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Two Friends
| Date | 1950s [?] | ID | 7041 |
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A fictional film based on the short story Deux Amis by Guy de Maupassant set during the Franco-Prussian war.
Devil's Dyke Fun Fair
| Date | [1896?] | ID | 8884 |
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Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896.
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.
Horsham Cricket Week and Grand Carnival
| Date | 24 July 1913 | ID | 3475 |
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On a summer's day in 1913 the people of Horsham participate in the town's carnival and enjoy the first day's play of a County Cricket match between Sussex and Lancashire.
![A still from [East Grinstead Local Scenes] (c.1913)](/wp-content/uploads/films/2194/image_a_thumb.jpg "[East Grinstead Local Scenes] (c.1913)")
[East Grinstead Local Scenes; Remembrance Day]
| Date | [1913-1922] | ID | 2194 |
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The first part is a short news item from the early 1910s showing general street scenes in East Grinstead, a parade and the East Grinstead Urban District Council Fire Brigade Sports. The second part, from 1922, shows the train station and the arrival of the North Somerset Yeomanry in the town with a parade of local regiments.
[East Grinstead Local Scenes; Remembrance Day]
| Date | [1913-1922] | ID | 12535 |
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The first part is a short news item from the early 1910s showing general street scenes in East Grinstead, a parade and the East Grinstead Urban District Council Fire Brigade Sports. The second part, from 1922, shows the train station and the arrival of the North Somerset Yeomanry in the town with a parade of local regiments.
First World War Centenary
| Date | October 2018 | ID | 13722 |
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A programme of archive film to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War. This was screened at venues across East and West Sussex in October and November 2018.
![[Shooting Duck at Mill Pond; The Park Coverts Broomwicks Pheasants and Rabbits] (ca.1920)](/wp-content/uploads/films/4901/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Shooting Duck at Mill Pond; The Park Coverts Broomwicks Pheasants and Rabbits] (ca.1920)")
[Shooting Duck at Mill Pond; The Park Coverts Broomwicks Pheasants and Rabbits]
| Date | [ca. 1920] | ID | 4901 |
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This film features hunting activities at a grand country estate including shooting duck at the Mill Pond and a pheasant and rabbit shoot taking place in various locations around the estate.
![A still from [Traffic on Westminster Bridge; Beekeeping; Pheasant Shoot] (ca.1920)](/wp-content/uploads/films/4903/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Traffic on Westminster Bridge; Beekeeping; Pheasant Shoot] (ca.1920)")
[Traffic on Westminster Bridge; Beekeeping; Pheasant Shoot]
| Date | [ca. 1920] | ID | 4903 |
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A misty exterior wide view of the Palace of Westminster with shots of traffic on Westminster Bridge. Beekeeping material and hunting material both largely duplicated in TID: 4904 and 4901 from the same collection, but with intertitles and are not shown online here.
Warnham Court; The Home of C. J. Lucas
| Date | [ca. 1920] | ID | 4904 |
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This black and white family film shows a group of men playing golf on the Warnham Court estate, followed by highlights of Tennis (doubles) and a cricket match. The family watch from the terrace next to the house. The final film with intertitles shows a beekeeping film, demonstrating how to create an artificial hive. Two men use their bare hands to handle the bees.
Little Dorrit
| Date | 1920 | ID | 3473 |
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This twenty minute silent film represents the surviving footage of the first film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel 'Little Dorrit', a story of love, money and imprisonment in the Victorian era.
[Cuckfield Fire Brigade]
| Date | [ca. 1920s - 1930s] | ID | 3115 |
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An amateur film showing Cuckfield Fire Brigade giving several public demonstrations in Cuckfield Park (?), a nighttime fire at a large house, and children tobogganing in the snow.
![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.
[Arundel]
| Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8144 |
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A film showing a man walking down a rural lane smoking a cigarette, cutting to a shot of two men and a woman in portrait eating a banana in the countryside.
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.
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