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Sadness and Gladness (1928)
 

Courtesy of Scottish Screen Archive

Main image of Sadness and Gladness (1928)
 
35mm, black and white, silent, 20 mins
 
SponsorGlasgow Education Authority for NCHCF
 
Scottish Screen Archive collection

One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund. Fortune smiles upon a poor unemployed family from the Glasgow slums, as the children are selected for a summer seaside holiday, organised by the NCHCF. The story has a Christian tone.

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Glasgow Education Authority organised holidays for the necessitous children of the city from 1920s onwards. The Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund (NCHCF) was established to raise money to meet the expenditure for this venture. Sadness and Gladness (1928) was made for the dual purpose of showing the tremendous amount of good the holiday camps were doing and also as an appeal to raise finances for future camps . It would have been screened in commercial cinemas and at community events across the city. Between 1925 and 1937 NCHCF organised holidays for 67,984 city children at the coast or in the country - an average of 5229 per year.

Kenneth Broom

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SEE ALSO
Mavor Family Film (1932)
Sunny Days (1931)