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| [BEHREN FAMILY - SEVERAL GENERATIONS] | |||
| Date: 1925 Film Number: 2195 | |||
| Various members of the Behrens family are seen walking out of the front door of a house. They are all wearing hats and coats and gather in groups on the driveway. There appears to be several generations of the family present. An elderly man and woman descend the front door steps, with a baby and two children. Concludes with everyone running around the driveway, larking about in front of the camera. | |||
| [BEHRENS FAMILY GATHERING] | |||
| Date: 1925 Film Number: 2196 | |||
| Scenes of a Behrens family gathering. Various family members are filmed as they walk down a set of steps leading from the front door of a large house. They stand around talking to each other on the driveway. One of the men, holds hands with a young boy and they dance around in a circle. | |||
| [BEHRENS FAMILY - CHILDREN & ADULTS] | |||
| Date: 1925 Film Number: 2197 | |||
| Various members of the Behrens family are filmed as they walk down some steps, leading from the front door of a large house. A small group of children and a couple of the women are also seen standing on the pavement next to a parked car. One of the boys takes his cap off and throws it in the air. The car drives off and they wave. | |||
| [BEHRENS FAMILY - WALKING IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1925 Film Number: 2199 | |||
| Behrens family footage - includes several shots of a group of adults and children, walking along a garden path towards the camera. Also includes separate shots of Mrs Behrens and Mr Behrens, walking and talking with a man on the lawn. | |||
| [HIGGINSON FAMILY - HOLIDAY TO SWITZERLAND] | |||
| Date: c1925 Film Number: 2773 | |||
| Film shot during the Higginson family's holiday to Switzerland. Includes footage shot in the garden of a large house, brief scenes from inside a house and streetscenes in a small town. Also includes shots of a man with an Alpine Horn, children in traditional Swiss costume and a horse and cart. | |||
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| [SYLVIA HIGGINSON] | |||
| Date: c1925 Film Number: 2775 | |||
| Film of Sylvia Higginson as a young child. She is seen playing in a garden with stuffed toys, rocking on a chair, playing with a spade and small bucket and trying on various adult hats. She is also seen with her mother and another woman and a young friend. The two children play together. There is brief footage from a small town and mountainside in Switzerland (?). Sylvia is seen having a picnic, posing in her coat, hat and gloves before walking in a suburban street with her parents. | |||
| [SYLVIA HIGGINSON - GARDENS AND BEACH] | |||
| Date: c1925 Film Number: 2776 | |||
| Film of Sylvia Higginson as a young child. She is seen playing in the family garden and with various family members and some other children. The children are seen playing with a rabbit. Various people are seen jumping a tennis net and picking flowers. Sylvia is seen with her mother and grandmother at a beach and in a garden with her grandparents and a dog. She plays with a doll in a pram and with a skittle ball. | |||
| [BEHRENS FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1925-26 Film Number: 2198 | |||
| Three young girls are seen having a game of ring-a-ring-a-roses on the driveway, in front of a large house. Includes a group shot of the girls standing with three women and a toddler. One of the girls has an inflated car inner tube, which she throws into the air and catches. Concludes with a brief shot of a man standing infront of a car cranking the handle to start the engine. Two women open the car's doors and get into the vehicle. | |||
| [HORSE JUMPING] | |||
| Date: *1925-27 Film Number: 3612 | |||
| Reg and John Hindley can be seen practising jumps at Stone Edge, a small farm behind Moorlands, the family home at Blacko, near Nelson. The horses are named as Nancy, Countess and Macroom. Their uncle Archie Haighton can be seen teaching and demonstrating. Further scenes of Jack Hance (a famous instructor) demonstrating dressage, probably at his establishment in Hampshire. | |||
| DEREK WALTER RIGBY F H AGED 5 1/2 WEEKS | |||
| Date: c1925-28 Film Number: 2777 | |||
| Film of Derek Higginson as a baby and toddler. He is seen as a baby being held by a nanny and lying in his pram. Derek, Sylvia (his sister) and their nanny are seen arriving at the children's grandparents house - the children are seen with their grandparents. There is footage of a picnic - a man drinks from a bottle of wine in comical fashion whilst wearing Sylvia's hat - followed by shots of Derek crawling. Closes with footage from the Higginson's garden. Derek and Sylvia play with a ball and Derek pushes a pedal car. Closes with shots of adult family members enjoying refreshments in the garden. | |||
| [A BYGONE ERA IN WINEWALL AND TRAWDEN] | |||
| Date: c1927 Film Number: 4959 | |||
| Film focuses on the Pickles family and their relations. Includes footage of family holidays in Blackpool and Morecambe as well as shots of them out in the countryside. There are views from two family weddings at the old Winewall Inghamite Chapel. Footage from school cruise on "the Dorrick" - including a visit to a bullring in Spain and to the city of Tetuan in Morocco. Scenes from the Pickles Bakery van drivers' day out, the Inghamite Chapel Sunday School outing to Brimham Rocks and model boat racing at Fleetwood. Closes with shots of biplanes flying in formation, taking off and landing at an air show. | |||
