Ball: Works Outings

Summary

Works outings for staff from the Universal Engineering Company of Nottingham filmed by Cyril Ball.

Year:

1935

Duration:

0:08:05

Film type:

B&W/Colour / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

16mm

Description

Opening section shows a 1930s river trip (on board 'Success') travelling along the River Trent towards Hazelford Ferry. During the trip we see a lock being navigated. Intertitle: '1933 works visit by bus to Loughborough College. Please note: This is not a picture of the college entrance'. Caption is followed by shots of men boarding a bus. It looks like they're leaving a pub. Intertitle: '1935 works summer outing to the Wagon and Horses, Bleasby'. We see a bus arriving at the pub in Nottinghamshire. Men stand outside the pub and one plays a banjo. We then see them playing skittles presumably in the pub garden followed by a series of running races and a three legged event where the men try to climb a gate. The final section is in colour and shows another works outing, this time to Stoke Farm alongside the River Trent (late 1930s?). This section again shows running races in a field and three legged and obstacle events as well as a game of football played with a rugby ball.


Credits

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Notes

The Universal Engineering Company was based on Castle Boulevard in Nottingham. It's director was the maker of this film, Arthur Cyril Ball, brother of the first world war pilot Albert Ball VC.