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 – Wonder Lab
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 – Actively Involved Sessions
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped Live
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…
Unreeled – Film Arrives in Shoreham
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…
‘Unreeled’ – Heritage Open Days in Shoreham
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…
Daredevils of the West Pier
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…
Flying Boats Over the Medway – the Short Brothers aeronautical factory
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…
Worthing on Film
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…
Take Shelter!
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…
Overlooked: People of Leeds as you’ve never seen them
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
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…
Vintage Mobile Cinema at the Spiegel Tent
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
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…
A County Celebrates – Coronations Past and Present
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…
Rare films of Stonehenge preserved
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…
BFI Replay launches
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…
Our Screen Heritage LGBTQ+ History Month Exhibition launches
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…
100 years of 16mm film
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…
Film talks and special screenings for the over 50s
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…
Beside the Sea
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…
20th Cinecity Film Festival
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…
Take Shelter! open days
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…
‘Our Screen Heritage’ shows in Folkestone
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,…
Margate Pride 2022
Screen Archive South East (SASE) will be at Margate Pride on Saturday 13th August as part of the ‘Our Screen Heritage’ project. We will be…
OPEN CALL FOR LGBTQIA+ FILMS
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.…
Catch up on West Sussex Unwrapped Live
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…
Jubilee on film
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…
A Trip to Worthing – Downs, Town & Sea
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 – British Library Exhibition
'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…
New SASE Project – Our Screen Heritage
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…
Film screening for the Hangleton and Knoll Project in Brighton and Hove
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.…
The Barnes Brothers film screening at Tate St Ives
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…
Early film making at St Ann’s Well Garden’s
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped – West Sussex Cinemas
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped – Shoreham’s Harbour
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…
Lost Connections
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped – Fairs – Ancient and Modern
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…
Uckfield Picture House Pioneers
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped LIVE
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…
The Woods and Us
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 -…
West Sussex Unwrapped 2021 – A Glimpse Inside Warnham Court
This month West Sussex Unwrapped visits a real ‘Downton Abbey’ - when we travel back to the 1920s for a look at life at 'Warnham…
Covid Community Archive
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped 2021 – Eastergate School, 170 Years of Education
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 [2021]
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped 2021 – Women’s Suffrage in West Sussex
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped 2021 – Crawley New Town
This month West Sussex Unwrapped is devoted to Crawley. Here we highlight a number of collections that feature the West Sussex town of Crawley –…
West Sussex Unwrapped 2021
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…
2021 – we are open
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…
Christmas 2020
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…
Hopping down in Kent
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
Kent Show – Goes On!
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
[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…
Celebrating the Centenary of John & William Barnes – new film of Walter Sickert
['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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
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 wins National Lottery funding
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
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…
West Sussex Unwrapped
Watch the film - Visit the blog - Follow the fun Welcome to West Sussex Unwrapped – a new series that offers you an enjoyable…
CHRONICLING COVID
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…
War & Peace
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…
Invisible Innovators
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…
Queer the Pier
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…
Fairview Cine Film Project 2020
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…
To Be Continued
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…
Explore your archive!
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…
Jewish Britain on Film
"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
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…
Screening the Victorians
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…
‘The Vision Scene – Early Film and the Victorian Dream’
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,…
Roma Stories
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…
Maidstone on Film
This special programme takes us on an archive film tour of Maidstone and district from the 1930s to the 1960s. The films, all drawn…
Lost Films of WW2 on BBC Four
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…
“Sisters” – Votes for Women Suffrage
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
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…
Lanterns at the Fairground
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…
West Sussex Record Office achieves ‘Archive Service Accreditation’
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…
Guinea Pig Club
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…
University of Brighton Media Services tape collection to be digitised
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…
British Council Symposium: Film as a Cultural Heritage
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 captured on film
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 Other Ocean
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 studentships in Screen Studies at the University of Brighton
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…
The other ocean
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…
The Female Lanternist
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…
SASE Archivist Ine van Dooren presents:
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…
First World War Centenary
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…
‘New Towns, Our Town – Stories on Screen’
The Independent Cinema Office (ICO) has received a National Heritage Lottery grant for their new project, ‘New Towns, Our Town – Stories on Screen’. Made…
British Film Institute 2022 Digitisation Project
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…
BFI Heritage 2022 Video Tape Collections Audit
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…
Scalarama Sussex
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
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…
The Colour Fantastic – Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
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…
70 Years of the NHS
July 5th 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the UK's National Health Service. The NHS is the nation's most important and cherished…