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ID S OA 2 D B U M W . A S D L E T 64 G A D St. 7 shelves L A S L R N L O EED film through chair of the City of Film Board LO I R George’s T S R Beginning his film career making Centenary Crown E O in March R H Bradford Bradford Gallery B S D AD O G A A64 C Square Hall E Court 7 and through. A G College Bradford Big Screen R O documentaries with the GPO film unit D N A Q 6 K E R 1957. The novel tells the story of Joe Lampton who I R CHA City A O L U NNING N B L R E In a North Country industrial town, a provincial Simon Beaufoy (Born 1967) S P W 4 E and during the WWII with the RAF Film T A M E Hall D G L LEGEND L O T B R A B arrives in the fictional town of Warnley determined to U N WE R E Y R A T L LL E C I S ID D undertaker’s clerk Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) Unit, he made a film for Granada about L E N G S S T G R E makeFU something of himself. T A T C N E R PedestrianLL roadsER Nominated for an I A I TON Bradford R D . E . FILE STR exists in a drab monotony but escapes, Walter Fidel Castro’s rise to power, Cuba…si! E Alhambra S C A T Y ST EET N ’ Magistrates L T I REE S S T College E A L R The Leisure Oscar in 1997 for T D V Y R Theatre A E Buses only and, for BP, Guiseppina, a film showing

A T Court E E S Mitty like, into a world of fantasy and invention. O . W H T 2 Exchange L R He sets his sightsE on the daughter of a rich AT . A P U his script for The Full RE H T L A 7 I E the comings and goings at a remote G ORTO N 3 S Y 1 T The district became the backdrop for the film: the 8 H R Y S G 2 N Placeindustrialist, of Interest but falls in love with an unhappily E T L N 1 S Monty, -born R R National 6 E U petrol station in Italy. The film won an University O O O A S M L BRADFORD Victoria Hotel, War Memorial, Victoria Square, and V M T G Media S married older woman, Alice Aisgill. The film, which Beaufoy brought A E R U Academy Award in 1963. of Bradford N O Interchange A Public buildings K T C O H C of course Southgate, location for the fictional firm of V E Museum N ES H some gritty realism to I R Bus and Train W L . TE was nominatedU for six Oscars, was shot in City Hall, L R . E C E L S Station B undertakers ‘Shadrack & Duxbury’ where in 1997 a

N University/College L W 1 Central T his tale of desperate A IL S at the Boy and Barrel pub on Jamesgate, on Ivegate, T TO Ice R R E N T Library 7 DRY George Layton (Born 1943) Gallery II and S E 4 DEN E R T R Rink A6 S plaque was unveiled by Director John Schlesinger as steel workers M . . E TRE E E W CarWestgate Tparks and Kirkgate and at Cartwright Hall. Theatre in Tasmin Little E T ET O D E E D M M R E T B A A N U T S part of the Cinema 100 celebrations. shedding their clothes O N D the Mill R Music Centre T D T. T R N S S A OF OS K An accomplished TO A T E N R I W D W E Taxi ranks R P . RP C T N to raise hard cash. Of course Simon O S SHA T HA F H E C A A C H E G . A T L T I actor, screenwriter A M H E N S E E G R K R A B R HO R U L Beaufoy went on to win the Academy G W E T N D E I Y D Public toilets with E O T A S S S F S R R E I and author, George V E D E N A I T T E T T E Award in 2009 for his for E F S disabled facilities S N I S R R S T O E O N B L E O T A . A R R O W R C S T T D Layton became a R N S R L N W E O A E R Y E A T R I A Y L R D the multi-award winning Slumdog L L D P . E E 1 Y L S O D E A R L A N S E Tourist Information Centre familiar face on G L C T E D R E O I . O

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1 A L Bradford Metropolitan District Council 100019304 2009. . E John Braine’s earth-shattering debut A to St. Luke’s B C D X ST D The National W Director: Peter Yates IRFA House. He slipped easily into the writing Produced by 3.9.09 www.fwt.co.uk Hospital RAD FA to Bolling Hall Director: Terry Jones Director: novel Room at the Top sent shock waves Media Museum Cast: , Tom Courtenay, role and went on to become lead writer. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Cast: , , Helena through the literary establishment in is a fabulous free , As an actor he appeared in The Liver Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle 1957 and, when it hit the big Birds, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, The Sweeney museum devoted to years later, ushered in a new permissive Not long ago practically every provincial town and Minder whilst his writing credits film, photography, world of sexual liberation. Born in and city boasted a repertory theatre providing The King’s Speech is a forthcoming historical include Don’t Wait Up and Executive television, radio and Bradford, Braine endured a number of a home for touring companies