The Great British Movie Roadshow

BBC Two · BBC · 05 Aug 2010 · by: BBC

Those who thought that shooting video themselves and showing it off on YouTube was a new thing would be wrong. For a hundred years the British have filmed their own lives on their own cameras.

The Great British Movie Roadshow, presented by Dan Cruickshank and Kirsty Wark, with advice from film experts Robin Baker and Binny Baker, aims to seek out 100 years of Britain's home movies.

Appealing for people to send in their favourite pieces of home movie footage, an expert team of film historians has pored over public submissions along with amateur films already held in the nation's archives. The team also takes to the road in a specially constructed cine bus to hear about the films in person.

The stories in this programme include: a trip on the Roadshow bus to Bradford to see a recording of a young Princess Diana; a fantastic record of the last 50 years of Chingford in east London; what is believed to be the very first wedding video, shot in 1905 on the Isle of Bute; and the intimate home movies of the late Spike Milligan.