Youngsters from two schools went back in time to become film stars.

Eight schoolchildren from Haworth Primary School and Greenhead High School dressed in period costume, played time-worn games and learnt about the history of their famous predecessors -- The Bronts.

The young actors played the roles of the Bront children at different ages as part of a Discovery Channel documentary on Emily Bront's book Wuthering Heights.

The youngsters, who played Charlotte, Emily, Branwell and Anne, were treated in film star fashion as they were driven up and down Main Street in a horse-drawn carriage.

The 175-year gap between the lives of the young Bronts and our modern thespians didn't make a difference as they treated the roles with professionalism and respect.

The Haworth Primary School children played the roles of the Bront children aged six to ten years old, and the Greenhead pupils played them in their teenage years, as they grew up in the Parsonage, in Haworth.

The eight children were all chosen because of their uncanny likeness to the adult actors playing the grown-up Bront roles. The documentary is part of a season of programmes the learning channel is running on the world's greatest books and will be shown on television next year.