Bendy Caravans and Everlasting Pens – a Portrait of Evered Wigg
2015, 100 minutes
The story of The Kinnodrome in Kessingland, Suffolk and its extraordinary owner.
The film documentary charts biographical details of Evered Wigg, his birth in the Victorian era into the Wigg family of Barnby - the Agricultural Implement Manufacturers - his youth, his involvement in both world wars and his work up to his death in the late 1960s. There is some historical background to the village of Kessingland in Suffolk, where he settled. The film looks at The Kinnodrome, which he built on the grounds of his home and ran as a silent picture house in the 1920s and his passion - if commercially unsuccessful - as an inventor. Regarded in the village as an 'eccentric', the film portrays the many facets from the humorous to the profound of this complex individual and humanitarian with his own words from his diaries and stories told of him by members of his family and people who knew him.