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Old films and video of the Three towns Area
Jack:
Saw this over on Facebook and Twitter - Llandudno 1975 promotional video:
http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-llandudno-gateway-to-snowdonia-1975/
SteveH:
--- Quote from: Jack on July 07, 2015, 04:47:50 pm ---Saw this over on Facebook and Twitter - Llandudno 1975 promotional video:
http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-llandudno-gateway-to-snowdonia-1975/
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Great find Jack, first time I have seen this,..........needs to be in another thread............
I also noticed a link by Tom Davidson D.P. Re ....
Fascinating glimpses of life in a bygone age in North Wales are among films uploaded onto the internet by the British Film Institute.
The Britain on Film project reveals hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the UK’s key film and TV archives.
BFI Player gives everybody in the UK access to 1,000’s of film and TV titles featuring where they live, grew up, went to school, holidayed as a child, or any place of interest in Britain.
By 2017, thanks to National Lottery funding, 10,000 film and TV titles from 1895 to the present day will be digitised.
Through the project, Britain on Film curators have found extraordinary footage of ordinary people and places from across the collections.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/forgotten-north-wales-new-online-9603662
DaveR:
--- Quote from: Jack on July 07, 2015, 04:47:50 pm ---Saw this over on Facebook and Twitter - Llandudno 1975 promotional video:
http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-llandudno-gateway-to-snowdonia-1975/
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Halcyon days, without a doubt. Llandudno looks a pale shadow of its former self now.
Ian:
--- Quote ---Halcyon days, without a doubt. Llandudno looks a pale shadow of its former self now.
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I watched it twice, to make sure I'd spotted the salient differences between now and then. The major changes were Bog Island, The missing ski slope, Wrex's bugbear: the once superb Happy Valley gardens with their stunning views, all now rather neglected, to put it mildly, and the outstanding Alex Munro open-air theatre. I suspect a newer film would include The Extravaganza and obviously the ski slope but it's the astonishing extent to which the Gardens have been allowed to decline which I think is unforgivable.
On another note, however, they showed a shot of a woman completing the ascent of Snowdon via the notoriously tricky Watkin Path, wearing only loose fitting plimsolls, T-shirt and shorts.
hollins:
The thing that struck me about it apart from making me feel ancient was the lack of health and safety restrictions. The trampolines, paddling pool, girl waving to train etc. Seems on the surface that it was a whole lot more fun then but who knows how many went home with an injury.
Ian, are you sure she wasn't wearing a mini dress?
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