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How are small local shops surviving in the face of competition from supermarket chains and fast food stores?

Shopkeepers and residents of the Hanover area of Brighton talk about the changing role or corner shops in the community.

Talking Shops

Colour - 10 minutes - 1986

Made with equipment supplied by
Barefoot Video

Playing Safe

Colour - 20 minutes - 1988

Made with equipment supplied by Twentieth Century Vixen

When Brighton Council drew up plans for a badly needed playground for the children of central Brighton, they neglected to consult local residents.

This video shows that the lack of a park-keeper may jeapordise the investment the council made in Tarner Park.

Brighton's only surviving foundry was about to be demolished to make way for yet another car park. A foundry since the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a coachworks and before that part of a farm. Some of the farm buildings can still be seen behind Boots at the Clocktower.

The British Video Unit Trust enabled this record to be made of the work of this unique industrial site in the heart of Brighton.

Cast Aside was shown at the National Film Theatre in 1991.

Cast Aside

Colour - 20 minutes - 1990

Made with equipment supplied by the BUFVC and edited at Twentieth Century Vixen's studios

Hanover Video are no longer making films, they were Anne Lacey, Nicola Swainson, John Warr, Roger West and Candy Wighton.