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Record 2686 – 2705 of 11096
| [MAWDESLEY CRICKET MATCH] | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 4678 | |||
| Scenes from a village cricket match in Mawdesley, Lancashire. | |||
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| FULL DENTURE CONSTRUCTION | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 4912 | |||
| Details the processes used to construct a full set of dentures - from making the impression of the gums, through the production of casts and moulds and the fitting of the finished set. Filmed at Manchester University's Turner Dental School. | |||
| THE USE OF THE HANAU FACE BOW AND ARTICULATOR | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 4913 | |||
| Film demonstrating the use of two separate pieces of equipment - the face bow and the articulator - used in the measurement and treatment of people with misaligned teeth and jaws. Filmed at Manchester University's Turner Dental School. | |||
| THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 5142 | |||
| Looks at the work of Soutergate blacksmith John Coward as he shoes a horse and makes a horseshoe in his shop. The film begins with the blacksmith nailing in a horseshoe and using a rasp to file and trim the shoe and hoof. There is footage from inside the smithy where hot metal is shaped on an anvil and made into a horseshoe. The film then cuts to shots of the blacksmith hot shoeing a young horse, and the horse being ridden away down a village street. 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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| [HORSE AND CARRIAGE, COUNTRYSIDE SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 5168 | |||
| A collection of rural scenes. A horse and cart are pictured moving along a country lane. There follow a series of shots of stone buildings; countryside cottages, houses, farm buildings and churches (St. Mary's at Newchurch, St. Leonard's at Downham). Also includes footage of a churchyard and moorland (possibly Pendle Hill) and features several skyline shots. 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 | |||
| WHAT THE CAT SAW | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 5313 | |||
| Children's film about a cat looking underneath a closed wooden door, "seeing" a family of mice and fishing her paw underneath the door to try to catch them. The film cuts between shots of the cat and of four mice moving around on a sawdust-covered floor. 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 | |||
| THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH; TYRING WHEELS | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 5349 | |||
| Soutergate blacksmith John Coward produces an iron tyre and fixes it to a wooden cart wheel with the help of colleagues. After the circumference of a wheel is measured, a tyre is welded in the blacksmith's shop. Tyres, wheels and peat are taken down to a tyring platform near a local beck. Coward and his assistants build a fire around a stack of iron tyres, whilst a wheel is attached to the tyring platform. A hot tyre is lifted, dropped and fitted onto the wheel, and water from the beck is used to cool and contract the iron to the rim. A second tyre is fitted as the narrator, Sam Hanna, reflects on his film-making. 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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| TT RACES IN THE ISLE OF MAN | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 5965 | |||
| Newsreel item featuring the 1946 Manx Grand Prix, the first post-WWII Race. Introductory scenes show the riders preparing their bikes and starting the race at the T.T. Grandstand. Various stretches of the course are seen and Leonard Whittingham falls from his motorbike on Governors Bridge. Film ends with winner Kenneth Bills after the race. | |||
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| [DUNOON, LLANDDULAS AND RUGELEY] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 6135 | |||
| Scenes from Wagstaff family holidays to Dunoon in Scotland and Llanddulas in North Wales - views of the ferry terminal at Dunoon and from on board ship are followed by general views of the Tanrogo Caravan Park in Llanddulas, the family playing on the beach and at Llandudno. There are scenes of a trip to Hagley Hall, Rugeley to visit family friends, and footage of a street carnival and parade, possibly in Leicestershire. | |||
| [AT THE ICE RINK] | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 6215 | |||
| A small girl is seen on the driveway of a house. This is followed by scenes at an indoor ice rink. | |||
| [CHURCH WEDDING] | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 7024 | |||
