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| EE-LASS THA'S GRAND | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 551 | |||
| The Mayor and Mayoress of Rochdale greet Gracie Fields on her return to the town. She waves to cheering crowds from the Town Hall balcony. | |||
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| BIG CIVIL DEFENCE PARADE HELPS HOSPITAL | |||
| Date: *1941 Film Number: 552 | |||
| Scenes from a large civil defence parade and demonstration in Rochdale intended to raise funds for the Infirmary. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| PATHE GAZETTE: BLACKPOOL | |||
| Date: *1941 Film Number: 634 | |||
| Workmen painting Blackpool Tower - high angle shots of the beach and 'comic' telescoping of a young couple. | |||
| [DO YOU WANT SUNDAY CINEMA AND GAMES?] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 932 | |||
| A film made to support the Stockport Express wartime campaign for Sunday cinema opening, bringing Stockport in line with other local authorities. Shots of male and female wartime workers - on the buses, factory workers; long queues outside the Odeon Cinema on Oxford Street, Manchester; scenes in Stockport town centre including Stockport Plaza cinema and Mersey Square. | |||
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| [CH JOHNSON SPORTS DAY- STOCKPORT] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 1479 | |||
| CH Johnson company sports day, held in Stockport in 1941. Men and women compete in sprints, sack race, tennis, obstacle race, high jump, wheelbarrow race and a tug-of-war. Also features a couple and guests leaving a church following a wedding. They are showered with confetti before driving off in a car. | |||
| QUEEN COTTON | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 4329 | |||
| Film about the production of cotton and fabric in Lancashire. The raw material is unloaded at Manchester docks, before being spun and woven into cloth. The design department is seen, with the artists creating new patterns, and at Broadoak Mill in Accrington, these designs are printed onto the cloth. The film ends with a fashion show, demonstrating the use of cotton in the latest ladies' fashions. | |||
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| [MANCHESTER AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY AND SOCIAL EVENTS] | |||
| Date: *1941 Film Number: 4420 | |||
| Scenes from a meeting of Manchester Amateur Photographic Society with photographic equipment being demonstrated. There is a display of roller-skating followed by ballroom dancing, and members are seen at an open-air swimming pool. There is a demonstration of photographic lighting and further dancing scenes - possibly a New Year's Eve party, as people are seen singing Auld Lang's Syne. | |||
| LIVERPOOL 1941 | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 5592 | |||
| Record of bomb damage suffered by the city of Liverpool after the blitz of May 1941. After opening shots of the Pier Head there are scenes of ruined streets and damaged buildings throughout the city including Custom House, St Nicholas and St Luke's churches, the Corn Exchange, Lewis's department store and the docks. | |||
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| [JUNE MILLER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, 1941] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 6220 | |||
| June Miller and friends are seen in the garden playing with a rocking horse. Balloons are released in the garden and toys and games are hung in trees for the children. June is seen on her new bike and the children enjoy a party tea. At the end of the day, June has a bath, says her prayers and is seen eating supper in bed. | |||
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| [SCIENCE IN FARMING] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 8992 | |||
| The process of producing tuberculin tested milk on Brookside Farm. The film begins with a woman washing and storing milk canisters. A farmer shaves and brushes cows before allowing them out into the farmyard. The cows are lead into the milking parlour, where they are attached to a milking machine and their milk is pumped into a milk tank. Some cows are milked by hand. The milk is brought indoors where it is portioned into milk cartons labelled 'tuberculin tested milk'. Crates of milk are loaded into a van to be delivered to local homes. The film ends with a housewife giving the milk to her baby. | |||
| [GOLFING] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 9649 | |||
| A group of men play a round of golf together. | |||
| MALMESBURY ABBEY 1941 | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 6277 | |||
| General views of Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire. | |||
| [IN THE FRONT GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940s Film Number: 11417 | |||
| In the front garden of a suburban house a man in a sargeant's uniform is joined by a man in a wedding suit as they both enjoy a cigarette while a woman picks flowers in the background. | |||
| [SCENES IN THE GRIFFITHS FAMILY GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1941-42 Film Number: 1456 | |||
| The Griffiths family relax in the back garden of their suburban house in Carrwood Avenue. Includes scenes of a man wearing a navy uniform playing with a dog; two women hoeing the flower beds and other family members larking around pretending to march up and down the garden carrying a mop. Other footage includes scenes taken in and around Oxford and Bramhall Hall. | |||
| FAMILY SCRAPBOOK [1941/2] | |||
| Date: 1941/2 Film Number: 4397 | |||
| Judith and Kathryn Wain are seen skipping in the garden and playing with Bunty the rabbit and the family dog. The girls are sent out by their mother to go blackberry picking in Bowlacre Wood. Kathryn celebrates her 7th birthday, and the girls are seen playing in the snow in 1942 and with baby brother Peter in the garden in summer. A Remembrance Day parade of boy scouts is seen on route to St George's Church in Hyde in 1942, and there is a brief scene from a Wain family holiday to Llandudno. | |||
| [BREAST CANCER OPERATION AND LEG ULCERS] | |||
| Date: 1941-3 Film Number: 2720 | |||
| Footage of a breast cancer operation, and of a patient with a leg tumour. | |||
| [CLIMBING AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN WALES] | |||
| Date: *1941-3 Film Number: 4416 | |||
| Brief scenes of a group of people, probably from the Manchester Amateur Photographic Society, leaving Manchester by train and travelling to North Wales. The group is seen at the Youth Hostel, being roused from their beds and having breakfast. They are seen out and about in the countryside, walking, rock climbing and taking photographs. | |||
| COUNTY BOROUGH OF PRESTON INVASION EXERCISES | |||
| Date: c1942 Film Number: 6199 | |||
| Film documenting a number of training exercises in Preston during World War II. Scenes inside the control centre are followed by firemen and ARP wardens putting out 'fires' at Horrockses Mill and the gas works, as well as rescuing casualties from several different buildings. A mobile canteen truck provides sustenance and the film ends with views of a meeting at the Town Hall. | |||
| HOLIDAYS ON THE FARM | |||
| Date: 1941-3 Film Number: 6436 | |||
| Scenes of the Blackburn family posing for the camera at Pit Farm, Cartmel and of children playing in the farmyard. Various shots of farm animals, the family strolling through the village and of boating on Lake Windermere. Detailed scenes of sheep dipping at Bradley Hall Farm, Chaigley and of children playing in farm fields and on a tractor. | |||
| [GODFREYS' SKIING SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1941-7 Film Number: 8897 | |||
| Film starts with Godfrey family skiing down a slope and posing for pictures with exterior shots of surrounding buildings. Then there are shots of various family members skiing done the ski slope. | |||
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