Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 6251 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| CASTLEFORD ADVERT 1 | 1939 | 1939-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 18 secs |
| Summary The following are 1930s cinema advertisements publicising Castleford companies. The adverts feature animated intertitles and are from the following companies: Castleford Sports Stadium and G.D.W. Ibbotson M.P.S. Photographic Chemist. |
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Description
The following are 1930s cinema advertisements publicising Castleford companies. The adverts feature animated intertitles and are from the following companies: Castleford Sports Stadium and G.D.W. Ibbotson M.P.S. Photographic Chemist.
TITLE: The Castleford Sports Stadium Lock Lane Castleford. All electric Totalisator.
There is a shot of adults and children playing in the sea at the beach. A title card appears over the image.
TITLE: Take more snaps this summer! and have them developed by...
The following are 1930s cinema advertisements publicising Castleford companies. The adverts feature animated intertitles and are from the following companies: Castleford Sports Stadium and G.D.W. Ibbotson M.P.S. Photographic Chemist.
TITLE: The Castleford Sports Stadium Lock Lane Castleford. All electric Totalisator.
There is a shot of adults and children playing in the sea at the beach. A title card appears over the image.
TITLE: Take more snaps this summer! and have them developed by G.D.W. Ibbotson M.P.S Photographic Chemist 2, Bridge St. Castleford All roll films stocked.
There are images of photographs and a roll of film next to the above intertitle.
Context
A real throwback to the age when local businesses were touting for customers by putting small ads on at the local cinema. Here, in Castleford in 1939, we have a simple caption for the Castleford Sports Stadium along with one for a “photographic chemist”, when photos were usually kept on chemically sensitized paper.
Castleford Sports Stadium, next to the River Aire on the east of Lock Lane, was originally a football stadium used by Castleford Town F.C. and Castleford Tigers during the...
A real throwback to the age when local businesses were touting for customers by putting small ads on at the local cinema. Here, in Castleford in 1939, we have a simple caption for the Castleford Sports Stadium along with one for a “photographic chemist”, when photos were usually kept on chemically sensitized paper.
Castleford Sports Stadium, next to the River Aire on the east of Lock Lane, was originally a football stadium used by Castleford Town F.C. and Castleford Tigers during the 1920s (also known as the Sandy Desert ground), and later for greyhound racing. The ad for Castleford Sports Stadium may well have been prompted by the competition offered by the opening of Castleford Whitwood Stadium in the same year as this, and which also hosted greyhound racing. Photographic chemists were once commonplace, but alas it is doubtful whether many would today describe themselves as a “photographic chemist.” |
