The Brontë Parsonage Museum is
trying to locate a copy of the first complete film version of
Wuthering Heights. The film was directed by AV Bramble in 1920 and is currently lost.
Polly Salter, the museum's curator, said: "We have always known about the film's existence but we have never succeeded in finding it. We think it was the first film version ever made of the book, which had been written a good 70 years before.Although the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth is now home to a host of images from the film and photographs of the hundreds of locals who clamoured to see it being filmed, historians have failed to track down a copy of it. Now they are appealing to anyone who may have the film lurking in their loft or concealed in their movie collection to dig it out and donate it to the museumThe museum recently bought a journal dated April, 1920, and written by local schoolteacher Jonas Bradley, a founder member of the Bronte Society, who worked with the film's producer as a location consultant.In it, he describes touring the Bronte countryside to advise on suitable filming locations. The journal is accompanied by four letters from 1922 that make brief mention to the Wuthering Heights film and discuss locations for the film of that year based on Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley. A series of photographs showing the actors between scenes on filming breaks has also been donated to the museum by a local person who was given them by one of the film's advisors, possibly Mr Bradley.Milton Romer was Heathcliff and
Ann Trevor was Cathy. According to
this web the film was a 6 reel and was shot in Kildwick Hall, Haworth, West Yorkshire; Old Hall, Haworth, West Yorkshire.
----Update: Leeds Today also covers the story
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