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[Family Party]
| Date | January 1939 | ID | 1283 |
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Family members laugh and joke for the camera in this short 1939 home movie, filmed in the living room of a Surrey house.
VE Day themed Lydd Club Day 1946
| Date | 1946 | ID | 8780 |
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VE Day themed annual Club Day celebrations in Lydd taking place 8th June 1946 on the Rype and on the High Street. Please note: this film contains images which are racially offensive. We have left the film in its original state to ensure historical accuracy.
Great Walstead [School: Boys Sports Day]
| Date | 1949; 1950 | ID | 9150 |
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A titled and edited family film showing a series of non-traditional events at two Great Walstead Preparatory School Sports days. Events include a book-on-head balancing event whilst going under a pole limbo-style, a knocking nails in to wood event, a balloon hitting race, a fully covered sack race event, a bicycle circuits race whilst doing maths questions; and a boys fancy dress competition with face masks, fake noses and moustaches.
[Ancient and Modern, Three Bridges Free Church]
| Date | 1949 - 1963 | ID | 9152 |
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This film shows scenes around Three Bridges, in Crawley, between 1949-1963. The film includes: a children's party; a miniature train ride; a visit to the seaside; building new houses; Queen Elizabeth II opening Queens' Square Shopping Centre; construction of the new Three Bridges Free Church; Punch and Judy; and a school outing with an American West theme.
[Children Horse Riding]
| Date | [ca. 1951] | ID | 7066 |
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Ockenden children ride horses in a paddock for competitions and fancy dress events in the 1950s.
Riding for Joy
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 9605 |
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A series of equestrian events, mostly with children and women riders. Some of the family appear to be the same as in 'West Sussex' film. The Queen and Prince Philip appear briefly at an event with Windsor Castle in background. Includes a children's fancy dress parade on horseback, some horsedrawn carriage events, a bishop blessing the riders, riders in hunting dress, show jumping, etc. Some under-exposed sequences.
Festival Year + Summer Interlude + Lancing Old Time Dance Association
| Date | 1951, 1953 | ID | 3741 |
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Scenes of a parade through Shoreham, a family holiday in Sussex and outings to Weymouth and Kent by the Lancing Old Time Dance Association, filmed and compiled with intertitles by Frank Kessler.
[Holiday in Scotland]
| Date | 1952 | ID | 392 |
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The Woolsey family holiday in Scotland. Ian Woolsey, the son of the film-maker, skips through the family garden wearing a harlequin costume. They visit the beach at Nairn on the Moray Firth with friends, where they build sandcastles and play cricket, and picnic at Loch Ness. River, countryside and road views follow, as they journey from Loch Ness to the Kyle of Lochalsh up the A87, and to Inverness along the A890, past railway lines and beaches. Views of Inverness Castle close the film.
Hythe Coronation Memories
| Date | 1953 | ID | 5543 |
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This film opens with views of Hythe covered in ceremonial bunting and captures local street scenes. The film goes on to show children at a large table; then racing each other in a park and parading in a variety of imaginative period costumes.
Fernhurst Coronation Pageant
| Date | 1953 | ID | 5755 |
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Produced by a New Zealand couple and donated to the citizens of Fernhurst, this colour film records an historical pageant put on by the village to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. There is a parade of queens from Mary Tudor to Queen Victoria, accompanied by Prime Minister Disraeli. This is followed by a parade of people in culturally stereotyped 'national' costumes (including some who have blacked-up) representing nations of the Commonwealth.
[Whit Monday Rally: Sports; Speech]
| Date | 1953 | ID | 9159 |
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This short colour film shows a Whit Monday Free Church gathering with the group standing by the side of a road. There are also scenes of a Great Walstead School sports day, with a fancy dress race and a speech from a teacher/Head Teacher (?). [The film has some damage]
Our Family
| Date | [ca. 1954] | ID | 4107 |
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Title: “Our family: Mum, Dad, Rita, Brian, Roy”. This film shows various family scenes including: a Father with a baby; a Mother pushing a pram; a couple in white coats posing together; scenes at a workplace; a man pushing a child in a go-cart; a ball game; a train; games in a garden; a child being fed; scenes at the seaside; river scenes and a group rowing. Title: “Christmas Party 1954” is followed by scenes of the family around a Christmas tree, singing, drinking and dancing; stop motion camera tricks; a couple leaving a house and posing, and a boy in a cowboy outfit.
[Garden Scenes]
| Date | [1955?] | ID | 7113 |
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Footage taken by Gladys Bishop, of her granddaughter mowing the lawn at her home in Mulgrave Road, Sutton Surrrey, and her grandchildren performing a dance in animal and period costume at a fete in around 1955.
Whistle and I’ll Come to You
| Date | [ca. 1957] | ID | 6057 |
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A ghost story begins with a man finding a whistle on the beach in this North Downs Cinematograph Society production.
Art for Arts Sake
| Date | [1957] | ID | 263 |
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A fiction film, possibly produced by Brighton Cine Club in around 1957, in which an artist wows his audience with his powers of realism.
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