Yorkshire Philosophical Society

Event Information

Framing the Past
Graham Relton, Archive Manager, Yorkshire Film Archive

The Yorkshire Film Archive brings you 100 years of Yorkshire life captured on film. The screening will include WW1 battalions marching over Lendal Bridge, the frozen Ouse, York’s historic Mystery Plays, and a look at the cutting edge technology of the late 1950s – the installation of a giant computer at Reckitt & Sons in Hull.

Report
by Bob Hale

The Yorkshire Film Archive packed out the Tempest Anderson Hall in January 2009, and another large audience gathered for this second visit. A varied selection of films covered nearly every decade from the 1890s to the 1970s. Promotional films of historic York were to be expected. More surprising, but neatly complementing recent lectures on computers, was the careful record of Reckitt & Coleman of Hull’s first huge mainframe, arriving on three large lorries in 1959. How technology has advanced! We watched, amongst other items, the Barnsley Battalion of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment, after inspection in York, marching off to France in 1915; and a Rotherham bank manager’s amateur, yet supremely professional, film of a happy seaside family holiday in Filey in 1939. At the end, we were reminded that charities like the Yorkshire Film Archive need our continuing support in preserving such priceless evidence of the way we were.

Follow this link to the Yorkshire Film Archive website:
http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/

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