Film Record: Lake District Windermere, The

Identifier:

• 1899 (Source: North West Film Archive )

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Harold Preston

Sidney Preston

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:10:46

Length:

260 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"Members of the Preston Family on holiday in the Lake District. The film includes various landscape shots of Lake Windermere and the boating activities that take place around the pier and lakeside. Concludes with footage of farm workers stacking hay on to a horse-drawn cart; farm animals grazing in the fields and a man and woman playing with some puppies in a garden." (NWFA Online Database)

Resources:

NWFA Online Database

Locations:

• Lake District, UK. (Filming)

Subjects:

• Locomotion
•      Boats and Boating
• Nature
•      Water
•           Lakes
• Recreation

Genre:

• Family
• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

North West Film Archive

Video Link:

• nwfa.mmu.ac.uk

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