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Record 1732 – 1751 of 11529
| [MISCELLANEOUS - MORECAMBE, HEYSHAM AND NORTH MANCHESTER] | |||
| Date: 1936-37 Film Number: 2504 | |||
| Miscellaneous footage, including shots from Morecambe(?) - featuring the swimming baths, where crowds watch divers and children play. Also includes shots of a Punch and Judy show and blacked-up performers. Continues with footage from Heysham Head, a man is seen clambering across rocks and various animals are seen at a zoo. Also features shots of ships at a dock. Continues with brief shots of a group of young people and of a train. Cuts to a brief 'drama' filmed in Heaton Park in which two young men are seen fighting, until a 'policeman' intervenes, the drama concludes with a young man in drag 'kissing' one of the combatants. After a brief shot of a model boat, which is set alight, the film proceeds with footage of a Whit Walk in Whitefield (?). A crowning ceremony is seen and there are shots of a marching band and other participants. Continues with shots of young people out for a walk on desolate, snow covered countryside on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border. Closes with shots of a young man eating a banana and scenes in a garden, including a man mowing a lawn. | |||
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| JOHN. A MOVIE RECORD FROM THE AGE OF 2 | |||
| Date: *1936-37 Film Number: 2590 | |||
| Film of John Potter, aged two, in a variety of locations. he is seen in the Potter family's garden at 'Alkrington' in Bowdon, playing with a pedal car, watering plants and with his parents. A Mickey's horse-drawn ice cream cart is seen prior to footage of John near a lake with his mother (?). He is seen pulling a toy train, eating an ice cream and looking at a statue. Continues with more footage of John playing with toys in the Potter's garden at 'Brideoak' in Bowdon. Also features a family visit to the Isle of Skye. Continues with footage from 'Brideoak in Bowdon, building work is taking place around the house - John plays around the building materials. Closes with John watering plants. | |||
| [CHILDREN PLAYING IN DAVYHULME PARK] | |||
| Date: c1936-37 Film Number: 2875 | |||
| The filmmaker's daughter, Juliana, is seen along with other children, some older, in Davyhulme Park. They are seen walking and playing near a pond. | |||
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| [BOWLING AT METRO-VICKS] | |||
| Date: c1936-37 Film Number: 2876 | |||
| Film featuring the filmmaker's daughter as a young child in Victoria Park, Stretford. Also includes shots of people bowling at Metro-Vicks club in Stretford. | |||
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| [FANCY DRESS AND GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1936/7 Film Number: 3630 | |||
| Brief shots of a man and a girl throwing stones on the beach at Southport, possibly John Hindley and one of his daughters. Also three young girls, in the garden, dressed up and pretending to smoke. Further garden scenes show the girls playing with a dog and messing around with a tennis racquet and wheelbarrow. A woman, possibly Sybil Hindley can be seen gardening in the background. Location Moorlands, Blacko. | |||
| [THE BADEN-POWELLS; STONEHENGE] | |||
| Date: 1936-37 Film Number: 3998 | |||
| Gaddum family scenes. Mary in the garden, someone punting on a river and horses ploughing a field. Also brief scenes from Betty Baden-Powell's wedding, footage of children playing, a visit to Stonehenge and views from a horse race in the country. | |||
| THE FIRST STEPS OF JOHN | |||
| Date: 1936/7 Film Number: 4227 | |||
| Film of John Fleming as a toddler - in the street at home and on holiday with the family in Blackpool, Fleetwood and Morecambe - on the beach and at the fairground. There are shots of him playing in the street with other children, and also brief views of the cemetary at Heysham Head and of a visit to St Winifred's Well, Holywell, North Wales. The film ends with a short drama in which John plays a fireman. | |||
| [DODD HOLIDAYS ON ANGLESEY] | |||
| Date: 1936/7 Film Number: 6124 | |||
| Margaret Dodd is seen riding a pony during a family holiday to Anglesey. There are views of and from a biplane in flight, possibly in Southport. A swimming gala at a lido is followed by views of the Menai Bridge, South Stack Lighthouse and other Anglesey locations. Brief views of Conwy Castle and the Dodd family are seen outside the Red Lion pub and playing on the beach. | |||
| [WEDDING SCENES & BABY MAUREEN] | |||
| Date: 1936/7 Film Number: 11287 | |||
| Wedding scenes with the bride rushing into the church then the bride and groom exit the church with confetti being thrown before getting into the wedding car. At another wedding the groom and best man, both in top hat and tails wait for the bride with family and friends. The bride and groom walk from the church to the wedding cars then arrive at the reception. Baby Maureen in her pram in the garden then learning to walk with her mum and grandmother. Maureen pushing a toy horse, playing with a doll and looking through a camera with her dad. | |||
| [BEWDLEY, ALDERLEY EDGE] | |||
| Date: 1936/37 Film Number: 7814 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhill family at Harold Brickhills' parents home: 'Bewdley' in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Mrs Brickhill and Mr Brickhill are shown with the elder Mr Brickhill walking through their large garden, followed by shots of a mother and daughter looking into a fish pond. We see the elder Mrs Brickill weeding the bedding plants, then views of the house's exterior, cars on the driveway and the garden's plant life. There are brief shots of cats followed by the Brickhills enjoying a picnic by some trees and sunbathing on the lawn. The film ends with the Brickhills and friends inspecting the garden and the young girl playing on some stepping stones. | |||
| [LEVENS HALL AND OTHER LAKELAND SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1936/7 Film Number: 8425 | |||
