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| HOLIDAYS AT HOME 1942 [WIGAN AREA] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 1520 | |||
| Local people engaged in various activities in the week of July 4th-11th, 1942. Includes canal boat trips and entertainments at 'Callenders Pleasure Field'. These involve stalls, Punch and Judy shows and trapeze artists. Continues with shots of, and from, a canal boat and footage of people going back to work. After 'the End' there is footage of a trick motor cyclist, a miniature railway and doves perched on a woman. | |||
| [MARY OSCAR'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 2140 | |||
| Two young women, Ruth Behrens and Helen Danby, are seen leaving the house and getting into a car that is parked in the driveway. Also includes brief scenes of Mary Oscar's wedding reception. Guests are seen socialising with each other in the garden. | |||
| [GIRL THROWN IN GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 2268 | |||
| Opens with a brief shot of family members gathered outside a terraced house. Continues with close ups of two men smoking pipes and Austin Gray giving a young girl, Hilary Buckley, a piggy back. Hilary is then seen being thrown between two men. Also features the wedding of Bruce Smith in Ormskirk. The wedding party is seen leaving the church and posing outside the church door. | |||
| THIS IS COLOUR | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 3236 | |||
| After a section on how colours are perceived, a description of refraction and examples of the substances and objects that are artificially coloured, the film describes the process by which dyes are manufactured. Hebridean farmers are seen using plants to make dyes, and the scientists at ICI's laboratories are shown developing dyes for fabrics, wallpaper and other products. The final section of the film stresses the importance of colour to people, and ends with a psychedelic display. | |||
| SAVE AND BE SAVED | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 3248 | |||
| A propaganda film produced by ICI to encourage the sales of savings stamps and war bonds among its staff. A competition is arranged between teams of staff at Hexagon House, ICI's factory / research centre in Blackley to raise money, with a night out at the theatre as a prize for the winners. | |||
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| [ROSEMARY AND VALERIE] | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 3644 | |||
| Rosemary and Valerie Hindley are seen outdoors, with a cat, with their mother, playing in the snow and picking flowers. Also a picnic in the countryside with cousins Brian, Roger and Rex Mayall. Three-legged races at home. Rosemary and Val on stepping stones across the river Ribble at Nappa near Gisburn. Christening scenes at Leach House, Colne. Rosemary and Valerie fishing with their mother at Nappa, near Gisburn. The girls playing on their bikes and finally playing with a puppy on the lawn. | |||
| [BARNTON WALKING DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL TREAT] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 4337 | |||
| Views of a Walking Day in Barnton, Cheshire, showing the different banners, church groups and bands participating. Brief shots of fishing on a river and scenes from Winnington Methodist Church Sunday School outing to Delamere with games of tug-of-war and cricket, children playing on the swings and slide and sprint races. | |||
| HAPPY RETURN | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 4398 | |||
| George Wain is seen leaving the family home in Hyde on his way to London. There are views of wartime London, including a procession of soldiers. Mr Wain then travels to Sutton in Surrey to make films for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - children are seen being taught road safety in a school yard. On his return, the family are seen in the garden, and there is a special tea for Judith's sixth birthday. | |||
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| DICK EASTWOOD BESOM MAKER | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 5114 | |||
| Follows the work of Dick Eastwood, from Grassington in Yorkshire, as he makes a besom (broom) using traditional tools and materials. After shots of Mr Eastwood gathering ling (heather) on the moors, the film cuts to the outside of his cottage where he washes thin strips of ash. He then uses these strips to bind the ling which is held in a vice. After the broom head is trimmed, a passer by approaches and admires the work. Mr Eastwood attaches the broom handle and the film ends as he puts the besom to use by sweeping his front path. 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 | |||
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| THE BESOM MAKER | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 5115 | |||
