A VIDEO with short films dating back to 1919 has been produced by a town history museum.

A VIDEO with short films dating back to 1919 has been produced by a town history museum.

Wycombe Local History and Chair Museum, in Priory Avenue, High Wycombe, has made the video in a joint venture with High Wycombe Film Society.

The hour-long video, called A Portrait of Wycombe and Other Films, was produced because of increasing enquiries about a film that is played inside the museum.

Grace Wilson, museum assistant, said: 'We have the facility in the museum for our visitors to watch old films on video. But The Portrait of Wycombe was always playing and the number of enquiries we had on it spurred us on to make a video.'

The video has five short films including Peace Celebrations, a film made in 1919, and has been compiled by the museum and the society.

Mrs Wilson added: 'We originally had 150 produced but they sold straight away. If anyone does want a video, although we haven't got any in stock, we can have them done in the next day or so.'

John Smithson, a member of the High Wycombe Film Society, helped co-ordinate the video and said that Peace Celebrations and other community films would have been shown at one of High Wycombe's cinemas, like the Palace Cinema in Frogmoor.

The video is available from the Museum, Wycombe Library and Wycombe Tourist Information for £12.50.

See next week's Memories in the Bucks Free Press for more on John Smithson and the Peace Celebration film