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Theme Fashion
Films in the Screen Archive South East collection feature every day life, work life, military life, leisure activities, travel abroad and sporting activities across the Twentieth Century. All of these films show the changing history of clothing and dress: for adults and children; those at work and on holiday; uniforms and fancy dress costumes; those in formal wear and in casual attire.
This theme includes a small selection of early films which illustrate various aspects of fashion and dress through the clothing worn by the people on film.
This theme was initially developed for the collaborative project 'Screen Search Fashion' which focussed on research into fashion history in the 1920s and 1930s. Therefore, films from this era form the majority of films selected to be part of the thematic collection.
To find out more about 1920s and 1930s fashion on film in the collection, you can visit the Screen Search Fashion microsite - click on the heading 'Portfolio' above and follow the link to Screen Search Fashion.
Films in this theme:
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The Young Squire's Wedding at Warnham Court
Date | 7 June 1923 | ID | 4902 |
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This black and white film shows the wedding of Charles Eric Lucas ('Joe') and Doris Brander ('Biddy') on the 7th of June 1923. The film also shows some scenes filmed at a later date showing Biddy and Joe with a baby.

Magical Margate
Date | [ca. 1925] | ID | 1011 |
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This is the earliest example of a seaside publicity film in Screen Archive South East’s collection, dating from the mid 1920s. The film promotes Margate as a most fashionable seaside resort. The film is tinted and toned and has intertitles throughout.
![[Reigate Borough Carnival] (1926-1927) A still from [Reigate Borough Carnival] (1926-1927) - a float in the procession](/wp-content/uploads/films/1773/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Reigate Borough Carnival]
Date | 1926; 1927 | ID | 1773 |
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A compilation of two films showing the Reigate carnival in 1927 and 1926. The films show the procession through the town as well as portraits of individuals in costumes and on floats.
![[Garden Fete at Broughton House] (1926) A Still from [Garden Fete at Broughton House] (1926)](/wp-content/uploads/films/866/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Garden Fete at Broughton House]
Date | 30 June 1926 | ID | 866 |
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A traditional English garden fete takes place in the grounds of Broughton House near Sevenoaks. This professional film with intertitles focuses much of its attention on the local people who attended the event.
![[StellaÕs Wedding] (1927) A still from [StellaÕs Wedding] (1927)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5414/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Stella’s Wedding]
Date | [1927] | ID | 5414 |
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This black and white film features the wedding day activities of Stella Reed, eldest daughter of Austin Reed, outside St Mark's Church on North Audley Street, London. A large number of friends and family attend the service, lining the street outside the church. The shots focus on family members and guests as they enter the shot.
![[The Heath Cinema in Haywards Heath] (ca.1928) A still from [The Heath Cinema in Haywards Heath] (ca.1928)](/wp-content/uploads/films/3160/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[The Heath Cinema in Haywards Heath]
Date | [1928] | ID | 3160 |
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A short film of men, women and children exiting the 'Heath' cinema in Haywards Heath in the 1920's, having watched the 1928 silent film 'Baby Cyclone', starring Lew Cody.
![[Simpsons Wedding in Shanghai Cathedral] (ca.1928) A still from '[Simpsons Wedding in Shanghai Cathedral]' (ca.1928)](/wp-content/uploads/films/7086/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Simpsons Wedding in Shanghai Cathedral]
Date | 31 October 1928 | ID | 7086 |
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This short film shows a newlywed couple at their garden reception in Shanghai having their wedding photographs taken with the bridesmaids and pageboys. The group are dressed in co-ordinated western style clothing.

Bathing Beauties
Date | 1929 | ID | 3211 |
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An edited home movie showing playful scenes of the Staley family at the beach in their home town of Bognor Regis and in their garden in the late 1920s. The film includes some camera effects using slow and reverse motion.
![[Goodwood Hunt] (1929) A still from [Goodwood Hunt] (1929)](/wp-content/uploads/films/3217/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Goodwood Hunt]
Date | [1929?] | ID | 3217 |
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Film of the Staley family at home and on outings, including attending a hunt meet at Goodwood. The film begins with scenes of the family on the beach at Bognor and on the Esplanade. At the hunt meet servants bring out trays of 'stirrup cups' for the huntsman, and the hunt sets off. Mrs Staley and daughter Pam are also seen with horses at the stables.

Summer 1929
Date | 1929 | ID | 3218 |
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A film of the Staley Family enjoying the Summer in the garden and at the beach in their home town of Bognor Regis. Ralph and Nellie, are seen playing with their daughter Pam at the local public gardens, at the beach and at home with the family.

Java Tour; Christmas 1929; Batavia to Soerabaya en Voiture
Date | 1929 | ID | 590 |
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This amateur film with intertitles charts the motor holiday of a British couple to the Indonesian island of Jawa (Java). Whilst there they film the people, the landscape and excursions with other Europeans.
![[Summer Seaside Holiday And Family Scenes] (1929) A still frin 'Summer Seaside Holiday And Family Scenes' (1929)](/wp-content/uploads/films/591/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Summer Seaside Holiday and Family Scenes]
Date | March - October 1929 | ID | 591 |
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This compilation of home movie material with intertitles was filmed by doctors Thomas and Catherine Violet Burne whilst on leave from their medical posts in Malaya. The doctors film their children enjoying leisure time in England, on the beach, in the countryside and in the garden.

[Boat Trip Along the Suez Canal: Port Said to Aden]
Date | October 1929 | ID | 592 |
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Doctors Catherine Violet and Thomas Burne film part of their return trip to Malaya, where they were both stationed. Husband and wife had spent the preceding months with their children in England, as recorded in ~[Summer Seaside Holiday And Family Scenes]~ (March - October 1929).

Bognor Regis Review
Date | 1929; [ca. 1930s] | ID | 3167 |
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A compilation of local news in and around Bognor Regis. The items have been edited together at a later date; intertitles, some animated, introduce each item.

At Home and Holiday Scenes
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 508 |
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This film mixes home movies taken in and around Brighton and Hove, showing Tanner family life and local points of interest, along with landscape holiday footage from Naples and Monte Carlo.
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