Boys' Brigade Camp at Camber Sands

The 66th Kentish Town Boy's Brigade enjoy all the fun of the outoor life at their annual summer camp adventure on Camber Sands

We join a Boy's Brigade company as they travel by train to Camber Sands on the Sussex coast. The boys wash, cook and play outdoors at the campsite, then, accompanied by adult officers, they head for the beach – dashing into the sea. After kit inspection, the boys board coaches taking them to another resort and a beach picnic, followed by sailing and horse-riding. Officers prepare and cook meals on open fires while the boys peel potatoes. Before long it's time to return home.

This film has the added treat of a colour section at the end of the main film. Filmed in Kodachrome, this section contains splendid footage of the Camber Sands campsite, the distribution, by adult officers, of what appear to be rock-cakes and shots of the boys cartwheeling along the beach before charging, en masse, into the sea. These latter shots are all the more remarkable because to get these particular views, the cameraman would have had to have been filming while standing in the sea himself. The colour sequence ends with a scene showing the entire company, now in uniform, crossing the tracks at Rye station, followed by a porter pushing a barrow.