Anybody seen this before?

Its the Film (made by Barry Hines of Kes fame) which shows the lives of 2 sheffield families in the aftermath of a nuclear strike on sheffield

(from IMDB: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's affect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.)

I can remember seeing Threads in the mid 1970's. It absolutely scared me to death, made even more poignant by the fact that it was shot in Sheffield. I can remember having nightmares for weeks afterwards.

Originally posted by "Mo"

I can remember seeing Threads in the mid 1970's. It absolutely scared me to death, made even more poignant by the fact that it was shot in Sheffield. I can remember having nightmares for weeks afterwards.

dont you mean 1980s? :)

Yeah I bought this film on DVD - aged slightly, but it's still a reasonable film and actually pretty horrific due to the fact you recognise the locations!

Originally posted by "RPG"

I can remember seeing Threads in the mid 1970's. It absolutely scared me to death, made even more poignant by the fact that it was shot in Sheffield. I can remember having nightmares for weeks afterwards.

dont you mean 1980s? :)
Yes I do sorry. :oops: The old mind gets confused these days.

I saw it when I was 16. I want to see it again because it was such a powerful film, but there's no way I'm going to put myself through it; I don't want weeks of nightmares again.

If this isn't a suitable topic for a thread I don't know what is.

Anybody see/remember the film Threads? It was about the after effects of a nuclear blast over M'cr (no loss there) and was based in Sheffield.

The pub scenes were shot in The Nottingham in Broomhill which was my local at the time. There were lots of location shots based around Sheffield. It's available on video/dvd now so if you get the chance watch it.

OK DaBouncer, see what you've done now, I can't be stopped!

:twisted: :twisted:

HA HA.

Can't say I've heard of or seen that one.

Will have a soot around to see if I can see anywhere... I link would be good if you had one maxt!

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=594

one of the first topics in here ;)

the DVD is out of print now, so you'll be lucky to get hold of one

Originally posted by "RPG"

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=594

one of the first topics in here ;)

the DVD is out of print now, so you'll be lucky to get hold of one Saw a copy in WH Smiths Meadowhall on Monday 19th May :wink: not getting it tho it wasn't that good

its a worthy investment....

At the time Threads was powerful stuff, I saw it before I moved to Sheffield but can imagine if you lived here you'd be *****ing it.

Another one worthy of mention is Raymond Briggs' cartoon "When the wind blows" about an elderly couple slowly dying after a nuclear blast.

Saw "When the wind blows" at The Crucible many years ago and it was haunting, more so than the cartoon.

Hi all, me yet again, I made a request last post I made, but it got lost in the midst of the rest of the threads that was made, anyways......

I am after the film Threads, that's the one with the Nuclear attack on Sheffield one, I have searched everywhere, but not had any luck so far, I am after a copy, not bothered if it is not the original and I am willing to pay for one, so easy cash for anyone who can be bothered to run a copy off.

Also, I doubt it, but might as well ask, I am after a series called The Last Train that was shown on TV some time ago, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oooh, I remember the Last Train...drove my Sheffield friends batty how it mixed up the different areas. We all watched it fairly avidly, though.
Odd programme.
Can't remember how it ended.

Sorry, don't have a copy. But the Library might?

Never saw Threads, but I know it gave some people nightmares...

Hmm, sorry, not right helpful...

What's the Last Train ..... and Threads - they both sound really interesting... info anyone ?

Threads was apparently a quite graphic movie about the effects of a nuclear bomb being dropped on Sheffield...really icky, I've heard.

The Last Train was a tv drama about a group of people who were involved in a train crash, but were preserved by some freezing substance someone was smuggling. When they all woke up they were in post-apocalyptic Sheffield, and had to make their way to some research centre in the Peaks or somewhere.

Does that help?

Brill thanks ........... I found a copy of Threads for Kry10

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....p;category=4348

There is one on amazon (Threads), bit expencive at £60 though.

Here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U409/qid=1064245831/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/026-1014024-2452410)

Found a VHS version, only £11.25

Here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U3VW/ref=ed_ra_of_dp/026-1014024-2452410)

I reckon the Showroom should show all the Sheffield themed movies there are as a kind of Celebrate Sheffield on Film week/month...

Threads, The Full Monty...ummm, help me out here!

Might be quite a short thing...a Celebrate Sheffield on Film night...:lol: :lol:

Originally posted by cosywolf
I reckon the Showroom should show all the Sheffield themed movies there are as a kind of Celebrate Sheffield on Film week/month...

I'm kinda suprised they haven't already done this because it seems a pretty good idea to me.
Definatlly wouldn't mind seeing Treads,sounds like a really good film.

You'd have to include 'Tales From A Hard City', the documentary about 4 Sheffield 'dreamers' (for which read 'mad people') made in 1994 - it's chokingly funny, though makes Sheffield look like a city of deluded nutters. And maybe it is.

Occasionally appears on late night Channel 4. It will make your jaw hit the floor and your sides will split.

Apologies to anyone on this forum who might actually be one of the 4 main people in the movie. Especially if you're the actor who can't drive who tries to get a sponsored car from Skoda.

Threads is a really shocking film that DID give plenty of people nightmares. The site of a giant mushroom cloud rising above The Moor will stay with you a long time.

Originally posted by cosywolf
I reckon the Showroom should show all the Sheffield themed movies there are as a kind of Celebrate Sheffield on Film week/month...

Threads, The Full Monty...ummm, help me out here!

Might be quite a short thing...a Celebrate Sheffield on Film night...:lol: :lol:

There were a lot of promotional films made about Sheffield in the 60's and 70's, such as the one at the start of the Full Monty. The library theatre used to show them a few years ago.

Hi, Ive got a copy of "Threads" on DVD, which you are welcome to borrow.

Originally posted by Spacehopper
8) Nah Den Ace..........

The promotional film, used at the start of The Full Monty, was available in full on the video "The Reel Monty"; it was available from The Star offices on York Street. I don't know if it is still available now though, does anyone else know?

Regards,

Spacehopper.

I'm pretty sure I saw it on sale in that record shop on Division Street, by The Futon Shop.

As for Threads, this is a genuinely disturbing film, not one to watch on a Saturday night!

Originally posted by brandnewdrunk
Hi, Ive got a copy of "Threads" on DVD, which you are welcome to borrow.

I would LOVE to see it - I am so curious about this !!!!

It's an awful film. I last saw it 15 years ago and it still haunts me today.

Has anyone seen '28 days later', it's very much of a similar style.

I would say that Threads and 28 Days Later are only similar in so much as they are both in post apocolyptic settings. But whilst Threads is about the effects of nuclear war, 28 Days Later is about zombies.

ive got threads, and im happy to see it being sold for over £60 now :lol:

its an ace film, very scary mind ;)

not quite as scary as Pink Floyd - The Wall

Well, heh, thanks, didn't expect to stir up quite a hornets nest of a discussion, thanks all so far, there are certain reasons why I asked for a copy though, I do not have a credit card, therefore, things like e-bay are out of the question, sadly.....

