• Short Summary

    A farm fair is held at Yarm where gypsies gather and sell horses. Yorkshire.

  • Description

    Item title reads - Yarm, Yorks.

    Farm festival and fair in Yorkshire.

    M/S of lots of gypsy caravans parked in the street. M/S of a lady at a tea table outdoors. M/S as horses pull a stagecoach carrying the Lord of the manor. M/S of a lady with bad teeth smiling. M/S of the Lord of the manor declaring the fair open. M/S of man on stagecoach holding a bugle. M/S of a gypsy sat at the door of her caravan, she is smoking a cigarette and has a little girl on her knee. M/S as a man rides a horse bareback down the street. M/S as another man runs two horses past whilst men watch and decide whether to buy. Various shots of the men bidding and buying the horses. M/S as two more run past.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    987.04
    Media URN:
    18139
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    24/10/1938
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:33:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:02:11:00 / 01:02:44:00
    Canister:
    38/85

Comments (1)

  1. Judy small says

    I wish the vedios on the Romany gypsys were longer showing more info

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