PERSONAL RECORD. LAY, TOM. OLD FAMILY FILMS - ALSO CYNTHIA DAPHNE ETC.

Rights Information
Year
1937
Reference
F99925
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1937
Reference
F99925
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:17:30
Credits
Photography: Tom Lay

Aftermath of wedding ceremony; bride and groom leaving church. Confetti box, guests throwing confetti, shot of church. Congregation running across road in the rain.
Short comedic skit in which a young man is seated outside in a suit and tie at a small dinner table. His younger brother arrives in a white coat and pours milk on his Kornies. Close up of teen boy eating Kornies with spoon and fork.
Boy relaxing blanket on the lawn with a Meccano windmill. Girl pushing pram. Holding black baby doll. Boy with toy gun.
Filmmaker [Tom Lay] in blazer at seaside. Performs a flip.
Filmmaker’s wife Hilda Lay bathing daughter Cynthia on the back porch of house.
Len Kerr (filmmaker’s brother in law) performing body building moves with bar bell in the backyard. Mona Kerr (filmmaker’s sister) brings tray of drinks to Len, Hilda and Cynthia in the yard. Close ups of the family members. Family gathered about in yard looking at photo albums. Various portraits in yard.
Len tossing daughter in the air and catching her, slow motion. Toddler on merry-go-round and swing. Sniffing flowers in garden.
Cynthia’s third birthday party. Hilda handing out balloons to children on back porch, wearing party hats. Cynthia opens present, receives large doll. Trying on her fathers shoes and socks, walking about the yard.
Portraits of Cynthia and [Daphne] Lay. The two girls playing in front yard (generally filmed from a “child’s eye-view). Cynthia struggling with a lolly. The children playing in the yard.
The filmmaker’s father picking a flower in the yard, smoking a cigarette. Holding granddaughters in the garden.
Picnic on grass next to sea. Close ups of eating and drinking. [Filmmaker Tom Lay] laughing with brother Stan. Stan performing a pretend haka. Children pushing a pram.