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'Scenes from the Ripon Highland Sports' shows images of the Highland regiments based in Ripon in 1916 on a day off at the Ripon race course. This large army camp had over 350 thousand troops pass through it during the First World War and Wilfred Owen wrote much of his well known poetry while he was based there. This film, made by a local cinema owner to show at the Ripon Palladium the following week, includes scenes of the crowds and the sporting activities that took place with close up shots of soldiers and local people waving to the camera. The images are particularly poignant as it was filmed in April 1915, and by June 1915 all the regiments had been despatched to the front. The film served as inspiration for artistic installation work by Shaz Kerr, artist in residence at the Yorkshire Film Archive in 2001. 'Still; quiet landscape inner conflict' was a Year of the Artist film commissioned by the archive and was a completely new film shot on 16mm created in response to the Ripon First World War footage. Other war-time footage in the Yorkshire Film Archive includes films of Second World War victory celebrations, home guard films, and many more. |
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