Detail
Collection Enid Briggs pt2
Summary
Enid Briggs filmed scenes in Broadstairs in the 1920s and 1930s and again later on in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of her films feature events in the town and scenes of traditional seaside pursuits in the resort.
| Collection ID | 728 | Reference code | K 050519 |
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| Title | Enid Briggs pt2 | ||
| Dates | 1920s - 1960s | ||
| Production | Enid Briggs | ||
| Materials | FILM 16mm 9.5mm VIDEO | ||
| Access status | Contact Screen Archive South East for details | ||
Description
Enid Briggs filmed scenes in Broadstairs in the 1920s and 1930s. Enid Briggs filmed on 16mm, capturing scenes of Broadstairs. Her films featured her own family activities and outings as well as local events and many of her films also focused on scenes of traditional seaside pursuits at the resort.
Alongside amateur film-making, Enid Briggs devoted her time from the late 1930s to the 1960s to running a working horse and donkey sanctuary called 'The Ranch'. She died in 1973. Her surviving films are now held in the Screen Archive South East collection.
Films in this collection:
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![A still from [Uncle MackÕs Minstrel Seaside Show] (1927)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5253/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Uncle MackÕs Minstrel Seaside Show] (1927)")
[Uncle Mack’s Minstrel Seaside Show]
| Date | [ca. 1927?] | ID | 5253 |
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A single performance by Uncle Mack's Minstrels, made up of various musical and dance acts in this silent film by Enid Briggs from the 1920s.
[Uncle Mack’s Minstrels]
| Date | [ca. 1927?] | ID | 5255 |
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A sequence of performances by Uncle Mack's Minstrels, with and without "blackface" make up, filmed by Enid Briggs in the 1920s.
[Seaside Views; North Foreland House; Camera Tricks; Ice Skating]
| Date | [1928?] | ID | 5246 |
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A compilation filmed by Enid Briggs in the late 1920s, including seaside scenes, sequences shot in North Foreland House gardens using stop frame and reverse action camera techniques, and ice skaters in Switzerland.
![A still from North Foreland House [Seaside; Domestic Garden; Party] (1928)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5250/image_a_thumb.jpg "North Foreland House [Seaside; Domestic Garden; Party] (1928)")
North Foreland House [Seaside; Domestic Garden; Party]
| Date | 1928 | ID | 5250 |
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Scenes filmed in and around North Foreland House by Enid Briggs in 1928, shot mainly in the garden and at nearby beach.
[Uncle Mack’s Minstrels; North Foreland House]
| Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 5251 |
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A single performance, made up of various acts by individuals, pairs and groups by Uncle Mack's Minstrels, filmed from the audience by Enid Briggs in the late 1920s.
[Family Scenes; Seaside Views; North Foreland House]
| Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 5252 |
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A collection of scenes filmed by Enid Briggs in the garden of Foreland House and at the Broadstairs seashore in the late 1920s.
[North Foreland House; Garden; Seaside]
| Date | [1928?] | ID | 5254 |
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A series of family holiday [?] scenes filmed by Enid Briggs in the late 1920s.
[The Ranch; Horses Retirement Home]
| Date | [ca. 1939?] | ID | 5249 |
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Scenes shot at the stables and paddocks of The Ranch, a horse retirement home, by Enid Briggs in 1939.
[Broadstairs Annual Dickens Festival 1959 and 1960]
| Date | 1959 - 1960 | ID | 5245 |
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Sequences of Broadstairs Annual Dickens Festival of participants dressed in period costume and spectators filmed by Enid Briggs in 1959 and 1960, shot mainly at Bleak House.
[Prince, Ramsgate Corporation Horse Retiring to Ranch]
| Date | 1960 - 1961 | ID | 5248 |
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A film of three parts, following a horse called Prince who is shown working at the seaside and as part of a carnival before he is taken to a ranch for retired horses and donkeys, filmed by Enid Briggs in the early 1960s.
[Broadstairs Annual Dickens Festival 1962 + 1963]
| Date | [1962 - 1963] | ID | 5247 |
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Scenes of the Broadstairs Annual Dickens Festival parade and musical performances, filmed by Enid Briggs in the early 1960s.
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