I saw Threads when I was a young-un while I was in Matlock and it made me nearly **** myself, so I really want this film, people seem to think that making a copy would reduce the price of the original, but this is not so, a copy is not worth jack squat, only to someone who is after a copy and is finding it so hard to get one.

As I said, I tried WHSmith's and they told me that I would have to wait for a phone call, and that was way over a month ago, and I hardly want to end up buying it with pension money.

As for The Last Train, it was filmed across the road and I managed to "borrow" a piece of scenery after filming was done, and I am not sure, but the rest of the scenery might still be there, well, according to a web site I looked at anyways, and seeing as they have built houses there, it ain't possible to check.

Okay, one last beg for Threads, PLEASE can someone do me a copy, pretty please, with sugar on top.....LOL

Originally posted by Kry10
Okay, one last beg for Threads, PLEASE can someone do me a copy, pretty please, with sugar on top.....LOL

Were none of the links any good for you to buy one ?
I've asked around at work and stuff but no one has it

Have you tried HMV ?? They can order stuff for you ..... tell you what - I'll go into Meadowhall at lunchtime tomorrow and see if they can get it in for us ......... PM me your email addy and I will let you know.

Originally posted by Kry10
Okay, one last beg for Threads, PLEASE can someone do me a copy, pretty please, with sugar on top.....LOL

lol, remember my copy is a DVD, i tried before but the macrovision on the dvdplayer and VHS recorder gives me a blank screen :(

best idea would be to try and get someone on here with an ebay account to buy a copy for you.

I've got an Ebay account - but before I do that lets see if I can get HMV to order it I'll buy it, and you can borrow it. Or anyone else for that matter.

Originally posted by RPG
lol, remember my copy is a DVD, i tried before but the macrovision on the dvdplayer and VHS recorder gives me a blank screen :(


I could do you a "backup" version with macrovision/region information removed. The wonders of DVD writers :).

Anyway I checked on a few online rental places and can't find either, but i can request something they dont have and apparently they will "most likely" get it for me, will try that :).

Really wanna see this "Threads" and I remember "The Last Train" from tv, enjoyed it but missed 1.

Thanks for the help that you have given so far, I haven't tried HMV but I did try WHSmith's, I thought that they would be able to get hold of it pretty easily, but they themselves cannot get it.

Brandnewdrunk offered to post me a his DVD copy but I am paranoid about giving out house address details on here, also, someone asked if I was going to the meet next week, well, I'd like to, but there are a couple of points that stop me, one is that I don't know enough people from the forum to go, second, what exactly goes on at one of these meet things?

And again, if anyone can help with Threads or The Last Train, then am willing to pay or do a favour in return if possible.

Originally posted by brandnewdrunk
Hi, Ive got a copy of "Threads" on DVD, which you are welcome to borrow.

Could I borrow it please ?

I would like Threads too 'cos I was actually in it! Theres a great close up of my trainers going up blood and vomit soaked stairs at the Royal Infirmary (before they knocked it down). It was actually quite moving doing the filming because it just seemed so real with dozons of "injured" people slumped around between scenes. Quite a few were so overcome that they were in tears.

Wow, takes me back to a time when we really were expecting a nuclear war at almost any time.

Has anyone seen the "Protect & Survive" trailers on TV recently? I remember being given a copy at school.

The protect and survive broadcasts are on a DVD called 'charlie says', with other public information films. HMV have it in for about £5.99

Incidentally, you don't need a credit card to buy on ebay. Most sellers accept cheques or postal orders.

If you have a macrovision problem, which is now getting increasing common, download DVDDECRYPTER. It copies the DVD to your hard drive and removes Macrovision protection.

There is a DVD playing program which lets you play protected DVDs from any region without having to copy it, but sadly the name escapes me for the moment.

Originally posted by brandnewdrunk
Hi, Ive got a copy of "Threads" on DVD, which you are welcome to borrow.

where u get that?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3350220361&category=30144&tc=photo

I got it from Amazon ages ago for about £9.99, its probably no longer in print, you should be able to get it on video from the library though.

I've got a copy of "The Day After" - the American version a nuclear holocaust. Too depressing to watch, though.

Some information on what people thought of the film can be found here.

If you haven't seen the film and you are intending to, it probably best no to read this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/usercomments

You can buy it from amazon, here the direct link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U409/ref=ase_imdb-uk/026-5285203-3774831

Thanks for all the help you lot have given, but I have finally managed to get a hold of this film courtesy of the Central Library, should be getting a copy made asap.

There is a DVD playing program which lets you play protected DVDs from any region without having to copy it, but sadly the name escapes me for the moment.

I think you're probably talking about DVD Region Free.

I'm scetchy about threads, was it made in the early 70s and shown on T.V at the time.
John Mills comes into the equation somewhere, not sure why.

Threads was written by Barry Hines of Kes fame and directed by Mick Jackson. It was filmed on location in Sheffield and the Peak District and was broadcast around 1983/4 on BBC 1. After scores of complaints at the graphic nature of the story it has not been shown since. An appeal for extras was made at the time and hundreds turned up at the City Hall. The CND were heavily involved, as were many eminent scientists which lends the film a realism not found in other works in the same genre. It is a geniunely haunting and powerful film that will knock you sideways, eschewing anything like a happy ending and showing the reality of nuclear war in it's entire horror. As a historical document, it's pretty much unique. As a film you'll want to revisit you may find it will end up sitting on your shelf gathering dust unless you like mutated babies, charred bodies and recurring nightmares.

Another Sheffield film worth a look is Ken Loaches' The Navigators, a story of rail workers made redundant and re-employed as temporary staff. Avoid When Saturday Comes, a work of entire excrement that will make you want to knaw your own legs off. Oh, and check out Eve Wood's Made In Sheffield, a documentary on the Sheffield music scene of the late seventies and early eighties, available from Sheffield Vision. (http://www.sheffieldvision.com)

Another film/TV series of interest is The Last Train/Cruel Earth (which is it's American name), this film's story line is of a meteor that strikes the planet while these people are in a train, when the meteor hits, one of the people on the train is carrying a cannister containing a freezing agent, thus the people on the train are cyrogenically frozen and when they awaken, they end up taking a long trek to this BioDome thing..........some of this series was filmed in Sheffield, in fact, just across the road from us in Middlewood Hospital, I went and had a look at the scenery just after they had finished filming, and it was very haunting, burned out buildings and cars with dead bodies everywhere and blood on the street, very disturbing.

I have tried to get this series since, but I have had no luck.

8) Nah Den Ace.........

Originally posted by SheffieldSean
Avoid When Saturday Comes, a work of entire excrement..........check out Eve Wood's Made In Sheffield, a documentary on the Sheffield music scene of the late seventies and early eighties, available from Sheffield Vision. (http://www.sheffieldvision.com)

I loved When Saturday Comes! Yeah, I know it's about United, I know the story was straight out of Roy of the Rovers/Boy's Own and I know Emily Lloyd does the worst Irish accent in the world........ever! Corny as hell, but brilliant!

Thanks for the link about Made In Sheffield...........right up my straza! I'd not heard about it. Looking forward to the DVD coming out.

