In this 2nd episode, we collate rare colour Oxfordshire footage shot in 1944 by US airforce officers. Film clips concentrate on the social life in Oxf...
May Morning, Oxford 1993
Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993. Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993 to hear Magdalen's ch...
Varsity Trip: The Oxford and Cambridge Ski Trip
In 1949, filmmakers Guy L. Coté and Hugh Wyn Griffith directed the film ‘Sestrieres’ for the Oxford Ski Club, about their trip to the Italian ski reso...
A Yank Abroad: Visiting (and re-visiting) the Oxfordshire countryside
Rare 16 mm film footage from the mid-1930s of american tourists touring the Oxfordshire countryside by bike, and also footage shot by US airforce crew...
Mesopotamia: An Oxford Archaeological Expedition
Film of the joint expedition to Kish, Mesopotamia, by Oxford University with the Field Museum of Natural History, of Chicago, Illinois, from 1920-29. ...
Oxford At War: Footage from Mount Farm Airbase
World War Two arrives in Oxford in this episode, using never before seen Oxford footage from a US Flight Surgeon for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Uni...
A Day on the River: The Oxford Steamers
Salter’s Steamers have operated since 1858, and we revisit them in the 1940s as an American U.S.A.F Unit make use of a break from their war service to...
Oxford: Then and Now
We compare and contrast locations in and around the city from the 1940s, and the present day. How have the places and people changed? How present is t...
Attic to Archive - Welcome to the Dreaming Spools Project
In this episode we take you on a trip through time as we introduce a selection of the archive film footage that the Dreaming Spools project has discov...