Lights of London
Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 31.12.63 2:53
Summary: Night footage including Christmas lights, stores and tourist sights taken of Central London by amateur filmmaker Bernard Chaplin.
Title number: 20207
LSA ID: LSA/26681
Description: The film shows the Christmas lights around Oxford Street and Regent Street and the colourful advertising around Piccadilly Circus. Red and green garlands of lights hang across the street under which vehicles pass. There are glimpses of several stores – Hamleys, Galeries Lafayette, Burberrys and Swan and Edgar. Illuminated advertising hoardings light up Piccadilly Circus. Adverts for alcohol, cigarettes and chewing gum dominate the signs. An illuminated sign for the Regent Place Hotel can be seen. The film finishes with a Christmas tree decorated with coloured lights.
Credits: Chaplin, Bernard (Filmmaker)
Further information: Bernard Chaplin bought his first camera with savings from work in 1958. He continued to shoot on film until he made the transfer to video in 1990. His films form part of a collection, which documents his family life and events in the Borough of Redbridge, as well as trips to central London, family holidays in the UK and abroad.
Whilst not all of these films show the London Borough of Redbridge, they are kept together as an archive of his filmmaking.
Keywords: Christmas; Festive; West End
In galleries: Merry London Christmas!
Locations: Oxford Street, Regents Street, Piccadilly Circus
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