Finally, does anybody know if the Threads DVD is planned to be rereleased at any point? I would love to have it in my collection, as by the looks of things, would many more paying customers.

Regards,

Spacehopper.

BBC4 is showing the BBC Film "Threads" on the 29th October at 10:40pm

(BBC4 is only available on Sky, Cable, or DVB/Freeview)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/


Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's affect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
- Leisha Sibley

Working class city? Ugh.

Great news,been wanting to see this ever since i read that first thread about it.Can't wait!

Originally posted by t020
Working class city? Ugh.
t020, it's true - you really are a snob.

nice i'll tivo it and stick it on dvdr until i can find the original :)

Originally posted by t020
Working class city? Ugh.
Sheffield IS a working class city mate. it just happens to have one or two 'Middle Class' areas. We've always been a working class city.

Given the Steel Works of yor. Really t-blah, for someone who 'proclaims' to be intelligent (lol) you certainly are small minded in certain areas.

t020 fancies himself as some kind of suave aristocrat, I reckon. Like Bertie Wooster.

he sounds more like Jarvis! (as played by Newman & Baddiel) for those of you old enough to remember

Working class city? Ugh.


Oh wake up?!?!?! :loopy:

8) Nah Den Ace......

Originally posted by t020
Working class city? Ugh.

When it comes to patience, tolerance, understanding, compassion and love; I am afraid, my friend, that you are a peasant!

I shall pray for your soul.......

Regards,

Spacehopper.

When it comes to patience, tolerance, understanding, compassion and love; I am afraid, my friend, that you are a peasant!

Hahahaha!!!! Good one! :D

Dont forget its on tonight

Well reminded Mikey!

Its on tonight (29/10/03).....soon at 10:40pm on bbc4 (Threads that is)

thanks for the postings about it being on telly! got my mate to video it as i only have 4 channels. will be watching it at le weekend.

Did anyone manage to watch this on BBC 4 last night?

It's being shown again on BBC 4 on Saturday night/Sunday Morning at 00:20 for those who missed it.

i watched it, hope that helps!

I watched it again last night on BBC 4. It still remains one of the most brutal films I've seen. The DVD was available from Amazon, but appears to be out of stock. The video version is available however.

Wow... i forgot how powerful it was. It's a bit of a cliche, but if all children had to watch this we might have a more peaceful world.

A very upsetting film, just as chilling as it was all those years ago.

Quite ironic as how the war aspect was set in Iraq with Russian troops illegally occupying with the US whinging!

Originally posted by alchresearch
A very upsetting film, just as chilling as it was all those years ago.

Quite ironic as how the war aspect was set in Iraq with Russian troops illegally occupying with the US whinging!

So was the film directly afterwards about the real dropping of the two atom bombs in 1945. The powers that be have learned nothing in 58 years.

In 'Threads', wasn't it Iran, not Iraq?

For those of us that missed it BBC4 are repeating it on Sunday 2nd November at 00:20.

:rolleyes: I turned it off it looked so out dated..some things look good from that time like Boys from the Blackstuff but this was out dated sorry to say :(

That film was really scary. Can you imagine going from living a comfortable, modern existence to becoming a starving, radioactive, homeless scavenger virtually overnight? It makes you appreciate how lucky we are, despite all of society's problems.

On a semi related note, how did people feel when they saw the egg box building? Did it trigger any nostalgia, or did you cheer when it got nuked?

i watched it on bbc3 the other night, first time i've seen it since it was originally shown.
It does look dated in parts but i don't think that harms it, it's a snapshot of the city at a particular time in history.
Very disturbing and very powerful. I'd put it on a level with Saving Private Ryan in showing the true horror of war.
All the intercut facts and figures just added to the realism I thought.
I remember it scaring me as a kid and it scared me just as much as a 30 year old. :(

tivo'd it when it was on tv but gone one better and found it on the t'internet :), just about to burn it to dvd and watch it the first time tonight :D

i finally watched it tonight - my mate videoed it for me. well spooky seeing endcliffe park, the egg box and the old peace gardens, then naming areas of sheff. all inamongst death and destruction. i think i may have nightmares tonight!!!

but why was the baby girl not all minging? i know her baby died at birth at the end but she was quite normal.

hiroshima babies were all deformed weren't they?

it didn't half go on a bit - 2 hours later, 1 week, 3 months, 13 years! thought it would never end. good to see the expected after effects tho.

The effects of high exposure to radiation are not necessarily immediately obvious, and can take some time to manifest themselves.

Also, it depends on the stage of foetal development.

Originally posted by Jack Yerbody
The effects of high exposure to radiation are not necessarily immediately obvious, and can take some time to manifest themselves.

Also, it depends on the stage of foetal development.

yes, but its a film therefore my expectation is for information to be condensed a bit more. even the dead baby at the end wasn't manky, just dead. after all that exposure to the fallout you'd think there would be some evidence of it in the film...

You wouldn't get birth defects like hearts outside the chest cavity or the like until much later.

But your point is a fair one.

Were the kids mentally disabled, or was it that their language skills had deteriorated? And out of curiosity, does anyone know of any sites that would give any more info on the effects of nuclear war? I found the subject really interesting, in a macarbe sort of way.

Originally posted by Funky Dave
Were the kids mentally disabled, or was it that their language skills had deteriorated? And out of curiosity, does anyone know of any sites that would give any more info on the effects of nuclear war? I found the subject really interesting, in a macarbe sort of way.

the kids seemed quite normal considering they lived in a pile of rubble and ate rats and had no books, they managed to watch 'words and pictures' on telly tho!

as for 'sites' theres Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and somewhere in Vietnam too.

basically there are two types of radiation initual and residual. initial being the actual blast and the latter is radiation that comes later from radionuclides which are radioactive isotopes that are generated by the explosion and induced in soil, building materials, people/animals, etc, by neutron bombardment unleashed by said blast.

a site in Vietnam? Did I miss something major in the Vietnam war?

Originally posted by spook1210
a site in Vietnam? Did I miss something major in the Vietnam war?

sorry i'm getting confused with chemical/biological warfare. napalm and that. but my point is that stuff has effects for ages after the event.

HI all. . newbie to this forum, but not forums in general.

My housemate managed to get hold of a copy of a film called Threads, and wondered if many other sheffielders have seen it.

Its basically a film about how society is based on threads and what would happen if these threads were broke by a 200 megatonne nuclear bomb...

Made around the 80s, Its pretty horrific, and graphic for its age.

Before i saw it, someone said that its a film you'll only watch once. . after seeing it, i dont wanna watch it again.

I've got it too, first half is ace, second is crap.
It's fun spotting places you remember from 1981 :)

Originally posted by munky
HI all. . newbie to this forum, but not forums in general.

My housemate managed to get hold of a copy of a film called Threads, and wondered if many other sheffielders have seen it.

Its basically a film about how society is based on threads and what would happen if these threads were broke by a 200 megatonne nuclear bomb...

Made around the 80s, Its pretty horrific, and graphic for its age.

