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        Selby Experimental Films - Summer 1937 - Newsreel 2

        The happiest day of Mary and Peter's lives but will the rising water levels spoil their day?

        Home movie 1937 6 mins Silent

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        Overview

        Derby dentist Joseph Selby shot this film as a wedding gift for Mary Claytor and Peter Woodhead, who are seen on their wedding day outside St Peter's Church at Littleover in Derby. Selby created a newsreel around this central theme by incorporating scenes of the Meynell Hunt point to point and local flooding: "Derby was flooded with jealous tears at the bridegroom's luck".