0:00:04 > 0:00:07The travelling picture show was out on the road again,
0:00:07 > 0:00:10visiting towns and villages across Northern Ireland
0:00:10 > 0:00:13and reliving our past through home movies.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18I remember this man standing at the bridge corner and saying,
0:00:18 > 0:00:23"What is that silly man doing photographing Glenarm main street?"
0:00:23 > 0:00:24And it is now history.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33We were the first village to have a festival.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36I thought it needed to be recorded.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38It needed to be preserved in some way.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Today, we're going to meet the people who took the films,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51those who appeared in them and anyone with a story to tell.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57We don't forget those who have gone before us, those who have walked
0:00:57 > 0:01:01the streets of Glenarm, those who have looked over the bay in Glenarm.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04It all comes back to us.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09And in that way, the past is still very much alive.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello and welcome to the Glens of Antrim.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Today, we're in Glenarm and, as you can see,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I have parked my rather modest little bell tent
0:01:20 > 0:01:22in the grounds of this magnificent
0:01:22 > 0:01:26and quite romantic castle, which is home to Lord and Lady Dunluce.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31And we've also gathered together a group of very enthusiastic
0:01:31 > 0:01:34people from Glenarm and from nearby Carnlough.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And they're all set to enjoy a cinematic screening
0:01:37 > 0:01:39of their past flicker into life.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Glenarm, the "valley of the army", takes its name from the glen
0:02:18 > 0:02:22in which it lies, the first of the nine Glens of Antrim.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27This area has been praised by poets and artists in words and colour.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31And now, we're going to celebrate it in moving pictures.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35The real joy of this old footage is that every small detail
0:02:35 > 0:02:37reveals a whole different world.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44Glenarm is about the oldest village in Ulster.
0:02:44 > 0:02:481216, Belfast was not even a dot on the map,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51to 1600 and something.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54So we're 400 years ahead of Belfast.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56We haven't maybe kept up with them as well,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58but we were way ahead of the game at that time.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05It was the loveliest wee village
0:03:05 > 0:03:09and the most prosperous village in the Glens of Antrim.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10You know, we had everything.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20And we used to have three excellent grocer's shops about, maybe,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23five, and celery shops that would have sold sweets.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26The lady would have sold you a gallon of paraffin oil and,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28at the same time as she sold you the gallon of paraffin oil,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31you'd have said, "I'll take two soda farls."
0:03:31 > 0:03:34And without washing her hands, she'd just lift two soda farls
0:03:34 > 0:03:35and put them in a bag.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38And none of us had any of these diseases that's running about today.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40And no antibiotics.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49Glenarm, the place and its people were filmed in the 1940s
0:03:49 > 0:03:51by Dr Hugh Morris, a native of the village,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54and relative of Jimmy and Iain Bradley.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58The films were sent to me
0:03:58 > 0:04:05because I was the nearest relative to the Morrises living in Glenarm.
0:04:05 > 0:04:11The bungalow that I live in was the holiday home of Hugh Morris.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15That was where he came for his summer holidays every summer.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24He was born in Glenarm here, in 1898,
0:04:24 > 0:04:26just at the end of that century.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29He went to the local primary school - his father was the headmaster -
0:04:29 > 0:04:31and then went to Queen's.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34And he graduated in 1921 with a degree in medicine.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37And then eventually, he went to Manchester.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40In Manchester, he was very much associated not only,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42obviously, in the medical profession,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44but he was associated professionally with Manchester United.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48He was the consultant radiologist to the club.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51When the War started, he was commissioned into the Army
0:04:51 > 0:04:55and joined the Royal Medical Corps and he was sent out to India.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59And it was when out there, he met his wife, Helen Cateaux.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03She was commonly known as Bunt. That was the family name for her.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04And they had three sons.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06And they came back then after the War,
0:05:06 > 0:05:09back to England, and bought the bungalow in Glenarm.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12This was when the film started, just after the War.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15So every summer, he came over to his summer home from Manchester
0:05:15 > 0:05:17and he did the films.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32He would have started, more or less,
0:05:32 > 0:05:35as soon as he arrived at Larne Harbour.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39And very often, Bunt, his wife,
0:05:39 > 0:05:41she would have been driving the car,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Hugh would have been in the passenger seat
0:05:44 > 0:05:49and the film would have been moving from Larne through the Black Arch
0:05:49 > 0:05:53through Ballykelly right into Glenarm.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55And sometimes, instead of stopping at the house,
0:05:55 > 0:06:00he went on, right through to Carnlough, because he was on a roll.