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| [SEASIDE HOLIDAY/ ACTIVITIES AT LAKE] | |||
| Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8146 | |||
| Family holiday scenes. We see various scenes from family holidays. Children play cricket on the beach and have piggy back rides. People swim in the sea and are seen in a boat. A group of people with their dogs sit on rocks and they have a picnic. People wearing swimming costumes pose for the camera on the edge of a lake. We see the family in a small wooden boat and children swim and splash each other in the water. Adults have fun near parked cars, some play instruments and others dance, some are wearing fancy dress. A young boy and girl smoke cigarettes, and we see them playing with a lawn roller in the garden. Some children play a game of cards. | |||
| [ANIMALS IN GARDEN/ ZOO] | |||
| Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8147 | |||
| The film opens with shots of a girl in the garden with a dog, she wraps a bandage around its paw. A horse looks over a stable door. A man is seen 'water-skiing' on a makeshift board pulled by a motor boat. Shots of a family in a rowing boat on a lake. Various pet dogs, one is held just over the water by its owner. Shots of animals in the garden including a tortoise, hedgehog, dog, puppy and kittens. A boy handles an owl in an enclosure and a girl feeds two owls by hand. Scenes at the zoo include a visit by a group of girl guides, a keeper feeding fish to the pelicans, a chimpanzee trained to put his arm around visitors, and various animals in their enclosures. | |||
| [WEDDINGS/ WOMAN WITH FOX/ SLEDGING IN SNOW/ HORSE RACING] | |||
| Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8149 | |||
| Compilation reel begins with wedding guests walking towards camera past a crowd of well wishers, who are kept in order by policemen. The bride and groom are seen leaving church and cutting the wedding cake. The guests mingle at an outdoor reception and the bride and groom depart. We see shots of a woman hand feeding a fox in an enclosure and carrying the fox in a field. Children and adults have fun sledging down a snowy embankment. A woman leads a pony into a courtyard. We see jockeys riding their horses over brush fences in field. A woman places a bet with a bookmaker. We see shots of harvested fields, a group sitting on a picnic rug near a cliff top and people in the sea messing about with a canoe. We see a large group of children squashed on to a see saw and boys wrestling, boxing and riding bikes in the garden. | |||
| [GETTING DRY AND LEAVING THE BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 12125 | |||
| We see a group of people on the beach. Some are drying themselves off and others are messing about for the camera. We then see the group leaving the beach. | |||
| [IN A COASTAL GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 12126 | |||
| We see a group of people posing on a bench for the camera, they are in a garden where the seafront can be seen in the background. They pose for the camera, mess about and approach the camera in groups of two and three. | |||
| PRODUCING A MODERN NEWSPAPER | |||
| Date: c1925-35 Film Number: 1195 | |||
| Documents the processes involved in producing a newspaper at the Bolton Evening News. Includes interior shots of the print works; people selling papers on the streets and paperboys delivering newspapers to people's homes. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| ASBESTOS MINE AT AMIANDOS | |||
| Date: 1925-35 Film Number: 10729 | |||
| Views of the asbestos mine in Amiandos in Cyprus followed by women and children posing for the camera and a church under construction in Amiandos town. On board a ocean liner we approach Malta, then views of Malta taken from the upper town followed by market and street scenes. After leaving Malta on board a liner we have views of Calais harbour and approaching the cliffs of Dover. | |||
| FARMING IN KENYA | |||
| Date: 1925-39 Film Number: 10716 | |||
| Bulldozing an antheap in Kenya followed by a gas powered traction engine ploughing a field before planting maize with an oxen pulled seed drill. After Oxen going to the water trough we have a mother and child then a small naked boy crying at the camera. A woman carrying firewood then a game of Polo with parts shot in slow motion. Two women carrying large bales of grass for thatching is followed by a 14 oxen team pulling a plough. | |||
| [VULCAN LOCOMOTIVES ON THE MOVE, 'OPERATION' MOVE', AND OTHER HEAVY HAULAGE SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1925-9/65-9 Film Number: 11046 | |||
| Heavy haulage scenes, this film opens with black and white footage from the 1920s. We see a Vulcan locomotive being transported by road. The driver manoeuvres the lorry through narrow shopping streets and crowds gather to watch. This is followed by scenes from 'Operation Move' in the 1960s. Huge industrial parts are transported by road, accompanied by a police escort. As with the scenes from the 1920s, there are large crowds of onlookers following the slow progress of the vehicle. The heavy haulage vehicle and its entourage eventually arrive at ICI Rocksavage Works. The rest of the film consists of other scenes of heavy haulage, and scenes demonstrating how extremely large items are transported. There are also shots of Widnes Foundry. | |||
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