Dracula's fangs and the eyeballs of Frankenstein's monster - part of a unique British horror film collection - will soon go on permanent display in Bradford.

A lottery grant has enabled the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television to buy many of the make-up and prosthetic effects from the designers of the legendary Hammer horror movies.

It is the first time that most of the props, masks, sketches and production notes have been on public view.

The Heritage Lottery Fund has donated £94,600 to finance the purchase from representatives of Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey, the original Hammer make-up artists.

Their personal collection includes more than 500 artefacts from two decades of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing movies. The dripping fangs worn by Lee in Dracula, and the ghoulish contact lenses created for The Curse of Frankenstein are among the exhibits.

The museum's film curator Michael Harvey said: "Hammer films have become cult classics and an important part of Britain's film culture.

"But they were produced on minuscule budgets, so a considerable part of their success was due to the work of these remarkable make-up artists."

The collection will be unveiled when the museum reopens at the beginning of next year, after its major rebuilding.

A new interactive database will allow visitors immediate access to Ashton and Leakey's notes, photographs and sketches.

Hammer Studios, founded in the early 1930s, became known in the Fifties and Sixties for gothic horror films, often inspired by classic stories. The movies were so successful here and abroad that in 1968 the company became the only British film producer to win the Queen's Award for Industry.

The Bradford exhibition is the only known Hammer make-up collection in existence.

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