This film is from a collection of films made by Leeds based filmmaker Jack Goldberg. The collection consists of footage from family holidays, weddings, family food shop which is located at 80 Street Lane in Leeds, and family activities. As the family are Jewish, there are a lot of interesting insights into the family traditions, foods and religious customs. This film shows the preparations that go into organising a New Year's Eve Party in 1975. Title-The Dance of the Year...

This film is from a collection of films made by Leeds based filmmaker Jack Goldberg. The collection consists of footage from family holidays, weddings, family food shop which is located at 80 Street Lane in Leeds, and family activities. As the family are Jewish, there are a lot of interesting insights into the family traditions, foods and religious customs. This film shows the preparations that go into organising a New Year's Eve Party in 1975. Title-The Dance of the Year Title-Organised by the ladies of the Sharonah Title-30 December 1975 Title-Everyone Lends a Hand The film opens with a function room full of women; they are blowing up balloons, walking around the room and setting the room up with tables and chairs. The women fill a bit net with balloons. Title-In the kitchen. The counter in the kitchen is full of tins, jars, packs of kitchen roll and foil. The women put it into presses. In the main room men climb ladders and hang decorations. The net full of balloons is hung up from the roof. There is a shot of the function room complete with decorated tables and walls. Title-Back in the kitchen. The women are polishing lots of glasses. Title-New Year's Eve Title-And here they come. Guests arrive and come up the stairs to the function room; they are dressed up in suits and dresses and most of them have a bottle or a bag of something for the party. The couples smile at the camera and one woman shows off her leg to the camera. Shots of the guests seated at tables eating, drinking and waving at the camera. Title-After supper Title-The dancing begins Couples dance across the floor and then people dance individually. Title-Prizes A man stands at the top of the room and awards prizes to some of the guests. Another man and woman award bottles to a male guest. Title-Meet the ladies The women all get into a group and pose for the camera; one woman flaps her dress up around her knees and then they all dance. Title-Back to dancing The guests are all out on the dance floor dancing. The balloons fall from the ceiling onto the guests; they are thrown about. Title-Midnight They all hold hands and sing `Auld Lang Syne' and then they kiss and hug each other. A man pops the cork on a bottle of champagne and in the next shot all the guests are dancing around the floor in a conga train. Title-A lot of mishnagoyin Title-But wasn't it fun Title-Modern Food Stores Title-The Good Jewish Grocers There is a shot of Lynn Goldberg, who is not an adult, standing behind the till in the family shop. She smiles at the camera. Title-Chopped herring and liver Title-Pickled brisket Title-Smoked salmon Title-Salami Chopped boiled fish. Title-Chopped fried fish Title-And lots of other goodies. There are shots of the shelves and the various produce in the shop; a customer walks around with a basket. Title-Daily deliveries by our expert team of deliver men. A delivery man takes a box out of a van and brings it into a house. Edith Goldberg serves a man at the till in the shop. Title-We asked Mrs Black why she likes shopping at the Modern. Title-Modern Food Stores, the Good Jewish Grocer.