More than 750 films focusing on 20th-century British countryside traditions and customs made available on internetThey were more innocent times when it was acceptable to throw heated coins at children on Boxing Day or adopt a young seal and keep it in the muddy village pond. Now, films of these events and other everyday tales of British rural life over the last 100 years have been released online by the British Film Institute.The BFI is putting online more than 750 films, dating from 1900 to 1999, the latest chapter in its Britain on Film project which launched last summer.
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