The Oakley Hunt is a long-established tradition in Bedford. Foxhunt participants and their observers – a sea of flat caps and riding hats, congregate on and around the Green close to the John Bunyan plinth. This footage was captured by a newsreel company, and would have been shown at the local picturehouse to accompany a main feature. The local people are would-be paying cinema patrons, happy to be captured on film, hoping to at a later date see themselves on-screen.