Look At Wales (1956)

A British Travel Association Film. Check copyright.
Credits: Commentary by Edward Ward. Produced by Associated British Pathe.
A graphic map of England and Wales. Narrator speaks of the way Wales "treasures the tale of its past like the story of a family."
01:00:36 Valley cottage. Man pulls up in a horse and cart. A woman and two little girls come out of the cottage. They all wear traditional Welsh dress. C/U of the two girls admiring the view - they wear the typical Welsh black hats. A basket containing what looks like dead birds is lifted into the back of the cart. L/S of the family riding over a bridge.
01:01:25 Eisteddfod. Various shots of adults and children in traditional Welsh costume at the Royal National Eisteddfod. Procession of "bards" - they will be choosing the prize winning poets of the year. Various shots of the procession and those watching it.
01:02:00 "Wales is a land of poetry and song. A Welshman who cannot sing is a contradiction in terms" states the narrator. The bards walk beside some standing stones. Various shots of bards in costume. "Land of My Fathers" is sung by the large crowd gathered in parkland.
01:02:32 Various scenic shots - landscapes, waterfalls, lakes, rivers etc. Various shots of an unidentified castle. A family walks up the drawbridge.
01:03:11 Civic Centre in Cardiff. L/S of the building with people walking in the grounds.
01:03:27 L/S of parkland beside a river. Woman walks along path pushing a pram. Young children feed some swans.
01:03:35 Cardiff Cathedral seen in the distance behind a cricket pitch. Various shots of the Cathedral and civic buildings in the city. High angle shot of Cardiff Castle. L/S of the castle, various shots of the architecture. Visitors are seen in the grounds of the castle.
01:04:32 L/S of bridge leading to Conway Castle. L/S of Llandudno coastline. Traffic in the foreground, people on the beach. Shots of holidaymakers on the beach - two young girls build a sandcastle, donkey rides, fishermen making their way to a fishing boat.
Lewis Caroll (Carroll? sp?) and his book "Alice in Wonderland" are mentioned on the soundtrack.
01:05:57 L/S of a passenger steamer approaching Llandudno pier.
01:06:07 Various shots of a group of men playing golf on a course beside the sea. Famous gardens of Happy Valley (?) on the slopes of the Great Ormes (sp?). The 12th Century church is seen in L/S and M/S. L/S of steep winding road on the promontory. L/S of the Great Orme Railway tram making its way down the steep hill.
01:07:24 C/U of the crest of the Talyllyn Railway Company. M/S of men cleaning the engine of a steam train.
01:07:40 The route of the Tallylyn Railway runs from Tywyn to Abergynolwyn. Oil is applied to the pistons - poured from a teapot. Various shots of tourists climbing aboard the narrow gauge train. The train is waved off. C/U of the engine "Edward Thomas". C/U of the wheels turning as the train moves off. Various shots of it moving through the countryside including point of view shots from the front of the train.
01:08:56 Hiking - man with knapsack walks through Welsh countryside admiring views.
01:09:19 L/S of two men loading a hay wagon using a pitchfork. C/U of sheepdog sitting amongst the hay. L/S of the horse drawn hay wagon moving towards the camera. L/S of a beautiful Welsh valley.
01:09:57 Sir John Hunt (chief of an Everest expedition) leads a party of climbers on a climb of a Welsh mountain. Various shots of the climbers and of Sir John Hunt preparing for their climb. The boys are youngsters from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdaron (?) This is a school which emphasises character building and the development of powers of leadership. Various shots of the boys rock climbing. Dr Charles Evans is mentioned - a famous Welsh rock climber.
01:11:37 M/S of a woman climber admiring the view from the summit of a Welsh mountain. As the narrator recounts how holidaymakers often return again and again to Wales we see shots of the Welsh countryside. Scenes of traditional Welsh dancing as a woman plays a harp end the film.
British Travel and Holidays Association logo. The End.
Note: print badly scratched and suffering from bad colour fading. Eastmancolour.
FILM ID:1255.01
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Пікірлер: 27

  • @harmonicresonanceproject
    @harmonicresonanceproject2 жыл бұрын

    What an absolutely wonderful film. The narrator is correct in that it is not possible to visit and ever forget - I visited Wales once as a child and it called me back in my dreams ever since. Now, I live here, and I feel I'm home.

  • @Arianrhod6

    @Arianrhod6

    2 ай бұрын

    Lovely words! I’m Welsh and I love my country and culture - if you feel like that, then you’re as proud a Welshman as myself 👍

  • @Celticowl4136
    @Celticowl41364 ай бұрын

    The cottage is the cafe by the big bridge in Llanrwst

  • @patluke5306
    @patluke53062 жыл бұрын

    What about our singing?

  • @marty6779
    @marty6779 Жыл бұрын

    8:10 the Talyllyn was opened in 1865.

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer81542 жыл бұрын

    Lovely film. I was born 5 years after this and feel that this was the best period to be alive. I feel sorry for my children, who seem to be doomed to a dystopian authoritarian future thanks to my generation's cowardice, happily covering our faces with rancid soggy pieces of cloth and rolling up our sleeves. Shameful.

  • @gee-wizz.5050

    @gee-wizz.5050

    Ай бұрын

    What are you talking about?

