1930s Cornwall, Colour Home Movie Travelogue

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1930s Cornwall, Colour Home Movie Travelogue

[@garrymartin6474]

The Dunaff Head , the ship in the film was sunk by two torpedo's from a U-Boat, U-A in 1941 as part of a convoy, South of Iceland . Five crew were lost and Thirty Nine saved so not as bad as it could have been.

[@poetcomic1]

The old frustration, antique home movies show the castles, scenery etc. and we want to see the PEOPLE just doing people things.

[@phaasch]

My grandparents left Cornwall before my mother was born, but always went back during the summer, until the war, when she and my uncle were evacuated there. They stayed with my great grandmother, just by the river in Malpas. This film has, far more than still photographs ever could, given me the feeling of their time there. Who knows, they may well have gone down to the regatta that year, and been very close by. Thank you- this is priceless.

[@crickcrot]

Went to Cornwall first time in the early fifties I rember talking to the fisherman that were repairing the nets in the shed.

[@willrichardson519]

Proper job!

[@Coupal1]

Sounds lovely. What a nice memory.

[@johnnyfrisco5354]

A film treasure from the 1930s... pretty sure I spotted Hastings in one of those cars with a Belgian sleuth! Thanks for this wonderful film .

[@sudhirchopde3334]

Very Agatha C personages,esp ladies in pearls &perms!!

[@bazza945]

Nothing forgetting someone's large private yacht.

[@MrClingclong]

Beautiful film! Colour film was rare and pricey in the thirties. What impressed me the most was the sharpness of image, that must have been a top quality camera as well (I bet it was a Bolex). Thank you for up loading this film, I love home movies from the distant past, especially when it's film of locations near to where I live.

[@Coupal1]

A glimpse of England we shall never the the likes again.

[@lifeslessons9889]

Coupal1 . Never !! The only time to be still and breathe was on lock down...that's as close as we came to the 'old days' regarding traffic, hustle bustle , greed and seeing a glimpse of what was !

[@BUTTZTV]

Cornwall isn't England.

[@Wall1885]

@@BUTTZTV maybe it shouldn't be but it is classed as England

[@BUTTZTV]

@@Wall1885 We don't care much for rules down here.....

[@Coupal1]

Ah, I take it you are Cornish. My great-grandfather was Charles Edward Bastin. The Bastins came from St. Austell Cornwall and his mother was Mary Cornish. The Cornish family came from Truro and Redruth.

[@mervynsands3501]

A wonderful cine portrait of thoughs days. A relaxed look at cornwall on their travels. So nice to see these kind of personal travelogues. Thanks for sharing it.

[@greggreg9677]

Oh for a time machine!...you can almost see your self there ....have spent many a wonderful night in the King of Prussia and a few pints in the Lugger

[@dr2stroke611]

a lot of these places in Cornwall havent changed all that much , the main difference would be the cars

[@AnnDroid877]

I love this. Thanks from the US for sharing. Some of my ancestors are from this part of the world.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

I am an American from Texas, but I dated a girl from Cornwall for 5 years.

[@royphillips4751]

Lucky enough to have spent a month in Cornwall in 2000 all the way from Aus: really loved the area but prefer the period shown here. If only.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for sharing this film, giving us a window to the past.

[@geraldswain3259]

I'm prepared to bet they never thought the motor car would be the ruin of these beautiful Cornish towns and villages. They are literally choked to the point of not being able to hardly move in summer .

[@lifeslessons9889]

Gerald Swain . Totally agree ... Swamped strangled and abused .

[@marypetrie930]

And you are both part of it!

[@geraldswain3259]

@@marypetrie930 That's a bit of a stab in the dark,your wrong I don't drive .I use public's transport or cycle everywhere .

[@keen2b]

May I remind you! That if it wasn't for the motor car there wouldn't be tourist, Holiday makers, Without them and there money!! Most of Devon and Cornwall would die, There life's blood is dependent on tourism! Anyway nice video well presented, Agotha Christie's every where!! Real birds turned up in the 60s!!😆

[@jaysonflesher8666]

@@marypetrie930 so nice to be able to be so judgemental

[@guffylewis]

Really excellent atmospheric film . Those cars and yachts were so stylish in the 30's . Love the old diver at the end...' Not a lot going on today boys...let's have a few beers and go down and blow up the river bed '......

