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Author: Jane King

An image of an elderly lady dancing in front of her Christmas tree in the living room

Christmas 2020

Take a peek at Christmases past with Screen Archive South East.

A black and white image showing two women and two children stood around a large basket stripping hop vines. The group are dressed in workers clothings and aprons.

Hopping down in Kent

A virtual celebration of our hop heritage from Screen Archive South East and Kent Archives

A colour still image showing A wide view of the Chichester Cross monument flanked by buildings on East Street, Chichester

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.10 – Chichester – Chichester in the 80s – sound (1983)

A black and white image of the boiler section of a train locomotive puffing steam at a station platform

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.9 – Railways – Full Steam for Midhurst – silent (1938)

A trio of children sat around a low table having afternoon tea with Shippams paste filled sandwiches

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.8 – Shippam’s – Shippam’s High Tea – sound (1950s)

A colour close up image showing a large adult brown and white cow in a harness being led on show in an arena, for the Bognor Regis Agricultural Show

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.7 – Country Life – Bognor Blooms – silent (1950)

A colour image showing a group of folk dancers performing in a Horsham street.

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.6 – Rural Traditions – Invasion of the Morris Dancers – sound (1989)

A black and white still image showing the local festivities of a car adorned with bunting in a parade honouring the 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in Crawley

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.5 – Jubilees – Jubilation in Crawley – silent (1935)

Kent Show – Goes On!

Watch films of the Kent Show from the 1930s to the 70s and delve into Kent Archives records on this annual show.

A black and white image of a lifeboat being launched at Selsey, watched by a large group of spectators in the foreground of the image.

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.4 – Lifeboats – Blessing the Boat – silent (1938)

A colour image showing a portrait shot of two women from a W.I. group, stood next to a table laden with several jugs and crockery as a display

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.3 – Women’s Institute – Tea and Cake at Treemans – silent (1954)

Celebrating the Centenary of John & William Barnes – new film of Walter Sickert

Announcing new film of Walter Sickert in 1937

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.2 – Nursing – A Goon goes to Hospital – silent (1959)

The National Lottery logo and BFI Logos together in one image

Screen Archive South East wins National Lottery funding

Awarded by the British Film Institute’s Audience Fund.

A colour still image showing a teenage girl dressed in a woollen swimming costume and rubber swimming hat, sat on a beach.

West Sussex Unwrapped

No.1 – Summer – Daytrip to Littlehampton – silent (1950)

A colour still image showing a group of young children dressed in swimwear, watching a Punch and Judy puppet performance on Littlehampton beach.

West Sussex Unwrapped

A new 10 week online series exploring the history of West Sussex

A colour still image showing a NHS information poster stuck to the exterior side of a wall on a building

CHRONICLING COVID

Screen Archive South East’s Open Call during the Pandemic

A colour still image showing a woman in a hat waving a Union flag during a VE Day gathering

War & Peace

Screen Archive South East’s film commemoration of VE Day 75

image of the cover of the Invissible Innovators e publication. The item has a pink cover with three frames of film images below the title.

Invisible Innovators

Making Women Filmmakers Visible Across the UK Film Archives

Queer the Pier project logo

Queer the Pier

Exhibition at Brighton Museum with archive film of Brighton and oral histories of the time before the Stonewall riots in 1969.

Fairview School logo

Fairview Cine Film Project 2020

Fairview Community Primary School project using archive film from the 1970s

A collection of paper objects and diaries written by Dick Perceval

To Be Continued

To Be Continued is a new web series, based on the stories told in a collection of journals that were found discarded, 21 years ago, on a street in Brighton.

Explore your archive!

Come and see what we do with archive film on Saturday 23rd November at the West Sussex Record Office, Chichester.

Jewish Britain on Film

UK premiere screening at Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts for UK Jewish Film Festival including SASE archive from the Lewis Rosenberg Collection.

Boom and Bust: Horsham after the Great War

Exhibition at Horsham Museum featuring 1920s (nitrate) footage of the Warnham Court Estate and family of C.J.Lucas

Screening the Victorians

2pm Sat 16 November. Introduced by Frank Gray, presented by BFI Curator Bryony Dixon, with LIVE piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne

‘The Vision Scene – Early Film and the Victorian Dream’

Dr Frank Gray and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Robert Snell discuss filmmaker G.A.Smith’s relationship with contemporary ‘spirit’ culture

Roma Stories

A Roma Oral History Project

Maidstone on Film

presented by Dr Frank Gray and Kent Archives
Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone ME15 6YE 9 October at 7pm

Lost Films of WW2 on BBC Four

New two part series using films from the archives including wartime footage of Kent, Surrey and Sussex from our archive.

 “Sisters” – Votes for Women Suffrage

Ine van Dooren and colleague researchers present a 1916 Dutch Lantern revue: a commemorative academic interpretation

‘Calling Blighty’ Brighton

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

Lanterns at the Fairground

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

West Sussex Record Office achieves ‘Archive Service Accreditation’

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

Guinea Pig Club

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

University of Brighton Media Services tape collection to be digitised

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

British Council Symposium: Film as a Cultural Heritage

Frank Gray presents in Hanoi for the British Council in Vietnam

Crawley captured on film

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

The Other Ocean

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

Horsham Magazine (1934-1959)

Funded AHRC technē studentships in Screen Studies at the University of Brighton

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

The other ocean

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

The Female Lanternist

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]

SASE Archivist Ine van Dooren presents:

A Day of Celebration: Women Presenters and Lanternists

First World War Centenary

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

‘New Towns, Our Town – Stories on Screen’

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

British Film Institute 2022 Digitisation Project

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

BFI Heritage 2022 Video Tape Collections Audit

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

Scalarama Sussex

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

Modern Marvels

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.

The Colour Fantastic – Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

A book dedicated to colour in silent cinema before 1930.

Silver Screen

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.

Screen Talk: Into the Air – Early Aviation on Film

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

B-magic Travelling Lantern Symposium

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

The Marsh on Screen

Free screenings and filmmaking workshops on Romney Marsh.

Priory Park 1918 – 2018

Priory Park, Chichester celebrates 100 year anniversary

Brighton: Symphony of a City

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

New award from the British Film Institute’s Digitisation Fund

146 films to be digitised and made available free to view

A Million Pictures research workshop

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

Colour restoration work at SASE

Read on to see the remarkable results achieved

CINECITY the Brighton Film Festival

Archive screenings at this year’s 15th Festival

Sussex Girlhood: Archives and Amateur Filmmaking (1919-1960)

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

DUNKIRK

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

The Last Chord: The Life Story of a Merchant Seaman (c.a.1947)

Britain on Film Coast & Sea Life along the Kent Coast

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

SASE Archivist presents at ‘A Million Pictures’ Conference, Utrecht University

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.

The Herne Bay Newsreel 1969 [1970]

Time & Tide at the Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable

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.

Sussex Day at Brighton Museum

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

Britain on Film Coast & Sea

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

‘Fairground’ at Tate Exchange

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

LEK AND THE DOGS dir. Andrew Kötting

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

Orange Lilies – Brighton & Hove in the Somme

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.

A colour still image showing SASE Archivist Ine Van Dooren stacking fill cans in the SASE Vault.

Brighton Museum Lab – Discovery Days: Wonder Women

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.

Herne Bay Newsreel

New Year – New Screenings

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.

With the Gypsies in Kent (1938)

Moving History Rural South East on Film – archive programmes for screening

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

Lucerna Hackathon

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

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