Heritage
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A Tale Retold
In 1998 Frank Marshall told Trilith about a collection of old cine film that had lain under his workbench for decades. He thought that amongst them might be one film he had particularly enjoyed as a boy. It was an advertisement for an early wireless loudspeaker, the "Amplion", and had been used in local cinemas in the 1920s by his father's pioneering radio business on the Isle of Portland. When rescued from a pile of rotting nitrate film it was discovered that the film, entitled "The Tale of the Amplion" was a hitherto unknown work by the famous illustrator William Heath Robinson. It is almost certainly the only ani...
The Wheel Stops Turning
Rescued from a cinema in Derbyshire, a can of film labelled "A Primitive Pottery in Dorset" has found its way home. Collaborating with Penny Copland-Griffiths, who presents this video, and her colleagues from the Verwood and District Potteries Trust, Trilith produced this 1917 film of Crossroads Pottery, Verwood, Dorset, together with interviews with Fred Thorne, the last "boy" to be taken on at the pottery, potter John Leach whose grandfather Bernard created the studio pottery movement in Britain, and a section dealing with the archaeological dig in 2000, directed by AC Archaeology, prior to the last traces of the pot...
Sandford Heritage: Cordite, Clay and Calluna: Dig at Holton Lee
Sandford Heritage:"Cordite Clay and Calluna" is a local heritage project at Sandford near Wareham in Dorset. Various aspects of the area are being researched, shared and celebrated and as part of this process an archaeological dig was organised at Holton Lee where a previous dig had uncovered traces of mediaeval habitation. John Holman spoke to project officer Ben Buxton and dig director Lilian Ladle. If you would like to be involved with this project which also includes recording oral history using camcorders, go to the "Cordite Clay and Calluna" website. Transition Vision is pleased to be supporting the oral history a...
Things Change
In 1918, a film unit descended upon Iwerne Minster in North Dorset to make a film about the daily life of a typical English village as World War I drew to a close. Cinemas were operating behind the front lines as part of the effort to improve the morale of the troops and this is where this film was destined. Whether it ever got there or not is not known as the war came to end shortly after the film was finished. Some years ago, Trilith, the rural media charity, received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to add contextual material (in this case, this consisted of interviews with current inhabitants who have a connec...
The Binder: Jack Dimond demonstrates - and entertains
Have you always wondered how a binder works? Or perhaps you're not sure what one is. Jack Dimond from Sherborne, Dorset, had a film of him and his family at work with their's in the 1950s. To our amazement Jack still had the binder (well you know what farmers are like about throwing stuff away!) and we conceived the idea of getting Jack to explain how it worked. We got more than we bargained for when we set it up as you can see here. This video was originally produced for Trilith the Rural Media Charity and has been seen at many of Trilith's showings of archive film around Dorset, Somerset and Wiltsh...
Bridport Museum: Preparing for the 2011 season.
Far from being idle over the winter, curator Emily Hicks and her team have been preparing some new experiences for Bridport Museum visitors. In this video Emily shows us the new marine reptile (not strictly speaking a dinosaur) and other innovations. John Holman interviewed Emily in the compact new yard where Emily was hoping to display two of the main crops historically of the Bridport area, flax and hemp. There was no problem with the former but the latter would require a very expensive Home Office licence! Also not shown in this video is a newly acquired portrait of a thatching spar maker, "The Woodman" by Francis Newbery. Brought up in...
Dope Under Thorncombe
The melodrama, Dope Under Thorncombe, was made at the end of the 1930's by hairdresser Frank Trevett and a group of friends. It was written by Bridport thriller writer Andrew Spiller and shot at West Bay. In 2009 Trilith commissioned a new musical score by Rachel Leach to accompany the film, something that had been awaited for over 70 years. Two live performances of the music and film staged in the Bridport area in 2009 and 2010 were hugely popular. The family of Frank Trevett, especially his daughter Vivien Smith, were closely involved.
Mystery Pipeworks ...
The original film was labelled Sandford Pipeworks. We are currently working on oral history as part of the Sandford Heritage: Cordite, Clay and Calluna project run by The Urban Heath Partnership project in Sandford and I was hoping that this film would prove useful.. Indeed there was a Sandford Pipeworks which was the Clay part of the project title but this is not what is shown in this film although they made similar products. Can anyone identify where this really is/was? If so please get in touch.. MYSTERY SOLVED! The...
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