Canvey for the Cup
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 1967 16:55
Summary: Amateur film of the annual summer day trip to Canvey Island by the residents of the Brandon Estate, Southwark.
Title number: 1072
LSA ID: LSA/1490
Description: [00:07] Title card: CANVEY FOR THE CUP. [00:13] Intertitle: In which Canvey Island is invaded by 300 children and 80 adults from BRANDON ESTATE. [00:24] Intertitle: Recipe for an OUTING. [00:29] Intertitle: First take 400 apples. Shots of apples being packed into boxes and then handed out on the coach. [00:54] Intertitle: 150 lbs of sweets. Shots of the boxes of sweets. [01:04] Intertitle: Find 300 children. Shots of children climbing on rocks. [01:32] Intertitle: Label them well. A woman writes a name on a label and compares it to a form; shot of a girl wearing her label at the fairground. [02:17] Intertitle: Pour into 10 coaches. Shots of the coaches lined up on the street outside the estate; the children start getting on. [03:08] Intertitle: Add first aid. A uniformed man (St John's Ambulance?) walks along the pavement to a coach. [03:16] Intertitle: And helpers as needed. Shots of three men in a pub and adults outside the restaurant at the fun fair. [03:32] Intertitle: Let travel for 2 hours. Shots of the coaches setting off and then through the windows at the countryside rolling by. [04:11] Intertitle: Finally spread evenly all over CANVEY ISLAND. The children disembark. [04:32] Intertitle: Topping up regularly with egg and chips, cakes and ice cream. Exterior shots of a large restaurant, then the coach party inside at the tables; then Kay's Restaurant and Snack Bar and Sally's Bar at the amusement park, also with interior shots. [05:34] Intertitle: Then relax and enjoy it. Children on the outdoor fairground rides (including the ghost train, the helter skelter, and bumper cars); then in the games arcade when it starts raining (brief shots of photos of naked women seen through a kinoscope). Shots of the beach and water from the windy promenade as a lone boy wanders on the sand. When the tide goes out, children walk along the rocks and seaweed looking for wildlife. Adults sit on the outcast beach while a young girl plays with a bucket and spade. A group looks through a telescope at the ships in the distance (the camera takes its turn at the telescope). Back at the fun fair, more shots of adults and children outside the restaurants. More shots of children on fairground rides, including two black girls riding by themselves, watched by their mother, and a group clowning around on the balcony of Windy Nook. The cameraman films from a swirling car in a ferris wheel-like ride. Then the participants begin to gather back at the coaches. [16:34] Intertitle: The cost of this dish is 385 well spent. Intertitle: THE END
Credits: director: Richard Morgan; director: Brian Waterman
Further information: The Brandon Estate was built in 1958 and housed people from Bermondsey whose houses had been demolished in slum clearance. The residents formed several clubs, and the cine club filmed events run by the social club, which met above the library. Filmmaker Brian Waterman joined the cine club age 17 and bought his camera with his first pay packet (he worked for London Underground).
Keywords: Canvey Island; Summer; Trip
Locations: United Kingdom; England; Essex; Canvey Island
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