100 years of Nature on cine film

The region's beauty has been captured in a new documentary from the North East Film Archive.

Transcript

00:00 Peaceful and quiet, nothing stirs. But then a fish starts to move and the duckweed is disturbed.

00:08 Theirs is an idealism which finds greatest happiness in the simple things of life.

00:14 Warmth of the sun, the clean fresh bluster of the wind, sleep of the sky, and all the colour and beauty that the countryside contains.

00:26 This is their world, a world of limitless horizons. They would have no other.

00:32 Standing alone gives a feeling that makes you tiny against the great river.

00:39 And I look ahead, I see the river bend, and then I think, how far does the river flow? Does it go on forever?

00:51 (children laughing)

00:54 Poised about the world, enjoying the long view and sweeping vista which belongs to all who stand on the roof of the world.

01:09 No view is quite so grand as when there is someone to show it to.

01:13 No sunset quite so fine as when there is someone to share it with.

01:19 Above all, sharing a common love and appreciation of the countryside that will abide with them through the week ahead and long after.

01:28 (birds chirping)

01:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]