This is a film from the C.H. Wood collection and captures a sports day that was held in St. Barnabas School, Bradford, in July 1949. Children of all ages take part in sack races, wheel barrow races and running races. There are also shots of some of the teachers helping out on the day. Title- St. Barnabas Church School Annual Sports July 1949 Title-Photographed by C.H. Wood. Bradford. The film opens with a long shot taken from one side of a field looking onto a large crowd that have...

This is a film from the C.H. Wood collection and captures a sports day that was held in St. Barnabas School, Bradford, in July 1949. Children of all ages take part in sack races, wheel barrow races and running races. There are also shots of some of the teachers helping out on the day. Title- St. Barnabas Church School Annual Sports July 1949 Title-Photographed by C.H. Wood. Bradford. The film opens with a long shot taken from one side of a field looking onto a large crowd that have gathered on the other side; village buildings are visible in the background. The camera moves in for the next shot and shows the bunting strung up along the length of the field to cordon off the track. Children sit along the side-lines, while other children get up and prepare for their competition; a few teachers are directing the children where to go. The first race is a sprint with shots from the finish line watching boys of five or six racing followed by girls of the same age racing. When they get to the finish line, a teacher holds onto the winning child a puts a sash around their neck. Following this are some relay races where the small children have to run back and forth picking up items, filling a basket and then running to the finish line. There are some close up shots of the children on the side-lines, the children at the starting line and a teacher dropping his hanky to signal the start of the race. The next race is the wheel barrow race and the boys and girls make their way along the track holding the legs of their partners. Many of the children fall over or crash into the other teams. Some boys and girls line up with an egg and spoon and start to run along. Most of them make it to the finish line but a couple drop their eggs. There is a shot of a man standing at the starting line; he smiles at the camera and then the camera moves to capture the other adults watching from the side-lines. There are more shots of the wheel barrow races with one boy who falls over and starts to cry; some of the girls fall on top of each other but laugh and continue on. The is a sequence of shots of girls taking part in a skipping race, boys doing sack races and shots of some of the teachers and helpers standing at the side-lines watching. There are more egg and spoon races, sack and wheel barrow races. Then there are shots of the teachers organising the children and handing out prizes to them all. There is a final shot of a large trophy on a table.