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Record 3126 – 3145 of 11096
| COVENTRY SPORTS 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8578 | |||
| Visitors arrive by coach at the Coventry Chain Works for a sports day event. People stand, or sit in deckchairs to watch adults and children engaged in various activities including tug of war and egg and spoon races, or enjoying fairground rides. The film ends with an informal prizegiving ceremony. | |||
| VISIT OF SIAMESE AGENTS AUG 1949 [AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8580 | |||
| Compilation reel: overseas visitors are shown around a factory floor and look at machinery. Mr Lewis M.D. looks round the Gibson Battle Company premises in Australia. Finally, a crate labelled for Mr Mackenzie is packed for dispatch home on the RMS Orion. | |||
| [A GARDEN AND LANE IN LANCASHIRE] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 8687 | |||
| A group of adults walk slowly through a suburban garden, chatting. One of the women is holding a stills camera (possibly a Box Brownie) and winding the film back; the older of the two men then takes over. The reel concludes with shots of a gatehouse on a country lane in Lancashire; a signpost to Blackpool and Preston appears in the first shot. | |||
| RENOLD SPORTS 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8581 | |||
| Company sports day with activities for children and adults, including races, tug of war, a motorbike display and a Scottish marching band. | |||
| FROM BALE TO FINISHED CLOTH | |||
| Date: *1949/50 Film Number: 515 | |||
| Premier Mills - Bury, the firm of Edward W Andrew Ltd. The various processes in the making of cotton and wool cloths is shown - from opening bales, through spinning, weaving and knitting, to the making of finished goods for mainly industrial purposes. The staff clock off at the end of the day. 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/ [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [HOLIDAY SCENES; BOURNEMOUTH] | |||
| Date: *1949-50 Film Number: 1896 | |||
| Members of the Preston family on holiday in Bournemouth. The film begins with scenes of the family sitting in a garden. A little boy turns somersaults on a rope hanging from a tree. They are then seen playing on a crowded beach, paddling in the sea and watching a Punch and Judy Show. The film concludes with shots of the seafront taken from on board the 'Bournemouth Queen'. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL SCENES AND ASHTON STREET PROCESSION] | |||
| Date: 1949/50 Film Number: 3515 | |||
| Views of the Townsend family in Blackpool and Cleveleys. They are seen on the beach and in the sunken gardens in Gynn Square. Also a street procession, including the Black Knight parade and Hurst parish Rose Queen, through Ashton-under-Lyne. Final shots of a woman and a baby in its pram. | |||
| [DOMESTIC SCENES; WALES; PETERHEAD] | |||
| Date: 1949-50 Film Number: 3960 | |||
| Footage of the Tomlinson family at home, and in their garden, playing with the baby and the family dog. There are also picnics in Wythenshawe park (?). Views from a holiday in a Welsh cottage include a game of cricket on the beach, numerous ducks and their broods on a pond, and sailboats on the sea. Footage shot at Peterhead in Northern Scotland includes a train journey, views of battered boats in dock, and fishermen unloading their catches at the quayside. | |||
| [GENERAL ELECTION COMMUNIST / LABOUR CAMPAIGNS 1950, BURNLEY] | |||
| Date: 1949-50 Film Number: 5277 | |||
| A Communist party rally and Wilfrid Burke MP on the stump during the 1950 General Election campaign in Burnley. At the Communist rally, a man uses a microphone to address a small crowd, who are stood on wasteland outside Holden & Hartley car dealers holding placards. Wilfrid Burke MP walks along a cobbled street and meets (mostly female) workers outside a factory. Burke talks and poses with them and they all walk towards the camera. The film ends with a shot of a polling station. 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 | |||
| WHITSUNTIDE 1950; SCORTON 1949; [LONDON AND IRELAND SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1949/50 Film Number: 6456 | |||
| Scouts climb onto a tour bus for Whitsuntide camp, where they are seen playing cricket, tree felling and eating dinner. Views from Scorton village during the 1949 Rally, featuring scouts on bicycles and the Scorton Cafe. A procession makes its way into a churchyard, where an inspection is followed by a prize giving ceremony. Scouts are seen climbing trees with step ladders at Windermere Great Tower camp and posing for the camera, followed by panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. Views of sightseeing around the borough of Westminster follow and a visit to Omeath, with scenes of paddling down a rapids in a dinghy, waiting for a steam train and street life. | |||
| [JUDITH IN BOURNEMOUTH AND OUTDOOR SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1949-50 Film Number: 6847 | |||