0:06:10 > 0:06:16There are shots, in the film, of Hugh and his wife, Bunt,
0:06:16 > 0:06:21and the three boys, playing on the beach, playing in the front garden,
0:06:21 > 0:06:23working in the back garden.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30There are scenes, in the film, where you see the humour of Hugh
0:06:30 > 0:06:31and Bunt.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36There's one where, I think, Bunt is covered with the grass
0:06:36 > 0:06:39and then she sits up, she rises from the dead.
0:06:42 > 0:06:49That was how they spent their summer holidays, back where Hugh
0:06:49 > 0:06:52seemed to be very, very happy in Glenarm, where he had come from.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59As a three or four-year-old,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02I appear in the street, I think in the shot by myself.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06And they tell me that I'm showing my bad temper by stamping my feet.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13My big brother, he does appear in it.
0:07:13 > 0:07:20And no, I don't, but I have cousins who were in the film,
0:07:20 > 0:07:25I have an aunt, my father's in the film.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32My grandfather, who I did not know, is also in the film.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42You know, there's a lot of people in them besides their immediate family.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45They're pictures of the people in the village.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And when Hugh came home, in the early '50s,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50he would have shown the films in the village.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52And remember, people were talking about him
0:07:52 > 0:07:54showing it against a wall, outside,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56and even in the summer.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59And he was showing bits of the films.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01And, of course, it was for the people of the village.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04And he had quite a wicked sense of humour.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05There was one shot I remember him
0:08:05 > 0:08:10talking about of the Minister riding over the bridge on a bicycle.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12And what he would do then, he'd play it through,
0:08:12 > 0:08:14and then he'd run the film backwards and had him
0:08:14 > 0:08:17going backwards over the bridge on the bicycle, and things like this.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25'I know nearly every one of them.'
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Well, there's Bottle Bell, there's Willie Cart,
0:08:31 > 0:08:34there's Shoot Me Now, there's Orange Charlie.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39I'm driving a wee Ferguson tractor, just gone past the house,
0:08:39 > 0:08:42and he's behead of me. You can only see the legs.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44And I think it's the attitude of me in a tractor,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46but I cannae bet on that, but I think it is.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48It's the wee garden Fergie.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52My wife's in the film as a wee girl playing with her
0:08:52 > 0:08:54dog at the side of the garage.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58And the first time I seen her, I was sitting in the picture house,
0:08:58 > 0:09:00they were travelling pictures in them days,
0:09:00 > 0:09:01and it was in the Seaview Hall.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06And I was sitting with another girl, who's since married in Canada,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09and there was a wee girl down at the front, knocking nine bells
0:09:09 > 0:09:12out of a wee boy, and she had 20 Gallagher blues in her hand.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16And I said to Ellen, "Ellen, who's that?"
0:09:16 > 0:09:19And she says, "Oh, that's a wee young one of Clem McAllister's,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21"but they cannae do anything with her."
0:09:21 > 0:09:24And little did I know that I married her a good number of years,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26and I still cannae do anything with her!
0:09:26 > 0:09:27LAUGHTER
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Jackie, you are one of the bravest men I've ever met, to tell that
0:09:30 > 0:09:33story today, in the middle of the film, about how you met your wife.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35And you know what, it got the best laugh of the day.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I think I'll get in trouble when I get home!
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- I think you might. - And here's the lovely Frances.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43So do you remember seeing him, then, for the first time?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Yes, I do, on the tennis court.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47And what was your impression of him,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49seeing he gave us a very graphic impression of you?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Well, I probably thought he was going with somebody
0:09:51 > 0:09:52else at the time.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53SHE LAUGHS
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- That's all!- So when did the pair of you get together?
0:09:57 > 0:10:01- '57.- No!- There you are.- '53!
