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![A Still from [The Seasons at Otford] (ca.1959)](/wp-content/uploads/films/6150/image_a_thumb.jpg "[The Seasons at Otford] (ca.1959)")
[The Seasons at Otford]
| Date | 1944 | ID | 6150 |
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In this film, Mr. Newman documents a year in Otford, filming the countryside around Otford, as the seasons change over the year.
Hanging Out the Cloths; or, Master, Mistress and Maid
| Date | 1897 | ID | 8368 |
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A mistress discovers her husband up to no good behind a washing line in this George Albert Smith production from 1897.
Washing the Sweep
| Date | 1898 | ID | 8381 |
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A chimney sweep who disturbs two washer women gets his comeuppance in this 1898 film by James Williamson.
The Postman and the Nursemaid
| Date | [1899 -1909?] | ID | 8423 |
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Two mischievous boys disrupt a postman and a nursemaid in a garden in this comedy by Charles Goodwin Norton.
In Past Ages
| Date | [ca.1910-1920] | ID | 10960 |
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This early short compilation shows a series of experimental family portrait scenes, filmed outside in a home movie style.
[Miscellaneous Family Scenes IV]
| Date | [ca. 1930s - 1940s] | ID | 710 |
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A compilation of home movie material, including family outings to the beach, an excursion in an open-top car, and various family scenes in a garden where a young boy playfights with his grandfather (?) and watches female relatives playing on a seesaw. There is also a sequence of rough seas battering the coast and a shot of a tank driving along a road.
[Churchill House; children and family; seaside; Wales; France]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 4574 |
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A home movie showing scenes of the Muller-Rowland family relaxing at their family home near Woking and on holiday in South Wales during the 1920s. The film ends with some footage of the Palace of Versailles in France.
[Family Scenes: Garden; Outings; School Sports]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 7498 |
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A compilation of family scenes shot in the garden in Ashford, on trips to London and Monte Carlo, and at a school swimming gala and performances on the lawn, filmed by Dr. Victor Don in the 1920s.
[Girls in Garden]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8166 |
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This short film shows a young woman and a young girl playing a game of croquet [?] in a large garden. Shots are shaky and not well framed.
[Family in Garden]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8149 |
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A short compilation showing a family group with a wheelbarrow in a domestic garden, playing together with the grass cuttings. Several older family members and a Labrador dog join in the game.
![A still from [JimÕs Cat; Cleaves] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8157/image_a_thumb.jpg "[JimÕs Cat; Cleaves] (1920s)")
[Jim’s Cat; Cleaves]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8157 |
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A series of short clips show a kitten in a flower pot in the garden; a motorbike with sidecar is driven around a bend on a rural road while a man lies flat on top; a series of fast titles for a Goodwood event; an exterior view of Edward Cleaves' Chemist/ Photography shop in Bognor Regis; and a portrait of a man (Edward Cleaves?) smoking a cigar.
A Lowland Cinderella
| Date | 1921 | ID | 8434 |
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Joan Morgan stars as Hester, whose story of misfortune, manipulation, love and redemption mirrors that of Cinderella. Set between the highlands of Scotland, Intertitles provide chapter titles, such as "A Great Day" and "The Storm Comes" and dialogue between characters, but also introduce the characters and their players.
The Young Squire's Wedding at Warnham Court
| Date | 7 June 1923 | ID | 4902 |
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This black and white film shows the wedding of Charles Eric Lucas ('Joe') and Doris Brander ('Biddy') on the 7th of June 1923. The film also shows some scenes filmed at a later date showing Biddy and Joe with a baby.
[Warnham Court: Family with Baby]
| Date | 1924 | ID | 4905 |
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A family group hold a baby whilst posing for the camera on a garden bench. Colonel Brander holds a dog as the baby's mother 'Biddy' holds the baby with her husband 'Joe'. In portrait a grandmother or a nanny [?] stand at the main door with a domestic nurse as both turn and enter the house. These scenes also feature at the end of Joe and Biddy Lucas's wedding film on TID 4902.
Balmy Land
| Date | [1925 - 1931?] | ID | 8184 |
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This amateur silent film was produced by the Bognor Regis Film Society in the late 1920s [?]. Members of the society act out a series of random and eccentric scenes, using a number of special camera effects that add to the unconventional nature of the film.
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