Chapter 08: Audiovisual items

8.1 Films held in deposited archives | 8.2 Films held in the local studies collections | 8.3 Tape-recordings

8.1 Films held in deposited archives

Bishop's Move

16mm

Black and white, sound 16mm film (56 feet) of a factory move carried out by Bishop's Move. BBC film [n.d.] Acc 1349/

Black and white, silent super 16mm film of "Liner Train", Independent Television News Ltd film [n.d.] Acc 1349/

Jaeger Ltd

35mm

35mm colour and sound film entitled "Young Jaeger" depicting 17 outfits, Spring-Summer 1968 [1968] Acc 1327/497

35mm colour and sound film entitled "Young Jaeger" depicting 18 outfits [2 copies] [22 Sep 1967] Acc 1327/496/1

Black and white negative of 35mm film entitled "Young Jaeger" depicting 18 outfits [22 Sep 1967] Acc 1327/496/2

Black and white silent print of 35mm film entitled "Young Jaeger" [22 Sep 1967] Acc 1327/496/3

Liberty plc

8mm

Black and white, silent, standard 8mm film (17 minutes 55 seconds) 1932, of firewatchers entertaining themselves in a hut on the roof of the Regent Street store, shot by Hilary Blackmore [1939-1940]

16mm

Part of a black and white film made by Liberty of London Prints lasting 2 minutes 25 seconds, showing men's and women's fashions in Liberty fabrics [n.d. c1935-1936] Acc 788/95/1

Colour film by Liberty of London Prints lasting 5 minutes 18 seconds, with sound, on the manufacture of Liberty fabrics at the Merton Print Works, showing the design, printing processes, colour shop and waterwheel [n.d. c1972-1975] Acc 788/95/2

Also a small reel of cuttings from the film with no sound [n.d. c1975] Acc 788/95/3

35mm

Exposed original colour negative of "Redwing" Liberty tests (x2) by Metrocolor London Limited, 91-95 Gillespie Road, Highbury, London [16 Dec 1987] Acc 2041/

Exposed original colour negative of "Redwing" Liberty tests (x6) by Metrocolor London Limited, 91-95 Gillespie Road, Highbury, London [16 Dec 1987] Acc 2041/

Colour film of "Redwing" promotion, 1050 feet, by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [1988] Acc 2041/

Soundtrack for "Redwing" promotion, 1050 feet, by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [1988] Acc 2041/

Colour TK print of "Redwing" with soundtrack (x4), by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [1988] Acc 2041/

Colour C/C, D/H and Clean prints of "Redwing" with dub masters (x4) by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [1988] Acc 2041/

Dub loops (x13) of advertisements for Liberty's Christmas Sale by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [Dec 1988] Acc 2041/

Dub loops (x12) of advertisements for Liberty's Christmas Sale by David Curran Editing, 95 Dean Street, London [Dec 1988] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound rushes reprints (not used) of Liberty Purple Snow by Technicolour Ltd, Bath Road [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound print, "Moving Dog" by Liberty Purple Snow by Technicolour Ltd, Bath Road, for Phoenix Films [10 Nov 1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound rushes reprints of Liberty Purple Snow by Technicolour Ltd, Bath Road, 5 Nov [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour negative rushes of [Liberty Purple Snow] by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound trims (x15) of Liberty Purple Snow by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour mute edit of Liberty Purple Snow, Reel 1 by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound edit of Liberty Purple Snow by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound "Dog For Reflection" for [Liberty Purple Snow}, by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound "Whipcan and Motion Control" 2041/ used for television of [Liberty Purple Snow] by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour and sound "Selected Roll" of [Liberty Purple Snow] by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour "Negative Perforated Step Prints" for Liberty Purple Snow by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Soundtrack for bell chime special effect on Liberty Purple Snow by Terry Jones Post Production, The Hat Factory, 16-18 Hollen Street, London [1990] Acc 2041/

Colour negative print of unspecified promotion by Soho Computamatch Ltd, Soho Group, 71 Dean Street, London [13 Nov 1996] Acc 2041/ 

St Martin-in-the-Fields

16mm

Black and white, sound film of steeple jacks working on St Martin-in-the-Fields, 12 minutes 46 seconds [n.d.] Acc 1851/12

