Description: Edited home movie footage featuring a series of amateur films from the early 1960s, one of the scenes was the Tottenham Carnival, Saturday 4th July 1964.
00:00 - Children and adults indoors at a New Years Eve party, dancing, drinking and eating together.
10:25 - Children playing out in a back garden together. One is dressed as an Native American and a cowboy shooting each-other. Adults play tennis together and there are shots of foliage.
15:36 - Women are getting onto a bus, followed by a shot of men standing outside.
16:20 - Adults standing outside of a ship, for a wedding event, there are shots of bridesmaids, men in suits and the bride.
17:26 - There is a party, with drinking scenes.
18:04 - People are standing beside a window, one is holding a film camera.
18:48 - Adults are standing in a garden with a baby, possibly for a christening.
19:20 - Woman and husband with a baby stand outside a car with a sign featuring Latimer school of motoring.
19:44 - A woman is standing inside a kitchen.
19:47 - Two people are parachuting down onto a crowded beach.
20:18 - A marching band in marching outfits walks down the street, lead by man with sceptre.
20:32 - A woman walking through a park, which then cuts to the woman standing in a dune near the seaside followed by men standing in the same dune.
21:43 - Scenes of a party.
22:11 - People in fancy dress hats eating at a celebration.
23:11 - People drinking at a pub.
23:28 - Two women and a girl are walking down the street.
23:49 - A police officer on a white horse in front of a marching band at Tottenham Carnival. A car with the sign "Tottenham Carnival Queen" on the front carries a parade float with flowers and two women wearing with white dresses, gloves and a sash.
A car with the sign "Hilldale Garage" with a driver, a man in a suit and top hat and a woman in a red cape.
A truck with the sign "Bow Waste Paper Mills Ltd" carries a float decorated with flowers. Young girls in primarily white dresses and pink hats and crowns are on the float.
A float decorated with a large rainbow and flowers. Three women with sashes, white gloves and white dresses are on the float.
A float with a man and women in Shakespearean outfits, there are children including a black girl holding a sign that says "Be Alive To Others On The Road", followed by boys on the end float. This float is followed by a person in a knight costume, on a horse.
A float labelled "Second Prize" carries a woman in a mermaid outfit, with a boy dressed in a green reptilian costume and a man dressed dressed in a fisherman's outfit decorated with a sea motif.
A float holds people dressed in costumes, for example two woman dressed in mermaid costumes, a girl dressed as a tomato as well as a man dressed as King Neptune.
The marching band reappears and a child dances in front of the band waving a black hat.
A car carries woman in a blue dress alongside two other women in pink dresses wearing a sash.
A parade float carries a large basket of flowers on a bed of red and yellow flowers.
Two horses pull a carriage with two men in grey suits and top hats, one carries a trophy and the carriage is labelled first prize.
A blue truck labelled Bambergers Timber Yard company pulls a float with costumed children beside a may pole.
A land train labelled Southend-On-Sea on the front slowly moves along the street,
Soldiers with guns march along the street.
A RAF plane moves along the street.
A float labelled "Still Going Strong" Public Baths and laundries, followed by a carriage with people in costume within.
A marching band moves along the street.
Blue truck with people inside.
A truck with nurses with the signs Support Your Local League Of Hospital Friends
A float with small boat with a sail and three women on top.
A float with a red sign - "Down with the old. Up with the new" followed by a tower block
A paper dragon walks by, beside the floats.
A signup of floats, one with a green tent with a red London bus behind it.
27:23 - Children in a garden are playing.
28:10 - A long shot of a kitchen and its cutlery, cupboards and appliances.
28:36 - At a party a woman handed is handed presents, with is followed by scenes of people smiling and playing around.
31:30 - People lounging outside in a garden, one woman is solving a puzzle, another is knitting.
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