and the actors This film, which marked a nostalgic return by drama directed by Tom Hooper, who also Stress. the web. Without that made up their ranks. Bradford was no the Python team to the sketch format of their directed (see below). dead-end jobs until becoming a librarian in Bingley. Following wartime service in question one of the most important different with the Alhambra respected as one of original television shows, was to be the last the , Braine took up writing Timothy West (Born 1934) film resources in Bradford, the the North’s premier venues. significant project that all six Pythons would The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI National Media Museum provides full-time in 1951. collaborate on. and Geoffrey Rush as the former Australian A most versatile and a focus for screenings and festivals Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) In The Dresser, set in wartime , an gold miner and unorthodox speech therapist accomplished actor including the annual Bradford (Born 1953) eccentric actor leads his disenchanted company The film is by far their darkest work but also Lionel Logue, who was employed to help the his film credits include International Film Festival, Bradford Director: Alan Parker and devoted dresser on a journey from one Cast: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, features some of the Python’s most elaborate king overcome a stammer. Initially a child star in TVs Here Come The Day of the Jackal Animation Festival and BAF Game. alongside Edward drab venue to another. The Alhambra was James Laurenson, musical numbers, including the classic ‘Every the Double Deckers!, Firth burst onto the Pick up a programme and don’t Fox, Cry Freedom chosen as it retained so many of its original Sperm is Sacred’, parts of which were filmed in The opening scene, set at the close of the 1925 theatre scene in 1974 as psychologically miss the amazing IMAX Screen - as The film, based on the album and live stage with Kevin Kline and Georgian features and remains proud of its Bradford’s Lister Park. British Empire Exhibition at , damaged Alan Strang in , opposite tall as five double-decker buses, it connection with the film. Visitors will find a show, tells of a troubled rock star’s descent into was filmed on location at Stadium, . The film version gave Iris with . He is also a prolific screens spectacular large-format modest tribute to the movie and its cast as they madness in the midst of his physical and social home of the . him a best supporting actor Oscar films in 2D and 3D. isolation from everyone around him. Keighley www.bradfordmuseums.org/cartwrighthall nomination. He went on to a string of films and popular television actor in roles such enter the auditorium. as hard-nosed 1930s Yorkshire Baron and railway stations were used as including Letter to Brezhnev, The Hunt for www.odsal.com Bradley Hardacre in Brass. www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/alhambra locations for the film. Red October and Pearl Harbor. Since 2002 he has starred in the TV series .

Coronation Street (1960 – The film’s Bradford sequences Spooks: Code 9 (2008) LA Without a Map (1999) The Trilogy (2009) (1984) present) 7 5 were shot in , F Director: Mika Kaurismaki 6 In the aftermath of a nuclear attack Forster Square (now demolished) Directors: Julian Jarrold, James Director: Malcolm Mowbray Cast: David Tennant, Vinessa The UK’s longest running TV soap on Britain, a team of rookie MI5 and the unique sandstone sculpture Marsh, Anand Tucker Cast: Michael Palin, Maggie Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent shot part of a sensational courtroom ‘spooks’ works to rebuild the country of a grandfather clock, mirror and Cast: , Mark Addy, Smith, , Gallo appearance in in by gathering intelligence from local armchair in Little Germany. , Daniel early 2007. communities. The former Central A Bradford-based undertaker (David Mays, Warren Clarke In a small northern town in 1947, Police Station provided locations for Tennant) takes off on a journey of The Damned United (2009) A tv adaptation of David Peace’s Dr Swaby and his accomplices plan this series. a lifetime – to the bright lights of Red Riding Quartet these three films, a private dinner to celebrate the California – when he falls for an The Royal (2003 to the present) Director: Tom Hooper set against a background of serial Royal Wedding. The success of American actress. Cast: , Jim murders, deal with multi-layered the feast depends on one secret ITV favourite The Royal is a medical corruption in the police and local ingredient: a black market pig Bradford-born writer Richard Broadbent, Timothy Spall, drama set in