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Topical Budget 235-2: Tobogganing at Hampstead (1916)
 

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"TOBOGGANING AT HAMPSTEAD. Soldiers enjoy the first grip of winter and participate in the joys of tobogganing". Medium shot of a woman on a toboggan sliding towards and past the camera. Camera pans right to more people tobogganing down a hill as snowballs are thrown at them by onlookers. A young soldier and a young woman toboggan towards the camera and past it. Two men standing on a sled toboggan down the hill, falling off half way down. Four people on a toboggan pass the camera. Two soldiers and a woman toboggan down the hill as snowballs are pelted at them by onlookers. They fall off. Two soldiers standing on a sled start off down the hill, they fall off, another sled ridden by three men and a woman collides with them and everyone falls off .