0:10:02 > 0:10:04We were in the castle gardens.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07My father was head gardener there for 21 years.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10It was a marvellous growing-up period
0:10:10 > 0:10:13because it was during the War, and the whole estate was taken over by
0:10:13 > 0:10:18the Army, so you were sailing about on Bren Gun carriers and wee tanks.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21And it was just fascinating. You weren't allowed to take photographs.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I don't think I had a camera anyway, but you couldn't photograph
0:10:24 > 0:10:26anything during the War but it was marvellous.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29And I was lucky enough to grow up with him
0:10:29 > 0:10:34- that owns the big house now, Lord Antrim.- He was your pal, was he?
0:10:34 > 0:10:35And he was called Alexander,
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- but I couldn't say it when I was wee, so it was just Lordy.- Lordy?
0:10:39 > 0:10:43- So he's still Lordy.- Lordy, Lordy! - He's 78, the same as me.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44And we're still pally.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52And Alexander's younger brother, the acclaimed artist Hector,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55still lives and paints in Glenarm
0:10:55 > 0:10:58and can remember being filmed by Hugh Morris.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Now, as we're standing in front of this blissful castle,
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I've got to give you your correct title.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04So it's the Right Honourable Hector MacDonald, so...
0:11:04 > 0:11:07- Got to do the correct thing. - Yes. Yes, yes indeed.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Hector, how did you enjoy seeing yourself in the kilt?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Oh, it was deeply embarrassing!
0:11:11 > 0:11:14My parents are so embarrassed because I insisted on wearing that kilt.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18I remember it well. I was only four or something. I said, "I'm going to put on.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21"I'm going to have that big sporran, too, that you've got in the dress-up box."
0:11:21 > 0:11:23So how many years did you wear that particular kilt?
0:11:23 > 0:11:26About five years, I think. Yes. It did me well.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Fitted you for a long time. - It fitted me... Yes.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30It had plenty of growth room in it.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33I mean, anybody who comes here adores the castle.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37In terms of being born here and growing up here as a child,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- what was that like in terms of freedom?- Well, it was wonderful.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43I mean, of course, I didn't know anything else, but it meant that
0:11:43 > 0:11:47I had the run of the whole place and lots of people in the castle then.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49So it was great, great fun
0:11:49 > 0:11:53and my best friend was the son of the butler, and still is!
0:11:53 > 0:11:54HE LAUGHS
0:11:54 > 0:11:56So it was a lovely environment, really.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02And this lovely place brought Hugh and his family
0:12:02 > 0:12:04and his camera back year after year.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09He came in the summer holidays and the weather seemed to be
0:12:09 > 0:12:10so gorgeous.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11And we would all think back to our childhood
0:12:11 > 0:12:14and the weather was always good then.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16It was really an idyllic time.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30I think the most important thing is that this is ordinary people.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33There's plenty of films of those of the '30s and '40s
0:12:33 > 0:12:37and earlier of the nobility and all this and important people.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40This is people, ordinary people, in the village.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43And I think that's the most important part, to preserve them.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48He obviously loved Glenarm.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53Dr Hugh Morris sadly died in 1959, but his family really
0:12:53 > 0:12:54treasure his home movies,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56'and that's a fitting legacy.'
0:12:58 > 0:13:00There are shots coming back to me
0:13:00 > 0:13:05of children playing in the streets, children sitting on the bridges.
0:13:07 > 0:13:13The girls coming out of the factory that is more or less derelict now.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18The bell in the Eglinton Yard that used to call the men to work.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22The bread man coming around the street, doing deliveries.
0:13:22 > 0:13:28These are things of the past that children today want to have experienced.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32And the terrible thing is, you know, when you live in a village,
0:13:32 > 0:13:37there are changes and events that happen, and you ignore them.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40And it's only when you look at an old film, you look back
0:13:40 > 0:13:42and say, "Oh, where's that gone?"
0:13:43 > 0:13:46You know, "I don't ever remember seeing that before."
0:13:59 > 0:14:02I remember I didn't even know him at that time as Hugh Morris,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05but this man, standing at the bridge corner.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08And whenever you're small, you're rather clever.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11And when you get older, you think you're not nearly as clever,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14and saying, "What is that silly man doing
0:14:14 > 0:14:16"photographing Glenarm main street?"