St Aidan’s Royal Free government. Though real crimes named Betty. Rayner’s cult best-seller ‘LA Without Joseph Dempsie Hospital in the sea-side town of feature, they are fictionalised and a Map’ focuses on 22-year old Elsinby. The show is filmed primarily in This fictional take on ’s dramatised versions of events rather Featuring a veritable gallery of The majority of the story was Richard, who has inherited his Scarborough however many hospital troubled 44-day tenure as manager than factual accounts. In common British acting talent and written by filmed on location in , father’s business in Bradford and something more exciting. During a ward scenes are shot at St Luke’s of United FC in 1974 is based with the Damned United, locations , the film stars Michael where an empty parade of is destined to marry the dull but funeral his life is turned upside down Hospital, Bradford in the now disused on the novel by David Peace. included the former Central Police Palin as hen-pecked chiropodist shops was restored to life, whilst well-meaning daughter of a wealthy when he meets Barbara, a beautiful Maternity Wing. Station in Bradford. Gilbert Chilvers and country sequences were shot in local businessman but longs for young actress from Los Angeles. as his ambitious wife. . Movie Trail: Bradford District (1970) line nestled A in the heart Director: of Bronte Cast: , Bernard Cribbins, country. In Ilkley F William Mervyn, , 1968, shortly before it re- Few children’s films are as beloved as The Railway opened, the line was used E Harewood Children, the adventures of three children plucked from their home to live in rural Yorkshire as the base close to a railway line. Shot largely on locations at for the BBC’s Station, near Keighley, in the summer television adaptation Keighley & Worth Leeds of 1969, the film is a timeless classic that evokes memories of a gentler world and kinder times. The of E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel. Two years later Jenny Keighley B Valley Railway D Bradford Agutter, then aged 17, recreated her television role Bingley Airport Keighley & Railway provided the steam Oakworth A locomotives and the track, five miles of preserved of Bobbie for Lionel Jeffries’ film. D E Saltaire C D

Haworth & the Bronte Parsonage Museum Rita, Sue & Bob Too (1986) BRADFORD C D Director: Undercliffe Cemetery Numerous films 5 Cast: Michelle Holmes, have been made Cartwright Hall 4 LEEDS , of the work , Lesley of the Brontë National Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir Media Museum sisters, many of which have used The film Haworth as a tells the location. The story of two Brontë Parsonage girls from Museum has a rundown in its collection Council some graveyard estate in Yanks (1979) headstones used Bradford B in the 1939 film who babysit Director: John Schlesinger of Wuthering for a relatively affluent couple living Cast: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, , Heights which starred and Merle Oberon, as in a more desirable part of the city. William Devane well as an original film poster. The museum often organises They have a relationship with the screenings of Bronte films, old and new, sometimes even married man, Bob, who develops John Schlesinger’s film of ’s nostalgic script provides a outdoors for extra atmosphere. a preference for Rita causing the capsule portrait of one ordinary town’s reactions to the ‘Yanks’ who two girls to fall out. Sue then falls brought a freshness and a sense of fun and freedom – feelings many www.bronte.org.uk for Aslam, a colleague from the taxi Britons had not allowed themselves to feel since the outbreak of war firm that she works for. in 1939. The film was adapted by Andrea Many local people were involved in Yanks as extras and remember the (1972 to present) Dunbar from her stage play of the experience with affection, particularly a sequence shot at Keighley Railway E same name and was filmed on station in which, in the film, the entire town turns out to see the GIs off on Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, was filmed the estate where the their way south and then on to D-Day. in the village of Esholt from 1976 until 1998 when a purpose- play was set as well as in Baildon, built set was built on the Harewood Estate. Haworth and Shipley. Bradford the world’s first City of Film

