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HISTORIC YORK

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WORK ID: YFA 5503 (Master Record)

TitleYearDate
HISTORIC YORKc.1950 1947-01-01
Details Original Format: 16mm
Colour: Colour
Sound: Sound
Duration: 11 mins 40 secs
Credits: Photographed, Recorded and Edited by J. Eric Hall

Subject: Architecture



Summary
This documentary provides an historic overview of the city of York and of many of its historic places.  The film is accompanied by a commentary by the filmmaker Eric Hall.
Description
This documentary provides an historic overview of the city of York and of many of its historic places.  The film is accompanied by a commentary by the filmmaker Eric Hall. Title – Historic York Photographed, Recorded and Edited by J. Eric Hall The film begins with a map of ‘Historic York’, showing the churches and other historic sites and scenes.   Various rowers can be seen going underneath Lendal Bridge and other places along the River Ouse in York, as part of the York Regatta, and...
This documentary provides an historic overview of the city of York and of many of its historic places.  The film is accompanied by a commentary by the filmmaker Eric Hall. Title – Historic York Photographed, Recorded and Edited by J. Eric Hall The film begins with a map of ‘Historic York’, showing the churches and other historic sites and scenes.   Various rowers can be seen going underneath Lendal Bridge and other places along the River Ouse in York, as part of the York Regatta, and focusing on the Guildhall.  The film then shows visitors walking up the steps to Clifford’s Tower and then a view of the Minster from the city walls near the railway station.  Other parts of the city walls are shown, with people walking along it.  Then on to show Micklegate Bar in close up and traffic passing underneath. Then on to show Bootham Bar, Walmgate Bar and Monkgate Bar, where a mother wheels a pram across the road, and cyclists passing underneath.  Then to the White Rose café and the flower beds in Kings Square near the Shambles.  There is a sign for Craftsmen in Wood, showing  A S Harrington at work turning a round wooden top on a lathe. Other Christian figures are shown carved in wood.  Four women walk along the Shambles, showing the signs for various services, such as York Weavers and Donald Pickering, bookseller.  It then shows the statue of Athena (Minerva) on the corner of High Petergate and Minster Gate.  Shoppers walk along Stonegate, with the red Stonegate Devil.  The film then shows various street signs, with the commentary explaining the derivation of their names, and then to show St Saviours’ Church and All Saints on Pavement, the Mansion House, and the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey in the Museum Gardens. Next the film shows us around the Merchants Adventurers Hall, retelling its history.  Then St William’s College and the Treasurer’s House and the Minster Court before a seeing view of one of the Minster Towers from Kings Square, with Cussins and Light Ltd. on the corner.  There are then more views of the Minster before returning to the river near the Ouse Bridge and the Ship Inn.  The film closes with shots of the 2nd Boer War memorial.
Context
Anyone looking for a tourist guide and history of York in the mid twentieth century could do much worse than this very well made amateur documentary by prolific filmmaker Eric Hall, of Bingley.  York has rarely looked better than in this portrait when it was much less crowded with people and cars.  This is one of a large collection of films made by award-winning amateur filmmaker Eric Hall, of Bingley.  Hall made films dating back to 1929 – although it isn’t known exactly when this film was...
Anyone looking for a tourist guide and history of York in the mid twentieth century could do much worse than this very well made amateur documentary by prolific filmmaker Eric Hall, of Bingley.  York has rarely looked better than in this portrait when it was much less crowded with people and cars. 

This is one of a large collection of films made by award-winning amateur filmmaker Eric Hall, of Bingley.  Hall made films dating back to 1929 – although it isn’t known exactly when this film was made.  For a period he was Chairman of the North East Region of the IAC and President of the Bradford Cine Circle, founded in 1935.  Hall specialised in making documentary type films, covering many aspects of Yorkshire life, doing all the  research and voice overs, in his distinctive native accent, himself.  Rather oddly, Hall refers to the fire that destroyed York Castle in 1190, subsequently Clifford’s Tower, without mentioning that this was a massacre of the 150 strong Jewish community trapped there by a bloodthirsty mob. 
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