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Children At Play, 1940s - Film 33968

What children get up to when not at school. Shots of cloakroom and teacher standing at blackboard drawing letters and looking at children in classroom, all young boys. They start writing in their exercise books and the teacher sits down at the front of class. One young boy starts doing some drawing instead of practising his letters. Clock is nearly at 4pm, shots of girls' class and they look at clock too. Older girl rings bell and then see children all rushing out. Run across the playing fields some with bikes Children are seen running and climbing over gates into country, past some cows. They pick up sticks and jam jars and go to the streams to go fishing. The four boys cross a dam over the stream and sit along the bank. They try and catch some fish and then one of them falls into the stream. Mother looks out of window and sees the boys returning. She comes out and sees her son wet and pulls him into the house. One boy watches from behind a bush. Make believe 2 young girls playing at being nurses at home with doll. They're wearing some sort of scarf headress. Boy playing with meccano. At 4'41 evening, shot of boy up an apple tree scrumping or picking apples and throwing to boy below. Cow chewing the cud in field. Several boys running towards a hayrick, go up a ladder next to it and slide down. Commentary over re farming is a serious business but children don't conform to a grown up's view. More shots of boy in tree trying to shake the apples off whilst boy below looks around to see if anyone's coming. More shots of boys being chased by farmer with a stick. Boys pulling a guy looking like Adolf Hitler along on trolley with swastika at the front. One boy collects money from people by holding out his cap. Shots of children jeering whilst watching the guy go up in flames. Young girl practising her scales at the piano, then starts to day dream about being concert pianist with piano music playing over. Her dog is sitting by fire and then runs over and wakes up the girl from her dream, she picks him up. Boys are seen playing football, then girls playing netball. Then children are cheering on others who are jumping over hurdles and running for the tape. Others are trying to catch apples on strings - individual achievement is tempered with team spirit so important for future citizenship. Games being played in playground, oranges and lemons, then dancing round the maypole. and tug o'war. Children walking across field and then climb over the gate, voice over regarding children being the future of the nation, In the years to come they will make their own world, with more shots of the children walking and jumping over ditches and voice over says and that it'll be a better one than ours today. View of children linking hands at top of the hill.