Before i saw it, someone said that its a film you'll only watch once. . after seeing it, i dont wanna watch it again. ;) http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=476&highlight=threads Use search forum and its been done a few times:rolleyes:

Merged Threads :thumbsup:

Threads is great :D

Apparently, there was public outrage at the time it was released, because Sheffield Council spent millions of pounds doing-up the Manor for the post-bomb scenes.

Originally posted by rarstar
Apparently, there was public outrage at the time it was released, because Sheffield Council spent millions of pounds doing-up the Manor for the post-bomb scenes.
sounds about right ........and they wonder why sheffield council as a bad reputation ...........oh btw the films not very good either:mad:

I first saw Threads in my media class at school for a project, then a few months later we watched it in english for some reason. Didn't realise you could get hold of it.

It was shown on BBC 3 a few months ago, and I watched it for the first time. I can't imagine the BBC showing something like that... not exactly shocking by today's standards, but definitely would have been then!

Is this the low-budget nuclear fallout thing shot in Hillsborough?

I like the shot of Regent Court exploding.

And the shot of the family in the car disappearing off down Cheadle Street on their way to Wales. (It's a dead end)

Apparently my auntie auditioned for it as 'crying kid no 7' or something, but didnt get picked cos she was over-acting!


Anybody seen Among Giants? That had loads of local shots too. Decent film, that.

Originally posted by duffman
I first saw Threads in my media class at school for a project, then a few months later we watched it in english for some reason. Didn't realise you could get hold of it.

LOL!

same here!! bizzare!

The thing is I was late into class (damn buses) and I though it was one of those warning documentries on the cold war and what will happen to us should it go to a nuclear war, my dad was in one for the BBC years ago.

When I was at junior school in the height of the Cold War, I remember they showed us a film set in Sheffield which followed the aftermath of a Soviet nuclear attack against the UK called "Threads".

Apart from scaring the **** out of me and scarring me for life, the film seems to predate "The Full Monty" as a film showing the wonder of the steel city off to the movie-going public.

Can anyone else recall this film?

And am I alone in thinking that it was a silly idea to show it to kids as we'd more than likely have been dead before we knew what was going on if the Russians had nuked us?

we got shown this at school too. the lesson should have been called "how to frighten a 13 year old"

Here here.

To my way of thinking there is no way that a school could get away with showing that thing today...surely?

Merged Threads again,

Can I remind people that the search function is very useful :thumbsup:

I only saw it last year. It scared the hell out of me, and I'm 24!!

HI, I REMEMBER THIS FILM FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL WHEN WE WERE IN AN ENGLISH LESSON. we all were seated then this warning signal was heard. i certainly had nightmares for weeks. it is one film that always sticks with me. i could never watch it again. this was in the early 1980's. That awful deafening sound of the early warning system sent tears down my face. no never again, i am sorry.

Saw it a long time before I moved to Sheffield. Part of me wants to watch it again but it was so depressing I don't know if I could watch it.

I was just wondering if anyone can help me. Not being from Sheffield I was wondering if there's anyone out there that knows the film could help me identify any of the local people in ot any of the Sheffield locations used? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Out of interest, why are you trying to identify people in it?

I'm one of them!

A little more famous is the chap that plays Zak Dingle in Emmerdale Farm. Mind you - he eventually dies under the Eggbox.

They filmed part of it in among the houses being demolished in Owlerton when they were widening the A61. I remember going through on the bus in the morning and seeing the film crews, etc. although we didn't know what they were film was about at the time.

Of course it all looks very different now..........

Thanks for all the replies thus far --- I've got a small web site on the film (http://ukcoldwar.simplenet.com) and I was just trying to compile as much info as I could on it, both in terms of where it was filmed and to give due credit to the many volunteers that participated.

There were several scenes shot in The Nottingham House in Broomhill. I used to know some of the people in the scenes but can't for the life of me remember their names. I'll have to watch the film again to see if the names come back.

I never saw Threads - I saw the 1960s version 'The War Game' and that was quite disturbing.

I remember that the programme that made my mother re-think her views on nuclear weapons was a David Dimbleby presented documentary about nuclear weapons and their effects.

The problem with a film like Threads or The War Game is that it's bloody obvious that having a 20 Megaton nuclear weapon airburst over your county (and Sheffield would have copped for at least one targetted and probably some collateral damage from weapons launched towards 'local' military targets) is going to ruin your day. I'm not convinced that they do much good - sort of like the 'Nuclear Free Zone' signs of the early 1980s.

I recollect seeing the 'Protect and Survive' booklet, which had the **** taken royally from it. I loved the bit in P&S about taking your radio in to your refuge....the fact that radio's would have their electronics fried by any airburst within 100 miles seems to have missed the planners....

As for showing the film to 13 year olds - again, pointless except as propaganda. You scare them rigid about something they cannot influence. There were reported cases of kids going in to depression because of seeing films like this or having the issues of nuclear weapons rammed down their throats by 'right on' parents.

I found the old movie 'Fail Safe' much more interesting and educational. For a quirkier look at the whole issue of nuclear war take a look at the novel 'This is the way the world ends' by James Morrow. To paraphrase one of the characters in the film 'The Peacemaker' - it's not the country with 100 nukes you need to worry about, it's the headbanger with one backpack nuclear demolition charge they've managed to acquire after the demise of the Soviet Union.

I could of sworn I seen this movie, earlier than 1984, as I was still at school when I watched it, and I left school in 1982, I was married in june 1984, and the time when it says Threads was first show on T.V, I was heavily preagnant with my first child, and I know I didn't live with my Husband, and was with child when I watched it, I remeber everyone at school talking about it the day after, and I know I never dreamt it,

I have since watched it again, and it brought it all back to me, I now have it on DVD, am I going mad or what?

Is there a possibility it could of been shown earlier than 1984? I have scoured the internet, and only one place says 1976, and I think thats a mistake, its on IMdb, there is 3 titles for Threads on there..

Im confused now.....

Does anyone have a copy?

Anyone have a copy on video?
Have a look on Amazon - it costs a fortune!

It's a while ago since you were discussing this. I have missed the reshow on BBC4 by nine months!

Don't suppose any of you managed to tape it? And would like to make a few quid?

Cheers
Simon

I know it's a while since you were discussing this, but really want to see Threads - anyone video it?

Si

Anyone got a copy?

Take care: there's plenty of scalpers going about because Threads has been deleted by Revelation Films and so you've got the greedy so-and-so's on Amazon and eBay charging top-dollar. Also watch out for all the bootleg copies being hawked on eBay because many of the counterfeiters are always trying to find "rare" disks and tapes to flog.

Ive got a copy of the DVD, but its the jewel in my collection im afraid ;)

You'll probably find it on Ebay.

I looked for a caopy a few months ago, the cheapest way is to buy from online stores in Canada (worked out at about £8.00). Sorry I can't supply any store names and you may need a multi-region DVD player to play.

Originally posted by Rich
You'll probably find it on Ebay.
Have you http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2299&item=6310528580&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVWseen how much the dvd is going for on ebay??:loopy:

Its £85 on amazon!!!!
But £14.99 on play .com!!
Mmmm can feel a business plan brewing:D

Do we really need 3 threads on the same topic??

