Next up for Days of Wonder project: 'The Wonderworld of the 19th Century' screening + talk: Dr Frank Gray introduces three technological marvels – photography,…

Days of Wonder is a new heritage project dedicated to exploring the film & media heritage of Brighton & Hove. Four visual artists are making…

Maidstone Museum continues to run its popular 'Actively Involved' reminiscence sessions designed to give people who are over 55 and living with a long-term health…

For this West Sussex Unwrapped online event, West Sussex Record Office and SASE will be exploring the remarkable rise of Crawley New Town through archival…

One hundred years ago, Shoreham had a film studio that was producing successful feature films that were exhibited throughout Britain. Featuring the young star Joan…

FILMS MADE ON SHOREHAM BEACH From 1919 to 1923, the Progress Film Company’s film studio on Shoreham Beach produced feature films for Britain and the…

Seaside theatrics captured on film and photo - all available to watch on The Fedora Group 's touchscreen at Brighton's West Pier. Including archive clips…

A new free art exhibition celebrating the Short Brothers’ aeronautical factory which was once on the River Medway opens today (28 July 2023) at Rochester…

A reprisal of the online show by West Sussex Record Office, hosted by Martin Hayes (retired West Sussex Local Studies Librarian) and Frank Gray, film…

Downs Junior School is opening its Second World War underground shelter once again to the public over May weekends.  Shelter tours, entertainment, conversation and this…

This exhibition explores stories of ancient slavery, women in industry, child labour, LGBT+ identity, neurodivergence, accessibility, and the Deaf community, highlighting the rich diversity of…

Signs of the Seaside at Ditchling Museum is an exhibition showcasing the typography of the British seaside and how it has evolved, exhibiting historic (Herne…

What a wonderful way to view some archive films - in a vintage mobile cinema bus!  Don't miss 'Audrey 'the sole survivor of a fleet…

Right of Way is a new film programme created by the Independent Cinema Office to promote discussion around the accessibility of and equal access to…

The West Sussex Record Office (WSRO) in partnership with Screen Archive South East (SASE) will be looking back at how the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth…

In November 2022 Professor David Nash at the University of Brighton put us in contact with the family of Robert Phillips, an engineer who had…

 Heritage 2022 digitisation project and BFI Replay  Screen Archive South East is proud to be a part of this ambitious national preservation project.  Over the…

Since January Screen Archive South East has been working with three volunteers from the University of Brighton to curate an exhibition about the Our Screen…

In 1923, Eastman-Kodak released 16mm film, a new, smaller gauge of film stock. 16mm film was a cheaper alternative to the existing 35mm film. The…

Frank Gray presents 'Brighton at War' drawing exclusively from the unique archive films in our collection. See what Brighton was like on the home front…

Once again we are pleased to support the development of a specially curated selection of archive film by Fabrica's Young Film Programmers Group to compliment…

11- 20 November 2022 Cinecity presents the 20th edition of Brighton’s annual film festival this November with the very best in world cinema and a…

The next shelter open day is Sunday 6th November at Downs Junior School, Ditchling Road, Brighton The shelter now has a new accessible entrance allowing…

This weekend saw the culmination of Our Screen Heritage Project's public events in Folkestone. Folkestone Pride, alongside their team of Community Curators, curated four exhibitions,…

As part of ‘Our Screen Heritage’ we have a public call for film material (of any format) that captures LBGTQIA+ life in the South East.…

All recordings of ‘West Sussex Unwrapped Live’ events are now available to view on the West Sussex Record Office YouTube channel.  West Sussex Unwrapped Live…

As whole communities come together to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee so have members of the public, community organisations, museums, councils and businesses come together to…

An exhibition looking at the relationship between Worthing and the surrounding landscape and seascape over the last two centuries, using a range of their diverse…

'Breaking the News' a new exhibition created by The British Library has opened at the Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone. "Delve into the stories…

Celebrating, Preserving and Sharing the LGBTQIA+ film heritage of Kent and the South East Entitled Our Screen Heritage, the new £130,000 project will be developed…

Join Dr Frank Gray, Director of Screen Archive South East and Annis Joslin, artist and filmmaker for an afternoon of local archive film and conversation.…

