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Soho Stories
Long linked to flesh and pleasure, London’s infamous district merits a closer look. Here you’ll find jazz clubs, garrets, lewdness and lidos.
Together they created a place of tolerence during a puritan age. The world descended. The city changed.
Burlesque QueenBurlesque Queen
Documentary 1961 6 minsSilent Location: Soho
Tassel-spinning showgirl Tina stars in this rare 60s British burlesque stage show reel.
VampireVampire
Horror 1964 10 mins Location: Soho
Soho 'glamour' filmmaker George Harrison Marks plays girl-hungry vampire Count Dracula III in this strange striptease short
Xcitement!Xcitement!
Pornography 1960 5 minsSilent
Glamour goddess Pamela Green reveals all in a key ‘60s striptease collaboration with George Harrison Marks.
Sunshine in SohoSunshine in Soho
Documentary 1956 32 mins Location: Soho
1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.
SohoSoho
Documentary 1981 20 mins Location: Soho
A feminist view of how small businesses in London's Soho exploit working women.
Anton & MintyAnton & Minty
Fantasy 1995 18 mins Location: Soho
Minty’s hobbies include drinking tea, smoking roll-ups and falling into a coma, while Anton dreams of clinically depressed sheep breaking into the house.
London's ContrastsLondon's Contrasts
1924 12 mins Location: Hyde Park
Part of Wonderful London, the BFI National Archive’s programme of restored London travelogues, filmed in the capital in the 1920s.
Cosmopolitan LondonCosmopolitan London
Interest film 1924 10 mins Location: Soho
An extraordinary tour of Soho's French cafés, Clerkenwell's Little Italy and the lesser-trodden streets of Limehouse in the 1920s.
Central London TrafficCentral London Traffic
Government sponsored film 1956 12 mins Location: Soho
Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new - as we see from this colourful 1950s research film shot around the capital.
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