Big Screen Steam

Annual shows featuring the glory days of steam in footage and short films. Many feature local areas of interest whilst others are drawn from fictional movies and films. Alan Wilmott, once of British Transport Films and Alan Youdell of the British Film Institute, provide live expert commentary and interesting insights into the history behind each short piece of footage.  The 2008 shows at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre featured The Wrong Box - a meeting of two trains in an extract from a famous British comedy, Ffestiniog Summer - the story of a summers day on the oldest narrow gauge passenger railway in the world, vintage footage combined with the present-day scenes of the Lynton to Barnstaple railwy, and a colour promotional film revealing the role steam trains played in the shop building industry in the 1940s.

  

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