Start a Land Club

Using the Surrey Land Club as an example, this Ministry of Information film demonstrates the farmwork carried out by club volunteers and encourages people to start their own clubs.

[Weddings, Christening and Seaside Pictures]

A compilation of amateur films which includes two weddings, a christening and outings to West Sussex beaches.

[Hansford Holiday scenes]

Scenes of a family holiday visiting various places in 1942, including a spring funfair at Newport in Wales, a visit to Appledore, Devon in September, Woburn Sands in Bedfordshire, in the summer and autumn and a trip to Whipsnade Zoo.

[Kittens; Family Posing in Garden; Air Raid Shelter]

A film of the Lauste family shot during the Second World War. The film features family members posing for the camera in a garden with kittens and ends with shots of Emile and Bessie inside a domestic air-raid shelter.

NFS Reg. Pump Comp 1942

This edited colour film shows highlights of the National Fire Service No. 32 Fire Force Area (Woking), Trailer Pump competition in Guildford, on October 24th 1942.

[Sussex in Technicolour]

A colour film made during the Second World War and shortly afterwards, showing scenes of Brighton and beyond.

[Dence Park Garden; Gas Mask Demonstration]

This film features a teenage boy in cadet uniform demonstrating how to wear a gas mask. Mixed views of summer scenes: deck chairs, a family garden tea party and flowering bushes; family portraits and a panorama of the garden with the sea in the background. Continued on TID_9993

Heronsdale Manor Harvest

This film shows several non-mechanised and mechanised processes of sowing and harvesting a corn and mustard crop on a Sussex farm; by adults and children. The film is inter-cut with a scene featuring a fleet of aircraft passing over head (shots out of focus) and intertitles throughout.

[Lanrick; Horse Jumps; Solar Eclipse; Games]

This edited colour and black and white film shows scenes of the family participating in a mixture of outdoor sports and activities including: a Pony Gymkhana; swimming in a pool and in the sea; watching a partial eclipse; a game of Croquet; a tennis match; Beekeeping; visiting several friends and family in Suffolk; and in the family garden.

[Childhood Wartime Scenes]

An amateur film with intertitles following a young boy's early years during wartime.

[Inspection; Parade; Training]

A military parade in Woking.

[Training Drills and Parades]

This film of Woking's Home Guard shows various exercises on a firing range and patrols along the town's streets. Training is carried out with weapons, including grenades and S.I.P bombs, both thrown, and using a Northover Projector. The men practice crossing the Basingstoke Canal on a rope bridge. The film ends with a fete and pageant for local schoolchildren.

[Wartime Wedding]

A wartime wedding complete with preparations at the bride's family home, the gathering at the church and reception.

Four Voices

An edited film with narration and soundtrack made using films from the Screen Archive South East wartime collection. Created by David Woods as part of his placement with SASE for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton.