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| [LYMM GRAMMAR SCHOOL - SPORTS TEAMS AND PUPILS] | |||
| Date: *1943/45-49 Film Number: 2239 | |||
| Various events and activities attended by the pupils and staff of Lymm Grammar School 1946-49. Includes scenes of a school cross country run; a school sports day; children leaving the church on Founders' Day and the cast of the school play dressed up in their costumes. Concludes with various shots of the 1948-49 school sports teams; prefects; school leavers; new pupils and the head boy and girl. | |||
| SAM HANNA CRAFTSMAN, TEACHER, FILM MAKER | |||
| Date: *1943/45-46/50/54-55/74 Film Number: 5220 | |||
| Sam Hanna narrates a story of his working life, from his training as a craftsman and teacher through to his film-making. Mr Hanna works on a cabriole leg and shows examples of furniture he has made in his home. After brief shots of Sam writing notes for his handicraft teaching, the film concentrates on Mr Hanna's film-making as he sets off in his car with his wife to film craftspeople around the country. Sam's films of the Burnley Home Guard are featured together with footage of his father meeting King George VI, holidays in Switzerland and his links with the local Swiss community. The film also includes shots of Mr Hanna's workshop and pioneering film equipment and ends with Sam at his typewriter writing a book about his life. 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 GRANITE QUARRY | |||
| Date: *1943/49 Film Number: 5206 | |||
| Depicts the work of a granite quarry, from extraction to the creation of granite blocks. After shots of a village and neighbouring allotments, there is footage of an excavator at work in the quarry. A man scales and descends a rock face using a rope, and workers pack dynamite into the rock and detonate it. Stone is carried away on a cable crane and emptied into a sorting machine. A variety of tools are used to split rocks into workable sizes and then to dress them into standard-sized blocks. The film ends with black and white footage of workmen laying tarmacadam on Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 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 | |||
| 28TH LANCS B. N. HOME GUARD. OFFICERS CAMP BARLEY. 5/6TH JUNE 1943 | |||
| Date: 1943/55 Film Number: 1264 | |||
| 28th Lancs B.N. Home Guard at Officers training camp at Barley on the 5/6th June 1943. Includes shots of men being trained in defence and camouflage techniques. Also includes the Royal visit to Malvern Mill in Nelson on 14th April 1955. | |||
| FIELD DAY MOSS ROSE | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 4 | |||
| Scenes of a sports day cum fete at the Moss Rose sports and football ground. Fairground stalls, a brass band, and tents are featured. Events shown include running races, a three-legged race and a tug of war. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [HOME GUARD] | |||
| Date: c1944 Film Number: 103 | |||
| The Home Guard march through the streets of Altrincham then assemble in a field to display manoeuvres and combat. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 52 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 150 | |||
| One by one, soldiers serving in India come in front of the camera to deliver personal messages to family and friends in Oldham. At the end they all gather round the mess room piano to hear 'Jungle Swing', and wave and cheer at the camera. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 58 | |||
| Date: c1944 Film Number: 153 | |||
| One by one, soldiers and seamen serving in India come in front of the camera to deliver personal messages to family and friends in St. Helens and Liverpool. At the end they all gather round the mess room piano to sing "We'll meet again" and cheer and wave at the camera. | |||
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| THE BIRTH OF A SERVICE | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 155 | |||
| North West Fire Services parade through a town, then air raid scenes are shown and it is explained that some of the fire-fighters are part-time. Members of the Fire Service are then shown involved in various activities - training recruits, maintaining water supplies, housekeeping and administrative duties, firefighting, maintaining machinery and buildings, making toys for children in hospitals and doing munitions work in spare time, attending emergencies, and fighting fires aboard ship. The film ends with an appeal for donations to the Welfare Fund - a collection will be taken at 'this' cinema. | |||
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| MEN OF ROCHDALE | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 169 | |||
| A dramatised account of the first Co-operative Society, which was founded in Rochdale in 1843. After attending a meeting addressed by GJ Holyoake, the people of Rochdale decide to form a co-operative and open a shop. There is opposition to this from local business men but the shop opens and becomes increasingly successful. With the profits, they invest in a share of a corn mill, but when a rumour is spread about the financial soundness of the enterprise they manage to allay the fears of the members and avoid disaster by a clever bluff. Later there is another crisis when the American Civil War upsets the cotton industry, but they keep going and support the northern United States. The history of the co-operative movement is brought up-to-date and there are scenes of production in co-operative factories. The film finishes with the ghosts of the original pioneers expressing their opinions of the progress and their disappointment with modern society. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| HOLIDAYS AT HOME | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 220 | |||
| Series of organised events for the 'Holidays at Home' initiative in Rochdale. The mayor launches the programme, and there are scenes from a number of the events including some entertainers on stage; boating; bowling; children's sports day; an agricultural show; dancing in Falinge Park; a fashion pageant; swimming gala; and children's dog show. There are also scenes from a coach trip to the Roman Road at Blackstone Edge, and the mayor is seen talking with Reginald Dixon, the Blackpool organist, in his RAF uniform. | |||
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| [LIVERPOOL'S FLAG DAY FOR SEAMEN] | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 299 | |||
| An appeal, mostly using captions, for funds for Atlantic House - a seamen's welfare establishment in Liverpool. | |||
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| SONG OF THE PEOPLE | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 462 | |||
| "A survey of the influence of the 'common people' on history" achieved through dramatic reconstructions with songs, poetry and music. Sponsored by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, the emphasis is on workers' co-operation and participation as opposed to history text book accounts. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 132 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 546 | |||
| A group of servicemen send individual messages home to their families and friends in Manchester, from a jungle in Burma. They end by singing together - 'She's a lassie from Lancashire'. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 183 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 621 | |||
| Members of the RAF stand in the goal mouth of a football pitch, and send messages home. Each man introduces the next. At the end, they march towards the camera, waving, as the narrator mentions their home towns of Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale, Wigan and Bolton. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 199 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 622 | |||
| Men from the Black East African Regiment moving timber in camp area. Messages home - the men, mainly from Stockport and Blackburn, pass on their messages home whilst playing badminton and map reading. Ends with an African tribal dance performed by the East African troops. | |||
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| SPORTS REPORT - LAST ROUND AND LAST LAP | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 642 | |||
| Newsreel film showing round 15 of the British Heavyweight Championship fight, Freddie Mills v Jack London at Belle Vue, Manchester. Jack London wins the title - he is seen posing with his family. | |||
| SERENADE TO BRITAIN | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 656 | |||
| The U.K. tour of an 85 piece official U.S. Army Forces Band - the band in transit, and performing in Manchester's Kings Hall at Belle Vue, and Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall - shots of the dance floor. The finale takes place in the Royal Albert Hall, London. | |||
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| MORECAMBE 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 811 | |||
| A look at the various events taking place in Morecambe on 11th September 1944 - the RAF Swimming Gala; a demonstration of self inflating dinghies; and a water polo match between teams from Lancashire and Cheshire - prizes are presented. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| SALUTE THE SOLDIER MARCH PAST 16 APRIL 44 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 1194 | |||
| A procession of soldiers are seen marching along Barlow Moor Road and Princess Road in Didsbury passing a group of officers on a podium who salute them. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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