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| [YEALAND MANOR SCHOOL: SUMMER GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 7045 | |||
| Summer scenes from Yealand Manor School showing boys helping to dig drains, evacuee children with unidentified woman playing with building blocks and pupils playing instruments during a music lesson. Children with visiting family members [?] are seen playing in the grounds of Yealand Manor. Footage shows Staff, including Committee member John Robson with other teachers during an official visit [?] and Kindergarten Assistant Frederica Voss [?] sat with children on the steps of the Manor. Continues with children playing amongst the garden flowerbeds and in a paddling pool. Includes a sequence showing kittens in a basket and pram. Concludes with staff members [?] in a back garden sat on deckchairs. | |||
| [WEDDING OF KATHLEEN & PAT; GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1939 Film Number: 7058 | |||
| Scenes showing party of people leave a suburban house for a wedding and newly wedded couple Kathleen and Pat, along with their guests pose for photographs- including on the roof of a building in the centre of Liverpool? Continues with a young boy playing with family members in the back garden. | |||
| [DANCING SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 6691 | |||
| Scenes of dancing in a hall, as couples of all ages waltz past a fixed camera and youths lark about with balloons. | |||
| [WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 8282 | |||
| Life at Withington Girls' School in 1939. Members of staff are seen arriving in the morning, prior to the girls themselves. Following a prize-giving at assembly, there is footage of several of the girls' classes, including maths, science, physical education and art. A group set off on a school trip to Blackpool, and the film ends with sports scenes - cricket, tennis and rounders. | |||
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| WARRINGTON CINE SOCIETY REEL 2 | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 8346 | |||
| The compilation reel begins in 1939 when the group visit Dyserth and Rhyl. The group can be seen sat outside their coach having a picnic together. Later they go walking along the promenade followed by dinner in the hotel dining room. Title card reads '1939 Lord Derby takes the salute, after the Parish Church ceremony' - he is seen with other dignitaries outside a church. In 1939 during the annual hot pot supper, the group enjoy plenty of food and drink together. The film cuts to scenes of the Society's first outing after the war to Llangollen. The group can be seen sat on the coach before stopping for refreshments. Once in Llangollen, the group do some sightseeing. The film cuts to the group visiting Whalley Abbey. After looking around the ruins, they have a picnic by the river. Some people go paddling and swimming in the river. The film ends with brief shots of the group's trip to Knaresborough. | |||
| [ANNUAL SCHOOL SPORTS DRILL DISPLAY] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 8984 | |||
| The school sports day is held at Hindley All Saints school. It begins with children performing a drill display followed by the high jump competition. The film ends with prizes being handed out. | |||
| [TAHITI & MOOREA 1939] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 11477 | |||
| On holidays in Tahiti and Moorea, the group go on a boat ride around the islands. On the beach we see a local woman and her baby. A local man catches and guts a fish in the sea. Another local woman preforms a traditional dance on the beach. The film ends with shots of a beautiful sunset. | |||
| THE WEDDING OF 2ND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HEALEY TO FLORENCE MARJORIE ETHERINGTON | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 9486 | |||
| Cars pull up outside St Luke’s Church in Heywood on September 16th 1939, as smartly dressed wedding guests arrive, watched by a crowd of interested onlookers on the pavement. The single bridesmaid arrives, and then the bride with her father. After the ceremony, the couple – the groom in army uniform – make their way out of the church. In a sunny garden, the wedding group stands around and chats, and poses for photographs. Finally, the couple depart by car, the groom carrying a tin helmet under his arm. | |||
| [WENDY'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 1939] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 10805 | |||
| The film opens with scenes of children playing on a climbing frame in the garden. The children then tussle about and the younger one crawls around while adults sit in deckchairs and watch. A little boy holds a cat and Meriel does somersaults. A man then tosses some of the children in the air. | |||
