UNDERSTANDING THE PAST (ARCHIVE SHOW)

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered beyond recognition. For older viewers it may serve as a reminder, for younger viewers it may serve as a challenge. Once again this year we are delighted to be having a screening at the Theatre Organ Heritage Centre, with live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment.

 

We've bittersweet 60s romance in a vanished landscape in COULD BE ANYONE, glimpses of the defiant local spirit during wartime in MANCHESTER TOOK IT TOO and CALLING BLIGHTY, not to mention DO YOU WANT SUNDAY CINEMA AND GAMES?, a hearffelt plea for film entertainment in a time of crisis. There's a Technicolor fashion parade in QUEEN COTTON, workplace improvements to the music of Jack Parnell in CHASING THE BLUES, and an eye-opening reminder of what the Northern Quarter looked like before the trendies moved in in WHAT'S SO FUNNY? and SMITHFIELD MARKET, 1853 - 1973.

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be