...the first publicly accessible snapshot of the Harding footage! Thanks to Tim Emblem-English and his team's efforts, we have now received the digital files of Harding's films. We've put together a short preview film with clips from a few of the canisters, available to view on YouTube.
On the top of each clip you will see our reference number for the footage's original canister. In this short film we have selected clips from four canisters - LH2, LH4, LH15 and LH23.
The first clip, from canister LH2, shows a picnic scene at an unknown location. While most of the picnickers are unknown to us, one person we were able to identify in this clip is the archaeologist Olga Tufnell. Tufnell worked with Lankester Harding on several sites, and eventually was responsible for the publication of much of the Tell-Duweir excavations.
The first clip, from canister LH2, shows a picnic scene at an unknown location. While most of the picnickers are unknown to us, one person we were able to identify in this clip is the archaeologist Olga Tufnell. Tufnell worked with Lankester Harding on several sites, and eventually was responsible for the publication of much of the Tell-Duweir excavations.
Screen shot of Olga Tufnell smiling at a picnic, from film LH2. Courtesy of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
The clips were chosen to show the different sorts of activities Harding captured with his camera. While clips from LH15 and LH23 show excavation in progress, LH4 shows a more mundane (but necessary) factor of everyday life in the field - dental hygiene.
We're still researching the films to identify people and sites, so if anything in these clips looks familiar to you let us know!
We're still researching the films to identify people and sites, so if anything in these clips looks familiar to you let us know!
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