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Leo Enticknap <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:37:57 +0100
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Annabelle Honess Roe writes:

>There's a museum of photography, film and television in Bradford
>(http://www.nmpft.org.uk/home.asp).

It's well worth a visit, but it's nowhere near London. Bradford is
175 miles north of London. The trip takes 3-4 hours by car,
depending on the traffic. The journey can theoretically be done in
just over two hours by train, but the trains in Britain are so
unreliable, delay-prone and expensive that nobody in their right mind
would use them if they have any other choice. BMI (www.flybmi.com)
flies from London Heathrow to Leeds/Bradford: it's considerably
cheaper than the train in most cases (you can get cheaper train
tickets, but only if you book weeks in advance), even after taking
into account the cost of getting to and from airports. I've used
this route about once every 6-8 weeks for the last three years, and
have never suffered a cancellation or significant delay (I went to
London meetings by train for around two years before that, and was
never able to complete a round trip WITHOUT suffering a cancellation
or significant delay).

The first Saturday in the month is the ideal time to visit, as the
Pictureville Cinema there shows 'This is Cinerama' using an original
release print and a genuine three-projector installation. It's the
only theatre in the world which runs regularly scheduled Cinerama
screenings, apart from the Cinerama Dome in Seattle.

Leo

Leo Enticknap
Curator, Northern Region Film & Television Archive
Middlesbrough, UK
www.nrfta.org.uk

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