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[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.

Moving History - A Year in a Kentish Hop Garden
Date | June 2016 | ID | 13716 |
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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
Date | [ca. 1935] | ID | 1098 |
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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.
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[Football Match; Outside Cooking; Farm Animals]
Date | 1935 | ID | 8948 |
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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
Date | 1936 | ID | 3164 |
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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.
Bognor Regis: Out and About During the Year
Date | 1936 | ID | 3201 |
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Two films of Bognor Regis scenes, filmed and compiled with intertitles by Dr. MacFie. Family members and pets feature heavily as they make trips to the beach, playing fields, bowling green, Butlin's, countryside, gymkhana and various Bognor events.
Splashes of Colour
Date | 1936 | ID | 7502 |
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The family and friends of Dr. Victor Don, a medical doctor and amateur film-maker, are filmed in the family's garden in Ashford and on outings to parks, rivers and fields in Kent in 1936.
[Horse-show; Ballet; Springtime]
Date | [ca. 1938 - 1940] | ID | 1540 |
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A compilation of items filmed by Joseph Emberton of family outings, scenes on holiday in Devon, and his daughters in their garden in Surrey.

Ottershaw & Sunnymede 1938
Date | 1938 | ID | 9101 |
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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
Date | 1939 - 1940 | ID | 3402 |
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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.
[Home and garden scenes; Springtime; Bluebells; Child at play]
Date | 1939 - 1940 | ID | 4515 |
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This amateur film captures aspects of village life in Fernhurst in springtime in the late 1930s. The film-maker records part of his journey on the train from London to West Sussex and whilst in the village films a visiting circus and children playing at home in their gardens.
[Fernhurst School May Day Revels]
Date | [1944 - 1945?] | ID | 4514 |
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The May Day Celebrations of Fernhurst School are captured in this amateur silent film. Pupils, some decorated in folk costume, parade through the village to a nearby field, where they take part in maypole and other traditional dancing. The May Queen helps to serve tea to the children before they return to the school.
[Woodland walk; VE Day]
Date | April - May, 1945 | ID | 1204 |
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This short home movie featuring the Brocklehurst children picking flowers with their mother in a wood near Sedlescombe, East Sussex. The family are then seen at Gainsborough on VE Day; the children help their father hoist a Union Jack flag to celebrate.

Countryman's Diary
Date | 1950 | ID | 2410 |
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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
Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 135 |
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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.
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