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Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.
Documentary 1981 17 mins
Female punks have a good time talking, smoking and getting drunk with their friends in this sparky, spontaneous short film. Revealing their everyday lives, it also features fascinating footage of punks hanging out on the London streets.
Elvis Costello and The Clash provide evocative audio for this splendid slice of no-frills documentary, with sequences shot at London punk epicentres Portobello Road and King's Road.
Documentary 1983 12 mins Location: Brixton
Punk rebellion and anarchy with Peterborough-based punk band The Destructors, six years after their formation.
Promotional 2016 1 mins
Anarchy in the UK… This rare footage presents a short blast of the punk energy that took over the streets of Britain in the late 1970s.
Music video 1980 24 mins Location: Great Yarmouth
Four rowdy teen punks tussle with the girls they fancy in this energetic pop music film shot on the seafront at Great Yarmouth.
Amateur film 1981 12 mins Silent Location: Chelsea
Punks find their turf invaded by New Romantics in the final part of Captain Zip's seminal Video Trip.
Promotional 1979 19 mins
This power-packed promotional film for the UK Subs also showcases the distinctive talents of unconventional writer and director Julien Temple.
Amateur film 1979 16 mins Silent Location: Camden Town
The punks go shopping in this evocatively dingy entry in Captain Zip's seminal Video Trip.
Non-Fiction 1915 1 mins Silent Location: Putney
Putney plays host to rowing races between soldiers who lost their sight during the war and blind students from Worcester College.
Non-Fiction 1925 mins Silent Location: Putney
Jack Beresford wins his second Gold Cup on the River Thames
Amateur film 1955 11 mins Silent Location: Putney
Life, learning, sport and swatting in a Putney girls' grammar school.
Sport 1914 4 mins Silent Location: Putney
Extended action from the Thames as Oxford and Cambridge compete in the last boat race before the outbreak of the First World War.
Non-Fiction 1914 1 mins Silent Location: Putney
Swimming champion Walter Brickett enters the record books with an incredible feat of physical endurance.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1933 2 mins
Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.
Advert 1974 1 mins Location: Shaftesbury
A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: Rotherham
Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Great Moor St, Bolton
Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.
Sport 1901 1 mins Silent Location: Henley-on-Thames
It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames
Advert 1898 1 mins Silent Location: St Pancras
An unusual farewell in this charming early film
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