Film Number

5164

Title

ENGLISH LAKELAND LAND OF POETS

Producer

Sam Hanna

Date

1946-49/52-55/68/70/73

Gauge

16mm

Colour

colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

30 mins 40 secs

Description

Views of the Lake District featuring members of the Hanna Family and locally-based crafts. Includes scenes of villages and local attractions, a country fair, a drag hunt, farming and the lake district landscape. Also features clips from Hanna's craft films on horn workers, snuff making and traditional charcoal burning that are all set in this area.

For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html