This film is from the West Yorkshire Archive Service collection and was made by Jewish tailor and amateur filmmaker, Alec Baron. The film contains footage of a girl's ninth birthday party including shots of her friends sitting around a table eating and the birthday girl blowing out candles. Alec's family were Russian Jews who escaped the troubles and set up a tailoring business in Leeds. Alec developed a keen interest in film and theatre and set up the first film society outside of...

This film is from the West Yorkshire Archive Service collection and was made by Jewish tailor and amateur filmmaker, Alec Baron. The film contains footage of a girl's ninth birthday party including shots of her friends sitting around a table eating and the birthday girl blowing out candles. Alec's family were Russian Jews who escaped the troubles and set up a tailoring business in Leeds. Alec developed a keen interest in film and theatre and set up the first film society outside of London. His films capture family life and social events as well as educational and promotional style films made to encourage people to keep the Jewish way of life. Boys and girls sit around a table eating jelly from a bowl and a woman puts a big dish of food on the table and smiles at the camera. There is a shot of the chocolate birthday cake with the words `Rebecca Happy Birthday, 9' on it. There is a shot of the sister of the birthday girl who sits and eats a chocolate brownie. The camera moves around the children as they eat and talk to their friends. A few adults stand around eating and drinking cups of tea, and then the shot cuts back to the children at the table. An older boy stands at the door smiling and eating and then the birthday girl blows out the candles but has to try hard to blow out the last one.