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Record 10633 – 10652 of 11096
 
 
NORTH-WEST MEETS MID-WEST
Date: 1997 Film Number: 4585
 
Student documentary about line-dancing - includes interviews with several participants and scenes from Bowlers nightclub's line-dancing evening and the Prairie Dogs - a gay line-dancing club - practising their moves.
 
 
 
SPELLS, SWORDS AND SUPERMARKETS
Date: 1997 Film Number: 4586
 
Student documentary profiling a group of pagans from Oldham. Includes scenes of the members going about their everyday lives as well as scenes of them practising rituals associated with their religion. Also features interviews with the members of the group, including Tony, an ex-Church of England vicar.
 
 
 
A CRIMINAL WASTE
Date: 1997 Film Number: 4651
 
Student documentary looking at Hindley Prison for young offenders near Wigan. Includes interviews with inmates, staff and social workers, as well as schemes in the North West designed to reduce the numbers of young people being sent to prison. One of the prison officers, George Hayden, is seen going to schools to give talks to children about the harsh realities of prison life.
 
 
 
RAGING BELLES
Date: 1997 Film Number: 4652
 
Student documentary profiling three female boxers. Michelle Hushion is from Manchester and also teaches the sport, Yvonne Valerio from Llandudno is a full-time nurse, and Jane Couch from Fleetwood is on her way to becoming world champion. We see them training, at home and competing in boxing matches, and follow Jane to Copenhagen for her World Title fight against Sandra Geiger.
 
 
 
SHE MUST HAVE KNOWN
Date: 1997 Film Number: 4656
 
Student documentary looking at child abuse and how it affects the wives and partners of abusers. A number of different women (identities disguised) talk about their own experiences, there are interviews with the social workers and police officers who deal with these cases as well as an interview with "Roy," a convicted child-abuser whose wife has stood by him.
 
 
 
JACQUARD SILK WEAVING AT MACCLESFIELD [1 OF 2]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7715
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates Jacquard silk weaving and preparation at Macclesfield Museum Trust through a series of stages from cocoon to loom. Five sections address the different stages. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
JACQUARD SILK WEAVING AT MACCLESFIELD [2 OF 2]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7716
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates Jacquard silk weaving and preparation at Macclesfield Museum Trust through a series of stages from cocoon to loom. This film is the 6th of six sections - Jacquard Weaving. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
RING SPINNING
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7717
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates Ring Spinning at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. A technician demonstrates how it works. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
THE LANCASHIRE LOOM
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7718
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates and explains the operation of a Lancashire Loom at Quarry Bank Mill Trust Ltd at Styal, Cheshire. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
HOULDSWORTH MOQUETTE LOOM [COPY 1]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7719
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Moquette Loom at Piece Hall in Halifax. There are two sections - the Jacquard and Pirn Changing. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
HOULDSWORTH MOQUETTE LOOM [COPY 2]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7720
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Moquette Loom at Piece Hall in Halifax. There are two sections - the Jacquard and Pirn Changing. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
PARADISE MILL, MACCLESFIELD
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7721
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines, to be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals. This film at Paradise Mill, Macclesfield contains a series of five sections addressing; 1. Card Cutting; 2. Card lacing; 3. Entering; 4. Gathering Harness; and 5. The Jacquard. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
JACQUARD SILK LOOM (2 COLOUR WEAVE)
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7722
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Jacquard Silk Loom at Paradise Mill, Macclesfield. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
HOPPER AND SCUTCHER
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7723
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Hopper and Scutcher at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester including the Carding Engine, Draw Frames, Intermediate and Roving Frames and 2 appendices, Doffing and Ring Spinning. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
THE COTTON SPINNING MULE [SHORT VERSION]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7724
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Cotton Spinning Mule at Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, followed by shutter speed examples through a demonstration using objects at different speeds. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
THE SPINNING MULE [COPY 1]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7725
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Cotton Spinning Mule at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, followed by some appendices - 1. How the Rim Band works and how it is put on; 2. How the Front Scroll bar works; 3. Description of ropes on the Spinning Mule. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
THE SPINNING MULE [COPY 2]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7727
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Cotton Spinning Mule at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
CONDENSER MULE AND DOBBY LOOM
Date: 1997 Film Number: 7728
 
A project partnership between WFA and the Northern Consortium of Textile Museums, a group of textile technology museums in the North of England, this film was one of a series designed to preserve textile machinery skills for the future by demonstrating and explaining the use of these old textile machines. To be used in conjunction with specialist training manuals, this film demonstrates the operation of the Condenser Mule and the Dobby Loom at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[PLANES AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT]
Date: 1997 Film Number: 6080
 
Views of aircraft taking off and landing at Manchester Airport on 23-24 April 1997. All shots are from the Knutsford end of the runway with planes heading towards the camera.
 
 
 
ALIEN ASIAN: THE STRUGGLE OF COPPICE BOYZ AGAINST ALIENATION
Date: 1997 Film Number: 6495
 
A fictional account of one evening in the life of Zulfi, a disaffected youth. The film explores how young Mirpuri men in Coppice feel marginalised by the older generation and live under the constant threat of racial violence. It begins with scenes dramatizing the break down of communication within Zulfi's family and throughout the wider community. During the course of the evening Zulfi meets with devout Muslims and substance abusers, before having to run for his life from drug dealers. Zulfi's dad is forced to confront his son's problems during a fantasy sequence, when he sees Zulfi being chased in real time on a video at home. This device leads to their reconciliation and concludes the film. Subtitles are used throughout when Punjabi is spoken.
 
 
 
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