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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube June 10, 2013
This 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
Unseen 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
designed to cope with the challenges of Breydon Water
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Top TV naturalist Nick Baker shows us how to become a wildlife detective by dissecting an owl pellet
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British Transport Films Collection Vol 5
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Illustrated with thought-provoking extracts from Ealing’s 1947 feature It Always Rains on Sunday, newly remastered…
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My first solo landing at Norwich…
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BFI film archives / movies / Then & Now / youtube March 1, 2013
Veteran 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
A film made for the Broads Authority by the East Anglian Film Archive in 1987
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commercial 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
After some pretty shots of semi-frozen streams and snow-covered fields, the most awe-inspiring scenes show the enormous icicles
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A 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
This 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
Made 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
Despite 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
this appealing short suddenly switches tone, as a festive family prances around a Christmas tree and pulls a gigantic cracker