Joan Hammond c.1988. Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2016
1956-1998
Female
Businesswoman
A prolific filmmaker active in and around Essex, Joan Hammond was a founder member of the Clacton Cine Club in 1959, acting as club chairperson on three occasions between the 1960s and the 1990s. Joan and her husband Ted made films individually and as a team, sharing camera operating and editing duties on their family and travel films. Her own films tended to focus on local events and family holidays in the UK and abroad; her involvement in club productions included towards documentary productions.
Joan’s interest in local activities can be seen in films such as The Great Snowfall (1958) which captures images of the wintry conditions that froze Frinton, including cars being dug out, deserted streets and shops, and frozen power cables. Her travel films range from British trips in the 1950s – Woolverstone (1956) is a well-produced record of a family holiday, with images of caravans, settling in at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club campsite, and out on a sailing boat – to world travel in later decades when the family ventured further afield, as shown in A Date in Tunisia (1972) and Down Under Australia (1977).
Hammond worked alongside many of Clacton Cine Club’s other filmmakers including Sydney Manasseh, Laurie Stanton, D.J. Robinson, F. Wright, G. Wakefield, E. Tulley, Alan Gaffer, and Mrs E. Moore. Around sixty of Joan and Ted’s films are held at the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich (UK).
Ellis, Linda. 2016. ‘Obituary for Phyllis Joan Hammond: A Daughter of Great Holland.’ Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust Newsletter. Spring/Summer. [Online] Available at: https://www.fwheritage.co.uk/_webedit/uploaded-files/All%20Files/newsletters/FWHT_News_2016_Q1.pdf [accessed 19 December 2022].
EAFA. 2022. ‘The Great Snowfall.’ [Online] Available at: https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=2341 [accessed 19 December 2022].
EAFA. 2022. ‘Ratcliffe Garage.’ [Online] Available at: https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=1002920 [accessed 19 December 2022].
EAFA. 2022. ‘Woolverstone.’ [Online] Available at: https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=1051080 [accessed 19 December 2022].
Hammond, Joan. 1980. ‘Ideas: Club Film.’ [Typed script and handwritten notes, undated].
University of East Anglia (2023). 'Joan Hammond.' Accessed 24 January 2023. https://www.uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and-centres/projects/women-in-focus
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