Soho Story

Film "Soho Story" director Marc Munden, cameraman John Matheson, shot on location in Soho between March and July 1983. This drama/documentary, shot on 16mm black and white film stock, includes interviews with local residents including a member of the Soho Society, a stall holder and a prostitute. It also incorporates a fictional story of a young girl's search for her missing friend synopsis and shooting script, bills for film stock and processing, seven reels of negative 16mm film, five reels of positive 16mm film with additional clips, two 16mm soundtrack reels, seven reels of magnetic audio tape, four Beta format video cassettes [1983] Acc 2566

Westminster City Council

16mm

Time lapse 16mm film of Soho Square, original film [1968] WCC:Acc0094/1

Time lapse 16mm film of Soho Square, copy [1968] WCC:Acc0094/2

Time lapse 16mm film, one print each 3 seconds of Buckingham Palace Road/Eccleston Street, processed by Hunting Engineering Limited, Reddings Wood, Ampthill, Bedfordshire [1971] WCC:Acc0094/3

Time lapse 16mm film of Piccadilly Circus [1972] WCC Acc0094/4

8.2 Films held in the local studies collections

 16mm

Black and white silent film of the street scenes outside Marylebone Town Hall during the Royal Processional Drive of King George V and Queen Mary to mark their Silver Jubilee, 3 minutes 26 seconds [11 May 1935]

Colour 16mm silent film titled "All On A Winter's Day" (property of the St Marylebone Society), 18 minutes 30 seconds [1952]

Black and white 16mm silent film titled "Paddington 1960" in a film can of The Big Six Film Unit, an Edward Cook Production, 35 Endell Street, London, (including St David's Welsh Church, St Mary's Church, Jason's Trip and Little Venice Canal Basin, Red Lion Public House, Bishop's Bridge, Coliseum Cinema, Paddington General Hospital, Douglas House, Hong Kong House, cricket, bowls tennis and golf putting at Paddington Recreation Ground, the shop of John P Dennis, Odeon Cinema, The Swan Public House, Wimpy House, H Bessin, Riding Stables, 3 Burwood Mews, The Football Association, Lancaster Gate, Paddington Town Hall, Paddington Police Station, Whiteley's Department Store, Greek Orthodox Church, Moscow Road, The White Swan Public House, 11 minutes and 20 seconds [1960]

Black and white negative 16mm silent BBC film titled "Extracts from Flyover" [of the Westway], (including Yorkshire Stingo Public House, Harrow Road, Red Lion Public House, Gaumont, Edgware Road, Turkish Baths, Metropolitan Theatre, David Clifton tailor's shop, Mitcham Street and St Marylebone Hospital), 4 minutes 45 seconds [1960]. Black and white silent film of Paddington titled "Pre-Flyover", (including Edgware Road Station, Turkish Baths, Metropolitan Theatre, Harrow Road), 2 minutes 25 seconds [1960]

Black and white silent 16mm film titled "Views of Paddington", (including a fair at night, Regent's Canal and Queen's Park), 2 minutes 22 seconds [1960]

Black and white silent Independent Television News film titled "London Council Merger", featuring first meeting of new Westminster City Council, 6 minutes 32 seconds [1 Apr 1965]

Black and white silent Independent Television News negative film titled "London Council Merger" [1 Apr 1965]

Soundtrack for black and white Independent Television News film titled "London Council Merger" [1 Apr 1965]

35mm

Black and white sound Movietone News film titled "Youth and Recreation", featuring the reopening of Paddington Recreation Ground by Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, 55 seconds [1946]

Black and white silent film titled [A Merry Car…] 24 Apr 1938. Black and white sound film of an appeal made by the W Stanley Edgson, JP, Mayor of Westminster to collect waste paper (three reels), 2 minutes 25 seconds [Nov 1941]

 

8.3 Tape-recordings 

• Two reminiscences of elderly Paddington residents recorded by the Paddington Society, 1960-1961

• Over 20 interviews with women who worked in domestic service in Westminster between the wars (part of a project begun in 1997)

• Interviews with two former Metropolitan policemen serving at Cannon Row police station, c1920s-1940s

See Chapter 21: Businesses for details of films in the deposited business archives of Liberty's, and Bishop and Sons, furniture removers.