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Community Mobile Van
Glimpses of a delightfully quirky mobile puppeteers van entertaining children and the newly opened Enfield Civic Centre.
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Overview
Puppeteering - in a bright yellow van. What more could you want? This amateur snapshot captures a lovely sense of community as the quirky mobile puppeteers van entertains an ethnically diverse mix of local children next to an urban playground. At the end of the film, brief shots of cats playing in the filmmaker's garden precede footage of the newly opened Enfield Civic Centre.
This film is from the collection of Richmond Local Studies Collection, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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