MUSEUMS across the borough are hosting a series of movie screenings celebrating the area’s manufacturing, creativity and innovation.

Broadfield House Glass Museum in Kingswinford, Wordsley’s Red House Glass Cone and Dudley Museum and Art Gallery are all running Movies at the Museums matinee screenings over the coming months.

The film showings form part of Dudley’s contribution to the Black Country Echoes Project - an initiative between the four Black Country local authorities, voluntary, arts, community and business organisations.

The screenings, the first batch of which got underway at the start of September, will run through to December.

In Dudley - a car movie will be screened on Saturday September 27 to link in with a Black Country vehicle display on the same day in Stone Street Square outside Dudley Museum.

Welcome to the Black Country & That’s The Way It Was will be shown at the museum on Friday November 7; and Moving Here: Coming to the West Midlands, a film about migration, will be screened at the museum on Friday December 5.

All films at Dudley Museum start at 12.30pm.

At Broadfield House Glass Museum - Hand Made Hames and Hand Made Bricks will be screened on Saturday October 4; At Work with the Deaf Community will be shown on Saturday November 8; and Tudor Crystal, Martin Parr’s documentary focussing on last days of Barbara and Richard Beadman’s ownership of the historic glass firm, will be shown on Saturday December 6.

All screenings at the Compton Drive glass museum start at 1pm.

At the Red House Glass Cone - a bike film will be screened on Sunday September 28 to coincide with the cone’s Black Country Bike Gathering taking place on the same day.

Glass films and documentaries will be shown on Sunday November 9 while a documentary about Teddy Greys sweet factory called Teddy Greys, For Goodness Sake, will be screened on Sunday December 7.

All screenings at the cone start at 1pm.

Councillor Hilary Bills, Dudley’s cabinet member for environment and culture, said: “The matinee showings are a great idea and I hope people are able to get along to enjoy some of the films celebrating the Black Country.”

As well as the film screenings, all three museums are hosting exhibitions over the coming months to celebrate the Black Country Echoes Project.

For further details check out www.blackcountryechoes.org.uk