DVD Compilations for Sale

A selection of DVD and VHS compilations, containing clips from Screen Archive South East are available to purchase at a number of locations around the South East region. Compilations available currently include:

 

Sussex on Film DVD

Screen Archive South East in association with West Sussex Record Office has released a DVD of rare film footage of Sussex.

The DVD offers a unique insight into the life and work of the people of the South East from late Victorian times to the present day, all through the camera lenses of local film-makers. Their cameras captured the spirit of the times from the packed bank holiday beaches of Bognor to the tranquil rural scenes of trug-making and sheep shearing in the downland countryside.

In Chichester the local Cine Club filmed the enthusiastic celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary in 1935. Colour footage after the war includes a travelogue featuring the beauty spots of West and East Sussex in 1946 and another promotional film of Brighton in the 1950s.

B/W and colour footage, Running time 1hr 13 minutes Price: £16.50

The DVD is available for purchase, from the West Sussex Record Office, major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC e shop.

 

Medway on Screen DVD

Screen Archive South East have launched a new DVD "Medway on Screen: Memories of the River Medway and West Kent". The two-disc DVD features highlights from a year-long community history project run by SASE in 2010. The Medway on Screen project collected a fascinating array of oral history interviews and information relating to the community history of the River Medway in the twentieth century.

Disc one features highlights from the oral history recordings edited with archive film material of the Medway and West Kent from the collection at Screen Archive South East. These include memories of hop-picking, the Venetian Fete at Tonbridge, the annual carnival procession at Maidstone, rides on the ‘Medway Queen’ paddle steamer and working life at Shorts Brothers factory in Rochester. Disc one also features information about the project and the community events that took place in Tonbridge, Maidstone, Rochester and the Medway Towns.

Disc two features seven full-length archive films from the collection at Screen Archive South East, which were used as the catalyst for the project. The films date from the 1930s and 1940s, and several feature an introduction based on local history research carried out during the project. The films include ‘Watery Trail’ (1938) which takes us on a journey down the River Medway from source to sea and ‘In the Hop Fields of Kent’ (1930), which charts a year in the life of a Kent hop garden.

This DVD was produced by Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. The Medway on Screen project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by the Centre for Kentish Studies, Medway Archives & Local Studies Centre and Tonbridge Library.

The Medway on Screen DVD is available to view at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone Reference Library, Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre and Tonbridge Library.

To purchase a copy of the DVD contact Screen Archive South East on: 01273 643213 or email: screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk

Running time: Disc one – 1 hour, Disc two – 2 hours

 

Rural Life - Kent on Film DVD Volume Two

Featuring rare moving images of Kent from the 1930s, Volume Two in our DVD series, ‘Kent on Film’, presents remarkable films of rural Kent from the film collections held by Screen Archive South East.

The films present many different aspects of rural Kentish communities at work and play during the 1930s. They include scenes drawn from the agricultural year including ploughing, planting, the preparation of a traditional hop garden, harvesting and tree felling. Particular activities include fruit and hop picking, the harvesting of wheat and the annual Egerton May Fair. The DVD concludes with the film Country Rhapsody, a cine-poem dedicated to the beauty of the rural world.

All of the films in this collection have been preserved, digitised and documented by Screen Archive South East for use both now and in the future.

The DVD was produced by the Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive South East. We thank all of our donors and depositors for making the production of this DVD possible.

Running time: 66 minutes

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The DVD is available at all Kent libraries and archive centres or available to order online at www.kentlibraryshop.co.uk. For more information email Paula Manklow on: paula.manklow@kent.gov.uk

 

Southern Steam Vol.3 1937-1967

Screen Archive South East, in conjunction with West Sussex Record Office, has released a new DVD to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the demise of steam on the Southern Region of British Railways in 1967. This DVD is the third in the 'Southern Steam' series featuring archival film of steam operation in Southern England. It includes footage of lines which are just distant memories. Running time is 70 minutes with colour and black and white footage.

Film footage includes: Steam on the Coastal Line (Worthing area) 1937, Redhill Station 1960, London Steam 1962-1967 including Waterloo Station and the "Kenny Belle" (the last steam suburban service in London), last day of steam on the Isle of Wight, Three Bridges to East Grinstead, Hayling Island 1963 including the last day of operation, the last day on the Cuckoo Line 1965 (Polegate to Eridge), the Bowaters Paper Railway 1961.

The DVD is available for purchase, on its own or as part of a box set of all three in the series, from the West Sussex Record Office, all major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC e shop.

 

Southern Steam Vol.2 1923-1970

In this second railway DVD of steam operation in Southern England, the lines of Sussex and Hampshire are again featured with goods traffic on the Midhurst Branch, including the very last passenger train in 1964 and the Terrier Tanks at work on the Hayling Island Line and Bluebell Railway.

The county of Kent is represented with early footage of Margate Station in 1923 and film of the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway - the latter includes early footage taken in the opening year showing intensive operations at Hythe Station in 1927. Pre-electrification of the line to Bognor is featured with film of the motor train service at West Worthing together with freight traffic at Worthing and Romney Marsh.

Work of the railwaymen is also included with scenes of Brighton Shed in 1937, and Nine Elms and Norwood motive power depots in the 1960s. An important social aspect is also featured with footage of the Southern Railway Orphanage at Woking. Other footage includes: Southern Railway Footplate Rides (1939), Shoreham - Horsham Line, Ashford Works (1947), and the Sussex Downsman Rail Tour of 1964.

The DVD is available for purchase, on its own or as part of a box set of all three in the series, from the West Sussex Record Office, all major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC eshop.