Anyone tried kazaa lite or any other file sharing programs? I don't see the problem with downloading it if it been discontinued. An £85 is a pi*s take!

I would, but am on a dial up connection, so no point really.

I remember where either the warning siren started or the bomb detonated and some lady shopping on the Moor had a bit of an 'accident'. Also - Woolworths on the Moor blew up. Oh - and the man and woman who escaped out into Derbyshire(?) eating a dead Sheep raw. Nice.

I was petrifed of Nuclear war during the 80's. I'm sure that Hammerton Road Police Station would sometimes test their air raid siren - I'd freak.

Hmm...and now I'm thinking of the 'Young Ones' episode entitled 'Bomb'. Neil read Protect & Survive and made a bomb shelter under the dining table. :)

the director, IIRC, was Barry Hines, who directed "Kes"

It was filmed in and around sheffield in 1980/81. I was in an amateur dramatic society, as an actress, at the time, and auditioned for a part in the film, and I had definitely left school by that time.

it really played with my head, that film. I don't know if it was the fact that is showed our own city being destroyed, that made it all the more horrific....

It was shown around 1982/3, on tv, (it is usual for films to have been on release for 2-3 years before they go to tv, unless they arespecifically a "made-for-tv movie)

PT

I saw it a junior school! It scared the s**T out of me for years, I'd love to get hold of the group of parents/teachers/governors who decided to show our class that film.

i saw it at school (around 1982ish) and had nightmares for weeks ....

It's on digital tv tonight

UK Documentary channel

Threads
Sunday, 5. September 2004
11.34PM - 1.30AM

Powerful and provocative BBC drama, originally transmitted in 1984, portraying the devastating effects of a nuclear attack on contemporary Britain.

I stayed up and watched it - good film and the one before it too.

Quality viewing if very dated now!

Originally posted by Internetowl
I stayed up and watched it - good film and the one before it too.

Quality viewing if very dated now!

Am I missing something? The previous poster says its not on till tonight yet you stayed up to watch it and the film before it?

Have I missed it cos I really wanna watch it

Or have you seen them before and you're talking about a previous time when you stayed up to watch it?

Shouldn't this be in the TV and movies forum ?

Originally posted by Jamie
Shouldn't this be in the TV and movies forum ?

Moved, ta.

Originally posted by coopster1974
Have I missed it cos I really wanna watch it


No, it's repeated tonight.

Just about to start on UKTV Docs +1 (565 on Sky)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

Sorry if this has been pointed out before.

I was made to watch it at school when i was about 12.
The poor lad stroking a budgie will stay in my head for ever and the bloke who goes for a drink at the burst water pipe only to see someone's face burnt into a paving slab, was great.

I remember when Threads first went out on the BBC. They made it and put it out on a Sunday evening. There was quite a panic as some of the effects were so good people thought it was actually happening. I'll never forget them blowing up the Moor. A masterpiece in minatures before the age of CGI effects!

This is the Threads film that is about a nuclear bomb being dropped on Sheffield.

In original case - have seen these go on ebay for over £70

Any offers around £60

email or pm me

Tony

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/B00004U409/used/ref=sdp_usedd_h_/026-9874862-4547604

last ones going for 89.99 on amazon, daylight robbery

Pity it's deleted. Do you think this is a film a place like the Showroom would ever programme?

mmmm buy it now at £17 odd


http://search.ebay.co.uk/threads_DVD-Film-TV_W0QQsacategoryZ11232QQsoloctogZ9

It comes on sky approx every 6 months. I'll keep my eye out and let the forum know next time it's on;).

I've got this on DVD if anyone's DESPERATE for me to do a copy for them.... at a decent price, of course!

Originally posted by BoroughGal
I've got this on DVD if anyone's DESPERATE for me to do a copy for them.... at a decent price, of course!

28p for a first class stamp;)

I seem to recollect a similar film by the bbc to do with rabies entering the uk does anyone know the name of it?

I don't know about the rabies film. Howver, returning to the subject of Threads, there is a film that to my knowledge has still never been shown on network TV - BBC's The War Game: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/combined

I saw the War Game as part of a trip to one of those cold-war-nuclear-shelter-turned-into-a-tourist-attraction kind of things (http://www.secretbunker.co.uk/) and it was (perhaps because of the location) thoroughly chilling.

Amazon have it here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007LZ57/202-6616993-8864612

And there's an interesting quote about it from Alex Cox here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/videocat/more/wargame/

I've never seen Threads though.

I do remember the Rabies thing - I think it was a weekly serial and I vaguely remember having nightmares about it ! hmm google suggests it was "The Mad Death" - http://www.ufoseries.com/films/maddeath.htm

Matt S.

Thanks for posting those links.

Has anyone else seen this film, set in and around sheffield before and after a nuclear bomb hits us.
Quite possibly the darkest movie I have ever seen, i now feel very nauseous.
But very well made and well thought out
Anyone else got any opinions
J

Originally posted by aNTAcid
Has anyone else seen this film, set in and around sheffield before and after a nuclear bomb hits us.
Quite possibly the darkest movie I have ever seen, i now feel very nauseous.
But very well made and well thought out
Anyone else got any opinions
J The film was very good until after the bomb dropped then it just went wierd. Bring back memories of what sheffield used to look like though. If any sheffielders havn't seen it I recommend getting old of a copy well worth watching.:clap: :thumbsup:

Do a search for Threads and you'll find that it's been discussed several times before.

Good film.

yes i got a copy from amazon last year off the internet it wasnt too expensive' they came to our school (hillsborough) i can remember trying to play "normally" but couldnt help following the camera's about. they also filmed in my local shop at winn gardens. I cant see myself on the film but have spotted a few friends.

simple solution, rent from library in town, copy, sorted, heh.

Alternatively, wait until it is shown on TV, yet again.

svailable from here for £15.99

Bensons (http://www.bensonsdirect.co.uk/dvd/products/5/7000000057392.htm)

I would never watch that it would frighten me to death!! me and my friend were only talking about that film the other week. it would be far to wierd watching sheffield like that! although i was once reading a leaflet in rotherham hospital library from the 80s that said during that period sheffield would be a first hit city because of the nuclear weapons stored here 'pointing' at russia!!! is this true? im scared now think ill stop in today because ill be er safe here?! x

any idea where i could get a copy

leddi - I was 14 at the time Threads was shown, and it certainly had an impact on me. Along with the government warnings of what to do in the event of a nuclear attack, which we discussed in depth at school, there was Frankie Goes To Hollywood at number one for nine weeks with Two Tribes (whose 12 inch version was indeed scary: 'Mine is the last voice you will ever hear; Do not be alarmed!!!!'). There was this whole uneasy feeling around at the time.

Ultravox had the song Dancing With Tears In My Eyes which was all about the last moments spent on earth with your loved one 'waiting for the coming stone'.

James Herbert's nuclear attack on London, where everyone escapes down the underground only to be savaged by mutant shaped rats - aka Domain - was published and although I read it around 1986 it terrified me (so much I've since read it again).