Twin brothers John and William Barnes devoted their lives to film, making many films including important documentaries in the 1930s. The brothers also developed a…

Pioneer film-makers George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley lived and worked at St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove. From 1897 to 1903 they established their…

For West Sussex Unwrapped 2 series finale, Frank Gray provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of cinemas in West Sussex.  Illustrated using films from…

This month West Sussex Unwrapped looks at the life and work of the county’s largest maritime port - Shoreham – the county’s major gateway to…

Film Hub North's new archive film commission Lost Connections is a new short film, drawing on a century of archive footage, that offers a poetic response…

This month West Sussex Unwrapped features one of West Sussex’ most ancient fairs – Hurstpierpoint’s St Lawrence Fair which has taken place on the first…

The Picture House Pioneers Young Film Programmers Group will screen archive films before their features.  First up on Monday 5th July screening before 500 Days…

This virtual event, coming live from the Record Office, will take you behind the scenes to explore a fascinating series of films, photographs, documents, maps…

SASE has partnered with Fabrica to support their Young Programmers Group's creative response to the  Olafur Eliasson: The Forked Forest Path exhibition 18 May -…

This month West Sussex Unwrapped visits a real ‘Downton Abbey’ - when we travel back to the 1920s for a look at life at 'Warnham…

Screen Archive South East, The Novium Museum and the West Sussex Record Office have come together to create a Covid-19 Community Archive to act as…

This month the subject of West Sussex Unwrapped is the primary school at Eastergate near Chichester. The package we have prepared with our partner, the…

Carrying Us is a collaborative project created by ​Elsa Monteith​, ​Hazel Davis​ and ​Adam Laurence​ from the Lighthouse Young Creatives 2019-2020 cohort. As first-time filmmakers, they…

This month West Sussex Unwrapped 2021 takes a look at women’s suffrage in West Sussex. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, Screen Archive South East and…

This month West Sussex Unwrapped is devoted to Crawley.  Here we highlight a number of collections that feature the West Sussex town of Crawley –…

Following on from the success of last year’s West Sussex Unwrapped ’20, each month we at Screen Archive South East will be providing a selection…

As 2021 starts SASE staff are once again working from home but are ready to respond to all your film heritage enquiries: advice, transfers, access…

    A Diamond Family Christmas, 1963 As we prepare to celebrate….or should that be endure…..a Christmas like no other in living memory, why not…

It’s finally September and the hops are waiting to be harvested – but where are the hop-pickers, those great legions of East Enders once seen…

[caption id="attachment_3144" align="alignnone" width="300"] Clock face and top of the Chichester Cross, Chichester (1983)[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes…

[caption id="attachment_3122" align="alignnone" width="300"] 748 at a platform on a line in West Sussex[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes…

[caption id="attachment_3130" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image from Shippam’s High Tea – sound (1950s)[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep…

[caption id="attachment_3138" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image from Countryman’s Diary (1950) - Bognor Regis Agricultural Show[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes…

[caption id="attachment_3129" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image from Morris Dancing, Horsham (1989)[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep into the…

[caption id="attachment_3141" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image of a marching band from [Crawley Events], (1928-1937) - Nightingale family[/caption]Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that…

  Devotees of the Kent County Agricultural Society’s annual show, cancelled this year due to Covid-19, will delight in our latest production celebrating the county’s…

[caption id="attachment_3118" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image from Lifeboat Launch (1938) - Selsey[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep into…

[caption id="attachment_3106" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image from Horsted Keynes Women’s Institute, (1954)[/caption] Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep into…

['With the Gypsies in Kent', 1938 - the life of a Roma family] Sunday the 28th of June 2020 marks the centenary of the birth of…

Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep into the collections of Screen Archive South East and the West Sussex…

Screen Archive South East is celebrating after being awarded up to £50,000 over two years of National Lottery funding by the BFI to provide cultural…

Welcome to West Sussex  Unwrapped – the ten-part series that takes you deep into the collections of Screen Archive South East and the West Sussex…

Watch the film - Visit the blog - Follow the fun Welcome to West Sussex Unwrapped – a new series that offers you an enjoyable…

SCREEN ARCHIVE SOUTH EAST'S OPEN CALL DURING THE PANDEMIC Have you been filming life under lockdown? Have you been recording the impact Covid-19 has had…

