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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.
![A still from Arundel [Swanbourne Lake] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8138/image_a_thumb.jpg "Arundel [Swanbourne Lake] (1920s)")
Arundel [Swanbourne Lake]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 8138 |
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This short intertitled film begins shots of busy traffic on a street in Arundel in the 1920s. Several motorbikes and cars pass by. The film then shows people feeding swans and peacocks on Swanbourne Lake. The image is somewhat muddy and dark.
[Reynolds Store [?]; Child on High Street]
| Date | [ca.1920s?] | ID | 8165 |
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This compilation shows a man walking with a young child in a harness on a seaside promenade [Bognor?] surrounded by a large crowd of people; the child runs out of shot. The film closes with portrait shots of the man holding the child. [shot seems to repeat?]
[Tea]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 8140 |
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In this very short film we see a table set for a wedding reception, with a wedding cake being cut. The bride and groom drive away in their car, while guests gather on the street to throw confetti as they leave Other street traffic is seen as they pull out of the driveway. The film is damaged and so the visual quality is poor.
[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.
![A still from [Wedding] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8141/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Wedding] (1920s)")
[Wedding]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 8141 |
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A short film of a 1920s wedding. The film shows traffic in the road outside a church, bridesmaids arriving carrying flowers and the arrival of the bride. The bride and groom emerge from the church after the ceremony and leave in a car. The bridesmaids and guests pose on the steps of the church for the camera.
A Fireman’s Wedding
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8150 |
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A short intertitled film showing scenes from a 'fireman's wedding' at an urban church. The newly weds are seen exiting the church under an arch of fire axes. The couple then leave in the decorated fire engine.
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.
'Nutmead'. Crawley
| Date | 1927 - 1929 | ID | 3183 |
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Percy Nightingale films friends and family in the garden of his Crawley home 'Nutmead' over the course of three years. The adults play both to the camera and with their children during the changing seasons.
[Family Scenes; Holidays; At Stonelands]
| Date | [1927 - 1930?] | ID | 726 |
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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.
Crawley & District Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club
| Date | 1927 - 1928 | ID | 2259 |
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This amateur film captures people playing bowls, croquet and lawn tennis at an outdoor sports club in Crawley in the late 1920s.
['Nutmead' Play: 'Hazeldene Orchestra']
| Date | 1927; 1928; 1931 | ID | 2433 |
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Percy and Eleanor Grace Nightingale and friends perform a brief play in front of the camera in the garden of their Crawley home 'Nutmead'. The 'Hazeldene Orchestra', under the conductorship of its founder Moses Nightingale, celebrates his 70th birthday and its 50th anniversary with a musical performance in the garden of 'Hazeldene'.
[Family Scenes; Play with Dog]
| Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2981 |
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Home movie material showing a family playing to the camera, with each other, and with a dog in the back garden of their terraced house on three separate occasions. The adults play leapfrog, a young boy plays with the boisterous dog, and one of the women holds out a kettle to the camera as she goes indoors to make tea.
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