Inside the BBC Newcastle archive
WHITLEY Bay Film Festival is in its seventh year - and tonight sees one of the highlights of the 2016 event.
The Kinetoscope Show 2, presented by media and music historian Chris Phipps, will unveil some rarely seen film footage from the archive of BBC Newcastle.
Chris said: “As official media partners of the Whitley Bay Film Festival, BBC Newcastle have opened the vaults of their incredible archive which has material dating back to the 1940s and 50s.”
The two-hour presentation will include flashback newsreel of local news from 1960; excerpts from a 1971 BBC documentary by John Read on T Dan Smith and his £90m scheme to make Newcastle ‘The Brasilia of the North’; clips from the 1972 BBC documentary All Dressed Up and Going Nowhere, where it’s skinheads verses hairies around the streets of Newcastle, and Muhammad Ali’s celebrated 1977 visit to South Shields. Also featured is rarely seen film of comedian Bobby Thompson live on stage.
Chris, who has enjoyed a long career in television and success as an author and public speaker, says the programme of archive film will include everything from current affairs to long-forgotten entertainment shows.
One early-1980s pop offering called the Colour Show is revisited. The BBC Newcastle production features a young local musician called Bob Smeaton. ■■The Kinetoscope Show 2 presented by Chris Phipps. The Crescent Club, Cullercoats. Wednesday, August 24. Doors open 7pm. Free but ticketed. Email info@whitleybayfilmfestival.org - or call 0191 2904126.