Canvey Capers May 1969
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 5.1969 15:20
Summary: Children hang around the Brandon Estate. A coach arrives. And then another coach. A policeman chats to some of the adults. The children have lollies. A man with a clipboard talks to a young man. A fourth coach arrives. People board the coaches and they set off. Onboard the coach, children eat apples. The cameraman films from the front of the coach. An intertitle says, ‘Pitter patter goes the rain. Now that we are back again AT CANVEY ISLAND’. The four coaches arrive at Canvey Island and everyone disembarks.
Title number: 1084
LSA ID: LSA/1502
Description: Children hang around the Brandon Estate. A coach arrives. And then another coach. A policeman chats to some of the adults. The children have lollies. A man with a clipboard talks to a young man. A fourth coach arrives. People board the coaches and they set off. Onboard the coach, children eat apples. The cameraman films from the front of the coach. An intertitle says, ‘Pitter patter goes the rain. Now that we are back again AT CANVEY ISLAND’. The four coaches arrive at Canvey Island and everyone disembarks.
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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