Volume 1 ‘The Region at Work’
A look at films and film makers in the East of England 1896-1996
with chapters on
Industry, Farming, The Coast, Transport, Wartime, & Regional Television
Since 1896 people have operated motion picture film cameras in the East of England recording and making films in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Only a fraction of the films made have survived, but those that have show us what life was like, what film makers were making, and what we were watching and doing. These may be local films, home movies, cinema films, television films, educational films, publicity films etc. This book looks at some of these films and the people behind them, and is based on films preserved in the East Anglian Film Archive. This is a unique and wonderful research collection of material reflecting local history in the form of moving images of the past. This is Volume 1 entitled “The Region at Work” of a two part work by David Cleveland, founder of the East Anglian Film Archive in 1976 – the first regional motion picture film archive in the country. The Archive is owned and run by the University of East Anglia.
Hardback A4 size, 282 pages, 422 illustrations (28 of which are in colour)
Price £27
Available upon receipt of cheque for £30 from
David Cleveland
48 High Street
Manningtree Essex C011 1AJ
Films Were Made
Volume 2 ‘Local History’
A look at films and film makers in the East of England 1896-1996
with chapters on
Educational films, Sponsored films,
Making Films at Home, with six chapters on films made in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
“Films Were Made – Local History”, the companion volume to the book opposite, this puts non fiction films made in the region in the context of local history and their value as research material. The motion picture films in the East Anglian Film Archive are now being digitised in house for wider access, though since the Archive was formed in 1976, the films have been used extensively on television and at film presentations in the region.
This book is a must for all those who want to know what a regional film archive is all about, and for local historians and television researchers who want to know what exists, and has been made, about each county in the East of England. They will be surprised by the huge range of films and variety of content, as well as learning about the film makers themselves. The East Anglian Film Archive contains an astonishing look back at the last century, and what was filmed.
Hardback A4 size, 352 pages, 500 illustrations (18 of which are in colour)
Price £27
Available upon receipt of cheque for £30
from
David Cleveland
48 High Street
Manningtree Essex C011 1AJ
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