Buda Family Archive

collection Buda Family Archive
authors Jacek Buda
starring Sergiusz Bojenko; Marek Buda; Bogdan Fechner
length 0:07:38
country Poland
locations Serpelice, Poland 
year 1964
format 16 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0037 046
description

Zygmunt Buda was born in Poznań in 1924 and was interested in photography since his childhood. From 1941, he worked in the Poznań photographic company Foto-Stewner, founded by Ernest Stewner. After the end of the war, he worked as a photographer in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from which, in the 50s, he was dismissed for political incorrectness. From the 60s, he worked in the Film Services Department at the corner of Marszałkowska and Krucza streets in Warsaw. Zygmunt recorded films with a business camera with a 16-millimeter tape and a private SANYO camera with an 8-millimeter tape, which he received as a gift from a family living in the USA. His sons, Jacek and Marek, as well as the next generations of the Buda family, also became enthusiasts of filming family life.
The film was made in the summer of 1964 or 1965 in Serpelice by the Bug River. There are scouts and among them Marek (Jacek’s brother) and the friends (Sergiusz Bojenko and Bogdan Fechner). They go to eat by the river. The boys, together with their guardians – Midzi senior, Midzi junior and Mosur (wearing glasses) – eat dinner from mess tins, sitting at long, wooden benches. A shot of the signpost leading to the latrine, jokingly called Seclusion by the campers. A more experienced scout shows the boys how to use the outdoor toilet. Scenes from the life of campers – preparations for the bonfire, evening singing, setting up tents, peeling potatoes under the supervision of the cook, Mrs. Ziuta, assembling bunks and digging tents. 

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keywords river  holidays  summer  camp  campsite  forest  trip  scouting  Polish Scouting Association  ZHP  free time  leisure  tents  mess tins  
source of funding Polish Film Institute