Snobs & Clowns: Northamptonshire on Film 1932 - 1989

Snobs & Clowns Northamptonshire on Film 1932 to 1989

 

Running Time: 60 Mins

Format: 1 Disc, DVD PAL       

Ratio: 16:9 (Archive 4:3)

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Northamptonshire is well known for its shoemaking industry which grew from the rich local countryside that provided cattle for leather manufacturing. The importance of rural life in the county of "spires and squires" is shown in many of the films in this DVD compilation, from home movies made on a farm in the 1940s, to a thrilling aerial view of the county aboard a plane in 1964.

Chapters

  1. Town & Trade
  2. The Rural County
  3. Days Out

Northamptonshire is well known for its shoemaking industry which grew from the rich local countryside that provided cattle for leather manufacturing. The importance of rural life in the county of "spires and squires" is shown in many of the films in this DVD compilation, from home movies made on a farm in the 1940s, to a thrilling aerial view of the county aboard a plane in 1964.

Amongst the films are Focus on Northampton, a 1965 documentary by Anglia Television which looks at Northampton’s livestock market, theater, schools, colleges and places of work. In a 1964 film from ATV’s Midland Montage programme, British Formula One racing driver, Jim Clark takes a drive in a Triumph Spitfire over the newly resurfaced track at Silverstone. The Days Out section shows fascinating glimpses of the county at play, circus elephants arriving at the railway station, a 1950s synchronised cycling display and a 1930s trip to Wicksteed Park.

You will also see a variety of films from the regional news programme ATV Today which ran from 1964 to 1981, including reports on shoe making at Long Buckby (1964); Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum (1968); tenants of Althorp Estate (1983); skittle making (1989) and a number of clips of the British Conker Championships in Ashton.

The DVD also includes a short film, ‘About MACE’, a behind the scenes look at the work of the MACE team and the services they provide.