0:14:16 > 0:14:20And it is now history, which we should be doing today.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22We've a lot easier equipment than Hugh Morris had.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Travelling north, along the coast road, we come to Carnlough.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50The village nestles quietly at the foot of Glencloy.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54It has a very picturesque harbour and small, neat streets.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02Local man Alexander Black recorded on cine good times with his family.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07The film that my father took in the early '60s from the front
0:15:07 > 0:15:11garden just out the bay, you'll notice very few cars and things.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13So it was a pretty quiet place.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22The people were very nice. It was a very friendly place to live.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Most people knew everybody.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28The village was an exciting, actually exciting, place for a kid
0:15:28 > 0:15:29because it was full of shops.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31We'd no supermarkets or anything like that.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34I think, at one stage, I can remember we had three butcher's shops
0:15:34 > 0:15:37and a greengrocer and a shoe shop and all those kinds of things.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40So you could actually walk down the street, down to the harbour
0:15:40 > 0:15:42from the bay, and pass maybe 20 different shops.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50My recollections of growing up in Carnlough are that it was
0:15:50 > 0:15:54always summer, it was always sunny, we were always on holidays,
0:15:54 > 0:15:58we were always on the beach or we were playing tennis in the front garden.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59We lived in a semidetached.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01The house next door had a garden identical to ours
0:16:01 > 0:16:03in front with a hedge down the middle.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06And every summer, that became one building.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15My husband took them in the early '60s,
0:16:15 > 0:16:20so I would say '61, '62, round about that time,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23some of them with the children just running up and down in the garden.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28My father was an amateur photographer and...
0:16:28 > 0:16:30So he took stills photographs.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I still have one of his original cameras and
0:16:32 > 0:16:36when cine cameras came in, he got quite interested in that as well.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39We actually had a dark room in the house, in one of the bedrooms,
0:16:39 > 0:16:42but by the time there were four kids, the dark room was...
0:16:42 > 0:16:43became a bedroom.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47They were lying just in the old camera in the attic,
0:16:47 > 0:16:50and somebody discovered them and thought it would be a good idea then
0:16:50 > 0:16:54to put them onto a film where you could see them, you know?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57I think he probably thought it was very important,
0:16:57 > 0:17:01some kind of record of the kids growing up.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05I do remember my father taking some of the films.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09I don't remember taking a particular interest in the films themselves
0:17:09 > 0:17:11other than the fact that he told us what to do.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15So although I think most of them maybe look natural,
0:17:15 > 0:17:17I can remember him saying, "Right,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19"now you run up the garden towards the front door,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22"past my right-hand side," or,
0:17:22 > 0:17:24"Here's the order in which you run out of the tent."
0:17:24 > 0:17:27And, you know, he filmed us coming out of the tent.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29So some of it was actually directed.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39The highlight of the year was always the Civic Festival
0:17:39 > 0:17:42in the summer which started in 1962,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46properly in 1963, with things like donkey derbies.
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Boat races.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09A fancy dress parade.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Sand castle competitions. Loads and loads of stuff for children to do.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20So I think it was actually quite progressive of our parents
0:18:20 > 0:18:23and adults generally, who formed the committee at the time, to be doing
0:18:23 > 0:18:26something like that and running the Civic Festival.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29It's also fantastic that there's a record of some of the events,
0:18:29 > 0:18:30even to this day.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35I don't think Carnlough was the first village to introduce fancy
0:18:35 > 0:18:39dress parades, but we were the first village to have a festival.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41And I thought it needed to be recorded.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44It needed to be preserved in some way.
0:18:44 > 0:18:49And taking the festival from 1969 up until the present day,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51I was using an old camera,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54an ex-government, 16mm film.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58It was all outdated.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01And the camera, you had to focus it manually
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and take light readings and wind up the camera.
