Despite a lack of cash, vandalism, and a split in the ranks, Bradford Movie Makers have created hundreds of films over the decades. Now a new documentary celebrates their love of the big screen
Amateur film-making in Bradford was once a glamorous pastime. At the height of the Bradford Movie Makers’ powers there was a seven-year waiting list for membership, hundreds attended the organisation’s annual film festival and every year bus loads of immaculately dressed members would descend on the seaside town of Bridlington for their summer trip.
Fast forward to 2019 and former club president Colin Egglestone, now 89, was outside in the middle of winter in pitch darkness determinedly painting over the graffiti on the doors of the clubhouse. It would barely last the evening before a fresh set of scribbles appeared. Bradford Movie Makers – set up in 1932 as Bradford Cine Circle – was in trouble. It had an ageing...
Amateur film-making in Bradford was once a glamorous pastime. At the height of the Bradford Movie Makers’ powers there was a seven-year waiting list for membership, hundreds attended the organisation’s annual film festival and every year bus loads of immaculately dressed members would descend on the seaside town of Bridlington for their summer trip.
Fast forward to 2019 and former club president Colin Egglestone, now 89, was outside in the middle of winter in pitch darkness determinedly painting over the graffiti on the doors of the clubhouse. It would barely last the evening before a fresh set of scribbles appeared. Bradford Movie Makers – set up in 1932 as Bradford Cine Circle – was in trouble. It had an ageing...
- 7/29/2022
- by Daniel Dylan Wray
- The Guardian - Film News
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