 

Southern Steam 1897-1967

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the steam locomotive, West Sussex Record Office in conjunction with Screen Archive South East (formerly South East Film & Video Film Archive) produced its first railway DVD dedicated to the age of steam in Southern England. With the cooperation of the film makers and the Archive, the films were digitised and then transposed to enable production of the first Record Office DVD entitled Southern Steam.

The films included on the DVD are both professional and amateur, the earliest dating back to 1897 with the work of film pioneer George Albert Smith. The DVD also includes footage of the Pulborough to Midhurst Line showing the operation of a typical country branch line in the days of steam. There is footage of the Horsham to Guildford line and steam on the Hayling Island Branch. Sussex footage includes the arrival in Chichester of The Great Marquess locomotive, with an enthusiasts' special in 1967 and steam operation taken from Brighton Kemp Town and Preston Park signal boxes. The last days of steam are also represented with with steam passenger trains leaving Waterloo for the south west and the quaint tank engines on the railways of the Isle of Wight. Where appropriate a commentary for the silent film has been added by archivists of the West Sussex Record Office.

The DVD is available for purchase, on its own or as part of a box set of all three in the series, from the West Sussex Record Office, all major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC e shop.

 

Kent on Film

Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive South East have launched a new DVD "Kent on Film". This is the first DVD dedicated to films of Kent from Screen Archive South East and the British Film Institute. The 60 minute DVD compilation introduces you to films of the county that have been made from 1895 and the beginnings of the cinema to the early 1960s. The first examples are from the Victorian and Edwardian eras and then the films range across many different aspects of life in the twentieth century: working on the land, town life, the seaside between the wars, the home front and the Second World War and events during the Festival of Britain in 1951. Through this selection, we visit Dover, Folkestone, Canterbury, Maidstone, Margate, Broadstairs, Egerton, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells.

This DVD was produced by the Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. We thank all of our donors and depositors and the British Film Institute for making the production of this DVD possible.
Copyright: Kent Archives Service, Screen Archive South East and the rights holders, 2006

The DVD is available at all Kent libraries and archive centres or available to order online at www.kentlibraryshop.co.uk. For more information email Paula Manklow on: paula.manklow@kent.gov.uk

 

West Sussex on Film

This compilation on VHS includes selected films from the collection of the Screen Archive South East and was produced in conjunction with the West Sussex Record Office. The compilation contains 60 minutes of archive film covering the period 1907- 1957. Films include scenes of Edwardian Bognor Regis by pioneer film-maker Cecil Hepworth in 1907; a romantic drama feature film from 1921 produced at the Shoreham Film Studio; amateur footage of Crawley in the late 1920s and early 1930s; local newsreel footage of Bognor Regis dating from 1910-1936; early colour footage of Silver Jubilee celebrations in Chichester in 1935; footage of the Royal Sussex Regiment and film of Chichester based firm Shippam Ltd.

This VHS can be viewed at Record Offices and Libraries in West Sussex or purchased from the West Sussex Record Office or the WSCC e shop.

 

The Royal Sussex Regiment

Specially commissioned to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the County Regiment , this VHS compilation, produced in partnership with the West Sussex Record Office, draws on archive material in the Screen Archive South East collection, and from the Imperial War Museum. Footage includes the First World War, with the Territorials preparing for the Front; between the wars, with Royalty at Chichester Barracks and the Regiment in India; the Second World War at Dunkirk and the Western Desert; and post - war with National Service and Quebec Day at Chichester; up to the present at the Regimental Museum, Goodwood and the Field of Remembrance.

The VHS is available for purchase from the West Sussex Record Office and on-line from the WSCC e shop.

 

Surrey on Film

Surrey on Film is a fascinating compilation video, available on VHS and DVD, which draws on films from the Screen Archive South East collection. It was jointly produced in partnership with the Surrey History Service. The compilation traces community life in the county from peacetime through the trauma of two World Wars and closes with the Coronation celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Among the films included are: a parade in Godalming in 1913 (one of the earliest surviving films of a Surrey town); women war workers in Shackleford during the First World War; Reigate Borough Carnival (1926); Empire Day at the Southern Railway Servant's Orphanage, Woking (1933); George V Silver Jubilee celebrations in Walton on Thames and Hersham (1935); The Emberton Family of Chobham in 1936 and 1938; Walton's March for Victory (1941); The Surrey Land Club (c.1942); The Gowlland Family of Croydon (1944-1945); Leatherhead and District Civil Defence (c.1946); and Horley Cricket Club Coronation Fete (1953).

The DVD can be viewed at Public Libraries around Surrey or purchased from the Surrey History Centre

 

The Bluebell Railway - Tom Martin Collection

This two volume DVD contains the programmes The Wonderful Adventure and Specials, Celebrities & Anniversaries. The DVD was produced by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society in partnership with the Screen Archive South East (formerly South East Film & Video Archive). The DVD showcases the Tom Martin Collection - a series of 16mm films shot by a founder member of the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society. His collection of films was passed to the Bluebell Railway, and now resides with the Screen Archive South East. Volume One has now been re-edited onto DVD and includes a commentary by Bob Symes. It shows Stepney just after arrival in May 1960 along with our first two coaches. Julian Pettifer interviews John Leroy, the Bluebell Railway's first chairman. The volume finishes with the arrival of engine 9017, the 'Dukedog'. We see the engine collected at Adison Road (Kensington Olympia), follow it to Sheffield Park and see its entry into Bluebell traffic. Volume two shows the era of the 'through specials' from London before the closure of the line via Ardingly. We see visitors of all types, be they engines, such as the Caledonian Single No.123, or celebrities such as Dr Beeching, Mr Pastry and Elsie and Doris Waters. This volume has commentary by Bob Symes and archive commentary by John Sutter.

This DVD is available to purchase from the Bluebell Railway shop by mail order or at the shop at Sheffield Park Station