back to search results

Organ Assembly

1970 , Soham (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 2151

Soham Village College students clean, assemble and fine tune an organ for St Nicholas Church, Kennett, Cambridgeshire.

Scenes of Soham Village College students working on assembly of an organ for St Nicholas Church, Kennett in a project led by Norman Sykes and Peter D. Scott. Opens with a jaunty organ soundtrack in the background (that continues throughout the film) and an opening shot of Soham Village College. Cut to an interior shot of teenage boy students wearing aprons. They are carefully and lovingly stacking large organ pipes against a wall. A boy packs smaller pipes into a box and gently layers newspaper on top of them, whilst two more boys bring in another box of pipes. One of the boys picks up a section of organ and blows into it, then we cut to four of the boys polishing the keyboard and wooden case of the organ. Cut to an exterior shot of Kennett church tower, which pans down to the church entrance. A church door open seemingly by itself, reveals a boy helping to install the organ. A close-up of the organ frontage pulls out to reveal a boy fine-tuning the smallest organ pipes while an older man tests the keyboard. Other boys sit on a pew, nodding along to the music as the organist plays.

Featured Buildings

Soham Village College, Cambridgeshire; St Nicholas Church, Kennett, Cambridgeshire

Keywords

Music; Organs; Schoolchildren

Other Places

Kennett, Cambridgeshire

Manifestations

Organ Assembly

  • Barcode
    INV335472
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:02:30
    Modification Date
    30/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734566
  • Barcode
    INV369362
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:02:30
    Modification Date
    30/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734564
  • Barcode
    INV369432
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:02:30
    Modification Date
    30/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734563
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV317260
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    DV digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:02:30
    Modification Date
    10/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    710158
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV319990
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:02:34
    Modification Date
    14/04/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    706190
  • Barcode
    INV302128
    Canonical Identifier
    VP-580
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Duration
    0:02:30
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    563820
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV437691
    Canonical Identifier
    B-440
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Details
    Carrier Type
    16mm film
    Colour Type
    bw
    Dimension
    Has Image
    Y
    Has Sound
    Y
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    positive
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    562510
    Sound
    sound
    Sound System
    variable area
  • Barcode
    INV??1002
    Canonical Identifier
    A-1210
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    16mm film
    Colour Type
    bw
    Has Sound
    Y
    Identification Notes
    Picture: combined optical (data migration 25/06/2021)
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    positive
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    561819
    Sound
    sound

Copyright restrictions apply.

Please see our terms of use. Films on this website are provided for personal viewing. Should you wish to use the films in any other way please contact eafa@uea.ac.uk

terms of use
The data for this page was generated on 20/05/2024 19:46:42+00:00. Click to regenerate this page .