British Paramount News No. 588

A fierce denunciation of anti-Semitic policies in Nazi Germany seen in the context of the global refugee crisis of 1938.

Captivating amateur footage offers a snapshot of Jewish families from Tyneside enjoying precious holiday fun in the years before World War Two.

Speeches, toasts and kippahs in this Super 8 home movie of Richard and Lyn Brookes’s wedding, held at Beehive Lane Synagogue in Ilford.

Some serious moves can be seen by guests of all ages in his lovely film showing the Bar Mitzah celebrations of Harold Defries in London in 1960.

An admonishment to keep to Orthodox ways, or a young Jew poking fun at this; whichever way this film is viewed, it gives a fascinating insight into Leeds Jewish community c.1936.

All aboard a Tyne ferry, the Friendship Club of Newcastle take a pleasure trip down river in glorious summer sunshine.

Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.

A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.

It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames

An unusual farewell in this charming early film