Home Front films
To commemorate the 75th anniversaries of V.E. and V.J. Day, Digital Drama has created 4 short films using little seen WWII archive footage from London’s Screen Archives.
Enjoy our new blockbusters including the celebrations of VE Day, created with film from other London Boroughs accompanied by a soundtrack recorded by Croydon residents alongside those from Merton, Camden, Kingston, Hounslow and Ealing.
Topics include Evacuation, Digging for Victory and Living through the Blitz.
Click the links to watch the films.
Supported by a grant of £59,900 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Digital Drama trained 35 volunteers across London to deliver reminiscence and recording workshops to gather the memories of 90 older residents in 6 London boroughs of Camden, Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston, Croydon and Merton.
Working with the Heritage and Archive departments of these 6 boroughs, Digital Drama have edited WW2 childhood memories together with the archive footage to create 4 new films themed Digging for Victory, Bombing & the Blitz, Evacuation and VE/VJ Day.