| [PLAYING ON THE SWING TREE AT YEALAND] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 10806 | |||
| A large group of children out in the countryside play on a huge low-hanging tree branch. Adults supervise the fun. | |||
| [DRAWING OFFICE MATERIAL MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS ASSOC. COUNCIL AT KESWICK JUNE 22-26, 1939] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 7790 | |||
| Footage of the Association members on a break at The Keswick Hotel in 1939. The film begins with two elderly members sat on a bench in the hotel grounds before being joined by others. After some of the men do touching of the toes exercises and posing by various cars the members visit The National Trust's Druid Circle standing stones. The film ends back at the hotel as the men play at putting on the lawn. | |||
| [PARTY AT MAROLDA] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 7795 | |||
| Film of a formal party held at the Brickhill's home in Cheshire on 28th January 1939. We see couples, including Harold and Mary Brickhill, in evening dress dancing in a large room with some women sat in chairs on the edge of the 'dance floor'. The couples split into groups and circle the floor doing the same dance and the film ends with guests digging for rewards in a bran tub. | |||
| [WEDDING OF PEGGY MARTIN] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 7802 | |||
| Film showing the arrival of the wedding of Peggy Martin, 5th August, 1939, beginning with the bridesmaids followed by the bride and her father. The bride and groom then depart the church under confetti and pose with friends and family for the official photographs in a large garden. | |||
| [BRICKHILL FAMILY AT LYTHAM ST ANNES AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 7782 | |||
| Film of Brickhill family at home and at the beach in Lytham, St Anne's. Scenes of baby, David Blackhill, learning how to walk in their back garden and in his pram with parents Harold and Marol Blackhill. We then see the family at the beach playing in the sea and eating ice creams. | |||
| [HANS RENOLD IN THE DRAWING OFFICE AND ON THE WORK FLOOR] | |||
| Date: *1939 Film Number: 8598 | |||
| Hans Renold is seen with a draughtsman in the office, discussing plans pinned to a drawing board, then down on the factory floor, examining the output of one of the machines. | |||
| [BRUSSELS, BLACKPOOL, CORNWALL AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 8860 | |||
| Scenes in Brussels including a boat journey upriver and street scenes; family holiday footage in Blackpool, where the Dorning children play on the beach and enjoy a donkey ride, and then down in Cornwall, near Newquay. Also scenes in the family's garden in Hale in Cheshire, where children play with their toys and have their tea. | |||
| THE WEDDING FILM | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 9166 | |||
| Scenes from the wedding of John Clegg and Marjorie Fleet at St Wilfrid's Church in Mobberley, Cheshire, on Saturday 6th May 1939 . The guests arrive, followed by the groom, the bridesmaids, and the bride with her father. After the ceremony, the wedding party leaves the church, and the couple, showered with confetti, depart by car. At the reception, people stand around in the garden and photographs are taken. The reel ends at the local railway station where the wedding guests gather to see the happy couple off. | |||
| [INGOT ROLLING] | |||
| Date: 1939/59 Film Number: 2809 | |||
| Footage of red hot metal being rolled and shaped, backwards and forwards, in a foundry. (the last section, showing similar footage to the rest of the film, is in colour). | |||
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| BLACKPOOL: A NATION'S PLAYGROUND | |||
| Date: 1939/40 Film Number: 481 | |||
| A look at Blackpool's amenities and attractions for residents as well as holiday makers - schools, parks, sports, piers, swimming pools, beaches, the Tower, the Winter Gardens, and the Pleasure Beach. Three young women feature. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [TREE FELLING AND GIRL GUIDE RALLY] | |||
| Date: 1939-40 Film Number: 4000 | |||
| Gaddum family footage in the grounds of Orielton, their home in Pembrokeshire. Includes scenes of the Buffs at work felling trees, horse racing and general views of the house and grounds. Also a Girl Guide rally and procession in the grounds of a castle. Scenes from a wedding, of the guests and the bride and groom. The Gaddum family stood on a hilltop looking out to sea and final scenes of Mary and others horse riding. | |||
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