Film Topic: Special Events
When people took a trip to a special event they often took their movie camera along with them to record the action. This category is for all those occasions which have been preserved here on Vintage Home Movies.
The red arrows have been thrilling audiences since their formation in the mid 1960s, and this post features a display they performed sometime in the 1970s
The film included in this post is a documentary film made by a member of the British Pershing Rifles team during a trip to a championship meeting in the USA in 1961.
An exciting Super 8 film of an Air Display or Airshow which took place sometime in the 1970s in the UK.
The embedded film in this post is a riveting 4 minute vintage home movie which captured the events of the London to Brighton car run in October 1961
A mysterious opening ceremony which took place in the 1960s which was captured on Ilford 8mm film.
This home movie is a film which has taken a quite exciting subject of an airshow and unfortunately rather spoilt it because is has been badly underexposed.
A fascinating vintage home movie showing some classic and vintage cars at a display in May 1962.
A short clip from a single reel of standard 8 film showing a group of people trying to launch a hot air balloon.
A standard 8mm vintage home movie showing the opening ceremony of a new barracks for the Parachute Regiment opened by Field Marshal Montgomery.
A vintage home movie which shows some sort of military display or tattoo which took place in Aldershot in the 1970s
The vintage home movie which this post features shows a flying display by the tiger club, which is a vintage airplane flying club.
This post features a recently discovered 8mm home movie which was taken in Rothenburg ob der Tauber at the time the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was being filmed
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