Still from Family via EAFA
United Kingdom
English
00:04:52
140 ft
16mm
B&W
Silent
"Short film sequences featuring members of the Hawes-Wilson family. The films feature: Violet Rachel Caroline Hawes Wilson (“Violet”) … Benjamin Hawes Allcroft Wilson (“Dad”) …, Eunice Alliott, two women and two men [who possibly include one of her sisters, Hylda Frances Hawes Wilson (“Hylda”), and possibly her brothers, Harold Stanley Hawes Wilson and Benjamin Stuart Hawes Wilson]" (EAFA Database).
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive
"Shots in the garden at the family home in Hampstead include: Violet rearranging a deck chair on the lawn while a woman in a hat with a Pekinese dog watches [possibly Hylda]; Violet is teased by the woman; Violet removes her tennis shoes and socks, smells her foot and plays to the camera; Violet combs her hair; Eunice, her father and possibly Hylda, watch Violet walk across the lawn and sit down; close shot of Dad; Eunice and her father converse; Dad and possibly Hylda walk across the lawn. Shots on an unidentified farm comprise Dad with cattle; Dad and possibly Hylda drive away from a barn in a car. Shots in a formal garden at an unidentified house feature Violet on a visit to the house and garden; Violet walks up steps in the garden by the lake and stands on a terrace. Shots from by the sea feature Violet walking in an open area; Eunice and Violet sitting on a beach with a Pekinese dog. Shots in unidentified woods comprise Eunice Alliott walking her Chow Chow dog. Shots outside and in the gardens of an unidentified stately home feature Eunice Alliott, Violet, and possibly her two brothers; they stand together as a group in conversation, one of the men is left holding the Chow Chow’s lead; close shot of one of the men" (EAFA Database).
Amateur Cinema