Screen Archive South East cordially invites you to experience both the grim and the joyous events of seventy-five years ago by watching its new archive…

A new report published by Women's Amateur Filmmaking in Britain explores the holdings of women filmmaker's collections across the UK film archives and looks at…

A community curated exhibition on local LGBTIQA+ history. Opening Saturday 22nd February 2020 at Brighton Museums. Celebrating the lives of local writers, artists, performers, activists…

We were contacted 2 years ago by a school teacher from Fairview School in Gillingham who had been donated archive film of school trips in…

Written by a man called Dick Perceval, the journals cover the years 1925–1976. They vividly detail his student life in Berlin in the 1920s, his…

Join our Collection Manager and the staff of the West Sussex Record Office for a 'Behind the Scenes' Open Day in Chichester. Along with our…

"Commissioned by JW3 and chronicling extraordinary - and some wonderfully ordinary - scenes of 20th Century Jewish life, unearthed by film archives across the nation. Narrated by Isy…

Boom and Bust: Horsham after the Great War This event runs from 9th Nov 2019 to 11th Jan 2020 Boom and Bust: Horsham after the…

at the Depot Cinema, Lewes Cinecity The Brighton Film Festival With LIVE piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne The BFI National Archive’s entire collection of British Victorian…

Coming up at Brighton Cinecity Film Festival 'The Vision Scene - Early Film and the Victorian Dream' at the Depot Cinema, Lewes. Frank Gray's new book,…

SASE is pleased to contribute one of its unique films of Romany life in Kent filmed by John and William Barnes in the 1930s to…

  This special programme takes us on an archive film tour of Maidstone and district from the 1930s to the 1960s. The films, all drawn…

The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary…

Eye International Conference 2019, Amsterdam At the University of Brighton, Screen Archive South East cares for a collection of some 10.000 magic lantern artefacts. Our…

Calling Blighty Brighton - help us find these families! We are looking for the families of 124 service personnel who sent home on-camera messages from…

  The Magic Lantern Society and B-magic organised a two-day symposium event taking place at the Brussel Cinematek, exploring the role of the magic lantern…

The Record Office has for many years been the repository and the processing area for our analogue film collection and our work across West Sussex…

We are pleased to make this unique collection of films of the Guinea Pig Club's annual reunions for wartime patients of the Queen Victoria Hospital…

This collection documents the work of the University of Brighton production unit for a period of over 30 years. It is a cohesive collection recorded…

SASE Director at the University of Brighton, Frank Gray attends to speak about the work of the archive and how we share our film heritage.…

Crawley from the 1920s through to the 1980s. Lots to see! Project organised and led by the Independent Cinema Office and funded by Film Hub South…

The live recording of ‘The Other Ocean’ at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, 18 November 2018.  A performance by the…

Funded AHRC technē PhD studentships in Screen Studies at the University of Brighton The Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group in the School of Media…

A Making Music 'Adopt a Composer' scheme to pair young composers with amateur orchestras resulted in Esmeralda Conde Ruiz being paired with The Fretful Foundation…

  Would you like to find out more about the world of magic lanterns,  magic lantern shows, their uses in the past? Recreating the magic lantern…

In the spirit of this year of UK ‘Votes for Women’ 100 years celebrations, Ine van Dooren, SASE Archivist, coordinates an all-day event for the…

SASE has produced a special First World War Centenary programme which will be freely available to the public to see at venues across Sussex. 22…

The Independent Cinema Office (ICO) has received a National Heritage Lottery grant for their new project, ‘New Towns, Our Town – Stories on Screen’. Made…

As our latest digitisation project comes to a close here are some highlights from our final Super 8mm selections: Alan Stingemore's cinema films: between the…

We welcome this opportunity to determine the significance of our collection of videotapes and ascertain their preservation requirements and public value. The project seeks to map…

Join a small group on board a Houseboat home on Shoreham riverbank to watch a magical compilation of archive film footage from around the West…

Modern Marvels is a collaboration by Carousel and Screen Archive South East, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund. Young people from Brighton and Hove were inspired by George Albert Smith…

Featuring a collection of essays originally presented at the conference 'The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema that took place in 2015 at the…