Eye - 25 October 2019

From unseen sights to welcome explorations

by Eye 25th October 2019

Unseen sights

Film of a Quaker initiative during the second world war appeared for the first time in seventy-five years in a recent BBC programme, Lost Films of WWII. The programme explores unique films shot by ordinary people, as 1935 had seen the introduction of cine film aimed at amateur film-makers.

In the first episode, which aired on 5 September and is available on BBC iPlayer for another four months, images from everyday life in the years leading up to the second world war, from peaceful punts along a river to amateur footage of the evacuation of Dunkirk were broadcast publicly for the first time.