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| VARIOUS EVENTS IN THE MILLENNIUM SALE FESTIVAL, 17TH-27TH JUNE 00 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4754 | |||
| Assorted footage from the Sale District Festival in 2000 - events featured are the Regatta Day on the Bridgewater Canal, with views of the different barges taking part; "Our Town Story" - a dramatisation of the history of Sale performed by pupils of St Mary's CE Primary School; a showcase night highlighting the different groups and societies active in Sale, including the Sale Male Voice Choir and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust; and musical performances in the town centre by pupils of Christ the King School, Temple Moor Primary School and Firs Primary School. | |||
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| 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORTHINGTON PARK, SALE, 30TH JUNE 2000 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4755 | |||
| Tree planting ceremony to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Worthington Park in Sale, led by the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Colonel John Timmins. Several civic dignitaries make speeches, the tree is planted and the participants retire to a marquee for a buffet. | |||
| ALTRINCHAM FESTIVAL PARADE, 1ST JULY 2000 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4756 | |||
| Views from a high vantage point of the festival parade as it passes through the centre of Altrincham - the Town Crier leads the procession and floats seen include a demonstration by the Altrincham Judo Club. | |||
| STRETFORD WATER PAGEANT, 1ST JULY 2000 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4757 | |||
| Decorated barges - including one made to look like a giant fish - are seen on the Bridgewater Canal at Stretford Water Pageant. Spectators are seen on the canal's banks, and one of the barges contains a drumming band. | |||
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| SALE WATER PAGEANT, SAT 8TH JULY 2000 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4758 | |||
| Decorated barges - including one made to look like a giant fish - are seen on the Bridgewater Canal at the Sale Water Pageant. Singers and rappers entertain visitors at the King's Ransom pub and spectators are seen on the canal banks. | |||
| BEATING OF THE BOUNDS, ALTRINCHAM, SUNDAY 9TH JULY 2000 | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 4759 | |||
| The Altrincham Court Leet - an ancient form of local government - are seen performing the annual traditional ceremony of "beating the bounds" - marking out the boundaries of Altrincham township. | |||
| [BARTON AIRFIELD] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 6710 | |||
| Bill Pilkington is seen at Barton Airfield on the press day prior to the Manchester Air Show in May 2000 - he talks about the various planes seen taking part in the displays. | |||
| [AEROPLANES AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 6712 | |||
| Views of a number of different planes coming in and landing at Manchester Airport. | |||
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| [PENDLE 2000 RUSHES- CIVIC/ MAYOR'S VISITS] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 6967 | |||
| Rushes from Pendle Movie Makers Millennium 2000 project showing civic and mayoral events around the Pendle area. Part One: Scenes show an Eid Millennium Party organised by the Faisalabad Association with children singing and reading on stage, people gathered for the launch of Pendle Oral History Project- celebrating 50 years of Pakistanis in Pendle and for a public consultation meeting to discuss a village bypass. Mayoral events include a visit to 100 year-old Ivy Meyers at Walverdale Home for the Elderly and greeting guests at the Mayor's Civic Charit Dinner Dance. Local Elections around Pendle show exterior shots of polling stations and people counting voting slips inside the local leisure centre. Part Two: Continues with Mayor's election at the Annual Meeting of Pendle Council, as councillors give speeches and offer proposals. People prepare food and set up bric-a-brac stalls for the Mayoress's Appel Fund Garden Party. Ends with leaders of Asian communities, Pakistani representatives and MPs gathered at the Civic Theatre in Nelson to mark Pakistan Independence Day celebrations. | |||
| [PENDLE 2000 RUSHES- PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT 2] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 6968 | |||
| Rushes from Pendle Movie Makers Millennium 2000 project showing various performances of early, sacred and modern choral music for the Eight Choirs Concert at the Municipal Hall in Colne- including the Nelson Civic Ladies Choir, Nelson Arion Choir and the Trawden Methodists Choir. | |||
| [PENDLE 2000 RUSHES- MISCELLANEOUS] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 6969 | |||
