The Halifax Cine Club is one of the largest and longest running cine clubs in Yorkshire, producing moving images on film from the 1920s through to the late 1980s, on nearly all small gauge formats. The diversity of the collections ranges from royal visits to VE Day celebrations, collaborative efforts on fiction films, to unusual competitions in Halifax. more...
This film features D. Harrison & Son, Fish Merchants, St Andrew's Dock, Hull. Harrison grew up in the fishing industry and eventually took over his father’s business after he retired, following a 40 year career on the docks. more...
While he began filmmaking in the 1930s, amateur filmmaker Ernest Taylor’s interest in filmmaking really took shape after the Second World War. He was seriously involved in making films from 1948-1955 and produced two feature films in 1951 and 1952. During this period he was also Chairman of the Huddersfield Cine Club, an honour which he enjoyed immensely. more...
A notable and recent acquisition at the YFA consists of over 50 films from the Leeds Movie Makers. Leeds Movie Makers are a non-profit making amateur movie club whose primary aim is to encourage movie making in its many forms by workshops, practical sessions, and film competitions. more...
Yorkshire's connection to filmmaking can be traced back to the very beginnings of the industry and one of Britain's premiere early filmmakers, James Bamforth. In two brief periods of activity, 1898-1900 and 1913-1915, Bamforth and Company of Holmfirth was responsible for producing this regionally and nationally significant collection. more...
Kathleen Cole was born several months before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. On the birth of his first and only child, her father, Albert, bought a cine camera and went on to record Kathy’s life for the next thirty years. more...
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