There was certainly a tangible feeling of 'what if?' around in 1984. Seems a long time ago now but is the world any safer, twenty years on?

Moderator - can you merge this thread (uh! what a pun!) with the one in General Chat?

i dont think you can actually lend it from the library, i tried once, but if you ask at the central library in town, its in one of the rooms upstairs, not sure which one,they can put it on some machine with headphones for you to listen to and watch, its worth a try

I think I've seen a copy on a BitTorrent site somewhere recently, I'm sure...

I'll have a look and put up a link if I have any luck, wouldn't mind seeing it myself. Got to be worth it just to see the style of the clothes!

I've got it in .avi format if anyone wants to borrow it

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Moderator - can you merge this thread (uh! what a pun!) with the one in General Chat?

why:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by kirky
any idea where i could get a copy

From me....

Originally posted by kirky
any idea where i could get a copy

Woodseats library has it on the shelves, its excellent, lots of crispy people when the bomb lands, very graphic, I hired it a while ago and thought it would scare me as the nightmares from when I was a kid stayed with me but it isnt that bad, kids imagination did me no good Iguess, glad I watched it again.

Top stuff

I can't really remember anything from it, all I can remember is it is one of the two most depressing films I have ever seen (the other one is 1984).

I saw it before I lived in SHeffield, so can't remember seeing places I know in it, but I really don't know if I ever want to watch it again (not that it was that bad a film).

It is very depressing, but in a kinda interesting way, because of all the 80's buildings that you remember in Sheffield.

A good bit of background on it here:

http://ukcoldwar.simplenet.com/nuclear/threads.shtml

We were made to watch it in school when we were about 13 years old. The boys loved it but some of the girls started crying :loopy: .

I still remember all the 'important' parts now ;).

That woman weeing herself by any chance?? Thats what we all remembered!

Nahh, the little boy's face getting melted while he stroked a nice pretty Canary, and the man bending over to take a drink from the burst water pipe (after the blast) and coming face to face with someones inprint on the paving slab. Very nice!;)

I remember a couple of school friends going into town on a very early weekend morning to film bits for the film at the city hall (I think)...they were on the film, limbs falling off,covered in fake vomit....great stuff!

yes, it was a very emotive film at the time....how many of us joined cnd etc at that time? hehe....spose life is just as scary now, its just that now im older i dont take it quite so seriously. perhaps i should...


;)

A couple of friends were in the queue of injured people filing into the hospital. They were told to wear old tatty clothing and not wash their hair for a few days and to look generally unkempt. The camera panned down the line and stopped just short of my two friends as the guy had washed his long hair that morning. His g/f was most annoyed as they'd given her a very realistic looking wound and blood on her cheek and all she's got to show for it now is one still pic. The woman who wets herself was a friend of a friend and she was all fitted up with a plastic bag strapped to her thigh which had warm water in it so she didn't move as it ran down her leg. What will they think of next?

Some of it was filmed in the old Royal Infirmary Hospital that is now offices next to the new Tesco. I went down in the cellars with a pal of mine a few days after the filming and there were scripts and plastic drinking cups that had been left behind.

just orderd it from here

http://www.screenselect.co.uk/welcome/home.html

Originally posted by kirky
just orderd it from here

http://www.screenselect.co.uk/welcome/home.html

I got all excited then. I thought I could buy it, whereas this is just a rental place. Doh!

You'd be mad to watch this film, even to see the local stuff. Horribly depressing stuff.

Easy All,

My dad was in this film, when you next watch it look out for this bit... Big crowd of people all moaning & begging for food etc round a heavily guarded supplies building that has a fence round it, a bloke gets a leg up over the fence... well the bloke that gave him the leg up was my dad.

Not very interesting & I don't think you can really see anyones face in the crowd except the bloke that gets shot but I thought I'd share it with you all...

Very grim film but worth watching, remember it made me sick as a nipper when I 1st saw it... especially the bit where the woman is sat nursing the chargrilled baby... Very Grim!!

Cheers
Hijinx

Didn't the main female character end up out on the moors eating sheep that were dead due to radiation?

I also remember someone at the town hall trying the radio and all they could get were the police at Stocksbridge.

*shiver* I remember when they used ot test the siren at Hammerton Road Police Station without telling anyone. I used to crumple with fear.

I have a lot of associated memories such as music - mentioned before - especially Ultravox. Also - the Young Ones episode aptly entitled "Bomb" where Neil painted himself white to deflect the blast...genius.

I wonder if anyone could help me out, I'm looking to get a copy of the BBC TV film Threads set in Sheffield. Any ideas?
Cheers in advance!!!:D

84, the year i was born :hihi:

It was shown on Discovery channel a couple of weeks ago, wait around and it will be back again.

there is another thread bout this where theres details of been able to get hold of a copy mod any chance of merging this with threads chat

Mod Threads threads merged :D

Someone mentioned that this film was deleted a few posts back, does that mean we are allowed to give copies of it away to fellow forum members? Or do they mean it's deleted from sale, but copyright still exists?

i think it means the company have stop producing it either on to dvd or vhs but like jonlnvsnique if he wins ebay bid he will let you borrow it but copyright still exsits

I was just curious if the copyright existed still or not as I know a free download source for this film (found on Google) that I have not yet used and will now not use, but I was going to post it on the forum.

Guess not now.

I also know from PM that another user on here knows another free download location for this film and although I cannot pass on either location (sorry, if it's illegal then I can't) I can definately say if you spend five minutes searching you will definately find a free download of it if you are willing to break the law.

There appears to be at least two download versions so far as they are both reported to be different sizes.

Just watched Threads for the first time on UKTV Documentary and omg ...that was heavy .... :O

Hi,

I have the film Threads on DVD. It is a brilliant 80's nightmare of nuclear destruction set in Sheffield City Centre and The Peak District.

It gave me reccuring nightmares as a child. Wasn't T.V great back then?

Seems a pity that 20 years from now our children&co will be discussing the nightmares brought on by McDonald's Supersize documentaries and TOPTP2...

If you want to buy the DVD off me, just let me know....

Originally posted by Col2k5
Just watched Threads for the first time on UKTV Documentary and omg ...that was heavy .... :O

When was it on?

Thanks to everyone for their ideas of where I could get a copy. I have managed to shall we say aquire one:suspect:
Anyway I am now recovering from the shock having watched it!It has to be the most frightening thing I have ever seen. I've just been down the Moor and couldn't get a scene from the film out of my head.

Originally posted by pberry
Pity it's deleted. Do you think this is a film a place like the Showroom would ever programme?

