James Wentworth Day

Wild Fowling in the Fens with James Wentworth Day

James Wentworth Day* was 'firmly of the Agrarian Right school and essentially a High Tory' notes the 'pedia that is Wiki'd - crypto-fascist others might suggest, 'impressed by Mussolini,' writes Robert Innes-Smith in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but 'persistently warned of the danger posed by German ambitions and criticized the Nazi regime'.

Noted here for his affection for East Anglia and a raft of books about its lands and peoples, with a hat tip to Mr Easterbrook for drawing our attention to the gentleman.

*Not to be confused with Wentworth's Day a short story by HP Lovecraft and August Derleth in the Cthulhu mythos.

Eerie Anglia present - Unvisited Vastness from Eerie Anglia on Vimeo.

(Caveat - there's a lot of black screen in this video)

A piece first performed at English Heretic's AGM 2012

Films Were Made

Films Were Made
 
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