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Record 2492 – 2511 of 11529
| [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 | |||
| On a canteen-style film set in Bombay (now Mumbai), servicemen (and one woman) from Oldham take turns to approach the camera and send personal messages back to their loved ones at home. After the individual messages have been delivered, the participants all gather round the mess room piano to hear ‘Harry’ play ‘Jungle Swing’, as they wave and cheer at the camera. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 58 | |||
| Date: c1944 Film Number: 153 | |||
| On a canteen-style film set in Bombay (now Mumbai), servicemen from St Helens take turns to send personal messages back to their loved ones at home, to a soundtrack of gentle piano music . After the individual messages have been delivered, the soldiers all gather round the mess room piano to sing ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and wave and cheer 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 | |||
| Men from the Royal Artillery are filmed together in a jungle clearing in Burma (now Myanmar). Each man takes a turn to step forward to the camera to send a personal message home to loved ones in and around Manchester before they all sign off with a verse of ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 183 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 621 | |||
| RAF servicemen send personal messages to their loved ones back home in the North West of England from Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. The first group of airmen take turns to approach the camera whilst their colleagues play football in the background. The final three men interrupt their work on a truck engine to deliver their messages. The films ends with the whole group walking quickly towards and past the camera, cheering and waving. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 199 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 622 | |||
| Men from the 11th East African Division serving in the Far East (’fresh from their victories in the Kabaw Valley’) send personal messages home to their loved ones in the North West of England. The film opens in a clearing where the African men of the Regiment are moving timber. An ‘argument’ ensues before the first caller ‘notices’ the camera and delivers his message. Further messages are sent from a makeshift badminton court and a village setting. The film ends with the African men of the Regiment performing an ngoma dance. | |||
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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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| PRESTON & DISTRICT "SALUTE THE SOLDIER" WEEK, MAY 13TH-20TH 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 1199 | |||
| Events from Preston and District's "Salute the Soldier Week," 13-20 May 1944 to raise funds for the war effort. Events shown include military processions, an exhibition relating to the North Lancashire Regiment, a charity cricket match between Fulwood and Broughton Cricket Club and an Army XI and a bowls match. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [TROUGH LAITHE DAIRY, BARROWFORD] | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 5230 | |||
| Scenes from inside a dairy run by Arthur Pickles at Trough Laithe Farm in Barrowford, as bottles are filled with milk and sealed. After an opening shot of a farmer and calf, the film switches to inside the dairy where machinery operates and workers fill and seal bottles of milk and what looks like cream. A boy is shown drinking a bottle of milk through a straw before the film ends with footage of an unidentified industrial process. 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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| [PIRN WINDING AT NELSON] | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 5274 | |||
| In the winding room of a weaving shed, believed to be in Nelson, a woman attends to a machine that winds and twists thread from bobbins onto large reels which have removable shafts. She uses tools and her hands to remove, replace and prepare the bobbins and reels before operating the machinery once more. 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 | |||
| TECHNICAL DRAWING BY S.HANNA [SURFACE DEVELOPMENT CIRCULAR CONE] | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 5322 | |||
| Short animated technical drawing film showing an elevation diagram taking shape. A pencil points out the relevant parts of the diagram before a wheel (labelled as 'PLAN') moves across the screen and measures out the correct dimension. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads 'SURFACE DEVELOPMENT - CIRCULAR CONE'. 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 | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 149 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5678 | |||
| A group of servicemen from Manchester, Salford, Todmorden and Warrington are filmed together in a jungle clearing in Burma (now Myanmar). Each man takes a turn to step forward to the camera to send a personal message home to his loved ones before they all sign off with a short group rendition of “We’ll Meet Again”. | |||
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