[@ChangesOneTim]

The beautiful Flying Fifteens and various One-Design/ working boats of the time. Glad that so many survive today when you look out for them.

[@gregtebbutt2643]

The ship Dunaff Head , Belfast was torpedoed in 1941 by a U-Boat while in convoy .

[@louisep5178]

Interesting thank you what a waste of life and a great ship that was previously used to just simply collect the China clay and dock its cargo to make plates and cups etc.

[@mattyboy3908]

At a time when there was hardly a bit of plastic in sight, timber and metal were the materials of the day and public transport was king

[@tolrem]

The plague of smartphones was yet to blight the planet.

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

That ship coming in for the clay was torpedoed off Iceland in WWII.

[@NoosaHeads]

I wonder if this was either a good 8mm film or possibly a not-too-good 16mm? Obviously, the travellers were very well heeled but 16mm color would have been _really_ pricey. Kodachrome came out around 1935 or 1936, so I guess this film was not too far from the start of WW ll. Everyone knew that war with Germany was inevitable (from 1937 onwards). I guess a lot of people thought that they better enjoy themselves whilst they had the chance.

[@heinkle1]

Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.

[@NoosaHeads]

@@heinkle1 Sadly, I know.... The storm is coming.

[@gsquaredthebassman]

A simpler time. Much missed in the digital age. Thanks for posting.

[@ianmarsden8568]

Fowey is a lovely place - Better enjoy it while you can.

[@blissy1]

Spent 6 week summer holidays in Cornwall with my brother in the 60’s Lerryn still looks the same

[@alancrossley4461]

Delightful to see this footage of Cornwall. My father lived in Polruan for many years until his death. I have such happy memories of the area.

[@blissy1]

By the look of the cars they are probably quite well off and employed someone to film their holiday

[@mikebe2090]

Perhaps that’s a good thing, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to watch this wonderful film.

[@terminallyinquisitive1731]

Quite well off = minted!

[@Thursdaym2]

Would say exceedingly well off judging by the motors.

[@lindab8397]

These were the good old days stylish cars quiet , people dressing up . And of course beautiful Cornwall .

[@hovermotion]

wow amazing capture , when the world was a very different place with no space junk ,jets, and plastic and no melting north pole....also no people gazeing at smart phones walking around in there own little world........

[@andrjsh]

Daphne du Maurier not only based some of her books in Cornwall but wrote three books about it.

[@phaasch]

While I was watching those scenes on the river, I thought of her book Vanishing Cornwall, and her description of the Yrgadsil, beating about on the Helford River. This is a beautiful film.

[@w1lf1ewoo]

The Dunaff Head : Merchant Ship, torpedoed and sank south of Iceland , May 1941, 5 lost, 39 survived

[@louisep5178]

Interesting to know thank you. I hope none of the fellows in the film were on it then.

[@murkydepths181]

What a beautiful piece of film. I love seeing the shape people were in then. Thank you so much for sharing this 👍🌹

[@LordTantrums007]

This was when Britain was truly British. Superb film.

[@onchnc3546]

A lovely period in history when England was undiluted.

[@dr2stroke611]

so these guys were doing KZbin videos before KZbin had even been thought of

[@canman5060]

Quite a fortune in those days to shot this colour footage.

[@turtlegrams6582]

be clever if you could put film on it all side by side with 2023

[@garyseaman6105]

Great video/ The film maker clearly knew the history of where they were visiting. Thank you very much for show this film.

[@louisep5178]

Life was so much simpler back then and no masks or social distancing....how things have changed 🤔

[@MrRadiorobot]

No covid, no BLM, no brexit, no climate change...no current madness, however, WW2 and millions of deaths were on the door step. Every time in history has its problems.

[@louisep5178]

@@MrRadiorobot Very true some of us have had a long stretch without anything traumatic happening to them in their lives such as war until the pandemic. We didn't realise how lucky we were.

[@egapnala65]

The people have gone but the places remain.

[@NickRatnieks]

Yes, a picture of serene tranquillity but sadly, it was not to last. The 5,000 ton Dunaff Head we see at 14:20 was torpedoed and sank a few years later off Iceland. I imagine that very smart French car we saw at 6:46, unless it was hidden away in 1940, was grabbed by the invaders and repurposed for their war effort as an officer's staff car. A real window on a lost world when the Cornish Riviera was so fashionable and the Great Western Railway produced posters entitled "Speed To The West" to encourage the largely carless public to go there by train.

