Watford Street Scenes

Look at Life: Shopping by the Ton

January 1960 •English

A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.

Look at Life: Market Place

January 1959 •English

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.

Like It Is

July 1968 •English

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.

The London Nobody Knows

December 1968 •English

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

Sunshine in Soho

January 1956 •English

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Meet the Mayor

December 1968 •English

A new piazza proposed for Leicester market is met by public opposition. This is a city described by one local historian as unromantic, so what do the developers expect?

The Coast of Commerce

May 1962 •English

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

Here is the News

January 1968 •English

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

Stockton-on-Tees

October 1910 •

Residents of the Cleveland market town of Stockton High Street smile for the camera on market day.

Hyde Park Corner

January 1896 •English

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital (today the Lanesborough Hotel) can be seen on the right of the picture. The road stretching away in the centre of the picture is Grosvenor Crescent. The busy two way horsedrawn traffic movement is seen on what would today be Grosvenor Place and Apsley Way (the road layout now is different to 1896). The approximate camera position would be today on Apsley Way, just east of the Royal Artillery Memorial. Not to be confused with another Hyde Park Corner film by British Pathé made in the same year but with a different view. (That film looks north towards the triumphal arch at the corner of Hyde Park next to Apsley House.)

Artifice

Invalid date •French

Oryu Market

September 2023 •Korean

Wake Up, Helsinki!

January 1939 •Finnish

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Pour ne pas oublier l'invisible

September 2024 •French

Ride on the Tram Car through Belfast

May 1901 •English

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Fishball Revolution

Invalid date •English

An asylum seeker from Hong Kong builds a new life for himself in Glasgow, using his passion for street food to maintain his cultural identity.

Cattle Market in Derry

May 1902 •

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

An Eastern Market

February 1928 •English

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Imphal Bazaar

May 1934 •English

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

Market Day in Bitola

September 1905 •Macedonian

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.