| Footage from visits to historic and scenic places in the Lake District, including Levens Hall and its topicary garden, Tarn Hows, and the Fairy Steps. Also general landscape views, family picnics, swimming and paddling in the lake, and a group of young people larking around in a sunny garden. | |||
| [WE WILL REMEMBER THEM] | |||
| Date: c1937 Film Number: 878 | |||
| A meeting of the East Lancashire Regimental Association; a civilian procession to the war memorial followed by a wreath laying ceremony; line up of uniformed soldiers in barracks yard. | |||
| [PRESTWICH CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 2502 | |||
| Film showing the various processes involved in milk production. Cows are seen in a field near Clitheroe, they are herded to a milking shed and milked. The milk is seen being transferred into milk churns. Prestwich co-op dairy - a van is seen leaving - loaded with milk churns. The van arrives at the farm where its empty churns are unloaded and replaced with full ones. The film continues with footage from the dairy. On its arrival the van is unloaded and the milk is poured into large vats. Tests are seen being carried out in the dairy's laboratory. Various machines are seen functioning - bottles are filled and transported along a conveyor belt from which they are packed into crates. Milk floats leaving the dairy and delivering milk. Closes with a very brief shot of people on a hillside. | |||
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| [CORONATION 1937; ROYAL VISIT TO COLNE] | |||
| Date: *1936/7/8 Film Number: 3617 | |||
| Scenes around London of the 1937 Coronation. Streetscenes with the Horse Guards and views of the procession passing Buckingham Palace. Rooftop shots of the coronation procession in the distance and then from ground level. Also a Royal visit to Colne, possibly part of 1938 tour of Lancashire. Scenes of the preparation of the podium, the arriving dignitaries, shots of the crowd and brief shots of the Royal couple arriving, having a walkabout and departing. | |||
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| [RACING CARS AT DONNINGTON] | |||
| Date: c1937 Film Number: 7242 | |||
| Shots of motor cars negotiating the Melbourne Loop hairpin bend at Donnington race track. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| BEHIND THE SCENES WITH AN 8MM CAMERA | |||
| Date: c1937 Film Number: 8358 | |||
| The compilation reel begins with scenes of a street party that is held to celebrate the coronation of George VI. Shots of people gathered around a table, maypole dancing and children dancing in the street. The film cuts to a short film about a young girl who bakes scones that turn out to be inedible, she is giving a 'L' plate to wear on her back. The next short film is titled 'Prizewinner' and shows of a man entering a 'Holiday Snapshots' competition. He grabs his camera and tripod and drives to the countryside where he photographs waterfalls, rivers and bridges. He drives home and develops the photographs in his dark room. The short film ends with a shot of his photograph published in the magazine. The Dairy Queen Miss Mabel Priestner can be seen sat in a car before posing for photographs outside a local shop. At the Parr Arms in Grappenhall, a woman can be seen holding a tame fox called Nippy and giving him some of her drink. A Coca-Cola van can be seen leaving the pub and driving through Grappenhall. | |||
| [PENNINGTON PARK AND SPRINGTIME] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 8990 | |||
| A family take a walk in Pennington Park, they stop to admire the flowers. Later a young boy plays fetch with the family dog. Back at home, the siblings have a bath before playing with their toys in front of the fireplace. At the beach, the children play in the sea together. On a trip to Wales, the family go for walks and visit the Llandudno beach. The film ends with a trip to see Swallow Falls waterfall. | |||
| [FAMILY IN THE GARDEN; BURY PROCESSION] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 10653 | |||
| A young baby (Roger) sits in his high chair and later plays in the garden with family and friends. In the next scene, a procession makes its way through the street, lead by a brass band followed by civic dignitaries and members of St Paul's Church in Ramsbottom. Later, the family enjoy a picnic in the countryside. The film cuts to when Roger is slightly bigger, he plays with his toys in the garden, helps out with the gardening and builds sandcastles. The film ends with Roger playing with two friends in the garden. | |||
| THE FAMILY AT BLACK ROCK SANDS AUGUST 10th 1936 [AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 7786 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhill family on holiday in North Wales and at their family home in Cheshire. The film begins with the family at Black Rock Sands playing in rock pools, watched by their elderly parents beside their car; the group then have a picnic on the moors. Back at their house in Cheshire, camera tricks are used to show the women walking backwards in the garden and a game of croquet is played. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, WINDSOR, ISLE OF MAN] | |||
| Date: 1936-39 Film Number: 2220 | |||
| Members of the Edwards family are seen on various day trips to Poulton-Le-Fylde, Windsor and Blackpool. Includes a shot of two large sail boats leaving Blackpool shore on a windy day. Both boats are packed with passengers who are tossed to and fro in the rough sea. The family are also seen relaxing on a crowded beach, making sandcastles and paddling in the sea. Further scenes include a Prescot Parish Church parade; aerial shots of the River Mersey; a civic procession through the streets of Prescot; holiday scenes in the Isle of Man; and footage of employees (from Prescot Gas Company), smiling at the camera prior to their 1938 works outing. | |||
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