Champion: Area Seminal 1963

Summary

Home movie shot by Walter Champion in 1963 of a medical training event in Leicester and shots from a boat on a canal in Northamptonshire.

Year:

1963

Duration:

0:08:25

Film type:

Black & White / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

8mm

Description

In a large assembly hall we see shots of nurses caring for patients who are lined up in numbered beds. An audience is arranged around the outside of the room for what appears to be a training session or competition. In the rest of the film we see shots of boats on the Grand Union Canal beginning by passing the Rose and Castle pub at Braunston, Northamptonshire. There are shots of a boat cruise called Willow Wren Cruises, Rugby.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The film maker spent a great deal of his free time volunteering for the National Hospital Service Reserve.