Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton collects, preserves, catalogues and provides public access to its collection of films and magic lantern slides. The collection charts the rise of screen culture in the region and the nation and captures many aspects of life, work and creativity in the South East from the late 19th century to the present day. It is available for research, screenings, creative re-use and commercial access.
Green Power Six Hour Electric Car Marathon
Budding engineers from schools in Sussex assemble at Goodwood with electric cars that they've designed for a gruelling six-hour endurance race
This programme from 1999 showcases a variety of electric cars, all designed and built by pre-GCSE pupils from schools across Sussex, competing in a six-hour endurance marathon at Goodwood. The culmination of a project organised by Sussex Enterprise and the University of Brighton, formerly known as Brighton Polytechnic, the race tests the designs produced by the girls and boys, with a little help and advice from their teachers. Each of the teams were only allowed to use the same basic power units - two 12 volt batteries, a single 24 volt motor and a controller. We see a wide variety of designs arrive at the event before the race starts, in 'Le Mans 24 hour' style, with all the drivers dashing to their cars to make fast getaways. Despite a few crashes, pit-stops to change batteries and the naughty driver from Roedean going into the 'Sin-Bin' for dangerous driving, the race ends after six hours with almost all the cars having completed the test. Donald Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, endorses the event calling it a 'wonderful opportunity' for the children to engage with the technology of electric cars. The programme concludes with the children reflecting on how their designs performed in the race and posing with their teams for publicity photos.
A cohesive collection from Screen Archive South East representing the production history of a university production unit from 1977 to 2006.
This collection contains educational programmes created for classroom use as well as programmes and commercial narratives that were made on behalf of local businesses, organisations and the community.
Screen Archive South East has made available from across this collection, a total of eighty four programmes from a variety of obsolete open reel 1-inch tape, U-Matic and Betacam broadcast formats.
This cohesive collection represents the production history of a higher and further education based production unit, with content covering a wide range of subjects: teaching the arts and sciences, fashion shows and art exhibitions, early examples of video art and screen dance from the late 1970s to early 1980; documentaries on Sussex artists and a series of works on the institution’s commemorative and promotional history.
As such, the collection documents a particular regional community and its use of videotape technology over almost a thirty-year period.
The high production values in the work created by Media Services at Brighton Polytechnic later, the University of Brighton, was due to the team of independent film makers or ex-BBC technical and production staff, ensuring top quality programming for the time.
46 videos in this collection
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The Glorious Dream
Moulsecomb
2003
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Chelsea School of Human Movement Promo
Eastbourne
1991
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Chelsea College: Student Memories
1997
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Brighton Polytechnic Promo 2
Brighton
1986
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Altered Image
Brighton
1987
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Movement and Meaning 5: A Lesson in Gender
Eastbourne
1985
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An Interview with Anne Seagrave
Brighton
1986
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Gary Stevens: Audience
Brighton
1989
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The Mad Aunts
1990
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The British Library Bibliographic Services
Greater London
1981
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The Booth Museum of Natural History, Hove
Hove
1990
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The Battle of Lewes Road: Our History
Brighton
1983
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Choosing Hardy presented by Andrew Motion
1994
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An Interview with Raymond Briggs
Brighton
1978
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Pig-in-the-Middle
Brighton
1978
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Interview with Frank Hampson - Creator of Dan Dare
