Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5286 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| A WEEKEND WITH BLACK DYKE | 1969 | 1969-01-01 |
|
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 7 mins 19 secs Subject: Sport |
| Summary This is a film of a visit by the Black Dyke Band to Roubaix in France as part of Roubaix’s 500th anniversary celebrations. Bradford City FC are also featured competing in a football tournament as part of the celebrations. |
|
Description
This is a film of a visit by the Black Dyke Band to Roubaix in France as part of Roubaix’s 500th anniversary celebrations. Bradford City FC are also featured competing in a football tournament as part of the celebrations.
Title – Pedro Films Present – A weekend with Black Dyke
The film begins with members of the Black Dyke Band boarding an airplane for Roubaix. The commentary explains that June 6th, 1969 is the anniversary of Roubaix being granted permission to process wool. Roubaix have...
This is a film of a visit by the Black Dyke Band to Roubaix in France as part of Roubaix’s 500th anniversary celebrations. Bradford City FC are also featured competing in a football tournament as part of the celebrations.
Title – Pedro Films Present – A weekend with Black Dyke
The film begins with members of the Black Dyke Band boarding an airplane for Roubaix. The commentary explains that June 6th, 1969 is the anniversary of Roubaix being granted permission to process wool. Roubaix have invited Bradford and two other wool-making twin towns, Mönchengladbach in Germany, and Vevrier in Belgium.
The band stis to have a formal dinner. Then they take a tour of the town. The band play before the football tournament gets underway at the sports centre. The event is also being filmed by local television. Bradford wins first game which takes place in front of local dignitaries but a sparse crowd.
The Band then visits an international exhibition of wool, telling the story of wool. Again the Black Dyke Band plays, this time more swing music, at the stadium on the second day of the football competition. Finally there is a procession through town, with the Black Dyke Band taking part. The audience is informed that Roubaix beat Bradford City in the final.
Context
Bradford builds solidarity within another town famed for its woollen industry, Roubaix in northern France. The most famous of brass bands, the Black Dyke Band, are invited to Roubaix to add some typical British brass band music to their 500th anniversary celebrations, as Bradford twin with the town in 1969. They also cheer on Bradford City as they take part in a mini football competition.
The record holding Black Dyke Band, like most other brass bands, has its origin in the Victorian era,...
Bradford builds solidarity within another town famed for its woollen industry, Roubaix in northern France. The most famous of brass bands, the Black Dyke Band, are invited to Roubaix to add some typical British brass band music to their 500th anniversary celebrations, as Bradford twin with the town in 1969. They also cheer on Bradford City as they take part in a mini football competition.
The record holding Black Dyke Band, like most other brass bands, has its origin in the Victorian era, usually sponsored by a colliery or factory. In this case it was John Foster, owner of Black Dyke Mills in the village of Queensbury, West Yorkshire, who started supporting the Band back in 1843 (he later bought a castle in Lancashire). Brass bands were entirely the product of working class culture, arguably its greatest artistic achievement. As with similar villages, Queenbsury mill workers also produced other self- created institutions, chapels and societies, such as a co-operative. The year before this trip to France, the band had a hit single with the Lennon–McCartney penned ‘Thingumybob’. |
