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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 0 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 1936 8 mins
Spoiler alert! The fox is always going to outsmart the hounds in this delightful, balletic cartoon that heads from the countryside into 1930s suburbia.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1936 9 mins
Carmen get your cartoon opera fix in this (very!) loose version of Bizet’s classic tale of romance and treachery.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1909 4 mins
Toy Story meets Fatal Attraction in this tale of an Edwardian childhood romance scuppered by poor finances and a stalking dolly
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1940 8 mins
Who does he think he’s kidding? This parodic day-in-the-life portrait of Mr Hitler is one of the very few British examples of comic cartoon propaganda from WW2.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1919 10 mins Silent
Remember when Charlie Chaplin went into space? Reality is no obstacle in this endlessly inventive silent cinema cartoon of the 'Little Tramp'
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1925 6 mins
1920s canine icon Bonzo the Dog tests the Entente Cordiale to the limit in this silent British cartoon
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