Moving History - A Year in a Kentish Hop Garden

A lyrical film that chronicles a year in the hop gardens of Kent - featuring fields being ploughed in January, hop poles being erected in March, plants growing in Spring, harvesting in August by legions of hop-pickers and the hops being finally dried in oast houses in September. The film ends with scenes showing charcoal production for the oast houses' furnaces.

In England’s Garden

This documentary records the manual work done on Kent farms between spring and autumn, namely the harvesting of corn and hops in an era before farming became fully automated.

[Football Match; Outside Cooking; Farm Animals]

This short Dufaycolor film shows a selection of outdoor scenes including a football match played with a brown leather ball in a field, a man cooking a stew in a enamel bucket over an open fire in a rural location (?) and various farm animals (cows and sheep with lambs) roaming in a field.

Symphony of the Seasons

Seasonal imagery of English nature has been edited into a linear format, tracing the passing of a year. Intertitles quoting lines of classical poetry introduce the different scenes.

Ottershaw & Sunnymede 1938

This colour edited film follows the change of seasons in 1938 at Eric and Eileen Giles' family home in Ottershaw and his father's house 'Sunnymede' in Chobham. The first part shows the house, garden and family at Chobham. The second section is at the house in Ottershaw and shows the garden changing during the seasons.

Gumber Farm

This colour film shows the Hansford family at Gumber Farm near Slindon, West Sussex. It features children greeting the postman; trips to the seaside, work on the farm, tobogganing in the snows of 1940 and new born lambs the following spring.

Countryman's Diary

This colour amateur film, made by a member of Haywards Heath & District Amateur Cine Society, captures the changing face of the agricultural landscape over the course of ten months.

The Four Seasons

This short amateur film features countryside and coastal scenes of Surrey and West Sussex (?) during the 1950s. The group of people featured in the film are seen collecting wild flowers, picnicking and sunbathing on a beach; contrary to its title, the film mainly features scenes in spring and summer.