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Avebury – a Shell Country Guide film from 1955. Narrated by John Betjeman

Avebury – a Shell Country Guide film from 1955. Narrated by John Betjeman

Posted 02 March 2010 | By Michael | Categories: Oddities, Other Videos | 1 Comment

The Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution

Posted 02 November 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Articles, Blogs, Other Videos | 1 Comment

ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT SOCYBERTY.COM
The Neolithic Revolution represents the greatest turning point in the history of civilisation, and shaped the future of mankind. In this article we’ll take a look at how and why it happened.
(This article stands as an introduction to a series the author is writing called Lost Civilisations).
The Neolithic Revolution was the first and [...]

Short film: “The Ancient Mystery”

Posted 07 July 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Other Videos, Websites | No Comments

Another ‘homegrown’ film that attempts to get in touch with our ancient heritage – this time focussed on the West Country. I know very little about this film other than what can be found on “The Ancient Mystery” homepage.

“Phil Day on a tour of England’s West Country comes across an extraordinary discovery on the wilds [...]

The Stonehenge landscape in 3D movie

Posted 02 June 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Blogs, Other Videos | No Comments

Over at the Wessex Archaeology blog archaeologist Tom Goskar has posted this wonderful 3D flyby of the Stonehenge landscape:
A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo.
He writes:
“We have recently finished creating a short animation for the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” at the Royal Academy in London. The three minute video demonstrates “Stonehenge [...]

Stunning time-lapse photography

Posted 05 May 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Blogs, News, Oddities, Other Videos, Travel, Websites | 3 Comments

Just sit back and enjoy this film by Tony Partington. As a film maker myself, I am a bit in awe of the vision, craft and patience needed to get results like this.
I advise you watch it in full-screen mode.
“Lapse of Memory” aims to give a new visual perspective on some of the prehistoric sites [...]

Stunning megalithic time-lapse footage

Posted 14 August 2008 | By Michael | Categories: Other Videos | No Comments

EMPIRE OF STONE – BEST OF THE ‘ANCIENT SKIES’ TIMELAPSE from PMW Creative on Vimeo.
Grant Wakefield is a cameraman and part of a team called PMW Creative who provide “cutting edge specialist cinematography  for commercials, corporates, feature films, special venue films, large format presentations and high-definition video” … in their own words.
The clip above is, [...]

Bronze Age beer making video

Posted 29 June 2008 | By Michael | Categories: Oddities, Other Videos | 1 Comment

How to make Bronze Age beer.
I’ll say no more – except to say that if I had my time over and somebody had said make a film about Standing Stones and stuff that’ll take you two years to complete and a whole lot of work getting it noticed – or – investigate the making of [...]

Stonehenge Theories with Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap

Posted 17 June 2008 | By Michael | Categories: Other Videos | No Comments

Apologies about Stonehenge and National Geographic overkill at the moment, but I just had to include this series of clips from a spoof interview that National Geographic seem to have tagged on to the side of their ‘Stonehenge Decoded‘ programme. Enjoy.

Stonehenge Decoded (by National Geographic)

Posted 17 June 2008 | By Michael | Categories: News, Other Videos | No Comments

More about Stonehenge from National Geographic. Here are a series of excerpts from their new Tv show “Stonehenge Decoded”

I am worried by the wardrobe department’s choice to kit many of them out in ‘caveman’ skins. As far as I am aware, contemporary clothing remains have been recovered in Denmark and from the reconstructive illustrations I [...]