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October saw the welcome return of the Vintage Mobile Cinema to our South West home, and our screenings in Taunton for the BBC's Reel History team and South Molton went down a storm. A big thanks to everyone who attended, as well as the South West Film and TV Archive for providing a fantastic selection of cider-soaked footage and Graham Trott for providing the moving short film 'The Cider Makers' at the South Molton Apple Fair.
This weekend the Vintage Mobile Cinema will be rolling up the M5 to Bristol, to showcase a great mix of contemporary film-makers shorts as well as archive film. It's all free to come in, so come on down!
In December we'll be returning to London to entertain the good folks of Haringay - more details to come closer to the time.
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Upcoming Events
Encounters Short Film Festival, Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th November
Our programme of films has been curated by Bristol's very own M-Shed, in partnership with the Encounters Film Festival and the Bristol Records Office. It's just part of five packed days of screenings at the festival - check out the Encounters website
to see the full programme of events. We'll be parked up outside the M-Shed, so it's a perfect opportunity to have a look around Bristol's newest Museum. On Saturday in addition to the film screenings there will be a hands-on free activity in the M Shed Studio called The Cast of Bristol. Visitors are invited to immortalise themselves in modelling clay, then add their masterpiece to the growing display of the cast of Bristol.
It's free to come into any of the films, just come and see us on the day to put your name down. The same films will be repeated on both Saturday and Sunday. The full programme is:
10am: 0117 Film Challenge Part 1 – An extraordinary range of films blurring contemporary and historic Bristol, showcasing the city’s talented filmmakers. Developed as part of the launch celebrations of Mshed, in partnership with Encounters Film Festival and Bristol Film Office, Bristol based film-makers were challenged to make a short film inspired by the city of Bristol in just 117 hours. The resulting 50 short films expose an amazingly inventive and diverse array of footage, highlighting not only the cityscape and people but also the moody and poetic explorations of the darker underbelly of the city. (The second block of these short films screens at 5.30pm)
10.45am: Citizens of Bristol at War part 1 – from Ernest Fear / Dunscombe (1951 30 mins) - In 1942 and 1943, Bristol Film-maker M W Dunscombe was commissioned by Ernest D Fear of Kansas City, to produce a series of films to show US audiences how Bristolians were suffering during the Second World War. Ernest Fear was originally from Chew Magna and members of the Fear family had a shop on Bristol Bridge. The films were designed to encourage US citizens to make donations to organisations like the Red Cross Society and the WVS to help ease the suffering of Bristolians. The three hours of footage has been edited into two 30-minute productions and commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the last major blitz on Bristol in April 1941. The film comes from the Bristol Record Office Film Archive.
11.30am: Citizens of Bristol at War part 2 - from Ernest Fear / Dunscombe (1951 30 mins)
12.15pm: A Pot-pourri of Bristol film – part 1 (30 mins) From trawling through the extensive film archives of BBC Bristol and Bristol Record Office, Film Volunteers John Penny and Clive Burlton have found extracts from the wealth of archive material that exists on old reels of film buried deep in the vaults of Whiteladies Road and ‘B’ Bond - the respective homes of BBC Bristol and Bristol Record Office.
1pm: A Pot-pourri of Bristol Film – part 2 (30 mins)
1.45pm: Arthur Cox films of Bristol (30 mins) ArthurCox present 8 short films from their 'Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol' project, including; The Zoo, Broadmead, Stokes Croft, Last Trams of Bristol and Ken Hand. These films are all collections of archive footage shot in Bristol that tell unique and moving stories of specific locations within the city. The footage is collected from personal archives as well as the BBC and Bristol Record Office.
2.30pm: The Changing Face of Bristol – Part 1 (30 mins) Rare footage from the Bristol Record Office Film Archive showing the post-war demolition and redevelopment of some of Bristol’s well-known streets, areas and buildings. Includes ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots of Redcliffe Hill, Bedminster Bridge, Hotwells Road, Union Street, Stokes Croft, Union Street, Fairfax Street and the redevelopment of the Broadmead Shopping Centre and the construction of Lewis’s Department Store. Filmed between 1955 and 1960 the three hours of footage has been edited into two 30-minute shows, each accompanied by period music.
3.15pm: The Changing Face of Bristol – Part 2 (30 mins)
4pm: A Night at the Cinema – Part 1 (30 mins) Two feature films from the Bristol Record Office Film Archive take the audience back to the Bristol Cinema of the 1960’s, interspersed with period advertisements, cinema newsreels and a traditional ending. ‘Bristol, British City’ is a classic, evocative film produced for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Partly narrated by the late Sir Bob Wall - Mr Bristol himself and ‘Bristol Fashion’ is a 1961 film narrated by the late Sir Michael Redgrave and sponsored by the Port of Bristol Authority.
4.45pm: A Night at the Cinema - Part 2 (30 mins) Two feature films from the Bristol Record Office Film Archive take the audience back to the Bristol Cinema of the 1960’s, interspersed with period advertisements, cinema newsreels and a traditional ending. ‘Bristol, British City’ is a classic, evocative film produced for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Partly narrated by the late Sir Bob Wall - Mr Bristol himself and ‘Bristol Fashion’ is a 1961 film narrated by the late Sir Michael Redgrave and sponsored by the Port of Bristol Authority.
5.30pm: 0117 Film Challenge part 2 - (30 mins)
See you there!
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