This film shows the events of the 1937 Children’s Day held at Roundhay Park, Leeds and the Golden Acre Theme Park.  Scenes from Children’s Day include floats, dance performances and the crowning of the May Queen.  Scenes of Golden Acre Park show its location and train station, with the journey to the theme park, the boating lake, Speedway, and various rides including crazy bicycles and bumper cars.  Title – Photography by Frederick Dyson Children’s Day at Roundhay Park. Children are...

This film shows the events of the 1937 Children’s Day held at Roundhay Park, Leeds and the Golden Acre Theme Park.  Scenes from Children’s Day include floats, dance performances and the crowning of the May Queen.  Scenes of Golden Acre Park show its location and train station, with the journey to the theme park, the boating lake, Speedway, and various rides including crazy bicycles and bumper cars.  Title – Photography by Frederick Dyson Children’s Day at Roundhay Park. Children are gathered outside a marquee attaching notes to balloons and letting them fly away.  Children in various fancy dress costumes climb off the float, and there is a sign that reads, “The Basque Children Thank you for giving them a haven of Peace.”  A team of children play with a giant ball on the playing field. Crowds of people gather in the stadium stands to watch the events taking place in the arena bellow. Four boys compete in a running race around the arena track.  A group of schoolboys march around the arena wearing shorts and no tops.  They are followed by the teachers around the inner circle. Title – The Queen. Through the stone archway and wooden drawbridge, the guards walk into the arena and are followed by the May Queen.  The May Queen carries flowers, and a group of young boys follow behind her carrying the train of her dress.  Eight flower girls in green dresses carry bouquets of flowers and follow the May Queen.  The May Queen and her followers arrange themselves on the platform, the May Queen seated on the thrown in the centre, and a man dressed in uniform playing a horn.  With the aid of a microphone, the May Queen stands and gives a speech to the audience, to which the audience applauds.  A man addresses the audience on the microphone to more applause.  The guards, the May Queen, and her followers take part in a procession around the arena. Using scarves, girls of all ages dressed in different coloured costumes perform a group dance in the arena.  Inside the bandstand, three girls perform a dance with tambourines.  A man wearing pyjamas and a woman in a pink hat walk around the side of the river and along the jetty.  A jazz band plays on the riverbank next to the marquee.  Audiences gather at the side of the river to watch a series of games and events which take place on the water.  Children row in a little dingy past balloons on the water, while men throw rubber rings over each other’s heads and have water fights. Title – The Mannequin Display. Presented by Messrs, Lewis’s. Audiences gather on the riverbank to watch a number of models in a swimsuit competition.  They walk along the jetty displaying their costumes of various styles.  Families swim in the outdoor swimming baths which are surrounded by trees and flower gardens.  A boy wades in the boating pond and plays with a model ship near the swimming baths.  Men dive from the various heights of diving boards at the outdoor pool performing different dives.  At the edge of the pool, men and women try to push each other into the water.  The men hold onto each other as they dive from the top diving board.  Three women and two men play with a ball in the swimming pool, and the swimmers sit with the spectators at the edge of the pool.  A man shimmies along the bottom of the top diving board and turns himself upside down to place his feet on the front of the diving board before he jumps into the pool.  Two men play leapfrog at the side of the swimming pool, and two others go down the side together into the swimming pool.   Outside the theme park the boundaries are shown.  On the side of a building, a sign has been painted in black capitals (Golden Acre Park.)  Rows of cars are lined up outside the theme park.  Next to the car park are the Galleon Café and a railway station with tracks leading over the river and towards the theme park.  A train pulls out of the station pulling passenger carriages filled with holidaymakers.  The train passes over the river and through another station (Parkway.)  The train ride runs parallel to the river where boats are sailing.  It travels though a small tunnel and arrives at another station (Woodend.)  The train then travels through the woodland and passes through many tunnels before it approaches the theme parks where many of the rides can be seen from the carriages. Title – The Ballroom. The interior of the empty ballroom is decorated with flowers hanging from the roof. A passenger boat sails on the lake passing other boats.  The boat is moored next to the jetty near the Miniature Speedway.  The Speedway boat is loaded with children as it travels down the ramp and splashes into the water before it is hoisted back up the runway.  Children ride peddle boats along the water next to the Dancing Hall, and more children ride on the Speedway.  On a circuit on the decking, people ride bicycles that are peddled not by their feet but by them jumping up and down on the seats.  Bumper cars race around the racetrack decking, and children ride on the swinging carts which rotate all the way around.  Parents walk with their children up the steps of the slide as the children side down front ways and back ways.  Children play on a triangular roundabout climbing frame, an 'umbrella' ride, and next to the Woodview Café, mothers ride on a normal roundabout with their children.  Small children and adults get on a large model ship - 'The Good Ship Lollipop'.  Next to the boating lake is a pool with a metal globe on an axis, and children wade into the water to spin the globe.  The film closes with a shot of a passenger boat sails across the lake. Title – The End. Interval.