| Follows the work of Dick Eastwood, from Grassington in Yorkshire, as he makes a besom (broom) using traditional tools and materials. After shots of Mr Eastwood bringing ling (heather) back from the moors, the film cuts to the outside of his cottage where he puts the ling in a knee vice. He uses thin strips of ash to bind the ling. After the broom head is trimmed, a passer by is seen admiring the work. Mr Eastwood attaches the broom handle and the film ends as he puts the besom to use by sweeping his front path. 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 | |||
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| OLD CRAFT SERIES [COOPERING / THE COOPER - SILENT] | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 5150 | |||
| Follows the process of making a barrel using a variety of traditional and specialist tools at the Burnley workshop of skilled cooper Will Regan. Regan and his colleagues create and shape memel oak staves, join them together and guide them into a barrel shape with the use of truss hoops. With the joints sealed, the barrel head (lid) is prepared and fitted before the completed cask is branded with the name of Massey's brewery. 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 | |||
| OLD ENGLISH CRAFTS; THE COOPER | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 5304 | |||
| Follows the process of making a barrel using a variety of traditional and specialist tools at the Burnley workshop of skilled cooper Will Regan. Regan and his colleagues create and shape memel oak staves, join them together and guide them into a barrel shape with the use of truss hoops. With the joints sealed, the barrel head (lid) is prepared and fitted before the completed cask is branded with the name of Massey's brewery. 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 | |||
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| [JUNE MILLER'S BIRTHDAY, 1942] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 6221 | |||
| June Miller's birthday party - the children participate in races on the lawn in the garden and are seen indoors enjoying a birthday tea. Includes shots of the birthday cake and of a baby in a pram. | |||
| [DONKEYS; GUESTHOUSE; BEACH] | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 6257 | |||
| Scenes from a Miller family holiday to Blackpool - donkeys on the beach at Blackpool are followed by views in the front garden of the guesthouse and of the family swimming in the sea. | |||
| [STAND UNITARIAN AMATEUR DRAMATICS] | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 6702 | |||
| Scenes from an amateur dramatics production by Stand Unitarian Chapel featuring an on-stage reenactment of episodes from the Chapel's history, performed by members of the congregation. | |||
| I SAW IT HAPPEN; WITH BEST WISHES | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 8357 | |||
| A title card reads 'I Saw It Happen' - we then see a wedding invite to the wedding of Marion Peacock (daughter of Sir Peter Peacock) and Mr Thomas Lever on the 6th of June 1942. Crowds gather to watch as guests can be seen arriving at Bold Street Methodist Church in Warrington, some men can be seen in military uniform. Bridesmaids arrive soon followed by the bride and her father. After the service, the newlyweds pose for photographs on the church steps. The film cuts to guests arriving at St Wilfrid's Church in Grappenhall for the wedding of Greta Mary Hatton and Thomas Allen. The bride and her father arrive together and have photographs taken. After the service, the couple exit the church and make their way to the car while guests throw confetti on them. | |||
| [THE HEALEY CHILDREN OUTDOORS] | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 9468 | |||
| Compilation of family footage of children’s early years, including a baby in a pram in the garden; later, when she is slightly older, on a rocking horse on the porch; three children sitting on a lawn as the oldest girl makes a daisy chain, and family members enjoying a picnic out in the countryside. | |||
| THE WEDDING OF P.A. DUXBURY AND WINIFRED GREENHALGH AT NEW ROAD CHURCH JULY 28TH 1942 | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 10656 | |||
| Guests arrive at New Road Church in Bury for the wedding of P. A. Duxbury and Winifred Greenhalgh. Crowds gather to watch as the bride arrives with her father. The film cuts to after the service when the newlyweds exit the church. At the wedding reception, guests enjoy refreshments and the bride and groom can be seen cutting their wedding cake. | |||
| DISPLAY BY THE NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE, BOLTON | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 428 | |||
| A display of drills and exercises in a Bolton park - team games on bicycles; extending ladders; horse-drawn fire engine; slapstick routine with a pantomime horse; extinguishing fires; soaking each other. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| PARADE: ASTLEY PARK - TOWN HALL | |||
| Date: 1942/43 Film Number: 625 | |||
| Parade of members of the armed services and civilians in Astley Park, Chorley; procession through the streets. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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