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[Camp Scenes; Military Marching]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 8990 |
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This short black and white film highlights soldiers from the Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment undergoing training exercises in a wooded rural landscape (?). Officers march along a road and across a floating pontoon on a river carrying arms and mortar guns. The second section shows the officers waiting to be paid their wages/stipend at a mobile field station and the third section shows soldiers on parade and posing for the camera.
[Golf]
Date | [ca. 1930s to early 1940s] | ID | 8991 |
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This film opens with a group of men on a golf course, noting scores on score cards and generally messing about. The men are dressed in golfing attire, have caddies, and use a wooden shaft putting club to take their shots. Two men try to avoid being captured on camera, but are kept in shot throughout.
![[Air Display; Gun and Combat Training] (1930s) A still from [Air Display; Gun and Combat Training] (1930s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8992/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Air Display; Gun and Combat Training]
Date | [ca.1930s] | ID | 8992 |
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This short edited film shows RAF pilots and ground infantry undergoing training exercises and parade drills. Five pilots from 43 (F) squadron fly Hawker Fury Mk1's in formation, followed by a large group of RAF officers on parade outside a building dressed in full uniform. In the final section a small group of soldiers undertake bayonet and hand-to hand-combat training in a field.
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[Garden Scenes; Zeppelin Airship]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 8993 |
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These two short edited colour films open with the Lockwood family group playing tennis and socialising in a garden whilst others snooze on sun loungers. In the second film a German Zeppelin airship passes over a building. The airship has a Swastika flag on its fins at the rear (out of focus).
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[Camp Scenes; Division Photographic Portraits]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 8994 |
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This short black and white film shows the Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment undertaking drills and parading on a training camp (?). The regiment has photographs taken and various informal scenes are filmed with the men at the camp.
[Games and Frolics at Army Camp; RAF Wedding]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 8995 |
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This film is divided into three sections - the first [not included in online clip] is of a group of Queens Royal (West) Surrey soldiers on a training camp messing about 'car sledding'; the second is of an RAF officer's wedding day showing the groom and guests in full RAF dress uniform and busby, and the third, is of a mixed group of adults in their late twenties early thirties, on holiday (?) at a lodge next to a river.
[Girls Long Jump; Running Races; Leader Address]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 9324 |
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This black and white film shows young women from the Bund Deutscher Mädel (the League of German Girls) and young men from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) taking part in various sports.
[Garden with Flower Beds]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 9824 |
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This very short black and white film features a vast garden or rural landcape filled with daffodil's. The shot moves around erratically filming the grass, trees and flowers.
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[Asian Fishing]
Date | [ca. 1931] | ID | 10130 |
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This black and white film, taken while on holiday in Asia, combines family scenes aboard a boat and swimming at the beach, with views of the local fishermen hauling in their catch.
![[Family Scenes; Royal Navy] (1931) [Family Scenes; Royal Navy] (1931)](/wp-content/uploads/films/6457/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Family Scenes; Royal Navy]
Date | 1931 | ID | 6457 |
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This film shows scenes from the Shippam family house and grounds, along with sailing and a garden party (filmed partly in colour).
![[Motor Cycle Final Club?] (1931) [Motor Cycle Final Club?] (1931)](/wp-content/uploads/films/6467/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Motor Cycle Final Club?]
Date | [1931] | ID | 6467 |
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This short film shows members of the Chichester Motorcycle Club (on motorcylces and in cars) driving along several rural country roads, through a village and a river, during a time trial, as filmed by Ernest Shippam in 1931.

Family
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 9799 |
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This film shows a family group in their garden. Portrait style shots of several family members show a toddler in a pram, a young boy playing with a miniature lawnmower and wheelbarrow, and several women and men in outdoor clothing, standing smiling for the camera. There are scenes at the beach before returning to baby and garden scenes.
[Military Action; Cooking; Games]
Date | 1933 | ID | 8966 |
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This black and white film shows the Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment at a rural training camp (?). Officers perform training exercises and parades, and are also seen cleaning and cooking at the camp.
[Horse Racing]
Date | 1934 | ID | 8955 |
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This black and white film shows a group of men attending a horse race, placing bets and collecting winnings. The second section shows a woman and two men in the garden of a house looking at a brick swimming pool and outbuildings with chickens and livestock. The film ends with the woman getting into an open topped car.
![[Football Match; Outside Cooking; Farm Animals] (1935) A still from [Football Match; Outside Cooking; Farm Animals] (1935)](/wp-content/uploads/films/8948/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[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.
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