Selected Highlights
Ulster Mirror
Description
To celebrate 100 years since BBC Northern Ireland started broadcasting over the radiowaves, Belfast Film Festival are putting together a special archive television event around a programme that was once a household name, Ulster Mirror.
Ulster Mirror ran from 1954 and was broadcast every fortnight. It depicted the goings on of life in Northern Ireland, potato picking, new roads and Portavogie Harbour. It even showed the first television transmitter in its opening episode. Broadcast “across the water”, it was a point of pride for the government of the day. But was Ulster Mirror really a mirror on Ulster?
In true Belfast Film Festival style we’re putting together this audio-visual event as a reevaluation of Ulster Mirror. Completely live-edited on site within the programme-making surrounds of BBC Blackstaff House, it will be part documentary, part experimental exploration.
With commentary from Prof. John Hill, who has written extensively on the history of Northern Irish television, this will be a documentary like no other, as it will be entirely live and never seen again!
Footage courtesy of BBC Northern Ireland. Explore thousands of BBC archive clips from Northern Ireland and across the UK at bbcrewind.co.uk.
Admission to this event is free but booking is required.
Tickets & Pricing
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 8:00 - 9:30pm
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