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DetailsOriginal Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 9 mins
Subject: ARTS / CULTURE CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES URBAN LIFE
Summary This film features different performances in Sheffield city centre. Included are marches by majorettes, marching bands, and Morris Dancers.
Description
This film features different performances in Sheffield city centre. Included are marches by majorettes, marching bands, and Morris Dancers.
Title - The Moor the Merrier
A band is on a small stage. There is a brass section and a drummer in the corner. The conductor stands in front, and there is also a close up of a man playing a small organ.
A majorette band is seen parading past Woolworths on The Moor. Crowds have gathered around to watch. The event is taking place in the autumn as...
This film features different performances in Sheffield city centre. Included are marches by majorettes, marching bands, and Morris Dancers.
Title - The Moor the Merrier
A band is on a small stage. There is a brass section and a drummer in the corner. The conductor stands in front, and there is also a close up of a man playing a small organ.
A majorette band is seen parading past Woolworths on The Moor. Crowds have gathered around to watch. The event is taking place in the autumn as there are colourful trees which can be seen behind the majorettes.
Flag - Chesterfield 1981
There is a different group of majorettes and an honour guard. This is followed by people clog dancing outside British Home Stores. A man playing the accordion stands behind them.
Sign - Sheffield Celebrating Clog Dancers
This is followed by a man riding a mechanical bull. There is a crowd of people gathered around watching him, and the man manages to ride the bull for a while without falling off.
In the next scene, there is a group of sword dances performing in the town square. Dixons can be seen in the background.
The film closes with two men making their way through an obstacle course on mobility scooters.