Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22392 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
GIBRALTAR | 1987 | 1987-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 16 mins 46 secs Credits: Doug Collender Genre: Amateur Subject: Urban Life Travel |
Summary An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family trip to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. As well as visits to the Rock Apes on the Rock of Gibraltar and tourist locations in the town, the film also captures some local people and non-touristy locations. |
Description
An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family trip to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. As well as visits to the Rock Apes on the Rock of Gibraltar and tourist locations in the town, the film also captures some local people and non-touristy locations.
The Spanish flag flies from a pole on a promontory changes to show the Rock of Gibraltar from a boat at sea.
Crowds walk along a shopping street in Gibraltar itself, a street artists uses chalk to draw the picture of a man...
An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family trip to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. As well as visits to the Rock Apes on the Rock of Gibraltar and tourist locations in the town, the film also captures some local people and non-touristy locations.
The Spanish flag flies from a pole on a promontory changes to show the Rock of Gibraltar from a boat at sea.
Crowds walk along a shopping street in Gibraltar itself, a street artists uses chalk to draw the picture of a man on the pavement. Two women hold clipboards beside a sign and a musician stands beside a ship playing an accordion. Two women chat in the street.
Pedestrians and traffic pass The Convent, Governor’s Residence followed by an apartment block. People board a cable-car traveling over the town making their way to the summit of the Rock of Gibraltar. At the summit people take photographs of the surrounding landscape and of the town below. Three flags, including the Union Jack, fly from poles.
Another cable car arrives changes to two women watching a Barbary macaque or Rock Ape sitting in a tree. A crowd take photographs of wild monkey. A sign warns visitors not to feed the apes. More apes wonder around the Prince Ferdinand’s Battery, a woman offers one some food which it takes and eats. It sits on a wall eating as more food is offered. A plaque against the wall relates to a visit by the Royal family in 1954 and the friendship between them and the Rock Apes.
Back in Gibraltar a cinema changes to show an old cannon. A shirtless man looks a window display of various bottles of whiskey. People walk up and down a road, one woman is wearing a Hijab.
Crowds walk past cafes where people sit outside at tables eating and drinking. At a nearby market shoppers look over a stall, a crane carries a large tub across a building site. Along a street signs above a series of tourist shops. Two women stand in the street chatting while a man in a green t-shirt speaks with a policeman in a British uniform.
A number of taxi’s are parked at a rank is followed by a building site next to an apartment block where washing hangs from a line. A carboard sign warns that ‘Gibraltar Suffers’ are followed by bins beside an old ARP shelter. Two police officers, one standing beside a kiosk.
Vehicles and pedestrians move along a series of busy streets passing a number of store fronts Two men standing chatting near to a stall selling smoked fish which are then loaded into a van.
A dog sleeps in a doorway as people walk along busy streets looking in on display in shop windows. A number of policemen are on patrol. A man in Arabic in longs-sleeved gown and headscarf walks into a department store.
A view of the Port of Gibraltar and a colonial style building with the film ending as it begun with the Spanish flat flying from a pole.
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