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| [QUEEN ELIZABETH IN PRESTON] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 6207 | |||
| Queen Elizabeth is seen during a Royal visit to Preston in April 1945 - arriving, being presented to the Mayor and talking with wounded soldiers. June Miller and her sister are seen out and about in the Lake District - walking through woods and standing outside their school, St Anne's in Windermere. | |||
| [BY TRAIN TO THE TOP OF SNOWDON] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 6233 | |||
| Scenery taken from the mountain railway as it travels up Snowdon are followed by views of the Miller family at the summit. | |||
| [ST ANNE'S SPORTS DAY] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 6247 | |||
| Scenes from sports day at St Anne's School, Windermere - several races and the high jump are featured. The Miller family are then seen walking down a country lane. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 59 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5674 | |||
| Servicemen from Warrington send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay set out as a mess room. Opens with soldiers playing darts as piano music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, it's over to 'Harry' who plays an upbeat 'We'll Meet Again' on the piano as the men gather round before joining in to sing and waving goodbye. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 82 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5675 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford, Oldham and Edenfield send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay set out as a canteen. Piano music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, they all gather round the mess room piano to hear ‘Harry’ thump out some tunes. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 85 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5676 | |||
| In the ‘mess room’, which is actually a film set in Bombay, men serving in the Far East take turns to approach the camera and send personal messages back to their loved ones in and around Manchester. The film concludes with the men doing their best to sing ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’ with ‘no Gracie Fields’ to help them out. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 99 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5677 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay decked out as a canteen. Big Band music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, the camera pans around the men seated in the mess room as they wave and cheer and say goodbye. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 166 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5679 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford and beyond send personal messages back home to their loved ones by speaking directly to camera on location in India. In the opening sequence a truck, with ‘Hello Manchester’ chalked on the side, pulls up and the first group of servicemen leap out of the back. The film closes with the men coming together under a tree to sing ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 191 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5681 | |||
| Soldiers serving in the Far East send messages back to their loved ones in Manchester and the surrounding area. The film opens in a small clearing where contributors take turns to speak to the camera before introducing the next caller. Further messages are delivered in front of various buildings (the soldiers’ lodgings?) using different set piece techniques. The film ends with the whole group walking quickly towards and past the camera, waving and saying cheerio. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 203 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5682 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford and beyond send personal messages to their loved ones from Burma. Messages are delivered from a variety of locations: the banks of the Irrawaddy River, in front of temples, next to two bullocks and a cart, around a fire making tea, at a roadside and amongst cleared land. The last three soldiers wave to the camera as they walk away and a voiceover says “Cheerio to our boys in Burma!”. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 210 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5683 | |||
| Men from the RAF and Royal Navy serving in Burma send messages home to their loved ones in and around the Manchester area. The film opens in a camp outside a war-damaged ‘Talbot House’ in which airmen take turns to deliver their messages straight to camera. Further callers appear in an overgrown ‘monastery garden’, in front of a bridge, and on a beach. The last three men walk away from the camera towards the sea and wave as a voiceover says ‘cheerio... to your boys in Burma’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 219 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5685 | |||
| Servicemen in the Far East send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester and elsewhere in the North West. The film opens in a garden setting with pagodas as the men arrive in jeeps. They are met by an officer who tells them how the film is going to work before introducing the first callers. Messages are delivered in relaxed settings around the grounds, including a scene in which three sailors are fishing by a river (and only manage to ‘catch’ a tin can). The film ends with the men walking past the camera in single file, waving and saying their goodbyes, before piling back into their jeeps and driving off as ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ plays in the background. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 226 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5686 | |||
| Servicemen in the Far East send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester and elsewhere in the North West. The film opens in a garden setting as the men march along a path singing ‘Glory Glory What a Hell of a Way to Die’. They are met by an officer who tells them how the film is going to work before introducing the first caller. Other messages are delivered in relaxed settings around the grounds, before the whole group march off singing ‘Glory Glory’ again, waving and shouting out their farewells. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 273 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5687 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Stockport and Salford send personal messages home to their loved ones from the grounds of Central Studios in Bombay. The men deliver their messages in a variety of set-piece situations: in the garden, in a courtyard, listening to the radio by a parked car and on a bench. Includes a brief scene in which one group ‘interrupts’ filming to ask what is going on and are invited to deliver their own messages. The film ends with the group of contributors walking silently away from the camera, turning back to wave as they go. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 328 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5690 | |||
| From a film studio set in Bombay decked out to look like a ‘mess room’, men serving in India send personal messages home to their loved ones in and around Manchester. The film opens with two similar-looking men who suspend their game of darts to introduce the first contributors. Further set piece techniques are used around the set to introduce more groups of callers. Ends with the men picking up their hats and leaving the room, saying their personal goodbyes, as the gramophone plays ‘I’ll be Seeing You’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 388 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5692 | |||
| On leave in Malabar Hill in Bombay, servicemen send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester, Salford and Stockport. After an opening view of the Bombay skyline, a group of soldiers stroll along a track past the camera as an officer with a handheld microphone invites three of them to deliver their own message home. Further contributors are filmed in other parts of the leafy grounds before the group walk away from the camera and back down the track, turning to wave and say goodbye as they depart. | |||
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| [VICTORY PARADE THROUGH HOYLAKE HIGH STREET] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 7885 | |||
| Victory Parade through Hoylake High Street on VE Day. | |||
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| THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE FODEN HEAVY OIL ENGINED COMMERCIAL VEHICLE | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 11457 | |||
| This promotional film is a detailed introduction to the work that goes into the production of Foden's vehicles. Mr J. E. Foden opens the film with an introduction to the company and a brief history. We then have music from Foden's Brass Band. We are shown the work that takes place in the Drawing Office, the Experiment Shop, and the Laboratory - with the staff members in charge of these departments a detailed description of the work that takes place in each department. We see the foundry, the welding shop, the machine shop, the frame shop, the assembly line, the paint shop and then the testing of the vehicles. There is also some detail about the aftercare of the vehicles, and we see the Engine Overhaul and Repair Department and the Spare Parts Department. There are scenes of the factory workers on pay day, and a brief description of the range of activities that Foden provide for the workers. We see a bus made by Foden easily navigating the narrow streets of Sandbach. We are then shown scenes of Foden vehicles at work in a diverse range of industries, including Hillhead Quarries, Earle's Cement Works, Shipstones Brewery and Northern Motor Utilities. We see stills of the various types of vehicle produced by Foden, and a long list of repeat customers. At the end of the film Ted Janson, who handles sales, encourages potential customers to get in touch. | |||
| THE FIRST TWO YEARS | |||
| Date: 1944-6 Film Number: 9538 | |||
| A record of the early days and development of baby Deirdre. First seen at home with her mother, being bathed and breast fed, we follow her as she grows, sitting in her pram, crawling and later walking. On her second birthday, her mother brings in a cake with candles, and Deirdre enjoys dancing to the music on a record. | |||
| HORSE JUMPING IN SOUTHPORT | |||
| Date: 1944-47 Film Number: 3131 | |||
| Scenes at a racecourse in Southport, and of a biplane at the beach. After scenes of a minature railway and Noah's Ark ride at Pleasureland, there are shots of a children's open-air swimming baths. There are views of Prestatyn town and beach, shots of a woman on a swing and later exploring a shingle beach. There are scenes in Talacre Abbey and at the lighthouse on Talacre beach, some sand dunes, a quarry, prize winning dalmatians and a sheep dog. | |||
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