The Medway in different times
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Praxinoscope
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Good old Pathe 9.5mm, could produce some excellent quality images. There's a lot of unique stuff around on the 9.5 format which was a popular home movie format (cheaper than 16mm and therefore more available to home movie makers) until it was eventually edged out of the market after Kodak introduced 8mm.
The Welsh film archive in Aberystwyth have 1930's footage of the inaugural launching ceremony of the first motorised Barmouth Lifeboat, again home moviefilm on 9.5mm.
The Welsh film archive in Aberystwyth have 1930's footage of the inaugural launching ceremony of the first motorised Barmouth Lifeboat, again home moviefilm on 9.5mm.
Capt Popeye
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Thank you Topolino really brought back memories and historical infomation to me; i liked the footage at Rochester of the Shorts Bros plane production site, for those unaware, the cliff behind the Production Sheds housed an underground manufacturing base to protect the Workforce and Production , tales have it that the Family lived in a House ontop of the cliff and had a walkway carved into the cliff face from which they could walk back n forth Home to Factory; this can be seen in the film.
oldgit
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the cliff behind the Production Sheds housed an underground manufacturing base to protect the Workforce and Production ,
later repurposed as an adventure playground during the 1960s