O.B.H. [Old Berkeley Hunt] & Great Missenden Show

Two colour films linked by the theme country sports and horse riding, comprising scenes from a fox cubbing meet and footage from a horse show in Buckinghamshire.

Dufaycolor film recording the activities of the Old Berkeley Hunt on a cubbing meet. The film includes shots of the departure of the riders in the early morning mist; the Master of Fox Hounds, Stanley Barratt, leading foxhounds by foot over a wooden bridge; riders and hounds patrolling a covert at Juniper Hill; the training of young hounds after a kill; horses and hounds assembling after the cubbing hunt. Scenes similar to With the Old Berkeley Hunt (see Catalogue 4397) include the meet in the early morning mist; the hounds by the wooden bridge; the location of the kill. A small crowd watches as a fox that has gone to ground is dug out; after the kill the fox’s body is thrown in the air for the hounds and a rider trains the young hounds. The films reference the same location, crowd (including two dogs, which are not foxhounds) and the same rider training the young hounds. Dufaycolor film of scenes from the Great Missenden Show of 1935. Shots include footage of some of the competitors in a junior show jumping event and the presentation of the prizes afterwards. The film includes two shots of one competitor, possibly the winner of the boy’s competition (the same boy also features in Catalogue 4390, Tring and Thame Agricultural Shows).

Featured Events

Old Berkeley Hunt Cubbing Meet Great Missenden Show 1935

Keywords

Amateur film; Dufaycolor; Fox cubbing; Fox hunting; Foxhounds; Junior show jumping

Intertitles

Cub Hunting with the O.B.H. in the mists of early morning Near Juniper Hill In the ‘Vale’ near Hartwell After the Hunt The End Some impressions in colour Gt. [Great] Missenden Show (1935) Major Faudel-Phillips and Mr Barratt M.F.H. present the prizes The End