Sunny Southend

Wondering where to go for your holidays this year? Try Southend! This film won two stars in the Ten Best amateur film competition in 1984.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Lego
• travelogue
• animation
• stop motion

[MrBb100000]

@johnofbristol this film was brilliant, do you have anymore for us to look at?

[johnofbristol]

@MrBb100000 Try "St George and the Dragon", "And all because the lady loves ..", "Newsreel", and "Theseus and the Minotaur" (in 6 parts). I did a number of others, but have not had them digitised. Glad you liked my take on Southend. I lived there for many years.

[movieman36]

Give us some info please on the making of, when made etc. Were you once a resident? Would love to know.

[johnofbristol]

@movieman36 : I was born in Southend in 1947 and lived there until 1989. I made a number of stop motion films using Lego in the early 1980's. Lego is good for stop motion because the bricks stay where you have clipped them. The cloth used for grass and the sea is ripstop nylon from the kite shop. The splashes of water round the paddle steamer etc are Lego too: it is shredded cellophane off the Lego boxes. Film is Ektachrome 160 Super 8.

[Southendheritage]

Thats superb well done amazing works must have taken ages to put together.