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Horseplay in the garden, Ilford (c1939)

A small child is confronted by – and roughly unseated from – a pushalong horse, during extended playtime in a London back garden.

Home movie 1939 1 mins Silent

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Overview

There’s a lot of action in this short home movie, featuring a small child and his new toy, a horse on wheels. The boy takes a bout of roughplay with dad in his stride, but then suffers a mighty tumble from the horse and, despite cursory dusting down, runs off in tears in search of sympathy. Shortly after, he’s back on board, still less than happy, before allowing himself to be pulled along for a bit. At close, he waves farewell from a rug, exhausted and forgivingly so.