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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube June 10, 2013
READ MOREThis early British short is a simple but frantic farce which sees Percy entering a female beauty contest in order to win the prize of £100
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BFI film archives / farming / movies / Then & Now / youtube May 3, 2013
READ MOREUnseen for years due to the fragility of the materials, ‘Springtime in an English Village’ offers an extraordinary and unexpected snapshot of rural life in wartime
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Norfolk Broads / sailing and boating / youtube April 16, 2013
READ MOREdesigned to cope with the challenges of Breydon Water
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READ MORETop TV naturalist Nick Baker shows us how to become a wildlife detective by dissecting an owl pellet
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READ MOREBritish Transport Films Collection Vol 5
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READ MOREIllustrated with thought-provoking extracts from Ealing’s 1947 feature It Always Rains on Sunday, newly remastered…
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READ MOREMy first solo landing at Norwich…
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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube March 1, 2013
READ MOREVeteran filmmaker Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, Educating Rita) made his directorial debut with this quirky documentary
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movies / Norfolk Broads / sailing and boating / Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk / youtube February 27, 2013
READ MOREA film made for the Broads Authority by the East Anglian Film Archive in 1987
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READ MOREcommercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless ‘consumers’ are combining to destroy life on earth
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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube December 31, 2012
READ MOREAfter some pretty shots of semi-frozen streams and snow-covered fields, the most awe-inspiring scenes show the enormous icicles
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READ MOREA battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
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BFI film archives / Christmas / movies / Then & Now / youtube December 9, 2012
READ MOREThis Christmas greeting, shown in cinemas in 1946, boasts a charming animated sequence in which toys come alive as children slumber
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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube December 4, 2012
READ MOREMade in 1898, G.A. Smith’s ‘Santa Claus’ is a film of considerable technical ambition and accomplishment for its period
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BFI film archives / Christmas / movies / Then & Now / youtube December 3, 2012
READ MOREDespite the Blitz, it’s ‘business as usual’ as England prepares for Christmas in this propaganda film intended for US audiences
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BFI film archives / Christmas / movies / Then & Now / youtube December 1, 2012
READ MOREthis appealing short suddenly switches tone, as a festive family prances around a Christmas tree and pulls a gigantic cracker
