Leeds On Film

PG

From the birth of cinematography, with the first ever moving images shot on Leeds Bridge in 1888, this specially curated screening from the Yorkshire Film Archive will take audiences on a trip through time. It brings together footage from some of those early pioneering filmmakers alongside the films of enthusiastic cine club members and amateur home movie makers, steeped in local events, people, places and a rich slice of everyday life in Leeds.

The screening features the building and opening of Lewis’s in the 1930s, the new Leek Street flats at Hunslet Grange, the popular Flowers for Leeds festival and the huge Children’s Day events in Roundhay Park in the late 1950s. We’ll take a look at the glory days of Leeds United and the Leeds Rhinos in the 1970s, West Indian carnivals, student life at Leeds University and the planning controversies of Leeds Market, plus much more besides.

Graham Relton, Archive Manager at the Yorkshire Film Archive, will also be on hand to provide introductions and context to the clips, that document the ways in which Leeds has developed over the decades.