Focus On Children (1959)

Cliftonville, Kent. Children at a holiday camp endure various competitions including fancy dress,wheelbarrow race, beauty competitions and not forgetting the boys, a strong man competition. M/S of a line of children in fancy dress, one boy dressed as Adam, another dressed as a strong man in a leopard skin. M/S of the three judges. C/U ’Adam’, with ginger hair, scowling, pan down to laurel leaf costume. ’Queen of Hearts’ and ’Knave of Hearts’ with some rather squashed looking jam tarts in a see-through bag. Next follows a sequence outdoors of the children taking part in a wheelbarrow race, with both girls and boys, chasing after a stick of rock on a string. The winners collapse on the ground . Indoors, three tiny little girls in pretty dresses, take part in a beauty competition, where the lucky winner gets a golden furry rabbit for a prize. They are lined up by the ’redcoats’ and stand on stage and wave. They attempt to curtsey but only one can do it - the other two just look lost and bend their k