Mirror Mirror

Prize-winning amateur film about the fleeting affair between a housewife and a young man on a summer day.

Silly silent film fun and thrills abound in this award-winning 1954 amateur short spoofing the world of Hollywood trailers.

A young angel scours London for her wings in this tender short by the young Ken Russell.

Knitting comes in handy when making a film – a comical take on amateur filmmaking by the ladies of a local Pinner film club

Tired little Jocelyn, in her National Health specs, falls asleep in the garden and wakes up in Wonderland in this amateur re-telling of Lewis Carroll's classic.

A young magician impresses his sister by making a dog appear from under a bucket, and by demonstrating the magic of film itself.

Journey back to the 50s where the boys of Eastbourne College enjoy a jolly good time square bashing, parading, playing rugby and athletics, rowing on the River Ouse and touring.

Heathrow is buzzing in Ted Diamond's nostalgia-fest filmed on the terraces of the Queen's Building - featuring long gone airlines, aircraft and car parks

Budding film director Anthony Armstrong, aged 10, presents a delightful film about things on a smaller scale like locomotives, trams and the tiny town of Bekonscot.

A gallivant around some English coastal resorts with a bunch of 1930s cine clubbers from the North East.

You too can see the Eastbourne sights courtesy of this 1961 amateur film

Join the Youngs as they tour a number of historic coastal towns and resorts during a May holiday in the early fifties

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.