Relaxing at Cambridge University 1940s Archive Film 1093525

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1093525 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Cambridge University. On river a line up of empty punts. The sun behind a cloud. In her room a woman student smokes and a writes at her desk. Man sits at desk and leafs through pages of book. Two students in a tutor's room. Chef prepares dinner. Waiters collect dishes. The empty refectory dissolves to the full refectory: Undergraduates stand up as tutors file in. Grace is said. Men sit. After dinner the fellows retire to the Combination Room for wine and coffee. St Johns Combination Room. Waiter serves from tray. Fellows chat. Men stand with backs to fire. Old folio book is opened. Manuscript pages inside reveal dates as 1815. Entry records presentation of wine to Combination in honour of Wellington's victory over Napoleon Bonaparte. Gathering of undergraduates in tutor's room at night reading from book. The amateur Dramatics Society. Scene painting. Rehearsing a play. Funny piece this - the director watches as men and women sit on settee kissing. They are surprised by the entry of another woman. The director does not think the actor has shown enough surprise and demonstrates how to kiss the woman and show the appropriate amount of surprise. Two male students relaxing in their room. One pours bottle of beer into glass. Other smokes from hookah pipe. In another room, men sit around. Man takes splint from fire to light his friend's pipe. Another scene where men wrestle. At Newnham and Girton Colleges: Women's college. Woman takes sugar from open shelves and puts it on large pile of boxes and food. Female students roast crumpets in front of open fire. Woman eats crumpet. Students orchestra warming up. The strings section. The conductor bangs his baton and starts to conduct. Choir singing on balcony. Slow pan down to orchestra. The University musical society and the conductor, Dr Patrick Codley. People ent