commentary which can be more clearly heard and deciphered, no music added. It features another procession, possibly from around the same time.

At the end of the film, the filmmaker Joe Walsh is again featured in military uniform and gas mask.