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Record 3306 – 3325 of 11096
| [A SUMMER HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: *1950/51 Film Number: 926 | |||
| A summer holiday at the seaside - on board ship; views of the town from the deck; shots of the harbour; rowing boats and speed boats on the lake; in the swimming pool. | |||
| [HEYSHAM HOLIDAY, FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950/1 Film Number: 8746 | |||
| Compilation reel of family holiday and leisure footage, including scenes at Heysham, Morecambe and Lytham, the family at the Festival of Britain in London, and Blackburn Bakers' Association works trip to Lake Windermere. | |||
| [CHERRY TREE WALK AND SAILING SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950/1 Film Number: 8865 | |||
| Dorning family leisure scenes in Dorset and Scotland. Family members are seen in a variety of sailing craft in Poole Harbour, and enjoying a Scottish ferry trip to Staffa. There are also general leisure scenes in and around the Bournemouth area - on the beach, at an outdoor cafe, at a boat show, or visiting the swans at Abbotsbury. | |||
| [LAKELAND MEMORIES] | |||
| Date: *1950-2 Film Number: 471 | |||
| Scenic Lake District, featuring Bedale, Pooley Bridge, flowers, Esthwaite Water, haymaking, Hawkshead to Elterwater, campers and Ullswater. | |||
| PLATTS. THE LAP CONVERTER. PLATT BROS [SALES] LTD OLDHAM ENGLAND. | |||
| Date: c1950-52 Film Number: 1839 | |||
| Film showing the merits of Platt's lap converter over traditional carding machines. A traditional carding machine is shown before the lap converter is seen working and being assembled. A narrator guides the viewer through the machines workings and uses. 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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| [RESEARCH REPORT] | |||
| Date: c1950-52 Film Number: 1849 | |||
| Close-up film of a research report. Documents and letters are visible. | |||
| [TESTING A SPINDLE] | |||
| Date: c1950-52 Film Number: 1856 | |||
| Film of a tester in a laboratory testing a spindle. | |||
| 1950-51 MANCHESTER SCHOOLS CHALLENGE SHIELD | |||
| Date: 1950-52 Film Number: 2228 | |||
| Various activities and events attended by pupils of Lymm Grammar School; 1950-52. Includes a visit to London, for the 1951 Festival of Britain and a school holiday to Brunmen in Switzerland. Staff and pupils are also seen filing out of a church, after celebrating 50 years of co-education on the special Founders' Day and a large group of school boys are seen competing in a cross country race. Also features close up shots of the girls hockey team, who won the 1950-51 Manchester Schools Challenge Shield; school governors for the year 1951-52; and members of the sixth form and staff. | |||
| GRAHAM'S RABBITS [AND OTHER ACTIVITIES] | |||
| Date: c1950-2 Film Number: 4545 | |||
| A number of rabbits are seen in a garden, as well as some of their babies. Brief scenes in a park and a zoo are followed by footage of Lynne Collin's birthday party, with school friends arriving at her house. Scenes of children playing on snow-covered streets, and Lynne tries her new bike on Christmas Day 1950. The film ends with footage of a Whit Walk and scenes from Jim and Myra's Golden Wedding - with kids dancing and Jim and Myra enjoying a celebratory drink. | |||
| SCHOOL DIARY PART I | |||
| Date: 1950-2 Film Number: 4710 | |||
| Pupils are seen arriving at Cale Green Primary School with bundles of newspaper and empty jam jars during the school's salvage drive in 1950. There are scenes from the 1951 'bring and buy' sale with various stalls and games including quoits, magnetic fishing and 'Guess the Weight.' In 1952, there is a school camping trip to Skerries in Ireland and the girl's teams are seen competing in the netball quarter-finals and rounders semi-finals. | |||
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL | |||
| Date: c1951 Film Number: 5271 | |||
| Children at a Blackburn primary school perform physical exercises in their school playground and play informal games. After footage of children playing on a wall, a child swinging on a lamppost, and a busy school playground scene at playtime, the film cuts to children dressed in their whites for a PE lesson. Children perform forward rolls, jumps, handstands, leapfrogs and other bends and stretches, sometimes in pairs. The film ends with children doing handstands and playing cricket in a cobbled 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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| [BERTRAM MILLS CIRCUS - ELEPHANTS] | |||
