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 seethrough 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