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Scene on Brighton Beach
| Date | 1896-1897? | ID | 8365 |
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Visitors to Brighton Beach filmed by either George Albert Smith or Robert Paul from a single fixed position.
On the West Pier
| Date | [1897?] | ID | 8380 |
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Visitors to the West Pier filmed from a single fixed position by James Williamson in the late 1890s.
A Switchback Railway
| Date | [1898?] | ID | 8445 |
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Footage of a switchback railway amuses its passengers in this film by Robert Paul of the late 1890s.
[Military March] or [Fire Brigade Turn-out in the Country]
| Date | [1899?] | ID | 8419 |
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The 12th Infantry Brigade march from Dover to Arundel in this film by Charles Goodwin Norton of 1899.
[Edwardian Folkestone]
| Date | [1904?] | ID | 8425 |
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Residents and visitors of Folkstone are filmed during work and leisure time.
Flying the Foam and Fancy Diving
| Date | 1906 | ID | 8396 |
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A sequence of stunts is performed by Professor Reddish in 1906 at the West Pier for a crowd of onlookers in this footage by James Williamson.
![A Still from [Bognor Day Trippers; Trooping the Colour] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8183/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Bognor Day Trippers; Trooping the Colour] (1920s)")
[Bognor Day Trippers; Trooping the Colour]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 8183 |
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A short film made by members of the Bognor Regis Film Society during the 1920s. The first part shows day-trippers visiting Bognor Regis and the second part features scenes of Trooping the Colour in London.
The SS Mango at Selsey
| Date | [ca. 1920s - early 1930s] | ID | 8164 |
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This film appears to be a compilation of fragments and outtakes. Scenes include: men sitting on deckchairs on a beach; views of a stormy coastline at Bognor; boats at sea; a bi-plane landing; a man leaving a cricket pavilion; a series of intertitles documenting both a Scouting event and the SS Mango at Bognor but without the related footage.
[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?]
[Bathing Boys]
| Date | [ca. 1920s] | ID | 8152 |
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A compilation showing the seaside at Bognor/ Bognor Regis with two boys running out of the sea; a group of young men playing in the water; the group on the beach; closing with three men walking down a street.
![A still from [Seafront Promenade] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8156/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Seafront Promenade] (1920s)")
[Seafront Promenade]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8156 |
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This short film contains scenes of Bognor seafront, a couple walking on the prom and everyday street traffic with pedestrians. The image is somewhat grainy.
![A still from [Beach Cabin] (1920s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8171/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Beach Cabin] (1920s)")
[Beach Cabin]
| Date | [ca. 1920s ?] | ID | 8171 |
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This film features shots of a woman wearing trousers emerging from a beach cabin at Bognor Regis, smoking a cigarette and then walking along the beach. She's then seen in shorts. She paddles in the water.
Snaps of Bournmouth [sic]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8158 |
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This short film shows a group holiday to Bournemouth, with the group walking along a street; views of the beach and coastline; a woman with a camera walking on the rocks closing with views of Bournemouth pier.
An excursion on the English Riviera
| Date | [ca. 1925] | ID | 2439 |
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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.
Magical Margate
| Date | [ca. 1925] | ID | 1011 |
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This is the earliest example of a seaside publicity film in Screen Archive South East’s collection, dating from the mid 1920s. The film promotes Margate as a most fashionable seaside resort. The film is tinted and toned and has intertitles throughout.
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