Captain Kettle Film Company – Bradford Picture House The Odeon Cinema (1930) St George’s Hall, Hall Ings Land in destination film, follow the Bradford Movie Towers Hall, Road – Morley Street (1914) Trail and enjoy a day, weekend or longer celebrating Film Heritage Now due for re-development, the In 1905 this became a major venue The company, set up in 1913 by Henry In 1916 Labour Party ‘wonder cinema of the North’ began for touring films, showing Charlie and relishing film. Visit the National Media Museum, Hibbert of Hibbert’s Pictures and (ILP) wanted to hire the Picture House life with 3,130 seats and a ballroom, Chaplin’s The Idle Class among The Riley Brothers Cieroscope which combined the three novelist Cutliffe Hyne, using as a studio for a speech by Ramsay McDonald, and Margaret Lockwood and Gracie others. The last film screened there, in the only national museum dedicated to Film, TV and – 55/57 Godwin Street functions of camera, printer and Towers Hall, a former roller skating later to become Prime Minister. The Fields appeared here. It was rebuilt in 1949, was Pin Up Girl starring Betty projector and was introduced on the rink. The firm turned out some 30 owners refused to allow this, so the 1969 with its twin towers. Grable. Media in the UK, visit our film locations and places assorted productions over the last half ILP bought the building and ran it www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/st- At their height the Riley Brothers market in February, 1897. In 1996 of film history and relax by enjoying the many films claimed to be the largest lantern the address was honoured with a of 1914 including dramatic footage until 1924 when it became the Morley & Film georges-hall/about outfitters in the world. Their workshop, Cinema 100 commemorative plaque, of local beauty spots as well as street Street Picture House. Silent films Theatre – Chapel Street (1837) on show. scenes in West Bowling. accompanied by an orchestra were which manufactured lantern slide designating it as a significant site in the W E Berry Ltd history of British cinema. shown here until 1933. In 1986 it was equipment, occupied this site and Originally the Temperance Hall, Bradford City of Film is working to give Bradford a in 1896 they submitted a patent The People’s Palace incorporated into the rebuilt Alhambra films were shown here in 1900 on W E Berry Ltd, one of the most application for a device that became Baxter & Wray – Borough Mills, 76 - Pictureville (1875) Theatre. an experimental basis. It became a important producers of film posters, fantastic film-filled future. By 2020, Bradford will be known as the Kineoptoscope which Manchester Rd permanent cinema nine years later was set up in 1888 at 13 Currer was designed to be fitted to any optical On the site where the National Media Empire Music Hall and housed Hibbert Pictures, an early Street, Bradford by William Berry, the place to enjoy film, learn through and about film, lantern. They also, in cooperation with This is the site of the workshop of Museum now stands, one of the first – Road (1899) production company established by before his son William Edward took Bamforth & Co of Holmfirth began Cecil William Baxter & Cecil Wray, the cinema shows outside London took movie millionaire Henry Hibbert, plus over in the early 1900s. During the make film and visit because of film. producing RAB films. latter of whom was the designer of the place in a music hall known as the For a long time this was a music hall, a film library and a trade theatre. After 1920s William Edward met Fred Riley’s Kineoptoscope. They produced People’s Palace. It later became the becoming a cinema in 1918 after fire a fire in 1935, the premises re-opened Martin of Paramount and they started www.bradford-city-of-film.com the black-and-white cinematograph city’s Library Theatre and was handed destroyed the stage. It hosted three as the Bradford Civic Playhouse a business relationship that cemented R.J. Appleton & Co www.visitbradford.com – 58/60 Manningham Lane which was specifically designed for over to the museum in 1982 becoming comedians who went on to fame and gave two giants of the film W E Berry’s position as one of the the foreign market and was the first today perhaps the most advanced in films: , Stanley world, directors James Hill and Tony leading producers and distributors of This is the business address of R.J. cinematographic apparatus imported movie house in the country. Jefferson (later to be better known Richardson, invaluable experience. film posters until the business folded Appleton, who is connected with by Japan and is thus regarded as the as Stan Laurel) and W.C. Fields. in 2004. The National Media Museum www.bradfordplayhouse.co.uk a piece of apparatus called the first steps towards the establishment of The Empire was at the back of the has a substantial collection of posters the Japanese film industry. Alexandra Hotel, now demolished. donated by the firm in its archives. Bradford Movie Trail developed by Fabric