THIS year marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, the first war where the public demanded to know what was happening to the men and film was one way the story came home.
The difficulty for the film historian is sorting the fact from the fiction, a blurred line that did not trouble people so much then, but now we want to know the truth. Amanda Huntley, using Herefordshire-based Huntley Archives film, looks at the evidence.
In 1985, John Huntley and his daughter Amanda set up Huntley Film Archives. Dating from 1895 to the present day, the emphasis of the remarkable collection, widely described and rare and unique, is on social history from Britain and around the world.
Huntley Film Archives is one of the largest independent film libraries in the UK, with a collection of more than 80,000 titles and more added every day.
Huntley Film Archives: World War I is at the Assembly Rooms, Presteigne tomorrow at 8pm. Tickets available on the door.
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