Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5430 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
THE WHARFEDALE SCENE | 1977 | 1977-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 14 mins 48 secs Credits: Filmed and produced by Ken Leckenby Subject: Architecture |
Summary This is a documentary film made by Ken Leckenby of Leeds Mercury Movie Makers, providing a running commentary of the places and their history going through Wharfedale in Yorkshire. The film provides a scenic view of the region as the filmmaker travels from town to town. |
Description
This is a documentary film made by Ken Leckenby of Leeds Mercury Movie Makers, providing a running commentary of the places and their history going through Wharfedale in Yorkshire. The film provides a scenic view of the region as the filmmaker travels from town to town.
Title – The Wharfedale Scene
Filmed and produced by Ken Leckenby
The film begins showing thee River Wharfe near Bolton Abbey. The film moves onto Buckden where a man is painting at an easel next to a farming implement in...
This is a documentary film made by Ken Leckenby of Leeds Mercury Movie Makers, providing a running commentary of the places and their history going through Wharfedale in Yorkshire. The film provides a scenic view of the region as the filmmaker travels from town to town.
Title – The Wharfedale Scene
Filmed and produced by Ken Leckenby
The film begins showing thee River Wharfe near Bolton Abbey. The film moves onto Buckden where a man is painting at an easel next to a farming implement in front of the Village Stores and Post Office. The roads going to Wensleydale are shown. There is a view over Kettlewell showing the beck.
At Kilnsey Crag, the entrance to Littendale and the Tennant Arms Hotel can be seen. There are views of the river on the road to Grassington, showing Grassington Bridge. In Grassington itself, there is the Grassington House Hotel and the narrow streets leading to the village square, where people walk around the shops and the Gallery.
The film moves onto Linton-in-Craven with the ford near the Fountain Inn and the weather vane. Then there is a view overlooking Burnsall, and the bridge over the river, seen from several vantage points. People stand outside the Red Lion pub, and the church is shown.
Next is Appletreewick with the New Inn pub. A red Corsair (S reg, 1978) drives past. At Barden Bridge, the ruins of the old shooting lodge at Barden can be seen. Two women are visiting Barden Tower, and along the path from there to Bolton Abbey running through the woods next to the river. Children go over the stepping stones. View from panorama rocks at Ilkley past Simon Street and Great Whernside, just above White Wells House.
Moving onto Ilkley, the film shows the main road and the Box Tree Restaurant. The lido is seen in the distance. The final place in the film is Otley where the river runs into the River Ouse.
Title – A KL Production
Cine Sync, sound recording system.
Context
With the so-called 'winter of discontent' on the horizon, here we have summer contentment generated by the serenity and simple life of 'God's own county'.
Leeds amateur filmmaker Ken Leckenby provides a perfect illustration of why the Yorkshire Dales is justly famous for its rolling hills and often stark beauty. All is peaceful in the villages of Wharfedale, as if the manic decade of the 1970s – of strikes, Ziggy Stardust and punk – had passed them all by. A place...
With the so-called 'winter of discontent' on the horizon, here we have summer contentment generated by the serenity and simple life of 'God's own county'.
Leeds amateur filmmaker Ken Leckenby provides a perfect illustration of why the Yorkshire Dales is justly famous for its rolling hills and often stark beauty. All is peaceful in the villages of Wharfedale, as if the manic decade of the 1970s – of strikes, Ziggy Stardust and punk – had passed them all by. A place to go away from the madding crowd: to stroll by the river or ramble over Brimham Rocks. Although Leckenby made films as a member of the Mercury Movie Makers Cine Club of Leeds, he also made many films of his own, including a series of films he titled 'Out and About', documenting local events. But he also made a number of documentary type films similar to this one, extolling the virtues of Yorkshire. Usually Leckenby would provide an informative commentary to go with the film. He would go out most weekends filming these, from the 1960s through to the 1980s. This film uses Alan Sidi's innovative cine-synch sound. GH |