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Soho Stories
Long linked to flesh and pleasure, London’s infamous district merits a closer look. Here you’ll find jazz clubs, garrets, lewdness and lidos.
Together they created a place of tolerence during a puritan age. The world descended. The city changed.
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Burlesque QueenBurlesque Queen
Documentary19616 minsSilent Location: Soho
Tassel-spinning showgirl Tina stars in this rare 60s British burlesque stage show reel.
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VampireVampire
Horror196410 mins Location: Soho
Soho 'glamour' filmmaker George Harrison Marks plays girl-hungry vampire Count Dracula III in this strange striptease short
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Xcitement!Xcitement!
Pornography19605 minsSilent
Glamour goddess Pamela Green reveals all in a key ‘60s striptease collaboration with George Harrison Marks.
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Sunshine in SohoSunshine in Soho
Documentary195632 mins Location: Soho
1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.
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SohoSoho
Documentary198120 mins Location: Soho
A feminist view of how small businesses in London's Soho exploit working women.
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Anton & MintyAnton & Minty
Fantasy199518 mins Location: Soho
Minty’s hobbies include drinking tea, smoking roll-ups and falling into a coma, while Anton dreams of clinically depressed sheep breaking into the house.
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London's ContrastsLondon's Contrasts
192412 mins Location: Hyde Park
Part of Wonderful London, the BFI National Archive’s programme of restored London travelogues, filmed in the capital in the 1920s.
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Cosmopolitan LondonCosmopolitan London
Interest film192410 mins Location: Soho
An extraordinary tour of Soho's French cafés, Clerkenwell's Little Italy and the lesser-trodden streets of Limehouse in the 1920s.
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Central London TrafficCentral London Traffic
Government sponsored film195612 mins Location: Soho
Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new - as we see from this colourful 1950s research film shot around the capital.
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