0:19:04 > 0:19:10It wasn't like camcorders now. And it took for ever to set up a shot.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14There wasn't any instructions with it or anything.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16It was just sort of seat of the pants.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20You kind of started off filming and you could see,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24when you got the results back, what worked and what didn't work.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28I sort of graduated onto another more advanced camera
0:19:28 > 0:19:32and I took a lot of film between '69 and '73.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Started again in 1982.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38And I was using a Super 8 Sound then.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40And that was more expensive.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44'And a very good morning to you and welcome from me, John Bennett,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46'welcoming you to what I hope is going to be
0:19:46 > 0:19:48'another sunny, sunny morning.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50'And there's a soft, wee mist which is
0:19:50 > 0:19:53'just drifting in from the Sea of Moyle,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55'and it's inching its way from Glenarm Bay,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59'way out to the right there, and swirling round the black rock.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01'They tell me that all that is a sure sign that it's going to be
0:20:01 > 0:20:03'another lovely, sunny day.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06'Now, they are the good people of Carnlough, just one of those
0:20:06 > 0:20:10'little towns that stud the Antrim coast road along its length.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11'It's festival week in Carnlough
0:20:11 > 0:20:14'and we've certainly been enjoying some of the attractions here...'
0:20:14 > 0:20:16That was something like £5 a minute.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18So, unfortunately, I couldn't shoot as much as I wanted to.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21And there was a lot of stuff, like the interviews,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I took from the arts of the BBC people.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I would have loved to have got more but, as I say,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29£5 a minute was always on my mind.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- What's it like living in Carnlough? - It's kind of a sloppy place.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34There isn't that much to do.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Those films I took were the festivals from '69 to '73.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44They lay about in boxes for about 10, 12 years.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46And I completely forgot about them.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48And I decided... One day, I discovered them
0:20:48 > 0:20:51and decided to edit them all together.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Then, a little surprise for Bernard, who thought his only
0:20:57 > 0:21:01appearance on The Travelling Picture Show was as a toddler.
0:21:01 > 0:21:06How long have you spent in preparing this sixth festival?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Maybe not as long as we should have!
0:21:08 > 0:21:10We generally like to start before Christmas
0:21:10 > 0:21:12but we get no real work done until after Easter.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19I fear it's almost time for me to leave sweet Carnlough Bay.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22We're at Cushendall tomorrow. Hope you can join me then.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Starting time, as usual, five past ten.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Many thanks for your company this morning. Bye-bye.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31It is a snapshot of life.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36And it's amazing how much things have changed over the years
0:21:36 > 0:21:41and some of the things that we did in 1969 we can't do now at all
0:21:41 > 0:21:43because of health and safety reasons.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48And that's the pram race and the pub race and other events like that.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Because they're just too risky.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57The pram race was a pretty rigorous event.
0:21:57 > 0:22:03You "borrowed" a pram and two people took part in a race.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09You ran all the way up High Street,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11you either went round the front street at Harbour Road
0:22:11 > 0:22:14or you turned at the end of High Street and went back again...
0:22:18 > 0:22:20..changing the driver halfway.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35It was a pretty horrific event in terms of thrills and spills.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41We were relatively unencumbered in those days
0:22:41 > 0:22:45by health and safety and insurance regulations,
0:22:45 > 0:22:46so we had a load of fun.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Our own pram was used quite a lot when we were kids
0:23:08 > 0:23:10and it's in one of the films as well
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Margaret, as a baby, is in the pram.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15That was a Silver Cross pram with big wheels and a suspension
0:23:15 > 0:23:19and it became one of the really good prams in the pram races.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26The hand-over-hand rope relay, that was a really simple thing.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28It was just a rope stretched across the harbour.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31And these guys were going across. And there was some of them,
0:23:31 > 0:23:35I must admit, had a few pints before they did it.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38And there was very few of them actually got right to the end.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42That's a little time capsule.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45A load of the people in it,
0:23:45 > 0:23:48some of the young kids that were in the film,
0:23:48 > 0:23:52in the fancy dress parades, they're grandmothers and grannies now.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Their children can look back on it and have a bit of a laugh.
0:23:58 > 0:24:03I don't remember dressing up as a cowboy, not as a kid, anyway.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05But I do remember the film being taken
0:24:05 > 0:24:08and that had to be for one of the fancy dress parades.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Are you ready? Fire!
