WORK ID: YFA 4767 (Master Record)

Title	Year	Date
CAME THE DAWN	1936	1936-01-01

Details Original Format: 16mm
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Silent
Duration: 5 mins 50 secs

Subject: Education

Summary
This short fictional film was produced by Bootham School in York, North Yorkshire. Featuring students as the main players, the protagonists wake up late in their dormitory and hurry to class, with their lateness penalised by writing lines. Although a fictional piece, the film is an interesting documentation of the type of living environments for students attending upper class boarding schools in the 1930s.

Description

This short fictional film was produced by Bootham School in York, North Yorkshire. Featuring students as the main players, the protagonists wake up late in their dormitory and hurry to class, with their lateness penalised by writing lines. Although a fictional piece, the film is an interesting documentation of the type of living environments for students attending upper class boarding schools in the 1930s. Title – Bootham Calendar. 1936. Title – ‘Came the dawn’. Title – Featuring Freddy...

This short fictional film was produced by Bootham School in York, North Yorkshire. Featuring students as the main players, the protagonists wake up late in their dormitory and hurry to class, with their lateness penalised by writing lines. Although a fictional piece, the film is an interesting documentation of the type of living environments for students attending upper class boarding schools in the 1930s. Title – Bootham Calendar. 1936. Title – ‘Came the dawn’. Title – Featuring Freddy Ward, Steve Richardson and John Crockatt. Lighting by Len Crawford. Title – “…creeping like snails unwillingly to school” (Gray). At Bootham School, several shots (fast motion) show boys running down a corridor followed by a picture of the Minster above York. A close up of a clock is followed by a scene of boys asleep in a dormitory. The boys then wake up and walk to the showers carrying their towels. In another dorm, a senior boy wakes up and attempts to wake other by hitting them with his pillow. They refuse to get up and he leaves the dorm alone. Returning from his shower, the boy finds his fellow students still asleep and he finally rousts them by shaking them. The boys then run out of bed, clearly late. They sprint down a corridor, past boys already in full uniform and head to the shower, before returning to the dorm and changing into uniform. Other students make their way to their lessons, moving down corridors and several flights of stairs; all our impeccably neat with many running combs through their hair. The punctually challenged boys struggle to get their uniform as the last few stragglers make their way to class. The late boys now dash down the deserted corridor with one of the boys dropping his blazer. With ties askew and un-tucked shirts, they pile down the steps and head down another corridor - at such speed that one boys knocks a tray of plates carried by a member of the kitchen staff. Title – It looks like being “6 late” Ward and Richardson. The boys then stand in a mirror, hurriedly fixing their ties and hair. The final shot is a close up of a hand writing out lines. Title – The end.

Context

This film, given to archive by the Bootham School, is one of a large collection of films that has been donated by the school to the YFA. Bootham School a boarding school, founded in 1823 and established by the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. To this day, Bootham remains and Quaker school which teaches students moral principles and a positive viewpoint of the world in accordance with the schools Quaker ethos. Although, the school does not limit itself to admitting just people of...

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