| Date: c1951 Film Number: 5354 | |||
| Elephants belonging to Bertram Mills Circus parade through the centre of Burnley as crowds look on. A policeman directs traffic before the elephants make their way towards the site of the circus where a sign is being hung from a tent. After a title/caption 'Ward/Wormwell August 30th 1952', the final section of the film (last two minutes) has a severe camera / shutter fault. 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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| [EGERTON YOUTH CLUB: POLE VAULTING, HIGH JUMP, FOOTBALL] | |||
| Date: c1951 Film Number: 7139 | |||
| Slow-motion footage of athletics and boys' football. Boys and young men practice and perform pole vaulting in a field (possibly near Tatton Park in Cheshire) and Brian Freeman is shown doing the high jump. There follows a junior boys club football match against Macclesfield, and the film ends with boys eating oranges during a break in play. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| OUR BABY [JONES] | |||
| Date: c1951 Film Number: 7354 | |||
| Various scenes centred around the new baby of the Jones family. Baby Marion is seen with other family members in a park, at her christening, playing with children and a dog, at the beach and at her 1st Birthday Party. In other scenes, children play rounders in a field of long grass and brownies return from a coach trip. The final section in colour sees Marion on a swing and children playing football in a field in Ulverston, before the film ends with family scenes in Newsham Park in Liverpool. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [BABY IN A PRAM AT GLAZEBROOK] | |||
| Date: c1951 Film Number: 7356 | |||
| Short film in which the Jones family visit a couple and baby at a prefabricated house in Glazebrook. The children push the baby, and each other, around in different prams outside the house before the final scenes show a toddler pushing her own toy pram. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [A HOLIDAY ON THE SOUTH COAST] | |||
| Date: *1950/51/52 Film Number: 927 | |||
| A family holiday on the South Coast - views of Corfe Castle; beach activities; having a picnic. | |||
| [ISLE OF MAN - TOWNS AND TT RACES] | |||
| Date: *1950-2 Film Number: 3909 | |||
| Footage of a holiday to the Isle of Man - shots of the ferry over from Liverpool, scenes in Peel, Douglas, Ramsey and Port Erin, and views of the annual TT race. | |||
| [WEDDING IN POULTON-LE-FYLDE] | |||
| Date: c.1951 Film Number: 8275 | |||
| The bride and bridesmaids arrive at Poulton-le-Fylde Methodist Church for the wedding. After the ceremony, the couple and guests are seen outside the church. At the reception, the happy couple cut the cake, followed by speeches and toasts; finally, the couple depart in a car. | |||
| [ASSORTED COLLIN FAMILY FOOTAGE] | |||
| Date: c1950-3 Film Number: 4547 | |||
| Assorted footage relating to the Collin family - the family are seen on the beach at Blackpool, and there are scenes from Eastwood Road School's Coronation Party in 1953. There are views of a beauty contest and the family's Highland Terriers, and the family are seen in London at Buckingham Palace and at the Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951. Southfield Park horse show is shown, and the Collins are seen on holidays and trips to Blackpool, the Lake District and the Isle of Man. The film concludes with scenes from the Coronation Sports and Gala at Failsworth Lodge in 1953. 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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| [OUTDOOR PT DISPLAY 1- WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF HEALTH & BEAUTY] | |||
| Date: c1950-53 Film Number: 7059 | |||
| Scenes showing girls from the Women's League of Health and Beauty skipping and dancing with scarves in a field during a physical exercise display watched by a crowd of onlookers. | |||
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