Britain Rediscovered
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.12
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color silent; 3,081 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel in Great Britain in the spring. Locales shown include the Cornish coast, Saint Ives, Foey, Torquay, Clovelly, Salisbury, Stonehenge, London, the Cotswolds, Chester, Lake District, Northumberland, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Loch Lomond. Scenes include castles (Inverlochy, Balmoral, Loch Ness); bowling; sheep shearing; Sussex handicrafts (musical instruments, bookbinding, and stained glass); London including "changing of the guard," the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Antique Hypermarket, Portobello Road, Trafalgar Square, Regent Canal, and St. James Park; Morris dancers; Roman ruins; making of Rolls Royce cars and Wedgwood pottery; Edinburgh including Edinburgh Castle, Princess Street, and Holyrood Palace; sheep dog trials; laying pipes for North Sea oil operations; and Highland games.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photograph, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Castles ; Historic sites ; Archeology sites ; Games England ; Sports ; Dance ; Pottery England ; Petroleum pipelines ; Dogs