Brighton and Sussex service personnel during WW2 sent messages home – help us find these families!

A two-day event exploring the role of the magic lantern in travelling fairground entertainment

Our partners West Sussex County Council celebrated receiving the official award on 19 March 2019. 

The Club’s Reunion films from 1960 to 1978 digitised and online

SASE secures funding from the British Film Institute to digitise the collection

Frank Gray presents in Hanoi for the British Council in Vietnam

Free archive screening at Crawley Museum as part of ‘New Towns, Our Town – Stories on Screen’ project – 2pm, 16 Jan.

Tune in to BBC Radio 3 (Friday 11 January, 21.15pm) to listen to the live recording of Esmeralda Conde-Ruiz’s new orchestral composition to SASE silent film – performance from last year’s CINECITY Film Festival

Applications invited – especially proposals that relate to the Screen Archive South East collection

Mandolin Orchestra perform new composition by Esmeralda Conde Ruiz at ACCA to SASE films for CINECITY – the Brighton Film Festival.

Female Lanternists present at the Birmingham Magic Lantern Society’s quarterly meeting.
[Crosoer slide reproduced with permission from the Faversham Society Fleur de Lis Museum]

A Day of Celebration: Women Presenters and Lanternists

First World War Centenary programme to be screened across the region in commemoration of the end of WW1.

A new project to explore the unique background, social history and heritage of Crawley

Super 8mm film of Kent’s bygone cinemas and rural life in Sussex and Hampshire.

SASE is awarded funds to audit its videotape collections as part of a UK wide survey organised by the British Film Institute

Watch archive film of the ‘West Sussex Coast’ on a Shoreham Houseboat in Scalarama month

Pioneering early films of Brighton and Hove have been re-imagined by young people from local Special Educational Needs schools in the Modern Marvels exhibition booth, currently on tour around Brighton.

A book dedicated to colour in silent cinema before 1930.

Carousel, Brighton’s leading creative arts organisation working with learning disabled artists, and Screen Archive South East present a 30 minute screening of some very old and some very new short films.

Dr. Frank Gray presents an illustrated lecture at Towner, Eastbourne

A symposium on mobility and migration in the practice of the magic lantern

Free screenings and filmmaking workshops on Romney Marsh.

Priory Park, Chichester celebrates 100 year anniversary

Lizzie Thynne’s filmic ode to the city using Screen Archive footage – screening in Brighton and London venues

Film in Screen Archive South East showing the funeral of a Suffragette, commemorates their dedication and today’s anniversary of women’s suffrage

146 films to be digitised and made available free to view

A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning

Read on to see the remarkable results achieved

Archive screenings at this year’s 15th Festival

presented by Screen Archive South East and Film and Screen Studies, University of Brighton

Screening on the Beaches 20/21 September on Camber Sands preceded by archive film from SASE

A special event series to accompany the ‘Bawleys, Barbels and Owlers’ exhibition at the Kent History & Library Centre, Maidstone.

Ine van Dooren representing the University of Brighton at the international conference on the History, Archiving and Creative Re-use of Educational Magic Lantern Slides.

View newly digitised films of life on the Kentish coast as part of this Maritime Heritage Experience 22 July – 6 August for Britain on Film Coast & Sea.

Watch archive film at Brighton Museum’s Free Day Sat 17 June 10-5pm

Two exhibitions coming soon as part of Britain on Film Coast & Sea

‘West Sussex Coast & Sea’ at the West Sussex Record Office

‘Bawleys, Barbels and Owlers – Life along the Kent coast’ at the Kent History & Library Centre

Put Your Face in the Hole and join Whitstable Biennale for their innovative FAIRGROUND project at Tate Modern

Andrew Kötting, British artist, writer and acclaimed filmmaker sources archive content from SASE for his next film Lek and the Dogs

Interested in history and filmmaking? Aged 15-24? Try out the filmmaking workshop run by artist filmmaker Tracey Gue for Orange Lilies – Brighton & Hove in the Somme Project.

Screening this month at the Brighton Museum Lab on Sat 4th March to celebrate International Women’s Day is a unique film from Screen Archive South East of the suffragette Emily Davison’s funeral.

Coming soon to Herne Bay: ‘Herne Bay Newsreel 1953’. Don’t miss amateur filmmaker and Architect John Clague’s portrait of the town in 1953. Presented by The Seaside Museum. Screenings in February.

Screen Archive South East announces free archive content available for screening by local history societies, heritage organisations and Film Hub South East members.

The Screen Archive has added its most recently made film to the collection. ‘Glow Wild’ was created by Haywards Heath Movie Makers, showing the Winter Lantern Festival at Wakehurst Place.

The first ‘Lucerna Hackathon’ was hosted by Screen Archive South East to discuss definitions and metadata for magic lantern slide cataloguing.

Screen Archive South East and CINECITY present ‘Brighton Film City’ an exhibition of new work from artist Choi Sai-Ho; film-maker Lizzie Thynne with composer Ed Hughes; archive film from 1940s Brighton and virtual reality from Driftwood360.

The Million Pictures European Research Project – an inspiring workshop and installation explored the creative use of the Magic Lantern

A new display ‘Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation’ at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery will tell the story of experimental film-making in Brighton & Hove, from 1896 to the present day. Read more…

As part of the British Film Institute’s Britain on Film Rural Life programme, there will be a series of events in the South East of England, presenting a new selection of archive films to the public. Read more…

As part of the British Film Institute’s Britain on Film Rural project SASE kicked off the South East’s events at the South of England Show in Ardingly. Read more…

A series of Magic Lantern slides from SASE’s Hecht Collection recently screened by Aad Kok and Else Flim of the Dickenstheater for the members of the Dutch Haarlem Branch of the International Dickens Fellowship. Read more…

Opening the 59th British Film Institute’s London Film Festival tonight is the much anticipated full-length feature drama Suffragette. Read more…