Rob Younger was handed the reels.
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00:00Following a rare discovery, Parkway Cinema will be hosting a special screening of Kes.
00:07A chap just walked in with a box, and I happened to be here, he got a box, it said the farmer's in the loft, we think it might be Kes, but I don't know how to check it or what to do with it.
00:19I opened the box, it said it's definitely Kes, there's all seven reels there, but the fact it had been in a loft, is it going to be any good?
00:28You know, in the summer lofts get red hot, in the winter they're cold, that's not good for film prints.
00:34But we opened it up and it looked reasonable, so we fixed up, I said let me have a look at it properly.
00:40I ran it through on the rewind bench, made it onto spools, and then they all came in and we ran it.
00:45And it's fine, it's an original print, or it seems to be, so it's got some scratches, some dirt, it's not perfect, but you wouldn't expect that from a film so old.
00:53But it runs, so we've run it through, and then we've just built from there.
00:57So look, Kes group who own the print now, and I said to them look, we need to get this on screen, it's alright having it, we've got loads of memorabilia, but this needs to be shown to the public.
01:07And that's where it all came from.
01:10We're going to run it, we've got a couple of shows, 15th and 16th of June, they're sold out, they're sold out pretty quickly.
01:17We've got Dai Bradley who's obviously the star of the film, he's coming in, the Kes group are going to bring loads of memorabilia.
01:23And we're hoping for a few more cast members, but that's yet to be confirmed, that we're trying, or they're trying to get to come in as well.
01:31So there'll be an introduction to the film, there'll be a chance to look at the memorabilia and buy bits and pieces.
01:37And then there'll be a Q&A session afterwards, and a meet and greet with David Bradley and whoever else is here.
01:42Reels, which I think Kes is in, look at it.
01:48Yeah that's Kes, so I've got three reels to it.
01:51Oh wow!
01:52So that's three reels joined together.
01:54So what we do is...
01:56That's it, but that's not how we'll run it.
02:10What we'll do, we're just going to run downstairs, not up here.
02:14What we'll do is sit on a plateau like this.
02:17So you can run all seven reels together.
02:25Join them up.
02:26I'll play it from one flute rejector back again.
02:29Wow!
02:30Sophie Mayland-May-Lynn, The Parkway Cinema, Barnsley.