Eastbourne on Film: Eastbourne 1966

We’re pleased to continue our partnership with Screen Archive South East to offer our reader a glimpse into their collection. Each month, we bring you a snippet from the archive, all filmed right here in Eastbourne.

Eastbourne’s entertainment facilities are highlighted in this publicity film made to promote the pleasures and delights of the seaside town and its surroundings. Filmed on a beautiful sunny day, Eastbourne is described as the ‘Sun trap of the South’, with the coffee house having “an atmosphere that is almost continental’ and the flowered ‘carpet’ gardens on Grand Parade being a ‘magnificent centrepiece’.

Screen Archive South East is a publicly-funded regional film archive serving the South East of England and its six local authorities: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Medway, Surrey and West Sussex. Established in 1992 by the University of Brighton, the British Film Institute and a consortium of local authorities, SASE is dedicated to collecting, preserving, digitising, cataloguing and providing public and commercial access to its screen collection of films, videotapes, lantern slides and digital files. Its collection of over 25,000 items documents the rise of screen culture in the region and the nation and represents primarily the changing nature of life in the South East from the late 19th century to the present day.