A FILM on the life of East Cleveland’s internationallyknown folk singer Vin Garbutt is to be launched this summer.
A packed audience at Teesside Archives, Middlesbrough, saw a 22-minute clip a few weeks ago.
Film-maker Craig Hornby, of Saltburn, spoke to nearly 60 people at Middlesbrough’s Royal Exchange archives during the evening showing clips from locally-made films from the 1950s onwards.
“The audience was captivated by the Vin Garbutt clip and Craig got a lot of welcoming handshakes after showing it,” said Janet Baker, acting principal archivist with Middlesbrough Council.
“Vin is a man with a mission, and Craig is in the wake of it judging from his excellent introduction to the clip.”
Mr Hornby said he planned to launch the film, The Teesside Troubadour, in Saltburn in either late July or early August. A DVD will be available by Christmas.
His film A Century of Stone, about local ironstone mining, has sold 16,000 copies in DVD form. It will be shown, with an introductory talk, at Stockton library on Thursday, June 24, at 2pm, the 160th anniversary of ironstone being discovered in the Eston hills.
Mr Hornby has left the Arts- Bank project in Saltburn, which he helped to set up. He has circulated a newsletter in the town about his departure.
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