It was shot on very very grainy poor contrast 16mm film for TV screening only, so projected on a big screen would look absolutely awful. I have watched it on a 7ft wide screen with a decent DLP video projector and it looks bad enough at that magnification. I dont think it could be re-mastered to any better standard that the DVD release, as the grain and poor contrast will all be on the film negative. Pity they did not shoot on 35mm but I guess it was never intended to be a cinema presentation, or indeed probably not a cult status item as it is now.

so is there anyone out there still looking to borrow a copy of "Threads" then or what..........?:huh:
on vhs

my english teacher showed us this film when i was 12/13. It disturbed many from the class for months. It was extremely graphic, she also made us watch another film which i think was called "when the wind blows" but im not sure, That was about 2 old people and was in cartoon form and we had to read a disturbing book on nuclear warfare as well. Arent schools just delightful! I dont think i want to watch this film again it was horrific!! She got what she wanted out of it tho- to teach us all a lesson! We were quiet in class for months after. Guess thats what u get for being rowdy....lol

Originally posted by franc1987
my english teacher showed us this film when i was 12/13. It disturbed many from the class for months. It was extremely graphic, she also made us watch another film which i think was called "when the wind blows" but im not sure, That was about 2 old people and was in cartoon form and we had to read a disturbing book on nuclear warfare as well. Arent schools just delightful! I dont think i want to watch this film again it was horrific!! She got what she wanted out of it tho- to teach us all a lesson! We were quiet in class for months after. Guess thats what u get for being rowdy....lol We saw that too, by Roal Dahl I think (spelling?) and very sad.

We did a nuclear 'study' in English too, with lots of writing about different aspects of it and then read some book about a farm in a valley that wasn't affected by the bomb, can't remember the name, but it was good.

Threads was and still is disturbing. I watched it again the other week and wasn't feeling to joyful afterwards. Left me thinking about a lot. Seems stupid that politics, religion, hatred and stupidity could lead to such an ending. Let's hope for all our sakes that our world leaders get along and we can all learn to tolerate each other before anything like this ever happens.

Originally posted by gpsy
We saw that too, by Roal Dahl I think (spelling?) and very sad.


It was Raymond Briggs, of 'The Snowman' and 'Fungus the Bogeyman' fame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

I've just aqcuired a copy but I'm not sure I want to watch it. Too depressing.

The last train and threads have both been on sky within the last month. threads is rather upsetting especially as its our Sheffield that gets blown to bits!

I dont think I can say this but I have the programme recorded direct to DVDR from Sky TV and I can probably not say either that anyone who wants copies can have them on DVD-/+R for a nominal fee covering only the cost of the disk

Porbably cannot say that and no doubt will be erased.....oh well....probably cant say that either

seems like all the "THREADS" people have left, or is it possible that everyone who originally wanted a copy, has now got one, hmmmmm, maybe its just me, but i have noticed my threads tend to get "overlooked" quite a lot, ah well,...........at least if anyone does want to borrow it, it wont be mine, cos i reckon i dont exist!!

hey i just looked on mvc for a copy of threads and it was £89.99!!!!!!!!! don't think i'll be paying that. Has anyone got ant other suggestions? Think i may be taking up your offer goldenfleece!

I was driving into town on Penistone Rd when smoke billowed from Beulah Rd and blackened people were wandering around, some were bandaged and looked injured. I slowed down to offer assistance , then I saw the cameras etc. It was 1983/84 and Threads was being made. When I eventually saw the film it scared us to death- nightmares were had for days after.

Originally posted by jazz
hey i just looked on mvc for a copy of threads and it was £89.99!!!!!!!!! don't think i'll be paying that. Has anyone got ant other suggestions? Think i may be taking up your offer goldenfleece!

I have a copy but it's not mine - belongs to a forum member - Brandnewdrunk who seems to have dissapeared !!

Threads is showing in full on UKTV Documentary on Saturday April 2nd at 0040

It is of course a drama, not a documentary, thank God !

http://www.uktv.co.uk/uktvDocumentary/

Originally posted by arsenallad
Threads is showing in full on UKTV Documentary on Saturday at 0040

It is of course a drama, not a documentary, thank God !

http://www.uktv.co.uk/uktvDocumentary/

Not according to the online tv guide it isn't - it shows the Atkins Diet.

Sorry that should be UKTV Documentary Saturday April 2nd

I would recommend that anyone watch Threads; just make sure there are no sharp knoves or bottles of pills around in the time immediately after!

K x

top top film

i wanna know why it was deleted not long after coming out on dvd and thus making it so bloody hard to get hold of :(
i wouldnt mind it too :)

Most library's have it for rent melthebell :thumbsup:

doubt they do round here :) very small place, least on dvd.....i do have a really crappy copy off the tv on video but i really want to OWN it cos its a great film :)

You'll need to read through this thread then mel ;). There are a few links to places where you can buy Threads online (i think) :)

Is that a bottle of Henderson's Mel?

Or can I call you 'Melt'? ;) :hihi:

IT'S ON SKY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!

Channel 565 'UKTV Docs+1'


Get in there quick!

i have a copy of the last train. it was from 1999 and was quite good.

watched it just recently

Originally posted by Strix
Is that a bottle of Henderson's Mel?

Or can I call you 'Melt'? ;) :hihi:

Yup it indeedy is a bottle of hendies :)....but sshh i nicked it off their site :P

call me what you want .....melthebell, mel, melt, git or sean :)

I have a copy of Threads on DVD. If you're interested PM me for details.

Someone is missing out on a blinding business opportunity with this film.

They showed it to our class IN SCHOOL the year it was released, making up all paranoid for the rest of the 80's.

Threads the original DVD release is so scarce it sold on ebay a few weeks ago for £40 or thereabouts.

Originally posted by fox20thc
Someone is missing out on a blinding business opportunity with this film.

They showed it to our class IN SCHOOL the year it was released, making up all paranoid for the rest of the 80's.

Threads the original DVD release is so scarce it sold on ebay a few weeks ago for £40 or thereabouts.

They ought to market it with a free bottle of Prozac; it depressed me for days afterwards. Watch at your own risk! ;)

I've got it right here on VCR from the library. kblade didn't hear me properly when i told her i watched it the other night on sky.
She went to the library and got it for me :thumbsup:

I'll watch it again before it goes back even if it's just to see some people melting :heyhey:

LOL @ K! you jesse! its not that bad!

Its not real!

:thumbsup:

Don't worry I got a big cupboard under my stairs K, if the worst comes to the worse I'll save you a space.

Originally posted by fox20thc
LOL @ K! you jesse! its not that bad!

Its not real!

:thumbsup:

Don't worry I got a big cupboard under my stairs K, if the worst comes to the worse I'll save you a space.

Kind offer, but I've got my shelter built in my cellar now! ;)

plenty of these on Ebay now...

Originally posted by Kristian
Kind offer, but I've got my shelter built in my cellar now! ;)
Bus shelter? :)

It's been said before, but for public knowledge, and not so you can download it for free, it's available on Bit Torrent.

I am sure no one will download it for free from there, I am just posting this for information.

From Tonight's Star

TWENTY years after the BBC shocked the nation by screening Threads, showing the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, city-born artist Ben Jones wants people to relive their experiences.
He’s been commissioned by the Site Gallery to make a new art work based on the drama documentary.
He’s after volunteers, aged 25-50, who took part in the film or recall how they felt when it was screened.
Ben, who now lives in Newcastle, says: “The majority of teenagers and 20 to 30-year-olds who grew up in the Cold War saw Threads as shocking and disturbing but the likely outcome of the nuclear arms war between East and West.”
People will have their stories recorded on video or taped and the finished project will be shown later in the year.
Send in a short statement or anecdote, with your date of birth and contact details, to Threads Project, Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS. Or you can e-mail threads@sitegallery.org
Entries need to be in by May 1 and filming begins at the gallery the week beginning May 16.

