An artistic film believed produced by Consett born poet Ian Horn based around four poems written by Newcastle born author and poet Keith Armstrong that tells a story of a city and its characters. Featuring a jazz soundtrack mixed with a series of montage sequences film in and around Newcastle and the River Tyne. Title: Dreaming North The first of a series of montage sequences begins along the River Tyne showing derelict factory building and a trawler moored along a quayside. The rising or...

An artistic film believed produced by Consett born poet Ian Horn based around four poems written by Newcastle born author and poet Keith Armstrong that tells a story of a city and its characters. Featuring a jazz soundtrack mixed with a series of montage sequences film in and around Newcastle and the River Tyne. Title: Dreaming North The first of a series of montage sequences begins along the River Tyne showing derelict factory building and a trawler moored along a quayside. The rising or setting sun reflecting of the brickwork of a building along the Newcastle Quayside. Nearby the Tyne Bridge followed by a passenger training crossing the High-Level Bridge into Gateshead. The sequence ends with the sun reflecting off the waters of the Tyne Another montage begins with the exterior of John Dobson Street Car Park followed by Newcastle Civic Centre. An Intercity 125 railway train travels along the track outside Central Station changing to traffic moving along Grainger Street. The Newcastle skyline featuring The Turnbull building and the Metro Bridge. A black and white photograph of 19th century coalminers begins the next montage changing to a view of a colliery pit wheel and a close up of a miner’s memorial. Inside Grainger Market the iron supports holding up the curved roof. Florist Maud Watson works on a bouquet in the doorway of her stall in the market. The film ends on a rocky beach with waves crashing onto the shoreline. Credit: The Poems: “Tyne”, “So What?”, “And Such Great Men”, and “Maud Watson, Florist” written and read by Keith Armstrong Credit: The Musicians: Piano Paul Flush, Trombone Rich Taylor Title: This video was made in the North East of England in Newcastle and County Durham Title: Edited and recorded at North East Media Training Centre Title: Photographs: People, past and present. Easington District Council archive Title: Supported by Northern Arts Credit: Produced and directed by Ian Horn Title: © 1990 All Rights Reserved