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Village Celebrations

1920s , Luton Hoo (Bedfordshire)

Cat no. 6594

Amateur film of an historical pageant performed by villagers.

Villagers perform an historical pageant in the picturesque setting of a landscaped garden by a lake. The actors are dressed as Druids, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Crusaders, and Elizabethan courtiers. Native American costumes possibly allude to the discovery of the 'New World', but the narrative of the pageant is not obvious. In part of the performance, characters in the pageant disembark from a boat on the lake. At the close of the film, there is a shot of the spectators, in fashionable dress, watching from tiered seating.

Keywords

Pageants

Background Information

The location could very well be the estate of Luton Hoo. Capabiltiy Brown was responsible for most of the landscape design here in the eighteenth century, and formed two lakes by damning the River Lea. It would be typical for the local mansion to stage such an event.

Manifestations

Village Celebrations

  • Barcode
    INV370962
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:06:35
    Modification Date
    16/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734024
  • Barcode
    INV331676
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:06:35
    Modification Date
    16/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734023
  • Barcode
    INV365132
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:06:35
    Modification Date
    16/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734022
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV382946
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    DV digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:04:13
    Modification Date
    10/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    710861
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV236056
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:04:15
    Modification Date
    07/12/2010
    Parts
    Reference
    698681
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV187477
    Canonical Identifier
    1998/58
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Details
    Carrier Type
    35mm film
    Colour System
    bw
    Colour Type
    bw
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:06:40
    Has Image
    Y
    Has Sound
    N
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    pos
    Modification Date
    19/11/2010
    Parts
    Reference
    697516
    Sound
    silent

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