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GLENGARRY TOPICAL FILM NO 22
Date: *1935 Film Number: 1932
 
Local newsreel events includes scenes of Winsford Carnival in Cheshire - competitors entered for the decorated bicycle competition stand by their elaborate designs waiting to be judged - a female dance troupe perform the can-can in front of the camera. Also features an air display at Southport sands - Mr M. Robineau, pilot of the 'Worlds Smallest Plane; The Flying Flea', prepares his monoplane for take off. After the flight he signs autographs for members of the public. Concludes with scenes of the miniature railway and gardens at Belle Vue.
 
 
 
[SILVER JUBILEE YEAR]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 1948
 
Compilation reel of various activities and events attended by the Preston family in 1935. Includes a naval review of several decorated shipping vessels. Members of the Preston family are given a guided tour around an Ocean liner and the 'Bremen' is seen leaving the docks accompanied by tugboats. Further scenes include a carnival procession in Reddish - Lower Mosley Street bus station in Manchester - the Preston family drinking tea in their garden at Glengarry in Stockport - various high angle shots of streets decorated with flags, bunting and streamers to celebrate the Silver Jubilee.
 
 
 
[PRESTON FAMILY HOLIDAYS]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 1952
 
The Preston family, from Stockport, are seen on holiday in Bournemouth. Mr Joshua Preston and his daughter sit outside their beach hut drinking tea. Other members of the family bath in the sea and play on a floating raft. Also includes landscape shots of the coastline; scenes of Bournemouth town centre and a boat trip down a river. Concludes with brief shots of Blackpool promenade and illuminations.
 
 
 
NORFOLK WHITSUNTIDE 1935
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2038
 
Film of a family holiday to Norfolk. Includes footage of: Wisbech; Cokerham; Burnham Deepdale; Lowestoft; Bury St Edmunds and Ely. Much of the footage is shot from a moving car and camping scenes are featured briefly.
 
 
 
FALMOUTH BEACH AND PENDENNIS CASTLE [AUGUST 1935 CORNISH TOUR]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2047
 
The film opens with brief footage from the grounds of Pendennis Castle (?). Continues with footage from a holiday to Cornwall, including footage from Pentewan and Garran Haven. There are shots from a campsite, of people fishing as well as from on a beach.. A biplane is seen towing an advertisment for Littlewoods, the film closes with a man and a dog, side by side, digging in the sand on a beach.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY : PARTY FUN]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 2129
 
Friends and family of Mr and Mrs Behrens are seen running around the garden, chasing one another. Some of the adults and children wear party hats. The atmosphere is very light hearted and jovial - all the party goers appear to be enjoying themselves.
 
 
 
[GUINEA PIG]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2130
 
A young girl, Ruth Behrens, is seen playing with a guinea pig in the family garden; April 1935. Includes close up shots of the girl cradling the pet in her arms.
 
 
 
[SILVER JUBILEE - PARADE]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2131
 
Crowds of people line the streets awaiting a military procession in May 1935, for the Jubilee of King George V. Includes shots of guardsmen marching in the distance and people milling through the crowds. Location Green Park, London
 
 
 
[A BASKET OF KITTENS]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2132
 
Scenes of a cat, Raffles, and three kittens, Ju, Bee and Lee, playing in a basket on the Behrens family lawn; June 1935.
 
 
 
[MALTMAN'S GREEN PLAY]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2133
 
A group of girls are seen rehersing a play in the school gardens, Gerrards Cross; July 1935. They are all wearing costumes. Two of the girls act out a scene, while the rest of the cast sit on a garden bench watching them.
 
 
 
[GRANNIE'S 80TH BIRTHDAY]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2134
 
An elderly lady is seen standing in the garden on her 80th birthday; 7th July 1935. Also includes other members of the Behrens family standing in the porchway of Holly Royde waving.
 
 
 
[ROSTRUM WORK AND CAMERAMAN]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2818
 
Footage of animated rods and drawn lines. The film ends with a shot of the cameraman, demonstrating how he used the rostrum camera to achieve the effect.
 
 
 
DANCING DISPLAY BEECH HOUSE 1935
Date: 1935 Film Number: 2861
 
Film of Beech House, the nursery department of Bolton School. Features footage of a variety of activities. Children are seen dancng, exercising, playing games and gardening. They are also seen engaged in numeracy and literacy exercises, by pretending to shop, and weighing and measuring various substances and each other. Closes with shots of empty classrooms.
 
 
 
JULY 1935 THE TOUR TO BELGIUM AND HOLLAND LEAVING DOVER
Date: 1935 Film Number: 3265
 
Footage of Mr Arthur Riley and friends on a tour of Belgium and France. The ferry is seen leaving Dover and there are then numerous scenes in both countries. Cathedrals, hotels and the beach in Ostend are seen, followed by cathedrals and street scenes in both Bruges and Brussels. A religious procession is observed, followed by a large military cemetery. Shots of Amiens cathedral in France, a British War cemetery near Arras and a war memorial. The tour reaches Paris, with shots of numerous Parisian landmarks, and the film ends at Versailles.
 
 
 
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE HORWICH BRANCH ACTIVITIES SUMMER SEASON 1935
Date: 1935 Film Number: 3268
 
German guests of the International Friendship League are seen leaving for home, and a joint ramble with the Manchester branch at Rivington is shown. The Horwich Railway Mechanics Institute is seen as are members of its band in London, and also participants in the Institute's tennis, cricket, angling, hockey and football clubs.
 
 
 
MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE ARANDORA STAR 1935 [2]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 3809
 
Shots of streetscenes in Malta and Athens, including shots of the Pantheon. Scenes aboard the holiday cruise ship SS Arandora Star include scenes of games in the swimming pool.
 
 
 
[WEDDING SCENES; NEWPORT; PLOUGHING]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 3997
 
Gaddum family scenes, including Mary learning to skip. Also wedding scenes, with Mary being photographed in her bridesmaids dress. A holiday in Newport, with Mary on a lilo and attempting to swim and a picnic on the rocks. Views of Orielton, Pembrokeshire, both interior and exterior. Scenes in a Cheshire cornfield, with shire horses pulling the plough.
 
 
 
[PARACHUTIST AT BLACKPOOL]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 4034
 
Ivor Price, a parachutist for Cobham's Flying Circus lands at Stanley Park Aerodrome, Blackpool and is driven past the spectators in an open-topped car. General views of the airfield, showing planes, hangars and camera news crews. The film ends with a group of people running out of the Harris Institute School of Art in Preston and looking up into the sky.
 
 
 
[THE BARR FAMILY IN NORTH WALES]
Date: 1935 Film Number: 4561
 
Bernard Barr is seen with his mother at an agricultural show in North Wales with sheepdog trials and a fox-hunting display. There are scenes of the 1935 Prestatyn Carnival Parade, two men playing table tennis in a garden, and the family visiting an open-air swimming pool. Views of the beach and sand-dunes, and the opening ceremony for a new park/leisure complex, with crowds of people looking around and shots of the model boating pool.
 
 
 
[HORSE SHOWS; QUEEN MARY; POLICE HORSE TRIALS]
Date: *1935 Film Number: 4562
 
General views of the countryside are followed by the Barr family at Stonehenge. There is footage from a number of horse shows, one of which is in Worsley, with show jumping displays and decorated shire horses. The liner Queen Mary is seen in dock at Southampton and being towed out to sea [possibly maiden voyage 1936?]. Bernard Barr plays in the garden at home. In Platt Fields park, policemen and their horses are seen being put through their paces, jumping through flaming hoops and moving in formation.
 
 
 
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