16mm BBC TV/Enterprises prints, Info Needed

[LanceM]

Hello All,

I was hoping someone might be able to assist me on this, I have found a large listing for the 16mm films listed below from the BBC and BBC Enterprises. Most date from the early 1960's to the early 1970's. Are some interresting items here, have no clue of any are missing or not. Any assistance or info here would be much appreciated.





1964 B/W silent film, B.B.C. One man's county series.

1964
B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Devizes By-election.
c.1965 B/W film, B.B.C. Points West. Corsham - Lord Methuen at Corsham Court.

May
1964
B.B.C. Points West Film. Bradford-on-Avon, Elizabethan Fair.
c.1965 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Devizes, Prisoner of war escapes.

c.1965
B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Wiltshire White Horses.
c.1965 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Wiltshire. Village lockups.

1965 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Trowbridge town centre.

1965 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Lydiard Tregoze triptych in church.

1965 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Castle Combe the prettiest village in England.

1965 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Stourhead.

1965 B.B.C. Television Film. Trowbridge industrial archaeology - Ken Ponting.

1965 B.B.C. Television Film Unit. Swindon industrial archaeology - Ken Hudson.

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Wylye Mill.

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Castle Combe. Preparations for filming Dr. Doolittle.

1966 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Marlborough Sheep fair (2 copies).

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Melksham Avon Rubber Works fire.

1966 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Corsham Court. Pride of Place Series.

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Devizes. Perambulations by Michael Cannay.

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Malmesbury. Perambulations by Michael Cannay.

1966 B.B.C. South Today Film. South Newton saw mill.

1966 B.B.C. Points West Film. Aldbourne Pond.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Calne perambulations by Michael Cannay.

1967 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Charlton Park.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Rev. W. Awdry.

1967 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Melksham with Michael Canney.

1967 B/W silent film, B.B.C. Points West. Bradford-on-Avon with Michael Canney.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Swindon. Tyre burning factory.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Erlestoke Bridges controversy.

1967 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Contact Series Film. Swindon. Not quite hollow in the middle.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Urchfont Manor with Michael Canney.

1968 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Salisbury Cathedral appeal.

1967 B.B.C. Points West Film. Marlborough.

1968 B.B.C. Television Enterprises Film. Trowbridge Women's employment.

1968 B.B.C. Television Enterprises Film. Pewsey Downs Nature reserve.

1968 B.B.C. Television Enterprises Film. Silbury Hill excavations.

1967 B.B.C. Television Enterprises Film. Patney, English Farms Ltd.

1968 B.B.C. Enterprises Film. Bremilham Church.

1968 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Rev Noel Calvin. An egg in your face (B.B.C. Meeting Point).

1968 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Lacock.

1969 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Westbury parish church - conservation, repair re-opening.

1969 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Steeple Ashton.

1969 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. New Estates (The expanding classroom series). Filmed at Haydon Wick, Green Meadow School.

1969 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Bratton Week.


1969 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Malmesbury, Elmer's flight.

1970 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Edington Church.

1970 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Heytesbury Hospital.

1970 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Chippenham Mayor of, and her duties.

1970 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Malmesbury. Freedom to R.A.F. Hullavington.

1970 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Bratton. Reeves Engineering.

1971 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Steeple Ashton. Lord Long.

1971 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Imber on Salisbury Plain.

1972 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Norton Bavant Sleepy Village (Points West).

1972 B/W silent film. B.B.C. TV Enterprises. Stourhead Bristol Cross.

1972 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Kennet and Avon Canal. Industrial Grand Tour. (1 reel)

1973 B.B.C. Enterprises Film. South Today. Fovant. Chalk badges.

1973 B.B.C. Enterprises Film. Look stranger series. Marlborough, Sitting on a fortune (about Chandlers, the saddlers).

1973 B.B.C. TV Enterprises Film. Nationwide. Bradford-on-Avon, Mushroom mines.

1973 B.B.C. Points West Film. Maud Heath's Causeway.

1967 BBC 16mm News Film of 21 years of school.

1969
16mm film of Steeple Ashton, broadcast on BBC Points West.

c.1970
16mm film of BBC Points West of Bratton Week.


Cheers, Lance.

[hartley967]

Many look like old news films from a BBC regional company IE Points West which servved the S.W of England Lance?
This would have also had local interest programmes rather than
output from BBC London.
Many of these regional studios close down/change their name /move/ etc in the intervening years so the films use to get dumped, but now they dump them back at the BBC archives-hopefully .
If it says BBC enterprises this (IIRC) means they have sold an item on, which could mean anyone or any place . For example with an item about a factory, a print could have been sold to the factory owner or his subsidary in Timbucktoo?.

its quite normal for them to be silent ast they were probably commentated over in the studio?.

[Joe Haynes]

i think you should contact points west in bristol and ask them if there mising.

[Phil Leach]

The South West Film and Television Archive holds the BBC South West news collection so probably best to contact them. As these are from Enterprises they'll be prints so you'd have to cross reference each item with the archive to see if the original negs are still held. With news collections items often go missing or are re-cut and reused in new items so some of these may be in better shape than the original negatives.

Good luck!

[Joe Haynes]

this might be a shot in the dark.. but do u think any of these news broadcast could contain Dr Who Clips? i mean alot of News in the area have doctor who features from time to time.. like events..and stuff.

[Deleted]

Points West rarely delves into TV unless there is a local actor involved etc.

[Matthew North]

The South West Film and Television Archive holds the BBC South West news

Points west isnt the BBC south west news programme, its the one covering Bristol and Somerset, the south west ie devon, cornwall and the channel islands is covered by BBC Spotlight, you are correct though, Spotlights film archive is kept at the TSW archive.

[B Thomas]

joenirvana said:

this might be a shot in the dark.. but do u think any of these news broadcast could contain Dr Who Clips? i mean alot of News in the area have doctor who features from time to time.. like events..and stuff.

It seems no one these days can mention anything about old film without the inevitable "missing Dr Who" query...

[Phil Leach]

matthewnorth said:

The South West Film and Television Archive holds the BBC South West news

Points west isnt the BBC south west news programme, its the one covering Bristol and Somerset, the south west ie devon, cornwall and the channel islands is covered by BBC Spotlight, you are correct though, Spotlights film archive is kept at the TSW archive.

Good point!

According to a quick google the Points West archive is still kept by BBC Bristol (or at least it was in 2005 when this article was written):

www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/10/30/points_west_archive_feature.shtml

As for rare local news archives one to look for would be BBC Midland News and Midlands Today as I've heard that BBC Birmingham didn't archive much and in fact regularly cleared it out into a skip!

Another one I've never heard of any surviving material is ABC At Large the Midlands/North weekend news programme from the 1960s.

and no I don't know if this included any Dr Who material.....

[Joe Haynes]

bevanwthomas said:

joenirvana said:

this might be a shot in the dark.. but do u think any of these news broadcast could contain Dr Who Clips? i mean alot of News in the area have doctor who features from time to time.. like events..and stuff.

It seems no one these days can mention anything about old film without the inevitable "missing Dr Who" query...

well its better to be safe than sorry. and seeing that i have seen many stories on Points west over the years about Doctor Who, it doesnt seem so stupid.

[Simon Winters]

Not sure about 'ABC at Large', but at least one episode of 'ABC Investigates', a local news/investigative show survives. A kindly tv collector sent me a dvd copy, and I believe he has returned the original film print to the BFI.