Movie Society Film Packed with Local Personalities Alfred Horner, Joan Camier, Tony Tookey, Tony Night, David Smeed, Jeffrey Waters, Pauline Morris etc. take part in this movie club film made in one evening.
Tag: Joan Camier
Discover Joan Camier in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Rye Movie Society”, “David Smeed”, “Queen Mother Visits Rye 1980”, and “On Parade 1967”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Queen Mother Visits Rye 1980
A Rye & District Movie Society Film made of the visit of H M The Queen Mother to Rye in her position as Warden of the Cinque Ports. It was July1980 and guns were forged and placed in the Gungarden for her inspection. Movie Society stalwarts, Joan Camier, Robert De Croix, “Dickie” Dickenson, Fred Masters, … Continue reading Queen Mother Visits Rye 1980
David Smeed
By Jim Hollands It seemed that the whole of Tilling Green from the 1950’s and 60’s had turned up at Playden Church for the funeral of one of Rye’s unsung heroes. There were faces there I had not seen for 50 years or more. They came to pay respects to a very talented man.
Joan Camier
From Rye’s Own April 2010 Motor Cycles and Movie Films were her Passion 1925 – 2010 By Jim Hollands It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Joan Camier. I spoke to her last outside Magdala House in 2008 before she moved to Nothiam to live with, and be looked … Continue reading Joan Camier
Rye Movie Society
The Technicians Before the days of video cameras and digital equipment which includes sound as an incidental, hours of recording time on a minute electronic chip and computer editing, there was cine film.
Movie Society Dinner 1970
NEW TROPHY The Rye & District Movie Society’s Annual Dinner, held at the Ship Inn, Rye on Friday 27th February was another great success in the long tradition of successful events run by this go-ahead group of movie makers. Fifty-eight members and friends wined, dined and watched four films, two of which, were elected by … Continue reading Movie Society Dinner 1970