London's Green Heritage (1947)

This is a Kodachrome colour silent film with intertitles, made by the London County Council about the parks of London.
The film shows London's parks and open spaces in the immediate post-war years. Parks such as Hampstead Heath, Battersea Park and Brockwell Park are shown. There are sports and activities to energise Londoners- tennis, netball, golf, tug-of-war and cycling. There are shots of people swimming in a Lido and outdoor pools, as well as people boating on the lakes. There are lingering images of the rich and colourful gardens and flowers of London's parks.

16mm Kodachrome A colour reversal film.

LMA holds a good collection of film, video and audio materials that are being catalogued, conserved and digitised in order to make them accessible to the public at LMA, the prime function of this archive.The audio visual collections include film and video from the City of London Corporation, LCC and GLC and other related bodies such as the ILEA, as well as other businesses and associations.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma

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Film & Animation

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• Flowers;
• parks;
• Hampstead
• Heath;
• Battersea
• Park;
• swimming
• pools;
• gardens;
• boating
• lakes;
• children;
• playgrounds;
• sports;
• tennis;
• cricket;
• football;
• bowls;
• boxing;
• cycling;
• netball;
• winter;
• summer;
• spring;
• park
• keeper;
• lido;
• snow;
• ski
• jump;
• crowds;
• spectators;
• mascot;
• Norway;
• bands;
• theatre;
• music;
• ponds;
• golf.

[SpigotP]

an adorably innocent vision of london and beautiful photography of flowers - I think - quality of this transfer spoiling the presentation somewhat and its very blurred. Shame.

[johnnypappas]

It's got the ski jumping :-) Ski jumping, in a London Park? Yes it did happen. Insane but brilliant.

[impeachblair1]

Archive film requires specialist processing to get the best resolution out of it. Youtube is not an ideal distribution mechanism for this type of media.