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Bluegate Fields Christmas Pantomime

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_46611
Date: 1970 — 1979
Location: East London
Chroma: B/W
Duration: 00:22:36
Format: "Sony 1/2"" Open Reel"
Credits: View

Synopsis

A black-and-white video of a rehearsal of a Christmas Pantomime at Bluegate Fields Junior School in Wapping. The performance reveals children sat around the table, followed by two kids on stage. At one point, kids line up to sit on Santa’s lap in a comical naughty or nice evaluation with cross mothers on the side. This is followed by a performance of a dinner and a party. The children all dance in unison to ‘Big Spender’(1966) by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.

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