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Our Angel Children (1938)
 

Courtesy of Scottish Screen Archive

Main image of Our Angel Children (1938)
 
16mm, 10 mins, black & white, silent, amateur
 
Filmed byFrank Marshall
 
Scottish Screen Archive collection

The antics of two mischievous children and what they get up to when their mother is away: flooding the kitchen, dancing a jig, upsetting the maid and her laundry and playing dangerously in the family car.

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One of over a hundred films made during his lifetime by amateur cineaste Frank Marshall. The filmmaker's two children are cast as the mischievous children.

An insight into the home and pastimes of an affluent family in the 1930s. We can speculate the house featured is almost certainly the Marshall household. It is an example of Marshall's style of filmmaking, characterised by its good humour and buoyant sense of fun.

The film was Specially Commended by the Board of Amateur Cine World 1938.

Kenneth Broom

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