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| FULL STOP! | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4517 | |||
| Student documentary profiling Wayne and Peter, who make up music and comedy duo Full Stop. Includes interviews with their friends and family, and shows the duo performing at the Lower Ince Labour club in Wigan and at the Morton Arms in Towyn. | |||
| NATIONAL OBSESSION - GENERATION SEX | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4518 | |||
| Student documentary examining British attitudes to sex. Includes interviews with two lap-dancers, a stripper, a male escort and psychologist Dr Cliff Davies. | |||
| PRIVATE : PUBLIC 'LIFE IN THE T.A.' | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4533 | |||
| Student documentary about the King's and Cheshire Regiment of the Territorial Army. New recruits are put through their paces and there are interviews with officers and soldiers explaining the attraction of life in the T.A. | |||
| A BUCKET OF LAUGHS? | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4534 | |||
| Student documentary profiling Luke Rasdall and David Blair, two students with aspirations to become stand-up comics. Includes interviews and footage of their performances at the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club in Manchester. [Contains bad language]. | |||
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| THE RIGHT WEIGH? | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4535 | |||
| Student documentary examining the media obsession with body image and how it can affect individuals. The documentary looks at how physical exercise and looking good can become a health risk, and includes interviews with aerobics teacher Julie Maguire and body builder Calid Grutach. | |||
| YOUTH CULTURE : DRUGS AND ALCOHOL | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4536 | |||
| Student documentary looking at the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol by young people. The documentary examines the reasons why young people abuse drugs and alcohol, and includes interviews with users as well as with club owners, youth workers and the police. | |||
| DOES MY BUM LOOK BIG IN THIS? - FOOTBALL SPECIAL | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4537 | |||
| Student project featuring a sports magazine programme aimed at women. Personal trainers Richard Lily and George Richardson show the presenter around a Warrington fitness centre. There is an item about Liverpool Ladies Football Club, including interviews with the players and manager Craig Boyd. | |||
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| PINS AND NEEDLES | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4538 | |||
| Student documentary looking at why people decide to have body piercings. Includes footage of a belly button and an eyebrow piercing being carried out, and an interview with 70-year-old John Lynch - the most pierced man in Britain. [Contains male nudity] | |||
| YOUTH CULTURE | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4539 | |||
| Student documentary looking for a possible link between underage drinking and teenage pregnancies - Britain has the highest instances of both in Europe. Includes interviews with Tracey Lawcock, a young single mother and Elaine Unsworth, a youth worker in Warrington. | |||
| CULTURE CLUB | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4540 | |||
| Student documentary in which gay DJ Damien looks at Manchester's Gay Village. Includes footage of a number of pubs and clubs, as well as interviews with staff working there. | |||
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| THE MORNING AFTER | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4541 | |||
| Student documentary looking at the effects of teenage pregnancy on Sheryl, who had her first child at 15, and Zoe, who had a baby at 14. Includes interviews with the two mothers and looks at a scheme for young parents based in Warrington. | |||
| [SURPRISE 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 4910 | |||
| Suprise 30th Birthday party for Andrew Johnston at the Albert Club, West Didsbury on 17th November 2001. Family and friends are seen arriving, the surprise is sprung, and people are seen eating, drinking and dancing. | |||
| [BETH – READING, SINGING AND WATCHING TELEVISION] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 9675 | |||
| Young Beth looks at picture books with her mother, watches television and toddles around the room, singing. | |||
| [BETH – DOLL’S HOUSE AND JIGSAW] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 9676 | |||
| Young Beth enjoys playing with her doll’s house and doing a jigsaw. | |||
| [BETH – WRITING, PAINTING, AND OPENING HER PRESENTS] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 9677 | |||
| Young Beth practises her writing, with her mother’s help; she also enjoys making pictures with her hands dipped in paint. At Christmas, she helps her mother put wrapped presents under the tree, and the film ends with her opening her presents in her parents’ bedroom. | |||
| [BETH – CHRISTMAS PHONE CALL AND OPENING PRESENTS] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 9678 | |||
| Young Beth sits on her parents’ bed, opening her Christmas presents and joining in their phone call. Downstairs, she finds a large present waiting for her; this proves to be a toy with model cars which she and her parents play with. | |||
| METROLINK: TRANSFORMING OUR FUTURE | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 10859 | |||
| A film produced for GMPTE to demonstrate the success of Metrolink since it was officially opened by the Queen on 17th July 1992. We see trams in operation across the Metrolink network. We see passengers on board trams, and boarding and alighting at various stations. We follow passengers on their journeys as a demonstration of how Metrolink is used by the residents of Greater Manchester for work and leisure. We learn about the extension of the Metrolink system to Salford Quays and Eccles and we see Prime Minister Tony Blair opening the new line at Salford Quays and later Bev Hughes MP opening the extension to Eccles. The commentary tells us how successful Metrolink has been and tells us of the benefits it has brought to the residents of Greater Manchester. We are told of the plans for the expansion of the Metrolink system in the future to other parts of the region. | |||
| [PROUDMAN OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY OPEN DAY FILM] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 12106 | |||
| A film relating to the work of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston Observatory. The film opens with information about the problems the world is currently facing due to climate change and then there is a brief history of the Bidston Observatory. We learn about the work of the Proudman Oceanographic Observatory and we meet the scientists who talk about the development and deployment of their equipment. There are scenes out at sea where we see the equipment being deployed and back in the laboratory where we see the data that has been collected being processed. | |||
| [JAMES, JOHN, EMILY AND RACHEL] | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 12228 | |||
| Domestic scenes from the Leach family. The first scenes are from the summer of 2001. We see James and John at home. The boys are helping to put a new pump into the garden pond, and we see lots of views of the pond when the pump is up and running. There are also scenes shot inside the house. James is on the computer and we see shots of the screen when he is playing games and using MSN Messenger. We see the Leach family having a barbecue at home in the garden, and the boys helping with some jobs in the garden. We then see Emily, she is a little girl and she plays at doing jobs in the garden. Her baby sister Rachel is in a buggy. We then see lots of scenes with Emily and Rachel. They are given a bath together and we see Rachel being fed. Emily plays in the garden where she has a sandpit, a paddling pool and a slide. We also see Emily playing indoors. The summer scenes are followed by events from December 2001. We see Emily taking part in a nativity play, and then at home helping to make mince pies. On Christmas Eve we see the family in the living room. The girls are helped to hang up their stockings and leave a carrot for Rudolph and a mince pie for Santa. On Christmas morning we see the family opening their presents and Emily plays on her new Barbie scooter. A few days later we see Emily playing in the snow covered garden. | |||
| THE FAMILIES - THE INTERVIEWS | |||
| Date: 2001 Film Number: 12785 | |||
| In this film made by members of Everyone's Youth Club, young people with learning disabilities interview their parents and each other about their favourite leisure activities. This title was digitised and preserved as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 programme. It is available to view for free via BFI Replay in UK Public Libraries - https://replay.bfi.org.uk/ | |||
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