A new hard-hitting short film, Cost Of Living, has just been released, highlighting social issues of the past that feel uncomfortably contemporary.
The production, using decades of decades of striking archive footage, is the result of a partnership between York St John University and the Yorkshire and North East Film Archives. With material gathered across the North East and Yorkshire, we see empty petrol pumps, food banks and Government tips for saving money. With an uncanny sense of déjà vu, it evokes a past that feels very familiar today.
Archivists looked at more than 200 source films, mainly from the Archive's regional television news and documentary programming from the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Pressing social issues of the day are documented across a wide area of Northern England, including Newcastle, Gateshead, Jarrow and Blyth in our region.
