This film documents a trip for Bootham School students to Grasmere in the Lake District. As well as hikes up the peaks, such as Helvellyn summit, the students also performed geological tests, which included testing regional variables such as speed and temperature of the lakes. Title - Bootham1975. Title - Easter course Grasmere 1975. The film opens with a close up of a map which shows the area surrounding Grasmere and the camera tilts across the map to show the intended direction of the trip...

This film documents a trip for Bootham School students to Grasmere in the Lake District. As well as hikes up the peaks, such as Helvellyn summit, the students also performed geological tests, which included testing regional variables such as speed and temperature of the lakes. Title - Bootham1975. Title - Easter course Grasmere 1975. The film opens with a close up of a map which shows the area surrounding Grasmere and the camera tilts across the map to show the intended direction of the trip across the Lake District. The opening shot shows students, wearing back packs and hiking gear, climbing a grassy slope. A wide view shows the students spattered across a steep slope, before a brief sequence captures students and teachers searching through rocks. Two boys then walk towards the camera across the rocky hill top and one boy puts a glass cylinder in his mouth, laughing at himself. The sequence concludes with a group of students sitting down on a hill. Title - College one. Botany Quadrants in region of Helvellyn summit (3118). A hand guides a red pen which circles an area of soil marked out with string, before a group of students continue to make their way up the slope. At the summit, a group of students then lay on the ground, inspecting the soil and one person holds a lump of earth up to the camera. A wide view then shows the hills on a foggy day and a bird flies overheard. A student then bounds down the slope towards the camera, before the filmmaker uses slow motion to capture students jumping towards the camera. A wide view then captures an expansive lake with a peak on the other side. A line of students then walk towards the camera with one boy falling on his backside; the superseding shot shows the resulting mess on his trousers. Title - College two - Freshwater fauna in the Easedale valley. Title - Leaving Glenside. A small group of students walk through a village and then cross a wooden bridge over a river. Title - Collecting at Goody Bridge (400). A student, ankle deep in placid water, uses a net to scoop up maggots, soil and a fish from the river bed. Title - Habitat factors: 1. Speed of current. A student wearing knee-high Wellington boots drops an object into the river and it floats away from him at a relatively slow pace. Another student slight further down river stops the object after it has travelled ten meters. A close up shows a student jotting down the results in a note pad. Title - Habitat factors: 1. Speed of current. 2. Water current. A student lies on the river bank and dips a thermometer into the river, with a close up then showing the reading. Title - Habitat factors: 1. Speed of current. 2. Water current. 3. Oxygen content. A student takes a sample of water and places it into a tumbler before adding several droplets of a purple dye. He then uses a pipette to add another liquid into the tumbler and squeezes out the excess liquid out. The results are then shown plotted on a graph in a workbook. Title - Habitat factors: 1. Speed of current. 2. Water current. 3. Oxygen content. 4. Size of stone. Three students stand in the river using nets, before there is a shot of one of them inspecting the contents of a see though bag. A group of students are then captured longing on the river bank; some are asleep on trees while others are reading magazines. Title - Higher up Easedale. The opening shots in this sequence shows a peak looming above the countryside, before the filmmaker captures lambs frolicking in the fields. A close up then show insects (of varying size) in a white tub - presumably collected from the river.