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A 'local topical' newsreel film showing children outside the Vaudeville cinema in Colchester, on October 3rd 1914, waiting to go in to see the children's matinee performance. The camera pans over the children's faces and the commissionaires struggling to keep them in line, as they jostle for position. The film has views of the cinema in the background, including posters for war-time newsreels, one of which advertises film of the German invasion of Louvain. The film was made to show in the cinema itself a few days later for the children to see themselves on screen, and short films such as these were often shot by the cinema management as a marketing device. Another example of this type of film in the East Anglian Film Archive is "Electrics: Local Pictures Including The Mart." From Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in 1926. See also: 'Paisley Children’s Happy Hunting Ground' (1929), a similar local topical film of children outside a cinema, from the Scottish Screen Archive |
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