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Think it's nice to share memories, I think,
0:24:17 > 0:24:21and younger people to enjoy, you know, to see the older films.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24I thought mine wouldn't be really interested but they all were.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26The film that my father took,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29I think he knew he was keeping a record of things
0:24:29 > 0:24:32and it would be nice to look back on them some time in the future.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Looking back now though, I think it's incredibly important
0:24:35 > 0:24:38that there's some kind of record of, you know,
0:24:38 > 0:24:40days gone by and so on.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45My memories are probably encapsulated in those few minutes
0:24:45 > 0:24:48of films and in some of the still photographs that he took
0:24:48 > 0:24:50but there was loads of things that happened at the time
0:24:50 > 0:24:53that probably haven't been recorded, and it's just an awful shame
0:24:53 > 0:24:56that we rely entirely on people's memories now
0:24:56 > 0:24:58of what it actually was like then,
0:24:58 > 0:25:02when we could have had a more permanent record of it.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06But thanks to Alexander Black, Eddie Goodwin and Hugh Morris
0:25:06 > 0:25:10we do have a permanent record, shared memories, good times,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13and the sun always seemed to shine.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15MUSIC: "Days Like This" by Van Morrison
0:25:15 > 0:25:18# There'll be days like this
0:25:18 > 0:25:20# When there's no-one complaining
0:25:20 > 0:25:23# There'll be days like this
0:25:23 > 0:25:25# Everything falls into place
0:25:25 > 0:25:28# Like the flick of a switch
0:25:28 > 0:25:31# Well my mama told me
0:25:31 > 0:25:33# There'll be days like this
0:25:36 > 0:25:39# Well you don't need to worry
0:25:39 > 0:25:42# There'll be days like this
0:25:42 > 0:25:44# When no-one's in a hurry
0:25:44 > 0:25:46# There'll be days like this
0:25:46 > 0:25:49# When you don't get betrayed
0:25:49 > 0:25:52# By that old Judas kiss
0:25:52 > 0:25:54# My mama told me
0:25:54 > 0:25:56# There'll be days like this
0:26:00 > 0:26:02# My mama told me
0:26:02 > 0:26:05# There'll be days like this
0:26:05 > 0:26:07# My mama told me
0:26:07 > 0:26:11# There'll be days like this. #
0:26:11 > 0:26:12APPLAUSE
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Who was the blond cowboy? - That's me.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Bernard was the blond cowboy.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Margaret, you were the one in the pram.- I was, yes.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34How did you react seeing yourself in the film?
0:26:34 > 0:26:37It was nice to see it up on the big screen.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Some of them were saying they could see the resemblance
0:26:39 > 0:26:42to the next generation, you know, from the baby photos.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- There were quite a lot of shots of you, Margaret, weren't there?- Yeah.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51First girl after three boys, I suppose I was a bit spoilt.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53It was good that he captured stuff
0:26:53 > 0:26:56that otherwise nobody would ever have seen,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58because there were very few cine cameras and things
0:26:58 > 0:27:00around in those days.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02And as far as I know there's very few shots of Carnlough
0:27:02 > 0:27:06in the area and people, other than maybe Eddie's stuff as well,
0:27:06 > 0:27:09that has preserved all those memories.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11And how do you feel about that? Are you glad he did it?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- I'm really glad he did it, yeah. - Do you find the older you get
0:27:14 > 0:27:16the more you appreciate that kind of film?
0:27:16 > 0:27:20I think the older you get, the more lovingly you look at this stuff.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Well, I will never forget you as a cowboy.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- Thank you.- I think you looked good, you were well dressed.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27I'm glad you enjoyed it all.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- It was lovely to meet you. Thank you very much.- ALL: Thank you.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And that's just about it for today.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40but it's been fantastic to get a glimpse of Glenarm and Carnlough
0:27:40 > 0:27:43as it was back in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46And it's also very reassuring to find out that this
0:27:46 > 0:27:50magnificent part of the world has remained relatively unchanged.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54It's peaceful, it's unspoiled and I tell you what, it's very welcoming.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57So until the next time, from all of us, bye-bye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Subtitles By Red Bee Media Ltd