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[EASTHAM OIL DOCK JUNE-DECEMBER 1950]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1136
 
Construction of Eastham oil dock June - December 1950 - dock walls under construction; concreting work. Aerial shots of the site and surrounding area including Eastham locks.
 
 
 
[THE PRODUCTION OF A TOOTAL TIE]
Date: *1950 Film Number: 1358
 
Film showing the various stages involved in producing a Tootal tie. Includes close-up shots of fabric being sewn together.
 
 
 
[CHRIST CHURCH WHIT PROCESSION 1950]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1517
 
Whit Walk procession, footage features children predominantly. Christ Church, Harpurhey held the procession. The footage is shot from Rochdale Road and Mostyn Lane, Blackley Co-op is visible in the background.
 
 
 
[CHRIST CHURCH HARPURHEY, SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY CHOIR PROCESSION 1950]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1518
 
Footage of the Christ Church Harpurhey Sunday School Anniversary Choir procession held in June 1950. The procession is between the Sunday School and the church and features Alderman Grant as well as choirboys. The choir numbers 80-100 members.
 
 
 
[ST ANDREWS PROCESSION, BLACKLEY]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1519
 
The annual procession of St Andrews Church, Blackley, held on Trinity Sunday in conjunction with Zion Methodist Church. Shot from Victory Avenue and featuring the Reverend Evens, Minister of St Andrews.
 
 
 
THE STORY OF A WEDDING : YOU ARE INVITED
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1537
 
The wedding of Hope Wilkinson and Clifford Bradshaw at Leicester Road Methodist Church on the 29th March 1950. Includes scenes of the bride and groom leaving the church, greeting wedding guests and cutting the cake at the reception; which was held at the Cleveland Hotel. Concludes with footage of the happy couple leaning out of the window of a steam train as it departs from the station.
 
 
 
WHIT FRIDAY IN MILNROW 1950
Date: c1950 Film Number: 1544
 
Scenes of a whit walk in Milnrow, 1950. Includes shots of a brass band and school children singing.
 
 
 
[BABY GAIL PLAYING IN THE GARDEN]
Date: *1950 Film Number: 1637
 
Scenes of a mother and father playing with their baby daughter in the back garden of the Hardman family's home in Bury. The film covers the first few years of the baby's life and includes shots of the little girl playing with her rattle in a pram and learning to walk.
 
 
 
RANDOM SHOTS FROM 1950
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1645
 
Film begins with exterior shots of Bury golf course, at Unsworth Hall in 1950. Celebrating their Diamond Jubilee Sunday, the men and women are seen playing a homemade version of crazy golf before the president of the club presents trophies to the winners of various competitions. The remaining footage focuses upon club members taking shots around the course; subtitles are included with the names of each of the featured players.
 
 
 
UNILEVER NEWS 1950 IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Date: 1950 Film Number: 1866
 
Newsreel footage presented by Lever Brothers and Unilever in 1950. Features Monty visits Port Sunlight. Field Marshall Montgomery presents medals to some British Legion membership workers and tours the factory. Soap - off the ration and Stork Margarine Returns shows various packaging and distribution processes, including interior shots of a factory in Cheshire. New Experimental Kitchens and Bakeries show the opening of an exhibition in London and Continuous Soap ! includes shots of a Bristol factory installing new soap equipment. The reel concludes with Rinso Roundabout, depicting a radio show recorded at at the Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight in front of an audience with Max Wall.
 
 
 
SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND
Date: *1950 Film Number: 2243
 
Staff and pupils from Lymm Grammar School are seen on holiday in Switzerland. Includes landscape shots of the surrounding countryside and snow capped mountains. The children are seen having a ride in a large rowing boat; travelling up the side of a mountain in a chair lift; eating outside a cafe and having a group photograph taken outside the hotel.
 
 
 
THE MANUFACTURE OF STANTON SPUN IRON PIPES
Date: *1950 Film Number: 2302
 
Opens on a group of male apprentices sitting in a classroom waiting to see an introductory film about Stanton Iron Works in Derbyshire. Includes a shot of the lecturer getting the film projector ready to run. The film focuses on the various processes that occur in the manufacture of Stanton Spun Iron Pipes. Includes shots of the men working on the furnaces, casting machinery and production line. Concludes with scenes of the cast iron pipes being loaded on to the back of a lorry in the yard.
 
 
 
[DISLEY SCENES]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 2653
 
The film opens with a crossroads in Disley, with road signs pointing to different destinations and a pub in the background. There are views of a motorcycle and sidecar driving down the road, roads in the country, cows in fields, farm buildings, and finally a woman sitting under a tree in the middle of a field eating a picnic.
 
 
 
[LEG TREATMENT]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 2733
 
Footage of a woman and two men who have deformed legs - walking, exercising etc. Then shots post-operatively of a man having metal "skewers" removed from his knee.
 
 
 
[SOUTH WEST FRANCE]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 2772
 
Film of a holiday to South West France. Features views of the Pyrenees and various lakes as well as footage shot in various towns. Tarbes, Lourdes, Albi, Le Puy and St Michel D'Aiguille are all featured. Crowds of catholics are seen at Lourdes Basillica and grotto. A boating trip along a river is featured and Mr and Mrs Higginson are seen at various locations.
 
 
 
POWER PLANT BY ROAD TO SITE
Date: 1950 Film Number: 2814
 
Film of hydrogen-cooled generators being transported from Metropolitan Vickers' site in Trafford Park by road to power stations in London and Kent.
 
 
 
LOOK WHERE YOUR'E GOING! (sic)
Date: c1950 Film Number: 2849
 
Road safety film advising children on crossing roads. The kerb drill is rehearsed, safe practise demonstrated to a class by their teacher, and various safe places to cross are shown. The film details the right and wrong way to cycle on the road, including some dramatised accidents. The unforseen consequences of a mishap for one young lad are depicted (he is unable to captain the school cricket team) and the film ends with Test cricketer Alec Bedser and Charlie the Chimp endorsing the road safety code. An edited version of this film exists as Acc No 1775 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/
 
 
 
[LLANDUDNO AND COLWYN BAY BY ELECTRIC TRAMS]
Date: c1950 Film Number: 3553
 
Scenes shot in Llandudno by the sea, with a family strolling along the promenade and the small children feeding the seagulls. The family are later seen getting on a tram. There are then scenes of the trams ascending hills in the countryside.
 
 
 
[SHEEP SHEARING, SHOOTING AND HUNTING]
Date: *1950 Film Number: 3631
 
Two men can be seen shearing sheep prior to branding them at Laneside Farm, Sawley. Also a John Hindley and Doreen Ogden walking across a snowy hillside carrying shotguns. Finally a lawn meet at Sawley Lodge with John Hindley and Sybil and foxhounds awaiting the start.
 
 
 
[CRICKET PRACTICE]
Date: 1950 Film Number: 3972
 
Footage of cricketers walking onto a field in Timperley, and practising batting and bowling in the nets.
 
 
 
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