| Moss family holiday in Bournemouth including Judith Moss playing and dancing in the hotel gardens with other children, on the beach and paddling in the sea. Relatives are seen playing golf on the sea front and sunbathing on deckchairs as Judith builds sandcastles. Footage includes shots of the Blue Lagoon lake, a children's party and people walking up a Zig Zag path on the hillside in Bournemouth (with a short sequence in reverse). The reel concludes with horse riding in Southport. | |||
| [TRIP TO PARIS, BOURNEMOUTH, GARDEN AND BEACH SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1949-50 Film Number: 6850 | |||
| Children playing in a back garden in Prestwich, Manchester are followed by the Moss family on a holiday to Paris. Staff at the film-maker's scarf manufacturer's, including Phil Gold, are seen holding up printed scarves for the camera. Judith Moss is seen laying in bed during an illness, playing with a toy horse in the family back garden and on the beach with her mother Freda during a holiday to Bournemouth. The reel concludes with children dancing on an outdoor stage as part of a Summer fete. | |||
| [1950 CHILDREN IN LIVERPOOL - ANN,CAROL AND STAN] | |||
| Date: 1949/50 Film Number: 10633 | |||
| Stan playing with toy aeroplanes in the garden, the twins Carol and Ann write their names and the date on blackboards. The children are taken for a walk and at a level crossing they wait for the train to pass with Carol and Ann standing on the footbridge over the railway tracks. THe children play with a model train set and then complete a jigsaw puzzle with the help of some trick photography. Stan, Ann and Carol are next seen walking various streets in Liverpool city centre, they cross the road in front of St. George's Hall, stand at the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel and look into various shop windows including Bunny's toy shop before returning home on Granmore Avenue for their tea. | |||
| [ON AND AROUND AINSDALE BEACH] | |||
| Date: c.1949/50 Film Number: 8688 | |||
| On a cold day, DUKW vehicles travel over a sparsely populated Ainsdale Beach in Southport. People are mostly standing on the seafront itself or strolling along the pier. | |||
| [EDINBURGH - HOLYROOD AND CASTLE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5193 | |||
| A record of the Hanna family's visit to Edinburgh. Includes shots of tourists at Holyrood Palace and Abbey, Edinburgh Castle and the Scott Monument, high angle views of Princes Street and brief footage of traffic in the city centre. 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 | |||
| [EDINBURGH CASTLE, AIRPORT, SCOTLAND SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5194 | |||
| Record of the Hanna family's visit to Edinburgh and Scotland. After shots of Edinburgh Castle and surrounding area, there are scenes at an airport (presumably Edinburgh Airport) where passengers board a BOAC Boeing 377 and the plane is shown taking off. Following footage of a chain-link ferry transporting cars across a river, the film ends with shots of mountains and a loch. 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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| [RETIREMENT AT ABEL STREET SCHOOL] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5227 | |||
| Mr Moffit, the headteacher, delivers a retirement speech in an adapted school classroom at Abel Street School in Burnley. The audience are seated around covered tables. People are then shown helping themselves to a buffet at the front of the room. 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 | |||
| [ABEL STREET SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5233 | |||
| Speeches and presentations at Abel Street School in Burnley, possibly to mark the retirement of the headteacher, Mr Moffit. Speeches are delivered in the school hall and boys present gifts and flowers to the guests of honour as pupils applaud. A roll of honour board is unveiled by one of the schoolchildren. The film ends with shots in a classroom where a smaller presentation is made in front of an invited audience, and a buffet is seen in the background. 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 | |||
| DOLLY'S DAY OUT | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5899 | |||
| Short film showing the adventures of two young girls and their doll on a day in the park. Their pram rolls down the hill, their ball falls into the pond and has to be retrieved, and there is a mishap with a ball of wool. The girls are also seen feeding the ducks, enjoying an ice-cream, and strolling in the park. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [JAS BAXENDALE'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6225 | |||
| Wedding guests are seen outside the church and the bride arrives with her father. Scenes with the couple and guests outside again following the service. | |||
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