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Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Children’s Party and Beach (1941)

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'Our first days at the beach'

Original classification rating: not rated. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

It is Spring 1941. An intertitle introduces this segment as ‘our first days at the beach’. Three children, the two eldest with model boats, come out of the backyard and walk down to the beach. On the beach, a woman is seated on a director’s chair under a large beach umbrella while the children play in the sand. One of the boys poses for the camera. A man dressed in swimming trunks runs down to join the others and they are all joined by friends.

Curator’s notes

by Poppy De Souza

At the end of this clip, the woman dressed in a dark blue and white dress and wearing bright red lipstick sits in a chair on the beach and smiles to camera. The difference in appropriate clothing for beach going has changed greatly since the 1940s when this was filmed. To us, the woman appears ‘dressed up’, but at the time this home movie was filmed, her attire was completely acceptable for sitting on the beach.

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