THE North West Film Archive brings Lakeland on Film to Zeffirellis cinema at Ambleside on Tuesday, June 9 (8pm).

The screening features a specially selected compilation of fascinating films from the NWFA collection which captures life in and around the Lake District over the past 100 years, and includes scenes of the Bowness-on-Windermere Sports Day of 1914 and of George and Ashley Abraham scaling Napes Needle the same year. There is also footage on the ill-fated water speed records of Sir Henry Seagrave and Donald Campbell, how the Lune Valley was changed forever with the arrival of the M6 motorway in the late 1960s, and how the area was promoted to tourists by both the railway companies of the 1930s, and by the town of Keswick itself in The Jewel of Lakeland. The film the Longest Drink looks at how the region's lakes were used to supply water to the city of Manchester; shows local man Nat Bell in action in his rope works in the 1970s, and how paper is made at Burneside's James Cropper plc.

The evening’s show will be presented by the archive’s collections assistant Geoff Senior.

Tickets are available from Zeffirellis' box office on 015394-33845.

The North West Film Archive is part of the Library Service of Manchester Metropolitan University and cares for more than 38,000 items from the pioneer days of film in the mid-1890s to video production of today and collects work of both professional and amateur filmmakers.

NWFA's new home is at Manchester Central Library at St Peters Square (0161-247-3097).