Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22152 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| FAMILY FILMS: PLEASE TO REMEMBER!" 1948" | 1948 | 1948-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 13 secs Credits: Individual: Peter Dobing Genre: Home Movie Subject: Family Life |
| Summary A hand tinted narrative home movie of a bonfire night in 1948 at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, produced by Peter Dobing, and featuring his sister Ann. |
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Description
A hand tinted narrative home movie of a bonfire night in 1948 at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, produced by Peter Dobing, and featuring his sister Ann.
Title: Family Films
Title: “Please to Remember!” 1948
[An explosive animation]
Title: Featuring Ann
General view of sunset over the village of Haughton-le-Skerne.
A pile of fireworks lay on the ground. A hand picks up one of the fireworks. General view of a large bonfire with the silhouette...
A hand tinted narrative home movie of a bonfire night in 1948 at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, produced by Peter Dobing, and featuring his sister Ann.
Title: Family Films
Title: “Please to Remember!” 1948
[An explosive animation]
Title: Featuring Ann
General view of sunset over the village of Haughton-le-Skerne.
A pile of fireworks lay on the ground. A hand picks up one of the fireworks. General view of a large bonfire with the silhouette of people watching the flames at night. Two girls and a man are enjoying playing with sparklers. Fireworks are set off and explode into the night sky. Ann lights a firework and quickly steps back. Close-up of a firework lit with a match. Portrait shots of Ann enjoying the firework display. A bonfire blazes away during Guy Fawkes night.
The remains of a bonfire smoulders in a field across from the houses on Salters Lane South in Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington.
Title: The End
Context
Darlington native Peter Haliwell Dobing (1927-2018) began a lifetime passion for amateur filmmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s producing 14 often humorous 9.5mm home movies featuring his extended family. Considerable thought and skill went into the production of home movies such as the hand-tinted A Very Happy Christmas (1950) which not only featured his parents, sister Ann, aunt, uncle and nephews in front of the camera, but also their contribution behind the camera. Sadly his early...
Darlington native Peter Haliwell Dobing (1927-2018) began a lifetime passion for amateur filmmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s producing 14 often humorous 9.5mm home movies featuring his extended family. Considerable thought and skill went into the production of home movies such as the hand-tinted A Very Happy Christmas (1950) which not only featured his parents, sister Ann, aunt, uncle and nephews in front of the camera, but also their contribution behind the camera. Sadly his early film making career came to an end when he contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalised for a year.
It wasn’t until he met his partner George Theaker in 1960, and together they became members of the Darlington Cine Club in 1975, that his passion for filmmaking re-ignited and together they produced a number of interesting amateur documentaries on various subjects of local interests including the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1975, Captain James Cook and the Tees Cottage Pumping station. The Darlington Cine Club was set up in 1965, a splinter group of the Darlington Camera Club established in 1936. References: Information provided by depositor George Theaker, 2018 - 2020 |
