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Come on a psychedelic journey to Cornwall in this stunning, sensual film.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1973 8 mins
Vivid yellows, blues and oranges and a Robert Wyatt soundtrack create a stunning, sensual film.
Optical printing effects that introduce colour, superimpositions and mirroring transform personal 16mm footage gleaned first from the streets of London, then the roads of Cornwall. The film journeys deeper into the Duchy, passing china clay pits, mining stacks and green fields. Wyatt's music is mesmerising and this little known, drug-inspired masterpiece of rural psychedelia is quite something to behold.
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News 1963 1 mins Silent Location: St Austell
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News 1967 4 mins Location: St Austell
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Non-Fiction 1936 5 mins Silent Location: St Austell
The camera takes a dusty look into Cornwall's china clay industry.
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BriSCA F2 Stock Car race at the Par Stadium
Sport 1970 1 mins Silent Location: St Austell
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Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent
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Comedy 1898 1 mins Silent
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Non-Fiction 1895 0 mins Silent
This was one of a series of actuality films made by the Victorian pioneer Birt Acres during 1895. The film is thought to have been shot on June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the Kiel Canal by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Acres shot other films at the same time, but they have not survived.
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