Lighting Up the Past
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Lighting Up the Past
- Rhyl
- 2003
Lighting Up the Past
Film pioneer makes waves and keeps things lively in Rhyl.
The life and career of Arthur Cheetham, the Wales-based film pioneer who lived and worked in Rhyl, is celebrated in this film which homes in on what made this irrepressible entrepeneur tick -including phrenology, filming the likes of Buffalo Bill, and outwitting the town council over a publicity poster for one of his screenings. Animation by pupils of Christchurch Community Primary School, with live action sequences.
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Our North Wales
North Wales is undeniably stunning, but it's worth looking behind the castles, crags and beautiful coastline to uncover some of its unique voices and stories…
North Wales is renowned for its landscape - its mountains, seascapes, rivers and waterfalls have been the backdrop for enough turbulent history to fill whole libraries.
Historic and legendary figures abound, but the region has also produced heroes of film, TV and broadcasting, such as the Rhyl-based early film pioneer Arthur Cheetham, Academy Award-winning actor Hugh Griffith, director and actor Emlyn Williams and latterly director Sara Sugarman and actor Rhys Ifans - all good 'gogs', as people from 'gogledd Cymru' are known.
In this collection you'll find films ranging from celebration of the region's myths and legends, to revelations of what it was really like to work in one of the area's major industries, and introductions to some burning local issues.
9 videos in this collection
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Lighting Up the Past
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Gwrachod Llanddona
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A Miner's Story
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Stori Derfel Gadarn
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Kyffin Williams talks to David Parry-Jones
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Lwmp o Jaman!
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Coch Bach y Bala
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