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T.H. Brown was a wealthy Middlesbrough dentist and enthusiastic amateur film-maker whose collection is deposited with the Northern Region Film and Television Archive. His subjects included family life, domestic scenes, civic events in Middlesbrough, holidays and leisure activity. This film shows a beauty pageant in Redcar at a time when it was a popular holiday resort which rivalled Scarborough (the location shown in this clip is now a chemical works); in those days holidays abroad were virtually unheard of for all except the most wealthy, and people tended to travel far shorter distances to their holiday destinations. This is also some of the archive's earliest colour footage. Dufaycolor reversal film went on sale to amateurs in 1934, but due to its high cost and difficulty of use (it was very slow and thus required bright sunlight or studio lighting) colour was not used by amateurs on a significant scale until the 1950s. |
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