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B164 [UNKNOWN] POLARIS MISSILE LAUNCH AND SUBMARINE c. 1968
B164/1: Reporter Charles Wheeler reports on the HMS Resolution (S22), which was the first of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines. Shows the test firing of her first Polaris missile on February 15, 1968 from the USAF Eastern Test Range off Cape Kennedy at 11:15 on February 15 More...
B529 THAT STUART HALL SHOW [MUSICAL NUDISTS / PRAM RACE / SHETLAND PONY] c. 1968
No transmission print exists for this programme, only trims. Please contact the NWFA More...
B560 [UNKNOWN] [ISLE OF MAN SCENES] c. 1968
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B546 [UNKNOWN] WELFARE - VIETNAMESE ORPHAN 1968
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B550 [UNKNOWN] WRAY FLOODS 1968
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B559 [UNKNOWN] [MOSLEY COMMON COLLIERY] 1968
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B232 [UNKNOWN] LIVERPOOL: MERSEY TUNNEL BREAKTHROUGH c. 1969
Programme about the history of the construction of tunnels linking Liverpool and the Wirral. There are aerial shots of the River Mersey, Liverpool and Wirral, the Runcorn Bridge, etc. Includes black and white archive footage of the official opening of the Birkenhead Tunnel (the longest and widest underwater tunnel in More...
B148 PROFILE GRACIE FIELDS 1969
Fascinating half-hour interview with Rochdale-born international singer Dame Gracie Fields C.B.E., British variety artist (1898-1979), in which she speaks to the BBC's John Burns. Fields talks in detail about her childhood living above a Rochdale chip shop, working at a factory and her first performances as a youngster More...
B253 [UNKNOWN] A PROCESSION 1969
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B255 LOOK NORTH FIRST LOOK NORTH IN COLOUR MONTAGES 1969
B255/1: Stuart Hall presents this Christmas 1969 special from the Look North Manchester studio. He is shown dressed as Father Christmas asking children, including four year-old Catherine Leadbeater, what they want for Christmas. Also features elderly residents at Philip Godley Lodge in Manchester speaking about their memories of Christmas More...
B526 [FAMOUS PEOPLE] [REGINALD DIXON] 1969
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B39 FREE SPEECH [INTERVIEWS, OPINIONS - VARIOUS] c. 1970
This mute film opens with 'Free Speech' series title sequence. An elderly male presenter then speaks to camera from a hillside overlooking a town. A woman speaks whilst in a sitting room in a house then we see a family of mother and father and five children sitting on a More...
B168 [UNKNOWN] BLACKBURN - RADIO BLACKBURN c. 1970
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B144 [UNKNOWN] PILKINGTON WORKERS RETURN TO WORK 1970
Part mute black and white footage showing those involved in the industrial dispute at Pilkington's Glass, St Helens in 1970 (an unofficial strike by GMWU members [General and Municipal Workers' Union] in which they attempted to form a breakaway glassworkers' union). Presenter John Humphrys interviews the two opposing camps: the More...
B48 FREE SPEECH [INTERVIEWS, OPINIONS - AUTISM] c. 1971
A selection of pieces to camera by members of the public. A woman talks about her son who has autism and her plan to convert a house into a teaching unit for autistic children. A couple are shown in the maternity unit reception at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, who talk about More...
B49 FREE SPEECH [INTERVIEWS, OPINIONS - SLUM DEMOLITION, ETC.] c. 1971
A selection of pieces to camera by members of the public. Opens with "Free Speech" title sequence. A presenter speaks to camera from a derelict street in Liverpool and meets resident George Scully, who is against the way slums have been demolished. He then meets Rose Greer, the last occupier More...
B147 [UNKNOWN] LIVERPOOL: DOCKS AND DOCKERS: SEAFORTH c. 1971
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B283 [UNKNOWN] ROYAL AIR FORCE c. 1971
B283/1: Members of the RAF are shown at the site of wreckage of a World War II aeroplane on hills in the High Peak District and carrying the engine down the hillside. A RAF spokesman is interviewed about the number of WWII planes which crashed in the same area and More...
B495 WAIT WHILE BARRY ASKEW INTERVIEWS LORD AND LADY LILFORD c. 1971
Presenter Barry Askew interviews South African Lord Lilford and his fifth wife Lady Lilford (Scot Maggie Kenman) at their home (in Atherton?). They speak about his inheritance, his many marriages, expecting their child and apartheid in South Africa More...
B496 WAIT WHILE BARRY ASKEW INTERVIEWS ROBERT STOKER c. 1971
Presenter Barry Askew interviews Ex-President of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Robert Burdon Stoker in his office at Manchester Docks. They discuss Stoker's re-opening of Mediterranean ports to merchant shipping during World War Two, his contribution to the development of container shipping, Manchester as the capital city of the More...
 
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