Magical Margate

This is the earliest example of a seaside publicity film in Screen Archive South East’s collection, dating from the mid 1920s. The film promotes Margate as a most fashionable seaside resort. The film is tinted and toned and has intertitles throughout.

[Garden Fete at Broughton House]

A traditional English garden fete takes place in the grounds of Broughton House near Sevenoaks. This professional film with intertitles focuses much of its attention on the local people who attended the event.

[Goodwood Hunt]

Film of the Staley family at home and on outings, including attending a hunt meet at Goodwood. The film begins with scenes of the family on the beach at Bognor and on the Esplanade. At the hunt meet servants bring out trays of 'stirrup cups' for the huntsman, and the hunt sets off. Mrs Staley and daughter Pam are also seen with horses at the stables.

[Summer Seaside Holiday and Family Scenes]

This compilation of home movie material with intertitles was filmed by doctors Thomas and Catherine Violet Burne whilst on leave from their medical posts in Malaya. The doctors film their children enjoying leisure time in England, on the beach, in the countryside and in the garden.

[Boat Trip Along the Suez Canal: Port Said to Aden]

Doctors Catherine Violet and Thomas Burne film part of their return trip to Malaya, where they were both stationed. Husband and wife had spent the preceding months with their children in England, as recorded in ~[Summer Seaside Holiday And Family Scenes]~ (March - October 1929).

People and Places

An amateur film showing scenes of family and friends at leisure in locations around the South of England with intertitles throughout.

[Garden Scenes; Wedding Pictures; Seaside; Toddler]

Various scenes of children and other family members parading around a garden. A scene of men wearing morning suits (probably prior to a wedding). Various scenes of children playing, a baby being bounced and a toddler playing.

[The Wedding Day]

Scenes of members of a wedding party including the bridesmaids and the bride posing in a garden. The guests are filmed departing after the ceremony and the bride and groom are seen at a train station.

[Travels to Burma and Egypt]

A compilation of amateur films detailing the travels and living experiences of a White-European family in Burma (now Myanmar) and Egypt during the mid-1930s. Various film sections have been edited together in a random order, and the resulting sequence is therefore not linear.

[J. Klingenberg’s wedding 2]

The second part of a film of scenes at a wedding attended by the Emberton family where daughter Jocelyn Emberton is a bridesmaid.

Joce and Gill at Home

A compilation of family scenes spanning the late 1930s filmed by architect Joseph Emberton. The youngest daughter learns to walk; the two daughters play in the garden; the grandparents visit; there are outings to a lido, two birthday parties and a Christmas dinner. They also visit the Casino building in Blackpool, designed by Joseph Emberton.

St. Faith’s go to Tea at Kew

A group of deaf women and a clergyman from a charitable organisation called 'St. Faith's' are seen going on boat trip on the River Thames, using sign language to communicate. A larger group are then seen visiting London Zoo, Titlark's Farm, Kew and Greenwich. Many in the group use sign language to communicate with each other.

[Japanese Scenery II]

An amateur film which captures, in colour, the people, attractions and landscape of southern Japan in the years immediately preceding the Second World War.