1953
15 minutes
Archive Fiction, Archive Non-Fiction, Short Films
English / Welsh
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Set in the early 1950s, this short film centers around young Rhys, the eldest child in a Welsh-speaking household. After being prompted by his mother to answer a letter from his cousin in Australia, Rhys sits down to write about all his latest adventures on the farm, at school and in and around his hometown of Llandwrog in North Wales. We learn how he was late to class after spotting trout in the river, how his sheepdog helped rescue a lamb, and how he and his siblings enjoyed a ride on the Porthdinllaen lifeboat. This gentle short film, produced by the Children’s Film Foundation for Saturday morning matinée cinema programming, includes an English voice-over and some Welsh dialogue, offering an insight into what life might have been like growing up in rural Wales in the mid-20th century.
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