Side Cinema
Calendar - Amber at 40 Season
5th June 2008 ( 7:00PM – 9:00PM )
Laurie + Glassworks
From the 1970s, Laurie (1978, 25 mins) is a portrait of the South Shields working class artist, sculptor and photographer Laurie Wheatley, an early Amber hero. His sculpture of a welder, which the film documents the making of, now stands above the staircase in Side Gallery. Glassworks (1977, 20 mins) is one of the Tyne Documentaries, looking at the ballet of industrial glass blowing at the Lemington works.