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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins Credits: Filmmaker Geoffrey Willey
Summary Made by Geoffrey Willey, this film features a variety of material from North Yorkshire including Aysgarth Falls, gliding at Sutton bank, Goathland, Mallay Spout, Whitby Kippers, Moorland, and Climmers at Flamborough.
Description
Made by Geoffrey Willey, this film features a variety of material from North Yorkshire including Aysgarth Falls, gliding at Sutton bank, Goathland, Mallay Spout, Whitby Kippers, Moorland, and Climmers at Flamborough.
Title – Aysgarth Falls
Footage of the surrounding river, before shots of the waterfalls themselves. Various distance and close-up views.
Gliding Club at Sutton Bank. A man is helped into the glider ‘City of Leeds’. The glider is then towed into the air. This footage is...
Made by Geoffrey Willey, this film features a variety of material from North Yorkshire including Aysgarth Falls, gliding at Sutton bank, Goathland, Mallay Spout, Whitby Kippers, Moorland, and Climmers at Flamborough.
Title – Aysgarth Falls
Footage of the surrounding river, before shots of the waterfalls themselves. Various distance and close-up views.
Gliding Club at Sutton Bank. A man is helped into the glider ‘City of Leeds’. The glider is then towed into the air. This footage is interspersed with shots of Sutton Bank. The glider lands, the man gets out, and the towed to be parked up.
Views of moorland and villages (not identified).
Shot of a ‘Goathland’ sign followed by the Lord Nelson Inn at Beck Hole. Shot of a signpost for the Mallyan Spout then of the sign for the Mallyan Spout Hotel. Then shows footage of the waterfalls.
The next scene features Fortune’s Kippers at Whitby, first of the outside and then of the interior of the smokehouse and of people working with the kippers. Views of Whitby beach towards Saltwick Bay from the south pier. Looking back towards the town with views of the abbey and harbour. Shot of a boat coming into the harbour between the piers.
Short scene of moorland.
Footage of Scarborough south bay swimming pool (assumed). People swimming, diving in, playing, or sitting around the edge.
The film ends with footage of the Climmers at Flamborough and Bempton Cliffs. Birds are circling around cliffs. A man climbs up a rope to a group of people after collecting eggs. Climmers are an egg gathering gang, one suspended by the rope, who climbed down to collect the eggs, signalling by a handline and using his feet to keep himself from the cliff face and three at the top. There are more shots of different men climbing up and down the cliffs.