Scout Camp
Year: 1941
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, summer camp, swimming
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Various shots of scouts gathered together outdoors. Various shots as they cook in a field oven and take food out of a makeshift larder / cooler covered with leaves. M/S's as they sit and eat outside. C/U of one boy eating a sausage. They wash the dishes and set up a drying rack, three boys nudge each other as they watch. Various shots as all the boys swim in the outdoor pool. One boy stands on a hill and signals to other scouts with flags. A scoutmaster points out landmarks to a boy as they look over the scenery.
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Childrens Hospital The Road To Happiness
Year: 1929
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Scenes from paediatric orthopaedic hospital with fresh air & sunshine treatment. London.
Opens with footage of nearly naked children playing in a pasture; picking flowers. They wear only black triangles over their groins; various plaster casts; & sunhats! (In fact they never wear any more throughout the story). MS girl c. age 3 with leg in cast sitting on ground holding bunch of flowers. CU as some of the children pose with bouquets. Children cross pasture with their flowers; walking with difficulty; a nurse walks with them carrying the smallest girl. Children coming back through gates of hospital. Pan on exterior part of hospital. MS pan with small girl carrying plate across room; turns & smiles. MS child eating at table on patio. CU same. CU as girl sits on bed; eating. MS nurse spoon feeds sick girl lying flat on bed. Pan on girls eating at table. Wide shot patio: 2 children at table; others sit on very low chairs; nurse walks across. CU children in beds on patio under tree. Nurses walk on patio; past beds tucked under eaves. Wide shot section with greenhouse roof; no wall in front many beds inside; children play catch outside. MS prepubescent girl on bed; reading; with doll. LS she & another girl play catch from their beds. MS 2 children asleep in their beds. CU happy baby in pram. Doctors & nurses taking cast off child's upper body. CU putting cast on leg.
Van from Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital pulls up at building on city street. Driver opens back doors. Some more nearly nude children walk towards camera into building as people in street stare. 2 men carry in an older girl on stretcher. Next a man enters carrying girl (she is wearing a dress). Shot of waiting room with high ceiling; many people sit. Nurses examine several different patients in one largish room. MS girl c. age 12 in street clothes sits while nurse does test on girl's arm. 2 men (doctor; intern; ?) pick up girl from bed & put her in big metal brace contraption. Children wading in water at seashore. CU 2 toddlers on beach playing in sand with buckets & shovels. No one in these shots has braces; casts; etc. Then back to hospital. The 2 men lift girl from couch & stand her on the floor supporting her. She wears braces to the hips; which are connected to a sort of corset around her torso. She walks stiffly while holding doctor's hand. Nurse & a few other children sit at left. Title - 'Appeal Secretary Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 234 Great Portland Street, London'.
Video Added: 24.07.2020

Summer School
Year: 1939
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, girl, summer camp
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Aka Children's Holiday Camp
Video Added: 22.07.2020

Bus House
Year: 1949
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Bus converted into a house at Bentham near Lancaster, Lancashire.
M/S of the converted double-decker bus. Various shots, the Layton family walking from the lower deck up to the upper deck. We see Mrs. Layton undressing children, putting them into bath. M/S of engineer, Paul Layton/ starting up generator, pan down to generator working. M/S Layton children clambering into bunk beds. M/S Mrs. Layton in kitchen. M/S Mr. Layton arriving home: he relaxes in a chair, settles down to tea. Mrs. Layton joins him and does her embroidery.
Video Added: 14.07.2020

Sun Children Of Today at Bedales School
Year: 1931
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Parents and children spend holiday at Bedales School with minimum clothes.
Video Added: 27.06.2020

Blossom Time Down Under
Year: 1935
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Boys skinny dip in a forbidden zone.
Video Added: 31.05.2020

Boys Camp (1920-1929)
Year: 1929
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, summer camp, swimming
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Watch this rare silent footage of boys from Eton School in the 1920's camping at Cuckoo Weir and swimming in the river.
Video Added: 31.05.2020

Crippled Children
Year: 1940
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Frankstown hospital for disabled children. Various shots as two young girls play a game of tennis outside whilst others watch from their hospital beds. M/S showing one of the tennis players has a false leg. M/S of boys playing cricket from their beds, they bat and field quite easily whilst lying down. M/S of two boys boxing whilst lying down on their beds. M/S as nurse takes a boy's temperature. M/S as other nurses crowd around the winning boxer and shake his hand, they laugh and give him flowers.
Video Added: 29.05.2020