This compilation contains two amateur films. The first is a short travelogue with intertitles, filmed in 1937, which documents a holiday in Wales and visit to Dublin. The second is a short comedy film about an inherited vase that a wife plans to give to her mother as a birthday gift. The vase is accidently broken by her husband on the way to work and he must find a replacement. The film is part of the Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) collection. Title:...

This compilation contains two amateur films. The first is a short travelogue with intertitles, filmed in 1937, which documents a holiday in Wales and visit to Dublin. The second is a short comedy film about an inherited vase that a wife plans to give to her mother as a birthday gift. The vase is accidently broken by her husband on the way to work and he must find a replacement. The film is part of the Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) collection. Title: Wales 1937 Title: We stayed on a farm General views of a farmhouse with smoking chimneys. Title: Things here were very much like home. Kittens play amongst milk pails at the farm. Someone teases the kittens with a stalk of grass. Title: The neighbouring valley produced some wonderful scenery General views of a rocky river flowing through a forest, probably the Afon Selont, and an old bridge over the river. Title: Picturesque but primitive A farm hand collects pails of water from an old fashioned outdoor water hydrant. A boy stands with him beside the hydrant. General views of Swallow Falls waterfall. Title: Two castles of repute are situated in the district – Title: Caernarvon [sic] with a wonderful vista General views of the waterfront Caernarfon Castle, the town, River Afon Selont, and hills in the background. Title: Conway [sic] also has a room with a view A couple stroll through the outer ward of Conwy Castle on the north coast of Wales. Various shots follow inside the medieval fortress. General view of the River Conwy, fishing boats and yachts moored on the river. Close-up of a sign advertising a trip on the LMS ferry to Dublin for 9/-. People wait on a station platform as a steam train arrives. A man walks up the boarding ramp to a ship. A mooring rope uncoils on deck. Traveling shots from the ship. The ship funnel belches out smoke. Title: The high spots of Dublin were the zoo and Phoenix Park Various shots of the zoo animals follow, including polar bears and penguins. People stroll through Phoenix Park in Dublin. Shots of the flowers and flower beds follow. Title: Where Ignorance is Bliss A couple are having breakfast at the kitchen table. The wife reminds her husband of her mother’s birthday. Title: “It’s Mother’s birthday, We’ll give her the vase Uncle Simon left us.” The husband looks over his newspaper at his wife. He is surprised and starts to argue. Title: “Good Heavens! It’s valuable, unique. We can’t part with it. She gets up from the breakfast table and replies. Title: “Nothing’s valuable if you don’t want it.” He shakes his head. The husband leaves home for work (a 30s semi-detached house in Tynemouth). His wife calls him back from the front door. Title: “Hi! The vase.” They bicker back and forth. Title: “Well hurry up! I shall miss my bus.” He strolls back into the drive. Still of the vase in question. The wife wraps up the vase with brown paper and string, and rushes outside with the parcel. The husband races off up the street with the present to catch his bus. Title: “Be careful! See you at Mother’s at teatime.” He runs up the tree-lined street. A No. 8 bus bound for the North Shields Ferry Terminus is waiting at the bus stop. As the husband rushes up to the bus stop, the double decker moves off. He slips and falls, dropping the parcel on the road. A bus drives over the vase and flattens it. He limps over and picks it up. He dumps it in a litter bin and disconsolately walks away. In Newcastle, a clock reads nearly quarter past three. The husband window shops at a junk shop looking for a replacement present for his wife’s mother. He continues up the street past another antique shop when he spots a vase for sale, an exact replica of the vase he’s broken. It’s labelled “Imitation “Siki” vase 3/6 Bargain”. He can’t believe his luck. He leaves the shop a happy man, the vase all packaged up. The wife is at her mother’s home. The husband arrives with the birthday present. He and his wife have a confab and he hands over the vase. His wife hands her mother the present. She is delighted with the gift, expressing her long admiration for the vase. Title: “I’ve always wanted this vase.” The mother hugs her daughter, and the husband breathes a sigh of relief, wiping his brow. Title: Tis Folly to be Wise