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Modern Marvels: Bad Santa

Date2019ID13017

Exploring the film heritage of Brighton & Hove. Film made by pupils from Headstart College inspired by the film Santa Claus made by George Albert Smith in 1898.

An Artist in the Shadows: Margaret Dora Mendelssohn Benecke

Date11 April 2016ID14321

This film tells the life story of the Eastbourne painter Margaret Dora Mendelssohn Benecke. She was the granddaughter of Felix Mendelsohn, a fact not many people knew. Artist and researcher Dr Jane Palmer interviews relatives, the Towner Art Gallery, artists and scholars to shed light on the life of this reserved personality.

A still from 'The Motor Bandits' (1912) showing people in a car

The Motor Bandits

Date1912ID4137

An early professionally-made fiction film with intertitles which tells the story of a bank robbery and the subsequent hunt for the robbers. The film is notable for its use of a highly-developed narrative, generic conventions and location shooting.

A Still from 'Band of Hope Demonstration' (ca.1913)

Brighton & Hove Band of Hope Demonstration

Date[ca. 1913]ID32

A short film showing children marching in a Band of Hope demonstration along Brighton’s seafront. The film has tinted intertitles.

A still from 'Southdown Fighters - The 1st Southdown Battalion' (19 November 1914)

Southdown Fighters - The 1st Southdown Battalion

Date19th November 1914ID3074

Two Gaumont Graphic newsreel segments are taken from their issue no. 382, from the 19th November 1914. They show the newly recruited 1st Southdown Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment at Eastbourne Station followed by footage of trenches entitled 'The fight for Dixmude'.

[Local News Film, Hastings] (1913-1925)

[Local News Film, Hastings]

Date1914 ID445

This film records people and events in the coastal town of Hastings in 1914.

A black and white still image taken from TID 13722, showing a mounted regiment in full uniform parading through East Grinstead in 1914.

First World War Centenary

DateOctober 2018ID13722

A programme of archive film to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War. This was screened at venues across East and West Sussex in October and November 2018.

[Miscellaneous Family Scenes IV]

Date[ca. 1930s - 1940s]ID710

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.

A still from Winchelsea and its Surroundings. A Day with Harry Furniss and his Sketchbook (ca.1920)

Winchelsea and its Surroundings. A Day with Harry Furniss and his Sketchbook

Date[ca. 1920]ID734

Illustrator and caricaturist Harry Furniss is filmed with his sketchbook at various locations in and around Winchelsea and Hastings. The actuality footage is introduced with intertitles and is intercut with images of sketches in progress.

An excursion on the English Riviera

Date[ca. 1925]ID2439

This short professionally made film features the south coast towns of Brighton, Hastings and Eastbourne. With the inclusion of intertitles, the film takes the form of a fictional journey made on the Brighton Belle from London to Brighton. Places of interest to the visitor are featured in each town, including the Royal Pavilion, Hastings Castle and Eastbourne Pier.

A black and white still image taken from Foxhunt Manor (1926) showing a woman wearing an Edwardian smock dress with white collar stood next to a baby in a Bonet in a large Edwardian pram. The group are outside the front of Foxhunt Manor, by the ornamental banister style cast concrete railings.}

[Foxhunt Manor]

Date[1926?]ID6470

Family scenes filmed in the gardens of Foxhunt Manor at Foxhunt Green in Waldron, East Sussex, in 1926, featuring portraits of family members and staff, including maids, farmhands and stablehands, smiling, laughing and talking.

A still from 'Bexhill Pageant' (1927) - procession

Bexhill Pageant

Date20 July 1927ID444

The first part of the film shows the mayor and other dignitaries laying wreaths at the town’s war memorial, followed by a parade through the streets. The second part of the film shows scenes from a pageant dramatising historical events associated with Bexhill. Intertitles introduce each scene.

[Family Scenes; Holidays; At Stonelands]

Date[1927 - 1930?]ID726

Rudd family scenes from the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmed by Mr. and Mrs. Rudd in their garden at Stonelands in Bramley and while on holidays to Brighton, Arundel, Scotland and Cornwall [?] to visit friends and relatives.

A still from [Local Scenes and Family Pictures] (1927-1929) - Horse riders in a pageant

[Local Scenes and Family Pictures]

Date1927; 1929ID2260

A compilation of films by an amateur film-maker. The films include family outings, scenes at a livestock market and a historical pageant. The pageant also includes a brief scene showing Christopher Robin Milne (son of author A.A.Milne) leading a group of children dressed as characters from his father's books: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and Kanga.

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[Family Scenes: Baby; Eastbourne; Dogs]

Date[1927?]ID6471

Oakshott family members, guests and staff are shown in portrait footage at Foxhunt Manor at Foxhunt Green in Waldron, East Sussex. Subjects are also shown in the grounds of the house, at Eastbourne and a local fair, filmed by Eugene Oakshott, the head of the family, in 1927 [?].

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