The Travelling Picture Show
Gloria Hunniford presents a social history of Northern Ireland by local film-makers.
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About the programme
In The Travelling Picture Show, Gloria Hunniford takes to the road with a unique travelling cinema to share with the residents of four local towns their stories, characters, celebrations and events as captured by local film makers over the past 80 years.Â
Gloria meets the people who made the films, those that appear in them and those with a story to tell, as they all come along to the Travelling Picture Show tent to see themselves and their town on the silver screen.
Featured in the series are people and films from Newry and Bessbrook, Ballymoney, Enniskillen, Richill and Gloria’s hometown of Portadown.
In the of series 1, Gloria and The Travelling Picture Show pitch their cinema tent in Enniskillen where local people are invited to see their town, its characters and events from the last 70 years on the silver screen. She meets the people who made the films, those that appear in them and those with a story to tell.
In the the team are in Ballymoney where local film makers share their films of the town and it’s people over the last 50 years, including workers at Ireland’s only camera factory in the 1950s, the ‘good buddies’ of CB radio marching on Stormont in the 1970s and the legacy of prolific local film maker Charlie McAfee.
In , Newry is the focal point as Gloria discovers the city’s rich industrial past, the heyday of the showbands and the plight of the Newry punks of the 1980s as captured in the films of local amateur film makers and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ.