Reel History of Britain โ Season 1, Episode 20: Beside the Seaside
Documentary โข 30 min โข 1 season, 20 episodes โข โ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
The last stop is Blackpool, as we look at seaside holidays in the 1950s.
About Reel History of Britain
Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series being shown on BBC Two, presented by Melvyn Bragg and about the history of modern Britain; through the eyes of people who were there. It was shown from 5โ30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary, charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years, since the advent of moving film. In each episode, Bragg goes to a different place in the UK and shows people film in a 1950s Ministry of Technology mobile cinema, then gauges their reactions and captures them on film.