Back to the Eli Simpson film rushes page: In 1953 The British Speleological Association initiated a project under the leadership of Eli Simpson to make a 16 mm film about limestone caves in the Yorkshire Dales called "Birth of a Yorkshire River". They had a number of sessions filming both on the surface and underground, experimenting with both monochrome and Kodachrome film. The project was eventually abandoned, but the rushes were discovered in the Eli Simpson Archive held by the BCRA. This set of Kodachrome rushes show two men and a lady looking at various features in a limestone landscape. The stream bed is just above Calf Holes, and the farm buildings at the end of the clip are at Thorn, south of Gearstones in Ribblehead, but the other places shown have yet to be identified.