Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Their Past Your Future
Civil Defence
‘Swaythling ARP & AFS’exercise.
(Harry Thew; 1939; B/W; Silent)
‘Bealing Films, reel 4’Southampton Common.
(Frank Bealing; 1939; Colour; Silent)
‘Scott-Paine films: bomb damage and Home Guard’
Hythe Home Guard. (Hubert Scott-Paine; 1940; B/W; Silent)
Children on the Home Front
‘Winchester Museum film 10258’
Evacuees arrive from Portsmouth. (F G Heathcote-Wride; 1939; B/W; Silent)
‘Charminster Mixed School, Bournemouth’
Various activities. (A W Legg; c1941; B/W & Colour; Silent)
Air Raids
‘Mr Streater’s Film’
building Anderson shelter at Gosport. (Mr Streater; 1939; B/W; Silent)
‘Swaythling ARP & AFS’
Anderson shelter exercise. (Harry Thew; 1939; B/W; Silent)
‘Port of Destiny’
Southampton Docks: Blitz aftermath. (Carlyle Pictures Ltd.; 1946; B/W; Sound)
‘South Stoneham House’
Black-out precautions and unexploded bomb. (Capt. Wakeford; 1940; Colour; Silent)
War Work and Life on fhe Home Front
‘Spitfire Components’
Construction at Elliotts factory, Newbury.(Hubert Davey Prod.; 1941; B/W; Silent)
‘Activities at St Thomas’ Church, Winchester’
King Alfred Boys’ Club. (W J Prall; 1943; B/W; Silent)
‘Sailor’s Wedding’
Unknown sailor and wartime bride. (W J Prall; 1940; B/W; Silent)
‘Jesty film’
Queue for Civic Cinema at Alresford. (Leslie Jesty; 1944; B/W; Silent)
Rationing
‘Rationing in Britain’
American film. (World Wide Pictures; 1944; B/W; Sound)
‘Charminster Mixed School, Bournemouth’
The boys ‘Dig for Victory’. (A W Legg; c1941; B/W & Colour; Silent)
‘Scenes from Village Life’
Burghclere School dinner. (John Legard; 1947; B/W; Sound)
D-Day (Operation Overlord) 1944
‘Port of Destiny’
Construction of Mulberry Harbours and troop build-up. (Carlyle Pictures Ltd.; 1946; B/W; Sound)
‘Army Film Unit footage’
D-Day preparations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. (Crown Copyright; 1944; B/W; Silent)
Victory Celebrations 1945
‘A Pageant of the Years’
Salisbury on VE Day. (Eda Moore; 1945; B/W; Silent)
‘Taken During the War’
Parkstone and Bournemouth on VE Day. (D H Sheppard; 1945; Colour; Silent)
‘Victory Day in Romsey’
Parade in Romsey on VE Day. (Mrs Turner; 1945; B/W; Silent)
‘Eastleigh Victory Walk’
Sport walking, organised by Tommy Green, to commemorate VE and VJ Days. (Ron Carey; 1945; Colour; Silent)
Post War Reconstruction
‘McGreevy amateur film’
Portsmouth Guildhall devastated by the Blitz. (Tom McGreevy; 1945; B/W; Silent)
‘Mild and Bitter’ & ‘The Builders’
Portsmouth reconstruction in the 1960s. (Don Reynolds, 1961-1963; Colour; Silent)
‘Preen amateur film’
Assembling a Scottwood prefab house at Hythe. (G P Preen; c1946; Colour; Silent)
‘Activities during the Mayoralty of C G Sankey’
The Mayor helps new residents move into a prefab house at Stanmore, Winchester. (Stanley Richardson; 1946; B/W; Silent)
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