Filmed across Calderdale and North Yorkshire, the 1949 film A Boy, A Girl and A Bike is a romantic comedy about a bicycle race and a romantic situation arising between the contestants.
Much of the film is from Calderdale, including Hebden Bridge, Elland and Boothtown, as well as scenes in North Yorkshire around Malham.
For this video, we are looking at some of those locations and how much they have changed in 75 years.
hi everybody Matt back with you hope you’re doing okay today I am out and about around Cardale looking for filming locations i’ve been asked to do a few different ones recently um after some of the others were proved to be quite popular with you uh so today we’re going a bit further back in time i’m going back to 1949 and a film called A Boy a girl and a bike and it’s filmed across Collidale and North Yorkshire now I’m not covering every single location it’s a bike race and they go past loads of different locations um so I’m specifically not doing um most of the North Yorkshire ones but I’m going to cover some of the Calderale ones and we’ll see what the difference is over 75 years [Music] later heat heat [Music] heat heat heat heat [Music] heat heat heat [Music] heat heat [Music] heat heat [Music] heat heat heat [Music] baby baby heat heat [Music] daddy hey [Music] daddy D [Music]
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Fascinating, well done for finding the locations. An old Top Rank distribution from Gainsborough Studios, didn't they make a lot of the Ealing films?
Thanks Matt. That was great β€
Very good video this one,Hebden bridge just after the war,great stuff.
Fantastic! Thank you for putting that together β€
Love the before & after shots
5:56 thats dedication right there, getting extras in to reenact the chase! ππ
Over 8k!!! Growing by leaps and bounds!
Driving thru Ireland once, we inadvertently drive thru a filming because the bloke who was supposed to be blocking the lane left to take a ββ-. It was a documentary about the filming of The Quiet Man in County Cork. I never did find out the name of that docu to see if they kept us in it! Oops!
That was great to watch Mattβ¦I have a copy of this film..Lovely litttle film to watch every now and then..π
That was brilliant, it must have taken ages to film and edit. Thank you!
Ace! Really enjoyed that! Never heard of the film before. Will check it out. π
Great video, many thanks!
Amazing to see see some of the sites still there after all this time
Fantastic vid Matt loved seeing the transformation over time βοΈ
really loved this video
Hi Matt great matching of the locations, did you know that Jimmy Saville is one of the cyclists towards the end of the race.
Thank you, that was interesting!
Love the 'Now & Thens'. Fun trip! Great job.
That was interesting Matt. Must have taken a while for you to make. Thank you.
Jimmy savile is in this film as an extra during a race scene. Love the then and now shots.