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This film was taken on a family holiday in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1940s by amateur film-maker Charles Chislett who made many films including 'St George's Crypt' in 1948. 'Dale Days' shows the travels of this affluent family around the countryside against a backdrop of rural war-time Yorkshire. Despite being a family holiday film, 'Dale Days' gives a very good reflection of the agriculture and small local industries of the area. The film includes a section entitled 'From Cow to Cheese' following the production process from milking the cow to the local dairy in Hawes in the North Yorkshire Dales where it is converted into the famous Wensleydale Cheese. The film has been written about by Heather Norris Nicholson, in the archive film commentary 'You can’t see what you don’t know: Amateur film as evidence'. Edited by Piet van Wijk for the Association Européenne Inédits Colloquium in 1994. Other films in the Yorkshire Film Archive collection, showing the rural landscape of the Yorkshire region, include 'North to the Dales' (1962). This British Transport Film promoting the landscape and character of the Yorkshire Dales in the 1960s also follows the making of Wensleydale Cheese but shows the production and the region transformed by modern agricultural methods. Other films in the archive include contemporary items such as 'Meat Crazy' (1999) on the impact of the BSE crisis and 'The Rhubarb Triangle' (2000) on the importance of the rhubarb crop in the region. |
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