| Guests and the bride arrive for a wedding and walk through a stone arch gate into the churchyard. The wedding party pose for the camera in front of the arch after the service and children present lucky horseshoes to the bride. Ends with underexposed shot of church exterior. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [RETURN FROM INDIA, WALKING IN MARPLE] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 7282 | |||
| Street scenes in Bombay, including Harold and a friend buying a carpet, before he boards the troop ship RMS Mauretania. There are views from the ship of the journey home as well as life onboard, such as a deck game being played. There are shots of the family group in Blackpool before Mrs Gribbon walks with her baby and husband Harold (in his RAF uniform) in Marple as the Gribbons celebrate their second anniversary. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [BABY JUDITH AND FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 6855 | |||
| Footage of baby Judith Moss at home and in the garden with relatives, at bathtime and sitting for Mr Schonfield the photographer in his studio. Freda Moss and others are seen on a boat sailing past an unidentified warship docked in a harbour. Family trip to Blackpool including the Pleasure Beach and a Punch and Judy show. There are further shots of Judith sitting in her pram, family friends Jean and Maurice Last on their wedding day and the Hersh family sitting in the living room. | |||
| FINLAND HOLIDAY | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 6924 | |||
| Cyril Parkinson and wife take a motoring holiday to Finland. They are seen waving goodbye to their children and nanny in their open top sports car, aboard the Arcturas passenger steam ship and crossing a number of rivers by ferry boats in the Finnish countryside. Footage includes the couple having a picnic, picking flowers and shots of reindeer in woodlands. | |||
| [CANADIAN SCENES 2] | |||
| Date: *1946 Film Number: 6925 | |||
| Scenes from a Parkinson family trip to Canada and the United states showing the cruise ship Mauritania leaving Liverpool Docks and arriving in New York and Canada. Includes shots of friends and passengers playing deck games aboard ship and waving goodbye to people on docks as leaving various ports. Scenes show Canadian countryside and the New River Canyon. | |||
| [THE WEDDING OF THELMA AND DANNY, 11TH AUGUST 1946] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 5694 | |||
| Scenes from the wedding of Thelma Carr and Danny Mellor at the United Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Rd in Manchester. Scenes outside with guests and the bride arriving, views of the ceremony itself, and then from the reception afterwards - eating, drinking and dancing. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| HMS OBDURATE IS AT HOME TO THE PEOPLE OF STOCKTON HEATH | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 8392 | |||
| The HMS Obdurate can be seen docked at Walton Lock Branch of the Manchester Ship Canal. Crowds of people can be seen walking around the decks. | |||
| [ASPULL CARNIVAL] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 8986 | |||
| Scenes from the Aspull Carnival, including a procession of bands, children in fancy dress and the 'Peace Queen'. The film ends with children dancing together. | |||
| BRITISH GAUMONT NEWSREEL | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 9226 | |||
| This newsreel includes the following items; 'Loneliest Mine High in the Pennines' about lead mining in Scarsdale in Cumbria; 'U.S. Airborne Men Learn Flame Warfare' about flame thrower training and a 'Rover Camera Report' featuring items about British experimental rocket propelled robot plane trials in Cornwall and about a circus in Hamburg. 'Many Sides to the Question of Transport' includes items on motor powered bicycles, as demonstrated by the film star Anne Crawford, bicycle manufacturing, motorboats, Thames water buses and skid training for the drivers of London buses. | |||
| [LIVERPOOL SCENES – SHIPPING, DOCKS AND OVERHEAD RAILWAY] | |||
| Date: 1946 Film Number: 7968 | |||
| Fascinating record of shipping on the Mersey and activity in Liverpool docks in the immediate post-war years. The variety of shipping using this busy port is clearly documented, including naval and cargo ships, ferries and tugboats, and there are also scenes of the RMS Mauritania 2 in dry dock undergoing post-war reconditioning. Crowds of people on the quayside wave at men in passing lorries, probably newly disembarked troops returning home. The reel also includes shots in Brunswick Dock with the grain silo in the background, a trip on the Overhead Railway as it passes through the dock area, and people standing watching as an ocean liner makes its way out to sea. | |||
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