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Christopher Blaxland began making 16mm home movies when he was aged 15, in 1932, stopping at the outbreak of war, and his brother, Stephen Blaxland made his own home movies after the war. The Blaxland family lived in St Catherine's Close in Norwich, and Christopher filmed many sequences in and around the family home. He also filmed Norwich in the 1930s, his school (Charterhouse), racing at Newmarket, shooting, hunting, the Norfolk Broads, the family at Christmas time and local society weddings. The East Anglian Film Archive holds large collections of material by amateur film-makers from around the region, including film of family events and scenes such as these, as well as film of local events of importance such as Richard Pike's film of the 'Essex Floods 1953' and Charles Scott's film of the King's Lynn 'Home Guard' (1940-1945). |
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