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WORK ID: NEFA 14609 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| MED. CRUISE ON CHUSAN AUGUST 1955 | 1955 | 1955-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 20 secs Credits: Individuals: Ruth Jacobson Genre: Home Movie Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES FAMILY LIFE SPORT TRAVEL travel & tourism |
| Summary A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson featuring the family taking a holiday cruises aboard the cruise ship “Chusan” in 1955. The film mainly focuses on the activities and friends made onboard ship. The final part of the film shows the family visiting their daughter Pamela at Harrogate College for speech day as well as the whole family in the garden at home at Leasyde in Newcastle. |
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Description
A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson featuring the family taking a holiday cruises aboard the cruise ship “Chusan” in 1955. The film mainly focuses on the activities and friends made onboard ship. The final part of the film shows the family visiting their daughter Pamela at Harrogate College for speech day as well as the whole family in the garden at home at Leasyde in Newcastle.
The film begins with a view of a boy in a checked shirt watching people in the swimming pool on board a cruise...
A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson featuring the family taking a holiday cruises aboard the cruise ship “Chusan” in 1955. The film mainly focuses on the activities and friends made onboard ship. The final part of the film shows the family visiting their daughter Pamela at Harrogate College for speech day as well as the whole family in the garden at home at Leasyde in Newcastle.
The film begins with a view of a boy in a checked shirt watching people in the swimming pool on board a cruise ship. A girl is thrown into a swimming pool by a group of boys. The girl later dives into the pool and another girl swims breaststroke. A man talks to a member of the ship's crew.
The film changes to show three men in a rowing boat who look up at the camera before they dive into sea. General views of a harbour and town as well as a number of moored smaller ships seen from the ship.
The film cuts to five young women in traditional red costumes posing for the camera. There are further views of the town and harbour from a hilltop viewpoint. A woman and two children sit in wicker chairs that are then pushed at speed downhill by men in white costumes.
The film changes to shows a number of passengers on board a small boat which pulls away from the Chusan. The film cuts to show a man and a woman play hoops on the deck of the ship. Various organised water sports and games are filmed around the swimming pool. The film then shows a boy doing various swimming strokes in the pool.
General views of a beach with rocky sea wall and a church with a spire in the background. Children play in the sea and a woman sits on a rock wearing large hat.
Title: Med Cruise Cont, August 1955
The film shows the skyline of a city and a large building with winged statues on its corners. View of another statue standing on a large column. There are views of a harbour with a crane and a cruise ship moored along the quayside. A boy stands on a ship's railing followed by views of other passengers sunbathing or playing games on the deck of the ship. More people are filled in the swimming in pool and another cruise ship passes.
The film cuts to show the family standing in a town square, next to a yellow building with palm trees and flowers. Two family groups talk and play together near a fountain. Back on the ship, views of people sunbathing and smoking. The woman and boy are talking from the railings looking out to sea.
Title: Harrogate College Speech Day, July 1955
A girl in red trousers stands in the doorway of house where a man sits in a deck chair. Views of a large field with chairs set out, and school girls in green uniforms. People are putting out chairs. A man is talking to two of the girls in green uniforms. This is followed by a woman in a red dress who hugs a girl in a green uniform. A group of girls in various green uniforms perform a dance and some gymnastic routines for crowd.
Title: Family at Home, Summer 1955
A boy in school uniform sits in a deck chair next to man in another deck chair who is wearing sun glasses. Cut to a view of the boy on a bicycle cycling around the garden. A woman in a white blouse is sitting in a deck chair reading a newspaper. Two girls sits on the grass reading newspapers. This is followed by three girls sitting in the garden reading magazines. The boy poses for the camera behind the three girls.
A black cat plays with some string. A dog is patted by two of the girls. The film ends with the boy playing with dog and the cat digging a hole in garden.
Context
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker.
The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she...
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker. The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she was sent to collect annual subscriptions for the Poor Children’s Boot and Shoe Fund. Marrying in Newcastle in 1937, she was a mother at 19. Another two babies soon followed. Her husband, Lionel Jacobson, had gained a degree at Oxford and trained for the bar. But he went into his father’s business, Jackson the Tailor, founded in the early 1900s, and ran it with his brother before its 1953 merger with Burtons, of which he became chairman. Despite her young family, Ruth volunteered for war work and helped with the Women’s Voluntary Service until after the war. She also started her lifelong involvement in the local Daughters of Zion and joined Wizo, soon becoming branch chairman. Keen on local and especially smaller charities, she and her husband set up a trust fund. But their main endowment was the Ruth and Lionel Jacobson chair of clinical pharmacology at Newcastle University Medical School, twinned with the school of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For over 40 years, each medical department of the university has invited a speaker from abroad to deliver the annual Jacobson Lecture. After Lionel’s death in 1978, their youngest child, Malcolm, joined Ruth as trustee. In the 1973 community amalgamation, the Jacobsons bought the site for today’s United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Lionel Jacobson House, the original house on the site, provides constantly used function and drop-in rooms, synagogue offices and a small shul for the daily minyan, as well as the kosher food facility. Keen collectors of contemporary art, the couple made generous loans to Newcastle and Durham Universities. Ruth was a life-member and fundraiser of the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery. A co-founder in 1948 of the highly successful amateur dramatic society, The Jewish Players, she appeared in many of its productions and led the company to its triumphant securing of two cups at the local drama festival. Involved with youth, she was chairman of the fundraising committee of the Northumberland Association of Youth Clubs, a governor of Rutherford Comprehensive School, and a member of the development trust committee of Newcastle Church High School. As founder-chairman of the League of Jewish Women in Newcastle, which she was asked to start in the mid-1970s, she became involved with the North East School for the Blind, where she used her thespian skills by acting out each character in the stories she read to the schoolchildren. Maintaining her interest in Wizo, she sat on its national executive committee and was a vice-president of Wizo UK until retiring in 2005 after receiving a Woman of Valour award. She was also active in the Newcastle Ladies’ Cancer Committee and was the first female board director of the Metro radio station, retiring in 1989 aged 70. In 1980 she was invited to join a group visit to schools and hospitals in China, organised by a London communal figure, the late Ruth Winston-Fox, with the aim of gaining emancipation for Chinese women. Asked by the deputy lord mayor of Newcastle, Labour councillor Bennie Abrahams, to serve as his deputy lady mayoress, she continued as his lady mayoress in 1981, as Mrs Marion Abrahams was too ill for public duties. Politically unaffiliated, she became a huge asset, especially with the lord mayor’s failing eyesight. She was appointed MBE in 1989 for her contribution to charitable services in north east England. But she retired from her positions as her oldest daughter, Valerie’s, health deteriorated with multiple sclerosis. Both Valerie and Valerie’s son, Nigel, predeceased her. She is survived by her second daughter, Pamela; son, Malcom; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Obituary: Ruth Jacobson: The Jewish Chronicle online, 26 March 2009 http://www.thejc.com/social/obituaries/obituary-ruth-jacobson |