[@cathydyer3774]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@peterclark1041]

There was/is a private steamship similar to that at 17mins....if not same one!.....visiting Fowey harbour yesterday!!

[@bazza945]

Quite a visual gem, well shot and edited. Only recently found out I have a Cornish grandparent.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Brilliant film. The A38 ain't what it used to be! Memories of multiple jams in the 1960s visiting mum's family in (mostly) Truro/ Falmouth/ the Roseland; cars at the roadside with hissing radiators, broken fanbelts and cross-ply tyre blow-outs. More vital then than now to have AA or RAC membership😂

[@edwinthompson6510]

first time went to Cornwall it took 10hrs today 2022 i took us 4.5hrs with a service stop of half hr,,,,,, comfort travel,,,, Indian Queens was always a bottle neck holdup ,,,, now duel carriageway from Exeter to Hayle St Ives bay

[@ChangesOneTim]

@@edwinthompson6510 Not quite, but getting there. A30 is currently being dualled from Carland X to Chiverton X (over Truro basically), after which it will be continuous from end of M5 to just short of the Hayle bypass, which is single plus crawler lanes. Only taken 40 years to get this far!

[@edwinthompson6510]

@@ChangesOneTim yeah your right ,,,, 40yrs when it finished just think of the volume of traffic Cornwall will sink

[@hughrainbird43]

Priceless maritime shots at Fowey, the white-painted steamers remind me of the "Brand VI" in which we cruised the Norwegian fjords in 1956, long before mammoth "cruise ships". What were the tugs hauling the "Dunaff Head" up to the china clay docks burning? I've coal-fired steam ships, but never made that amount of smoke, unless by design for the cameras!

[@sudhirchopde3334]

Thank you,the whirr of the film audible. Sadly no people ,faces,only splendid motor cars?

[@MrRadiorobot]

Where did I go wrong? Why didn't I become a diver blowing up a river bed? Loving his bobble hat....

[@movieholic1692]

ship at @14:39 was sunk by a uboat a few years later uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/809.html

[@stephensmith5118]

Historic ,from the daus when Cornwall was a remote far away land .

[@anni50ful]

Absolutely brilliant,loved the ladies in cravats ..

[@iniquity123]

Lovely video of simpler times but the horror of WWII upon them....

[@arriesone1]

Was this a staged film? How could people add text to their home cine films back then? Was it possible?

[@ronphillips3339]

arriesone1 I still have our super 8 movie camera and projector that date from the late 1950s that my Father bought second hand in 1963, You could by title kits with letters and numbers or you could make your own , After filming your movie it was sent away for processing then on it return you would play it to find the bits of film you wanted to edit out or add titles (text), You would then buy a film splicing kit, You would then film the titles on a new roll of film and after it return you would now edit and splice the titles into your movie which as you can imagine would take some time to do .......Would you now like to swap your smartphone with edit software built in for the good old days of 8mm filming....ha ha.

[@arriesone1]

Ron Phillips That’s very interesting Ron, thanks, I’m wiser now. Yes, wouldn’t those folks have been amazed by all our technology now. It’s really quite staggering the way we’ve progressed so quickly.

[@tolrem]

@@ronphillips3339 I remember splicing my dad's movies as a 13 year old.It was fun.

[@HerbertDuckshort]

A pity they didn’t film Polruan. Great video.

[@andymoss2490]

Absolutely delightful ,many thanks

[@Jobe-13]

Wow

[@sarahstrong7174]

How on earth did tug boats produce such black smoke?!!!

[@GSP21]

Sarah Strong Coal fired?

[@neiltaylor2895]

Before today's crowds!

[@Britonbear]

Why can't people entitle their videos accurately? It's basically 1930s Fowey (pronounced Foy for those who don't know) with a little bit of England at the start.

[@tree267]

Cornwall? Check. 1930’s? Check.

[@duncanmiller1288]

Why can't people be less picky and just enjoy it for what it is!

[@clivewinters7479]

Captivating

[@stevehughes2133]

Car at 6:53 - Bugatti ??

[@stephenkunst7550]

The gal at 6:26 looks like Helen Geake's (Time team) doppelganger

[@classicmoments9433]

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