Fenlands | Past Exhibitions | Fenland Stories 2010-2011 | Fenland Stories Exhibition - The Films | A selection of the films produced for the project

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The project has helped museums to collaborate with local community and young people's groups to bring fenland folklore alive through film making.

Most films have been created by the young people or groups themselves.

Here are a selection of films currently showing on the “whispering willow” during the 2010 - 2011 touring exhibition.

The Buried Moon - A Tale of Light Versus Dark & Good Versus Evil

A legend of Fenland folklore. A Film by The Garage, Ely.

Enid Porter

A tale from Enid Porters collection of stories. By the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, Craft Group.

The Disappearing Meres of Whittlesey - The Drainage of the Great Fen

A Film by the Great Fen Project

Samuel and the Worm - By "Kings Films"

A tragic tale of death, worms and ghostly haunting

Long Tom - A scary tale of a headstrong lad, boggarts, boggles and dead hands

A film by Whittlesey Youth & Community Centre

The Dauntless Girl - By VIVA Youth group

The girl who laughed in the face of the horrors of the Fens. By VIVA Youth group

The Straw Bear - The origins of the famous dancing straw bear

The origins of the famous dancing straw bear of Whittlesey. A film by FUSED youth group, Whittlesey Youth & Community Centre.

This page was added on 19/07/2010.

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