films

 I saw on the tv that the film 'First knight is on some of it was filmed round here in trawsfynydd on the lake, it starred Richard Gere, who spent quite a few days here and met some of the locals the land used is owned by my neices grandfather, I was at college at the time so was not here to see what was going one but a friend from college came here to stay to see the filming.

Another film which filmed around here is macbethe by roman polanski, I was only a child when it was being filmed but I can remember going up the road to see the place where it was being filmed and we had few arrows to take hoome as some kind of momento of being up there.  There have many other films set here over the years some partly and some wholly like the Inn of the sixth happiness and carry on up the kyber a bit before my time there have not been that many over the last few years for whatever reason, just a few welsh dramas and short tv series;

I did have photos of the macbeth filming but they have been lost by family members I guess I remember Johon stride in it and have just looked on youtube and young Martin Shaw was in it before he became really famout for other roles

I have been made aware this week of the ilms that went on round here by a bloke who was an extra in the film he woked in a quarry locally and got paid 10 a week for working there where as an extra he got paid 17 pounds a day yes it was a long time ago. He said they were recruited in the village hall here and they stayed in the local pub the Pengwern Armsm I dodn't know much detail about how long the filming took an how long they were here for.

I look forward to another movie being filmed round here soon and the exitmetn it will

bring locally and hopefully some money. the image is of part of the area where macbeth was filmed over 50 years ago