Turned out in his Sunday best while waiting for his turn on a makeshift swing, this blond-haired Belfast boy could scarcely have dreamed of the remarkable future ahead of him.
As the sectarian bloodshed of the Troubles erupted in the late 60s, the youngster and his family left their home for a new life in England.
Yet the first nine years of his life were to have such an impact on Sir Kenneth Branagh he has created a love letter to his childhood with new film, Belfast.
