See below for shot list.
This black and white film was made by the Oulton chemist John Paul Volter. It features scenes from the village of Oulton in West Yorkshire including Oulton St John's school, Volter's shop on Aberford Road, Oulton St John's church, and the Nookin, a famous old house dating to the 17th century. There are shots of Mr Volter himself, his wife Annie and their daughter Margaret plus the Oulton vicar, the Reverend Geoffrey Mercer. The film was shot either just before or just after the end of the Second World War in 1945.
If you recognise anybody in this film or have any stories please message me, referring to the shot list below. Email bensoh10@woodlesfordstation.co.uk
1. rothwell park, 3 children
2. rev mercer wife
3. church sexton?
4. tower pan down
5. chidlren, vicar walk
6. same children churchyard
7. cottages, pan , children
8. old woman poses
9. bus, man on pavement
10. woman or girl on chair infront of cottage
11. woman looks over wall, cottages, pan to 2 children walk into shot, plus a third
12. pan cottages, very dark
13. man poses
14. jump cut same man walking past cottage
15. same cottage pan
16. policeman new masons bike
17. pan junction leeds hill, 3 children on pavement
18. older woman poses
19. woman behind bushes
20. same womn and 2 children
21. margaret voletr, garden park lane house
22. ditto
23. ditto
24. ditto
25. ditto
26. pan ditto
27. pan greenhouse
28. wedding sailor, bride, others
29. same wedding
30. CU bride groom, bridesmaids
31. CU bride groom
32. inside wedding cake
33. volter's shop, 2 men walk in
34. woman
35. 3 women, barker's shop
36. women and 2 boys, bikes
27. manor farm pan to school
28. school teachers, thackery on left, plows on right 2 women?
29. CU teachers
30. boys, 2 white pigs one black
31. volter and assistant
32. shop front, pan to voltter and boy
33. garden pan down to margaret
34. CU margaret
35. margaret, women , nookin
36. signpost cottages, boy on bike, women with pram, man in hat with woman and girl
37. blossom, pan in garden
38. blossom, pan down to margaret, mrs volter? dog
39. pan of houses, field
40. margaret in field, greenland or manor, cows
41. CU cow
42. jump cut cow
43. jump cut cow
44. cow runs away
45. chickens
46. CU heifer?
47. heifer?
48. cow inside
49. jump cut cow horns
50. ditto
51. bull ring
52. jump cut bull ring
53. CU bull
54. bad shot
55. old man, woman, margaret
park lane?
56. mrs volter?, margaret
57. old man, old woman, maragert
58. volter, old man in hat, margaret