A little piece of cinema history right on your doorstep
Blackburn's role in creating the ‘Western’ film genre is to be celebrated with an eye-catching new piece of public art in its historic Northgate Conservation Area.
It will celebrate the fact that the world’s first-ever Western film – ‘Kidnapping by Indians’ – was created on the premises. In 1994 an extraordinary archive of Edwardian films was discovered in the basement of a shop in Northgate.While studying them in 2019, critically-acclaimed artist and writer, Jamie Holman discovered the short clip of ‘Kidnapping by Indians’ and the date on the film indicated that it was the world’s first Western.
The firm, one of the largest British film companies in the 1900s, had two premises in the Blackburn town centre – 21 King Street and 40 Northgate. The block has recently undergone a shop front transformation as part of the Blakey Moor Townscape Heritage Project.
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