Elstree Film Festival II
| Published: 27th June 2007 14:16 |
The group has provided several displays for the local library and newspaper offices and is custodian of a growing archive of audio interviews, photographs, documents and other items from Elstree’s film and television studios. These materials are made available to researchers and were used last summer when teams of students at our local HertswoodSpecialist Arts School created public displays about our film history.
Further details of our activities can be found at www.ElstreeScreenHeritage.org
The group is chaired by Paul Welsh MBE, Elstree’s official film historian. It enjoys the support of the local council, Elstree Studios, BBC Elstree, the BFI, BECTU and the National Media Museum. On 3rd April we celebrated our first full year of operation by holding an Open Night. An audience of over 100 guests joined us, and we read out letters of support from Sir Roger Moore, Lord David Puttnam, Hayley Mills, Bob Hoskins and Barry Norman.
One of the highlights of our activities last year was our Elstree Film Festival, held at the local Reel Cinema in Borehamwood during the Town Festival. All of our screenings were a great success and very much enjoyed by the audience, some of whom had travelled down from as far as Manchester just to see their favourite films back on the big screen and to hear about the making of these films from the stars and crew themselves.
Monday 25th : Grand Opening and ‘On The Buses’
Tuesday 26th : ‘The Railway Children’
Wednesday 27th: ‘Summer Holiday’
Thursday 28th : Hammer Films Double Bill ( ‘Scars of Dracula’/‘The Devil Rides Out’ )
Friday 29th : ‘Indiana Jones and Raiders Of The Lost Ark’