  • @paulyflyer8154

    @paulyflyer8154

    Ай бұрын

    @gee-wizz.5050 You've inadvertently proved my point I'm afraid 😥

  • @Garwfechan-ry5lk
    @Garwfechan-ry5lk6 ай бұрын

    A lovely Film, but it is a English point of view of the Welsh an English name by the way, they also got it wrong about the Language, it was spoken at least a 1000 BC, for the People of the Cymru because of DNA have Ancestry going back much further than 1000BC, to 6000BC that is because of the DNA of the Stonehenge Skeletons and others found at Avebury and in Neolithic sites in Wales and Cumbria, the Cymric peolples are as old as Stonehenge or Avebury and the DNA of people of Ceredigion proved that, also that many people in England carry that DNA of their Celtic forefathers especially in the North west South West and even in the Midlands , with smaller amounts of this in Northumbria Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, even Today in modern day France they have Concluded that the ancestry of many people of the Pas de Calais were of Brythonic heritage so to the Belgian areas, it was long known that Bretons were from Britain, but DNA has also found strong Brythonic same as present day Welsh in Normandy . the names in France are certainly of the Brythonic type " Calais Ypres Morlais Amiens Arras Cambrai Dieppe Carentan Caen Falaise Nantes Loire Rhone Girond " and many many more, Julius Caesar knew the Britons for they had lived amongst the Romans and Etruscans for Centuries at places like Caeri where there are many Celtic Burial Mounds and at Fiesole as well. I am from a ancestry that I can trace back to the 12th Century in Ceredigion, but the ancestry goes back much further in that area as well, I and my Father were two of the people used in the Stonehenge Skeleton DNA tests, they were quite forthright in their answer, my DNA is 95% Brythonic 2% Iberian and 1% Gael, which it was for my Father as well and nearly all the people who were Tested from Ceredigion and the Surrounding areas had similar all between 93 and 95% Brythonic in most cases but further East to the Marches and towards Anglia to the North and South the DNA lessened because of Viking and Saxon blood, but it was interesting that Lincolnshire had a higher Brythonic Value than Kent at an average of 46% , wheras the ones taken in Scotland and Ireland showed only higher Brythonic in the South of Scotland at 34% to 11% in the very south of Ireland. This shows that the Saxons had virtually wiped out all the Britons of East and the South of England, but Cornwall and Devon still had the Highest for Brythonic in England 57% showing that much of that Population are closer to the Welsh than English, there was only 2% Gael there as well. Diolch yn fawr Nos da Nadolig Llawen.

  • @paolaparmigiani4324
    @paolaparmigiani4324 Жыл бұрын

    Cardiff was once a beautiful city, now totally ruined

  • @jwoods1732

    @jwoods1732

    11 ай бұрын

    Mainly by immigrant gangs 🤷

  • @MrBurtonshaw

    @MrBurtonshaw

    9 ай бұрын

    Indeed, we have a lot of english here now @@jwoods1732

  • @megan8931

    @megan8931

    6 ай бұрын

    @@jwoods1732 get out of here with your racism, it has no place in Wales, or anywhere else, for that matter

  • @infinitejinpachi

    @infinitejinpachi

    6 ай бұрын

    @@megan8931 crime rate statistics are racist huh?

  • @user-zm4cd4vj4z

    @user-zm4cd4vj4z

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@megan8931why don't you like the truth?

  • @importedmusic
    @importedmusic Жыл бұрын

    Cathays Park lol

  • @susanhughs1031
    @susanhughs10312 жыл бұрын

    WALE'S 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, I Suppose It's Only To Be Expected, By The English, Or Should I Say The Dains Norman's And Saxons, For NOT Getting Their Facts Right, The Welsh InVented The Celtic Language, We Did NOT Import It From Any Other Country,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿,

  • @thedisabledwelshman9266

    @thedisabledwelshman9266

    Жыл бұрын

    no disrespect, but do u have any proof to back up what you are claiming?

  • @susanhughs1031

    @susanhughs1031

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thedisabledwelshman9266 YES I Do Mr Adams, A Thousand Years Of History, !!!! And Persecution My Own Family We're Victims Of The English, In The Very Late 1790's Fitted Up By A Mancini Drunk, Who Bought Pack Animals For The British Army For The Napoleonic War's, For £.8 Ginny's £8.8 Shillings My Ancestors Was Accused Of Horse Theft And Tried At Werxhem Assizes Court In December 1799, And Hanged On The Friday, 12, December 1799, And We NEVER Received A Single Word Of Apology Since, From Any Mancini Idiot, That's How I KNOW What I Am Talking About,!!!!! This Is WHY I Am Permanently Apposed To That Spineless Useless Gutless Moronic Gas Chamber In Cardiff Bay Run By Criminals And Labour Liar's Crooks, MONEY Wasting Idiots, Because It Let's The English Off Of Their Responsibility To CYRMU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, !!!!!!!!!!! Dose This Answer Your Questions, ????? 🤔🤔 I Hope,!???????. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺,. Oh I Forgot To Meantion That N.B My Grandfather Was NOT Awarded A V.C. During The First World War, Simply Because He Was Welsh, !!!!!! A Decision Made By A English Bureaucrat In The War Office In 1916, At Ypres,

  • @501sqn3

    @501sqn3

    Жыл бұрын

    ... what's that smell ?........ Cow's is it ??......

  • @meemeemeemeemee

    @meemeemeemeemee

    4 ай бұрын

    Those who speak the Roman-tic language

  • @user-zm4cd4vj4z

    @user-zm4cd4vj4z

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@501sqn3 no you mean sheep!

  • @menelise
    @meneliseАй бұрын

    Terribly English. Commentary is an assault on Welsh. Heaven only knows what he calls the anthem (sung during the eisteddfod sequence), but it wasn’t "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau"!