Tam Trauchle's Troubles (clip 2)
A holiday camp for poor children
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Description
This film is one of a series of fund raising appeal films produced for the Glasgow Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund to raise money to help send poor children on a holiday during the summer break. The film promotes the benefits of the Holiday Camp to children and parents alike and provides an insight into what life was like for Glasgow children during the great depression. A collection tin would be passed around after showings of this film at the cinema.
This clip features the city children having fun on a respite camp at North Berwick. Includes shots of children singing around a campfire with tents in the background; Sam and Robert Trauchle then get up to sing "We're in a camp in the country, hurray, hurray!". We then see Mr Trauchle at home smoking and pipe and reading a paper enjoying the peace and quiet while Sam and Robert are at camp.
Questions & Activities
Questions
- Why are there no girls at the camp?
- How does the life in the camp compare with life in the tenement?
- What kinds of songs do you enjoy singing in big groups?
Activities
Research the history of tourism: what proportion of families went on holidays in the 1930s and now (both international and domestic)?
Research the location of Tantallon Castle and work out how the children would have travelled there from Glasgow.
Imagine you have been given a place on the holiday camp in the 1930s. What do you think you would have done and how would it feel being away from home? Write a piece of creative writing, draw a picture or make a film about your story.
Clip Details
Record Id | 007-000-000-053-C |
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Resource Rights Holder | National Library of Scotland |
Project Ref | 0253 |
Date | 1934 |
Genre | Documentary, Drama Doc, Charitable |
School Subject | Social Studies, Modern Studies, History, Geography, Health and Wellbeing |
Who | Glasgow Corporation Education Department (sponsor), Pathe Pictures Ltd (production company) |
Where | Glasgow, Tantallon Castle |
Event | Holidays |
Attributes | Black and White, Sound |
Clip Length | 1:56 |
Film Length | 40:00 |