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As with many of the regional and national film archives, the Wessex Film and Sound Archive holds examples of films made by public, governmental, health, educational, religious and charitable institutions in the region that have used moving images document or promote their work. These films include material from churches including St Mary's Church in Southampton, from schools and colleges in the region, films from the Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth, local government departments, and hospitals including Gosport War Memorial Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, and the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital at Alton. The film 'A Great Work (part two)' was commissioned from Pathé Freres in 1923, and records the work of the Treloar Hospital and college at Alton in Hampshire. The hospital specialised in the long-term care and rehabilitation of disabled boys and provided training in practical skills and trades, alongside medical care. The film includes footage of the boys' daily routines, along with learning trades such the making of leather goods, footwear and tailoring. The film also shows the boys playing sports and the hospital's benefactor greeting the patients. The film was made to raise funds and show the hospital's good works and is one of a number of films and related documents from this organisation held by the archive spanning from 1915 to the 1970s. There are number of comparable films in the collection of the Archive, for example, a film by the Leonard Cheshire Home for disabled people made in the 60s by the people living in the home offering a very different perspective. |
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