🎬British Movietone - This years distribution of the Royal Maundy money took place at Winchester Cathedral which is celebrating it's 900th Anniversary. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh attended the Service and Her Majesty handed out the purses containing the specially minted Maundy pennies. Later in the day the Queen and Duke visited Knightswood Oak in the New Forest and there Her Majesty planted an Oak tree.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Pathé – Veteran cars (key). GV Beaulieu - people in grounds. LS same - car in f/g. MS tram in the museum. CU Lord Montagu and his fiancée - Belinda Crossley. Closer Belinda Crossley. Same - greeting late Mike Hawthorn's mother. MS greeting Mr & Mrs Stirling Moss. MS S Moss with Raymond Mays. CU Tony Brooks. CU Lord Brabazon. Longer - same unveils tablet. CU tablet. MS veteran car. TS same. Another - same. FS another line of veteran cars. MS Leo Villa looking at Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1921 Sunbeam. CU same - engine. MS Stirling Moss with Sir Henry Seagrave's 1929 'Golden Arrow'. CU 'Golden Arrow'. CU tribute plaque to Mike Hawthorn & Peter Collins. MS the cars they once raced. MS Alfa Romeo - next to Hawthorn's Le Mans Jaguar. Pan - veteran car drives past.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - Dibden Purlieu. A craftsman from the New Forest has devoted most of his life reproducing the vitality of the forest wildlife in fine wood carvings - the result - hundreds of delicately carved masterpieces.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode2 John Arlott's Avington. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

Episode 2 John Arlott's Avington. The earliest surviving recording of BBC South is from 1962 and includes a feature by the illustrious sports broadcaster John Arlott, who produced a series of reports called ABC of the South, visiting places around the region in alphabetical order. One of the first came from the village of Avington, nestling in the Itchen Valley just east of Winchester. Roger Johnson has been re-tracing his steps.

NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.

🎬A look at how the Forestry Commission manage the New Forest. From the early days of forestry to the changing attitudes to wildlife, this film looks at modern day harvesting in the New Forest National Park.

🎬From British Gaumont, an unusual method of wildlife filmmaking. A family of rabbits are under threat from foxes, badgers, a shotgun wielding home-owner and the German Airforce.

The "Secrets of Life" series ran from 1934 to 1950

Gaumont British Instructional Films - Secrets of Life.
Released by General Film Distributors Ltd
Release Date: 1942
Film Title: Once We Were Four...
Director: Mary Field
Photography: Oliver Pike
Commentary: EVH Emmett