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| [PRAM IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2265 | |||
| Film shot in the Buckley's garden at home in Newhey. Opens with shots of a Dorothy and Robert taking alternate turns carrying their baby, Hilary. Family members are seen with a child and Hilary in a pram. The film closes with Alan and Brian Wrigley in school uniform flanking the pram and playing with the baby. | |||
| [BABE IN ARMS] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2266 | |||
| The film opens with members of the Buckley family gathered around a pram in the garden at home in Newhey. Hilary as a baby is featured in close-up and being held by various family members. There is a brief shot of a man lighting a pipe before footage of the family at Morecambe or Blackpool. The film closes with a very dark shot of the interior of a room. | |||
| [BABIES AND GARDENS] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2267 | |||
| Hilary Buckley as a very young girl is seen walking in the garden at home in Newhey. Hilary and Wendy Brearley are seen being carried by their respective parents in the same garden and the film closes with a shot of the same group of people in front of the house. | |||
| ELECTRICAL INDUCTION HEATING | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2808 | |||
| Men demonstrating electrical induction heating by various means, including electrical coils and an induction furnace, producing molten metal and a casting as proof of the efficiency of the heating process. | |||
| [TRAFFORD PARK ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2811 | |||
| Footage of staff at the Metropolitan Vickers factory in Trafford Park arriving for work and going home, by car, on foot and by coach. | |||
| [THE MORLEY CHILDREN IN TORQUAY] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 2886 | |||
| The filmmaker's daughter, Juliana, with her brother Donald Morley, playing in a park in Torquay. The two children bounce balls and Juliana dances. | |||
| [MOOR PARK METHODIST WHIT WALK] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 3064 | |||
| Views of a whit walk by members of Moor Park Methodists Church, Preston, with participants also including the Salvation Army, brownies, guides, and congregations. The parents of a baby are seen with their progeny after a christening, and the father is seen pushing a pram into a large park. | |||
| [MOOR PARK METHODISTS 21-5-39] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 3065 | |||
| Footage of a whit walk held on the streets of Preston - participants include a brass band, brownies, the Salvation Army, and members of various church congregations. | |||
| [THE 1939 JEWISH LADS BRIGADE CAMP] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 3227 | |||
| Children going to a Jewish Boys Camp near Colwyn Bay arrive at the station. There are parades through the streets with the cadets in uniform, passing through a town and the countryside to Llandudno where a ceremony is being held at a cenotaph - wreathes are laid and speeches made. Cadets are shown washing in communal troughs and polishing belt buckles before being inspected. A large meal is cooked, including potatoes and boiled beef. | |||
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| [MORECAMBE AND COUNTRYSIDE] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4132 | |||
| The Rendell family are seen at an open-air swimming pool, June uses the slide and diving board as Grandad Fred and her mother look on. The Rendells go to Windermere, and cross the lake on the car ferry, watching the various boats and yachts. They go to the River Severn at Shrewsbury, see an angler at Miller's Dale at Buxton and are seen 'somewhere in Lancashire' on a country walk. | |||
| PORTAL LODGE AND GARDENS, TARPORLEY | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 4198 | |||
| Film of Portal Lodge medieval house and gardens at Tarporley in Cheshire. General views of the house and flowerbeds, with interior views of a greenhouse and glimpses of visitors in the grounds. | |||
| ROUND AND ABOUT WINDSOR | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4207 | |||
| Filmed on the Northwich Traders' Outing to Windsor - general views of the castle and grounds, including St George's Chapel and Anne Boleyn's window. Brief views of the Ancient Market House before the Northwich Traders go on a boat trip along the Thames, passing through Bray and Boulters' locks. | |||
| [DOUBLE STRENGTH] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 4322 | |||
| Short fictional film starring Arthur Roberts as a man with chronic indigestion. His wife, played by Winifred Oakes, tries every remedy on the market, until she dreams that to her husband, everything is 'double strength.' The film uses trick photography to duplicate objects and people. | |||
| DELAMERE FOREST | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4413 | |||
| Footage from two Hart family outings to Delamere Forest. The family are seen enjoying a picnic, walking through the woods, picking berries, climbing trees and fooling around. At one point, a family member is made to look like Hitler by changing his hair and putting a comb on his top lip. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| MANCHESTER AND SALFORD EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, CHILDREN'S GALA DAY | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4428 | |||
| A Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society procession, with horse-drawn floats packed with children, is seen passing through residential streets. The procession arrives at a park, where the Co-op Queen is crowned, and the children enjoy a picnic. There are displays of country and Scottish dancing, and the children take part in a number of different races. | |||
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| A GRAND PARADE AND RALLY 9TH JULY 1939 OF MILITARY AND CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES. ECCLES, IRLAM AND CADESHEAD (sic) | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4693 | |||
| A procession of various military and civil defence groups, including auxiliary firemen, nurses and ARP wardens, march past the mayor and other dignitaries on the banks of the Ship Canal. Horse racing scenes (location unknown) are followed by air-raid practice at Lancashire Steel Corporation's Irlam works, as well as fire fighting and first aid training and a demonstration of how to deal with a gas attack. | |||
| SOUTH-EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, COUNTY RALLY, DUNHAM PARK, JUNE 1939 | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4782 | |||
| Preparations for the camp at Dunham Park are followed by footage of scouts boarding buses and arriving at the site. Views of various camp activities including the camp fire, milk delivery, refuse disposal and scout and guide shop are seen, and on Sunday a group of VIPs - including the exiled Crown Prince of Ethiopia, Asfa Wossen - arrive for a church service. Different scout troops participate in a stage show - a cowboy band, morris dancing, gymnastic display and fencing demonstration are seen. The film ends with views of the camp being cleared up and the empty site after the scouts have left. | |||
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| A CHANGE OF AIR - SALFORD LADS' CLUB CAMP ABERYSTWYTH 1939 | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4949 | |||
| Salford Lads' Club boys are seen arriving at London Road Station in Manchester to go to camp in Aberystwyth. On arrival, the lads go swimming in the river and are seen preparing and eating sausages and mash. Some are seen washing up afterwards. There is a day trip to Aberdovey, where they all go on a steam boat trip, and on return to camp there is a football match. The boys are seen tidying up and getting washed, and some are seen with lambs on a farm. There is footage of boxing matches and various races during the sports day, with casualties receiving first aid afterwards. They visit the beach and are seen packing up and receiving prizes on the last day. | |||
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| [A.R.P. TRAINING - GAS MASKS AND BOMB SITES] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 6118 | |||
| Members of the Turton Air Raid Precaution unit are seen constructing a scaffold - presumably to shore up bombed buildings. They are instructed on how to fit gas masks and suits and are also seen practising searching a bomb site for survivors. | |||
| [IN THE TROUGH OF BOWLAND] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 6228 | |||
| June Miller and her mother are seen feeding lambs in the countryside and a car with blacked-out headlamps is seen crossing a stream. | |||
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