This got a small mention in the Big Issue North. please log in to view this image Relton and his team have spent three years selecting footage for the archive. One of his highlights is a road safety film made for Humberside Police entitled Davy Crockett. “One of the police officers dressed up as Davy Crocket, jumped on a horse with a gun, and went round the streets of Hull teaching road safety. When we did a screening of the film in Hull a chap called Tony Devonshire recognised himself in it – he was the little boy pretending to be knocked over. “He told a wonderful story of how all his friends went and told his mum that he had blood all over him. It was pig’s blood for the film but she was worried sick and he had to go home and explain what had happened. Since it was made in 1955 he’d not seen it.” Quirky public information films like this can be seen across the map but Relton says the real gems are made by amateur filmmakers. “These were enthusiastic passionate hobbyists. They love the medium of film but what’s apparent in their films is that they love the subject matter, which is usually their homes, communities and their friends and family. “It paints a moving portrait of Yorkshire and together with rest of the archive, of the north and of the UK, really does show what life was like” http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/08/the-way-we-were/13747
