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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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
[GRIFFITHS FAMILY ALBUM]
Date: 1941-1948 Film Number: 8931
 
Compilation of Griffith family events from 1941 to 1948. Opens with dad, Eric Griffiths, playing with baby David. Children are seen out on a walk. David is playing in the garden with sister Pat and brother Peter in the garden at home in Blackburn and paddling and enjoying the beach in Blackpool. Another baby, a daughter, is born. More scenes of the children playing, including Peter pretending to be Pat dancing. Scenes on VE Day show the children burying gas masks and other wartime objects in the garden and stamping on an effigy of Adolf Hitler. The family is growing up and enjoy spending time with their Uncle Percy. There are snowy scenes during the big freeze of Winter 1947 and a holiday in the Lake District.
 
 
 
[METALWORKING]
Date: 1940s Film Number: 1664
 
Film showing the various processes involved in producing metal items by casting.
 
 
 
[METALWORKING SCENES]
Date: 1940s Film Number: 1665
 
Film showing women sewing and packaging factory produced items. Continues with scenes of men producing milk churns using a variety of metalworking processes.
 
 
 
[ABEL STREET SCHOOL - OUR SCHOOL MEALS]
Date: 1940s Film Number: 5228
 
School meals are served to queuing pupils at Abel Street School in Burnley. Hot food is spooned out on to their plates and boys are seen sitting at tables eating their meals. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html
 
 
 
[YOUNG KEITH AT PLAY AND ON HOLIDAY]
Date: 1941-51 Film Number: 7201
 
Keith Hodkinson as a young boy and teenager, filmed in various locations with his parents and friends. He is seen on a day out at Belle Vue Zoo, on holiday on the South Coast of England and in North Wales. At home in Romiley, Keith is shown riding a bike, going to school and inside a comics stall that has been set up in the front drive. There are garden scenes featuring Keith, his family and the pet dog, together with trips to the countryside and seaside. Concludes with shots of a new house being built. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
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