| Rushes from Pendle Movie Makers Millennium 2000 project featuring charity events, Pendle Youth Theatre rehearsals, a mural being assembled in Colne and Pendle Midsummer Fair. Part one: Scenes showing young girl Stephanie Smith doing sponsored swim at Colne Baths and being interviewed at her home about how much money she raised. Pendle Youth Theatre rehearse for a production of the musical 'Annie', and a member of the production staff is interviewed about training drama students. Includes shots of dressing rooms with costumes on racks, storage of props and tools in the theatre workshop. Ends with a Rotary Charter Club Dinner with members giving speeches and presenting awards at Audmond House, Foulridge. Part two: A mural, featuring close up shots of Colne community figures and local scenes, is assembled and mounted on exterior wall of Hanbury's supermarket. Scenes show participants cutting hair and giving manicures during a Nelson and Colne College hair and beauty competition, mothers' with children during a sponsored toddle walk and shots of a Patchwork exhibition at St Luke's Church in Brierfield village. Continues with the musicians and choirs performing inside the leisure centre and a potter molding clay on a wheel during Pendle's first Mid-Summer Fair. Part three: Includes repeat shots of potter moulding clay, stalls, a man carving wood and a environmental display campaign focusing on the Pendle area. Ends with the demolition of the former Grand Cinema 'The Auditorium' in Nelson. | |||
| [BETH – FIRST STEPS AND BEYOND] | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 9672 | |||
| Young Beth is seen in the family back garden, taking her first steps with her mother’s help. A few months later, she is seen playing in the garden and sitting in her swing. Back indoors, she has fun running around the hallway with a bucket on her head, and falls into a cheese plant. | |||
| MILLENIUM BUG CELEBRATIONS | |||
| Date: 2000 Film Number: 10099 | |||
| A combined churches party on 23 January 2000, to celebrate the new millenium with food being served, children playing games and the Reverend singing pop songs with some of the congregation dancing. In the chapel the combined churches choir sing and there is a thanksgiving service with hymns and bible readings. The film ends with the congregation releasing helium balloons with prayers and wishes attached to them | |||
| [BETH – JIGSAW, EASTER AND GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 2000/1 Film Number: 9674 | |||
| Young Beth dances around with other children, does a jigsaw with her mother, enjoys eating a chocolate Easter Egg and investigates a climbing frame in the back garden. | |||
| [CREW WORKS OPEN DAY 20TH MAY 2000 AND STEAM TRAIN SCENES] | |||
| Date: 2000-4 Film Number: 8071 | |||
| Scenes from the Crewe Works Open Day 20th May 2000. We see various steam, diesel and electric trains. Rail enthusiasts take photos and film the trains. There are also close ups of displays of engine name plates. There are then scenes from 9th March 2002 and 13th April 2002 of steam trains passing through Newton Station at full speed. | |||
| [BETH – BREAKFAST IN BED AND FAMILY OCCASIONS] | |||
| Date: 2000/2 Film Number: 9673 | |||
| Young Beth enjoys breakfast in bed with her parents, dancing in the kitchen with her mother, and playing in a tent in the front room at Christmas. There is a family get-together for a birthday, and Beth, now slightly older, is seen with her father and her dolls’ house. | |||
| INSIDE NORTH WEST TONIGHT | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4489 | |||
| Student documentary looking behind the scenes at the Manchester studios where the BBC's regional news programme, North West Tonight, is made. Includes interviews with people who work on the programme and the presenter Gordon Burns, preparations for and live broadcast of the programme. | |||
| ROCK N ROLL MYTHS : HOMEWARD BOUND | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4490 | |||
| Student documentary exploring the popular notion that Paul Simon wrote the song, 'Homeward Bound', whilst waiting for a train on Widnes station during a 1965 tour of North West folk clubs. There are interviews with people who knew him at the time, including Geoff Speed, whose house Paul Simon stayed at in Warrington, and the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the event at Widnes Station is seen. | |||
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| BEYOND THE FRONT : TEENZ | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4491 | |||
| Student documentary focussing on teenage rock fan Cassie Nolan and her friends - the difficulties that being 'different' create at school and their preparations for a concert featuring their idols, the Deftones. | |||
| CHANGING ROBES | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4492 | |||
| MA student documentary in which a Sikh and a Anglican cleric experience each other's religion first hand. Activities at St Peter's Church in Bury and at the Sikh Gurdwara in Manchester are seen, and the two clerics compare the similarities and differences between their faiths. | |||
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