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ZULU - Film Exhibition, The Firing Line Museum, Cardiff Castle, February 2011, Opening Day. Here is a documentary showing the film 'Zulu' s memoribilia, along with cast and crew and local personalities attending the opening days proceedings. A truly eventful day as captured in this short documentary. The exhibition ran for four months.—Earl Barrington

A rare set of storyboards, props, costumes and posters from the classic war film Zulu, starring Welsh actors Stanley Baker and Ivor Emmanuel, are to go on show. The exhibition will be staged at Firing Line, Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier, from Saturday 26 February until Sunday 26 June. The Zulu exhibition includes many rare items with objects on display ranging from props such as Chief Cetewayo's shield used in the production to original film shooting schedules, script, production notes, studio contracts, censorship notes, costumes, posters and unpublished photographs taken by the director, Cy Endfield, on the set. The exhibition also includes original uniforms, weapons, equipment, shooting schedules, photos, and posters. Of particular interest are the original storyboards. The storyboards on display were originally thought lost forever until they were rediscovered in Natal in South Africa in 2009, a few miles from where the film was shot. These are particularly relevant to The Firing Line's collection as they record the Attack on Rorke's Drift Hospital in 1879. This will be the last opportunity to see these objects in the United Kingdom before they travel to South Africa later in the year. Read articles on the film Zulu and on actor Stanley Baker by film critic and historian Dave Berry, on the BBC Wales Arts website.

The actual film 'Zulu' was set In 1879, the Zulu nation hands colonial British forces a resounding defeat in battle. A nearby regiment of the British Army takes over a station run by a missionary (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) as a supply depot and hospital under the command of Lieutenant John Chard (Stanley Baker) and his subordinate Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine). Unable to abandon their wounded soldiers even in dire circumstances, the regiment defend their station against the Zulu warriors.

Here then is the opening day documentary showcasing some of the surviving cast and crew along with exhibition organisers from far and wide.