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Many companies and organisations in the past have used film to advertise their business or to publicise their products or services. In the Wessex Film and Sound Archive a number of companies are represented in the collection, including films by piston ring manufacturers Wellworthy, biscuit makers Huntley & Palmer, shipbuilders Vosper Thornicroft, and films by the Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society (PIMCO) such as 'Building Works and Behind the Scenes'. One interesting and unusual example of film held by the Wessex archive made by a corporate body is the film 'Forest Heritage' by ESSO made in the 1950s. The film does not cover the work of the company itself but provides a portrayal of the New Forest countryside surrounding the large ESSO refinery there. The film contrasts with other films made by ESSO which tend to feature their industrial processes. 'Forest Heritage' includes footage of New Forest rural areas, villages, and towns, along with illustrations of traditional scenes and activities in the New Forest such as timber cultivation, the sale of New Forest ponies, thatching, and hunting. There are several other films in the archive's collection which focus on the rural aspects of the region but have been made by other individuals including 'Scenes from Village Life' (1948) which reflects a rural idyll of the Hampshire villages of Burghclere and Newtown in 1948 and as 'Seed Time and Harvest' (1937) which illustrates traditional farming in the region in the 1930s. |
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