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Presentations

sase screeningScreen Archive South East mounts over thirty public presentations each year. These are organised for film and video clubs, village halls, specialist societies, museums, education centres, record offices, branches of the University of the Third Age, cinemas and festivals. Each event provides an introduction to the archive’s work and current activities and invites the support of the public through participation in the search for screen material to add to the collection and information on the region’s screen heritage.

If your organisation is interested in a presentation on the archive and its work in the region, please contact us. A ninety-minute presentation with representatives from the Archive and a video projector with screen and sound system usually costs £100. The exact figure is determined by our travelling time, the nature of the event and the ticket price. All income from our presentations is used to cover presentation expenses.

Presentation Subjects

We have a range of programmes for use in public presentations. They can be tailored for particular audiences, depending on the availability of the material. Specific topics include:

  • Early Film-Makers
    The South East was at the forefront of the development of the UK film industry in the years 1896 to 1905. Studios were built at Hove and Walton and the pioneers Cecil Hepworth, James Williamson and G. Albert Smith all became international figures.

  • Kent on Film
    SASE, in conjunction with the Centre for Kentish Studies, presents our finest material from the county, including the charms of Folkestone in 1904, hop-picking in the 1930s and holidays in Thanet

  • Surrey on Film
    Our Surrey selection includes material from the home front during both wars, local newsreel from Walton and Weybridge in the 1930s and films related to the jubilee of the 1935 and the coronation of 1953. This programme is presented in conjunction with our partner - the Surrey History Centre at Woking.

  • Sussex on Film
    Our Sussex show reveals the newsreels of the Bognor Regis Film Society in the 1930s, advertising films produced by Shippams of Chichester, steam trains and the old railway network and captures the changing nature of life at home and in rural communities. The West Sussex Record Office delivers most of our presentations in West Sussex.