Brandon Estate meets Canvey: Children's Outing to Canvey Island
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 1964 15:53
Summary: Amateur film of the annual summer day trip to Canvey Island by the residents of the Brandon Estate, Southwark.
Title number: 1083
LSA ID: LSA/1501
Description: [10” of black before the film starts] Children walk across the estate to waiting coaches. The coaches set off intercut with a newspaper headline from the Canvey News and Byfleet Recorder “‘Wild Ones’ Threat to Canvey”. At Canvey the children go on the rides. Twin girls go in the sea. The whole party are at sea and some women have difficulty putting up deckchairs. More children go in the sea and the younger children paddle and make sandcastles. A man makes a sand mountain with two children. The bus driver is also on the beach. There is a close-up of some crabs. The tide goes out and people look at the rocks. More sandcastles are built. Some boys fly a kite. There’s a picnic on the grass. Some teenagers buy some candy floss. Some women light their cigarettes. There is a shot of the camera being held on the roller-coaster and on the helter skelter. The camera man is filmed coming down the helter skelter15’ 48”
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; beach; fairground; Coaches
Locations: United Kingdom; England; Essex; Canvey Island
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