Wysokińscy Family Archive

collection Wysokińscy Family Archive
authors Andrzej Wysokiński
starring Elżbieta Wysokińska, Marek Wysokiński
length 14'35
location Poland
year 1967
format 8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0027 003
source of funding Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
description

The author of the film is Andrzej Wysokiński (1934–2018), a fencing, skiing and tennis coach. The man was interested in film and had been documenting family life and sports trips and competitions since the 1960s. 

Film made around 1967 during a family holiday near Łódź. Marek, son of Andrzej and Elzbieta, spends time with his great-grandmother and a boy his own age, later pointing a toy gun at his dad who is filming him. Elzbieta spends time with her son outdoors. The boy climbs onto a parked car and plays with a ball. Family trip to the zoo, Marek is watching the animals in the enclosures together with his Mum and is riding the pedal car. 

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keywords Poland, Lodz, family, family life, child, childhood, toy, play, gun, zoo, zoo garden, animals, leisure time, holidays, summer