River of Life 2006

We are proud to present our third programme of unique archive films from Herefordshire. This year we are looking at the 1960s and 1970s, and some unusual Hereford customs and characters.

Herefordshire in the News
(Black and White, 1960, 1965, 1972, 1973, 20’)
Peter Brown reports from Herefordshire about the ancient custom of wassailing the orchard. Lionel Hampden meets a Hereford doctor who has been in practice for fifty years using only a pony and trap for transport. A visit to The Olde Tavern at Kington run by sisters Gertrude and May Jones who were both in their 80s. In line with an old custom a young reporter kisses the church steeple in Peterchurch. This reporter has gone on to dominate our screens today, can you guess who it is?

Of Cider and Apples
(Colour, early 1960s, 13’)
A look at the history of the Bulmer’s cider making, and some of the colourful characters involved, with some lovely shots of the Herefordshire countryside.

Cattle at Hereford
(Black and White, 1974, 7’)
A newsreel item that looks at Hereford cattle and the cattle market in full swing.

King George V
(Colour, 1970, 12’)
The story of the famous steam engine that found a home in Hereford in the 1970s. A must for all enthusiasts of steam locomotives, with archive footage of the earliest days of steam.

Wartime Secrets
Director: Naomi Vera Sanso (UK, 2005, 32’)
Interviews with former workers are interwoven with film shot in the 1940s at Barronia Metals, a secret wartime factory right in the heart of Hereford.

Participating Flicks venues in Herefordshire will be showing some of these films as shorts.

This project was part-financed by the European Union (EAGGF) and DEFRA through the Herefordshire LEADER+ Programme and Screen West Midlands.

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