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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.
The Miller and the Sweep
| Date | 1897 | ID | 8367 |
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A miller and chimney sweep collide as moving sails of the windmill behind provide an animated backdrop in this 1897 George Albert Smith production.
Cycle Corps
| Date | [1899 -1909?] | ID | 8435 |
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A cycle corps are filmed during shooting practice by Charles Goodwin Norton.
The Motor Bandits
| Date | 1912 | ID | 4137 |
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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.
[Christmas Shopping]; Surrey Women War Workers; The Path of Duty was the Path of Glory
| Date | 1922; 1917; 1914 | ID | 1291 |
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A compilation of three separate films made in or near Godalming, Surrey during the early twentieth century. The first shows shoppers on the busy High Street in Godalming, the second shows women from the newly established Women's Land Army in 1917 demonstrating ploughing skills, and the third shows a memorial commemorating RMS Titanic’s Chief Radio Telegraphist.
[Flight; Seville; Rabat]
| Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2973 |
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Amateur film-maker and airline pilot Captain William Armstrong records aerial images of farmland, settlements, rivers and mountains during a flight in a biplane.
[Aerial Views and Local Scenes of Marrakech]
| Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2978 |
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Amateur footage of a trip to Marrakech taken by airline pilot Captain William Armstrong.
[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.
![a still from [Hong Kong Scenes] (ca.1929)](/wp-content/uploads/films/7087/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Hong Kong Scenes] (ca.1929)")
[Hong Kong Scenes]
| Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 7087 |
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This film opens with coastal views of a bay in Hong Kong, followed by the Simpson group on a day out exploring the countryside, attending a horse race event and visiting the beach at Repulse Bay.
[Family Scenes: Baby on the Beach; Wannock Mill]
| Date | [1928?] | ID | 6472 |
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Oakshott family members visit Eastbourne Beach and Wannock Gardens. They play tennis on one of the courts in the grounds of their residence, Foxhunt Manor at Foxhunt Green, where they also swim in the pond, in 1928 [?].
![a still from [Hangzhou and a trip to the Baochu pagoda] (ca.1930)](/wp-content/uploads/films/7094/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Hangzhou and a trip to the Baochu pagoda] (ca.1930)")
[Hangzhou and a trip to the Baochu pagoda]
| Date | [ca. 1930] | ID | 7094 |
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This film opens with shots of West Lake, Hangzhou with structures built into the river bank. The Simpsons and their group go on a guided walk, ride on traditional open Jiao or sedan-style litter chairs through the rural countryside and tour the lake.
Tour of Devon and Cornwall
| Date | [ca. 1930 ?] | ID | 8174 |
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This extended intertitled travelogue shows a group tour through the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset visiting many noted landmarks that includes the Madron Wishing Well and Chapel, standing stones of the Mên-an-Tol, the coast at Lands End with the "First and Last House" and the Daily Mail sign; Exeter; St Ives; the town of Clovelly in Devon; the moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor; the seaside towns of Penzance, Dawlish, Plymouth and Newlyn.
[A Winter Cruise; SS Avoceta 3500 tons]
| Date | 26 October 1929 - 18 November 1929 | ID | 3214 |
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A detailed film by Ralph Staley of a cruise with his wife Nellie aboard the SS Avoceta; sailing from Liverpool and visiting Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Mrs Staley is filmed amongst other passengers and crew on deck. They take in the main tourist sights at all the stop off points and film some of the local people and customs they encounter. This film has intertitles throughout.
Java Tour; Christmas 1929; Batavia to Soerabaya en Voiture
| Date | 1929 | ID | 590 |
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This amateur film with intertitles charts the motor holiday of a British couple to the Indonesian island of Jawa (Java). Whilst there they film the people, the landscape and excursions with other Europeans.
Holiday to Switzerland and North Germany
| Date | 1929 | ID | 733 |
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Rudd family scenes filmed by Mr. and Mrs. Rudd while on holiday in Switzerland in 1929, edited and compiled with intertitles. The holidayers learn to ski, watch a luge race and a ski jump, and film from from a river boat in Germany.
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