CHALK TRACE
As a child in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his home in Chadderton. CHALK TRACE commemorates and reanimates his graffiti journey through a now much-changed network of streets.
The film was photographed in the original streets of Oldham as they stand today – over 60 years after Ron’s original graffiti. The street images are individual photographs that were then re-photographed and animated on a 1950s school desk, via a mix of HD video and 16mm film. The soundtrack recounts the street names that Ron journey’s through.
Made for the Channel Four strand Random Acts.
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- Format DIGITAL FILE(DIGITAL FILE)
- Color system PAL
- Color b&w
- Year 2013
- Duration 00:02:36
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Spoken: English UK
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