Watts Family Films: Karen’s Second Birthday, Epsom (1975)

Red letter day for the Victorian horseracing fraternity and the Surrey town.

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

A fourth birthday party begins with a polite tea and ends in balloon-hitting flag-waving anarchy as the kids enjoy their sugar rush.

A baby’s christening is followed by a garden party, and then excitable splashing during the heatwave that hit London in 1976.

A giant dolls house, new baby and paddling pool all feature in this film covering a calendar year in the London suburbs.

One elderly relative falls asleep, but the kids still have a ball opening their Christmas presents in the Epsom suburbs.

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.