My wife was an extra in Threads - she was about 12 when it was filmed, a load of kids from I think the Woodcraft Folk were all involved in it (I keep meaning to ask her more about what it was like). I'd love to see it again - saw it on TV when it was first on, and I remember being suitably shocked & depressed (little did I know I'd just seen my future wife for the first time :)) but I don't remember a lot else about it, and I didn't know Sheffield at all back then - it'd be interesting to see it now I know some of the locations.

I remember watching this when I was young on BBC2 and all the kids talking about it the next day at school. I have had to bid for one on ebay got to watch it again, the last train was pretty poor watched it on sci fi channel on saturday night.

I remember watching Threads when it was first shown on BBC back in 1984.

As a TV film/documentary it was extremely graphic, and relatively realistic as to how ignorant people are about a nuclear attack (as if hiding in a house cellar is going to save you?). It also showed "life" after the attack, and how future generations adapted.

All I could think of afterwards was that I wouldn't want to live like that, and hoped that I would be directly under the explosion if/when it happened, so that I would be killed outright. I watched it when it was shown again on BBC a few years ago, and although it had dated somewhat, it still affected me in the same way.

I watched The Last Train on ITV as well.....a rather different story, but it had its realistic parts, e.g. how animals, especially dogs, survived and became fairly dominant in the world outside the "ark".

Originally posted by Ann_x
As a TV film/documentary it was extremely graphic, and relatively realistic as to how ignorant people are about a nuclear attack (as if hiding in a house cellar is going to save you?).
That wasn't meant to be showing peoples' ignorance, it was showing that they'd read up on it - I think the precautions people took were taken directly from the government's "Protect & Survive" leaflet which told people what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.

Never mind cellars, I remember the book's advice for those without an underground hideout was to paint your windows white (I dunno if I could even find a tin of white paint in the 4 minutes between the warning and the bomb landing, let alone paint all my windows), drape some blankets over a table and hide underneath it. I kid you not.

Originally posted by mdawes
From Tonight's Star

People will have their stories recorded on video or taped and the finished project will be shown later in the year.
Send in a short statement or anecdote, with your date of birth and contact details, to Threads Project, Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS. Or you can e-mail threads@sitegallery.org
Entries need to be in by May 1 and filming begins at the gallery the week beginning May 16.

I did this and I'm being filmed in a couple of weeks! Heh heh heh heh heh heh!

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

I bought it off Ebay for a fiver. Yes, it's a fantastic film.

Have a look here for stills from the film, and listen to interviews with people who were in it...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2005/04/22/threads_interviews_feature.shtml

Just finished watching ‘Threads’. I’m feeling in a bit of a funny mood now; a little depressed and very thoughtful. I thought it was an excellent film, but I can understand why it wasn’t shown on television for so long. Some of the scenes were very disturbing, even by today’s standards, and the final shot was horrific - and I’m not a squeamish person at all.

There’s something to be said for using stock footage of nuclear mushrooms. Modern special effects tend to look obvious; no matter how good they are, we are fully aware that they were created on a computer. Although the footage used was clearly from test explosions, they feel much more authentic and therefore more harrowing.

Naturally, my main motivation for watching was because of the location. Although clearly a model, seeing the ‘egg-box’ building partially destroyed reminded me of when they tore it down. I remember thinking at the time that the city centre looked like a war-zone, and that’s how it would look if Sheffield was attacked.

Overall, I found watching the film a moving, slightly upsetting experience. The narrative started out like any stereotypical ‘grim up north’ story, with a young man getting his girlfriend pregnant and being forced to marry her; this put in me in mind of ‘A Kind of Loving’ (1962), and, of course, ‘When Saturday Comes’ (1996) (The main bloke is even called Jimmy - possibly the inspiration for Sean Bean’s character).

However, the clever construction and gradual infiltration of the news commentary made me realise that this film was quite ahead of its time. The narration and frequent information that appears on the screen in text form provided some amazing insights into the reality of nuclear warfare. (As I understand it, a lot of professors and doctors were consulted during the writing process.)

I thought the acting was exceptional; especially in the aftermath of the nuclear attack when the families were forced to evaluate their chances of survival, and the make-up was very realistic. Some nice direction made it a pleasure to watch, and skipping ahead thirteen years at the end was an inspired move.

I really want to see ‘The Last Train’ now. Can’t believe I didn’t watch it when it was on television.

right, ive tried searching on search with this but to no avail, does anyone know where i can get threads from on dvd?? apart from ebay if poss..

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35954&highlight=threads+dvd

here ya go:thumbsup:

your like the classic tina turner song...

Originally posted by ryan123
your like the classic tina turner song...
... he's a private dancer?...

haha i wish.. simply the best

Threads (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009S9LNK/qid=1118674886/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/026-3752054-6999623) DVD release September 5th.

I got a dvd copy of this a while back from a naughty place. Still havent watched it though. gotta get round to that.

Someone mentioned earlier in thread about Sheffield films and that there weren't many.
Three more I can think of are 'Among Giants' 'Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?' and 'The Principles of Lust'.
Just remembered, there was another film in cinemas last year about some muppet who goes a 'mega road trip' on his scooter. To Blackpool from Sheffield - what an epic. But it was made almost interesting by the weird geography, Strines Inn, Meadowhall and Penistone, but not quite in the right order! Not a very good film. At all.

Hi all, not been on here for ages. I'm looking for a copy of the film Threads that was filmed in Sheffield in the 80's. Does anyone know where I can get a copy please? Also, apart from Threads and the other famous one about steelworkers gettin their kit off, oh come on, you know the one, does anyone know of any other famous film or tv series filmed in or about Sheffield? There was the one called the last train.

If you do a search, you'll find there's been loads and I mean LOADS of threads about threads :D

You'll find all the info you want in one of those..

Thx Rich. I Probably should have done that first

Just looked on Ebay and theres tons of them. Most are selling for about a tenner on buy it now, however one is going for 30 quid............strange

There was a Police show a few years back as well that was based in Sheffield, can't remember the name of it but I think it was supposed to be a sort of Northern version of The Bill.

Originally posted by Rich
There was a Police show a few years back as well that was based in Sheffield, can't remember the name of it but I think it was supposed to be a sort of Northern version of The Bill.

Yep, the 'police station' was at Brightside, they used to film while I was working the night shift next door at a steel works. I think it was called "Out of the Blue" or something like that.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Yep, the 'police station' was at Brightside, they used to film while I was working the night shift next door at a steel works. I think it was called "Out of the Blue" or something like that.

Yes it was filmed outside where I work on Carlisle Street East. It was the old Firth Brown tools officers(Now belongs to BTCV). The pub they went towas on Blonk Street and has now been pulled down and is part of the top car park below the Durham Ox

Do you mean the old blue ball on broad street?