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All's Well End's Well

Drama involving collecting boxes after the new year’s day party held by the Pontypridd branch of The League of Pity (now NSPCC’s School’s Fundraising) in 1953 at the New Inn Hotel.

Amateur film 1953 9 mins Silent

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Overview

Winner of a Cardiff Cine Society "Quickie Competition", this film by Pontypridd amateur film-maker, Evan Morgan, shows a League of Pity party (the NSPCC’s fund-raising organisation for children, founded 1891) on New Year’s Day 1953 at the New Inn Hotel, Pontypridd, attended by two girls whose long dresses for the occasion are seen being made at home. After the party they enact a little drama in the streets, involving the mislaying of their League collecting boxes.