Promotional Compilations

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

Reel Life: Saturdays in Film & Sound

The 'Reel Life' DVD was initiated and funded as part of the British Library’s Reaching the Regions initiative, in partnership with the Screen Archive South East (formerly South East Film & Video Archive) and the Wessex Film & Sound Archive. This DVD provides a fascinating glimpse into Saturday afternoons of the last 100 years through examples of films and sound interviews held in public archives. All the material is grouped into six themes: leisure, families, seaside, street life, on the land, parades and festivals.
The films offer a captivating record of everyday life in the past:- birthday parties, outings and family gatherings. They are accompanied by interviews with members of the families, gathered exclusively for the programme. Other highlights on the DVD include rare footage of streets and shops from the beginning of the century, images of women surfers from the 1930s, a documentary about the 1972 Reading Rock Festival and memories of Kent Hop-Pickers from the British Library Sound Archive.
Copies are available to view at public libraries, local history centres, record offices, HE and FE libraries and a selection of secondary schools across the South East. Contact the archive for details.

 

Other publications

Cinema West Sussex - A. Eyles, F. Gray and A. Readman Phillimore 1996
A comprehensive account of the history of film-making and cinema in West Sussex drawing on new research and many previously unpublished photographs.

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