An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of his first family holiday to France. The film captures his first impressions of the county and it’s people and includes visit to Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy as well a crowded and sunny beach where he dresses as the traditional image of British tourist wearing a handkerchief on his head tied at the corners. Title: Dumar Films The North Sea from a passenger ferry crossing the British Channel. Title: Land of Contrast Credit by Doug Collender...

An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of his first family holiday to France. The film captures his first impressions of the county and it’s people and includes visit to Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy as well a crowded and sunny beach where he dresses as the traditional image of British tourist wearing a handkerchief on his head tied at the corners. Title: Dumar Films The North Sea from a passenger ferry crossing the British Channel. Title: Land of Contrast Credit by Doug Collender Title: A First Time Visitors Look at France A large French chateau beside a lake or river changes to show traffic and pedestrian travels through a town passing a castle or towered building. A long highway changes to show the monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel on its tidal island. Views of a war memorial are followed by a group of men playing boules or Petanque in a shaded park. Doug Collender walks behind a barrier of outdoor public toilet, with his head sticking up over the barrier he smiles at the camera. A Renault and Citroen car are parked bumper-to-bumper, beside a beach surfboards are unloaded from another car. Outside a café an artist stands beside his easel painting, four people speak with a stallholder looking down on a long table of food items laid out in baskets. Crowds walk along a narrow road as a street vendor sells various pastries from under a parasol. Tourists look over a display of postcards and purchase their selection from the male vendor nearby. Along a narrow street are a number of café tables with parasols, around each table people enjoy various foods and drinks. Vehicles and pedestrians travel along a series of streets in a town. Another view of Mont-Saint-Michel followed by a coach crossing the causeway to the monastery passing a car park full of vehicles. Three older people sit on a wall chatting. Large crowds of visitors walk around the town of Mont-Saint-Michel passing a number of shops and stores. A man with a video-camera films along the street. Many of those on the street eat ice creams. From an elevated position the roofs of houses below as well as the sea in the distance, in the distance still above the monastery. Two modern apartment complexes or hotels changes to show a ‘FujiFilm’ Airship flying overhead. A motorised train travels along a seaside promenade, three men walk past pushing a pram containing four toddlers. Sunseekers walk along the promenade or swim in the sea. Doug Collender twirls a colourful umbrella before turning to face the camera. He is wearing shorts, vest and a handkerchief on his head. Doug walks onto the beach looking around at a number of topless women. Doug and one of his daughters play on an inflatable pool lounger in the sea. Large crowds relax and enjoy the sunny beach. A young man listening to a Walkman sprinkles water onto a woman sunbathing. Men, women, and children enjoy the beach and cooling sea. A man pulls a number of inflatable pool loungers around in the surf, a boy or girl sitting on each one. In the surf a number of people learn to ride wind surfers. The film ends with Doug still with his handkerchief on his head looks out across the beach from the promenade, the film changes to him walking away from the toilet seen earlier and finally a view of the French chateau seen at the start beside a lake or river. End credit: Dumar Films A cartoon of a Frenchman holding a sign reading ‘FIN’ is on the same title card as the end credit.