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| [LONDON PARK SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6274 | |||
| London park scenes. People are seen sitting in deckchairs and walking, and there are views of flower beds, a lake and fountains. | |||
| [NOLAN FAMILY WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6275 | |||
| Various wedding guests and the bride and groom are shown arriving at the church and walking up the path. After the service they are seen leaving the church and gathering outside. | |||
| [DUBLIN AND SURROUNDING AREAS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6276 | |||
| The film begins with scenes of wedding guests arriving at a church, walking up the path, then gathering on the lawn. There are exterior shots of Christ Church Cathedral. The majority of the film features views of Ireland, including the River Shannon, the docks in Dublin, the promenade at Bray and the village of Dalke. | |||
| [A PICKFORD PARTY] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8321 | |||
| This film shows a party with the Pickfords and friends drinking. dancing and singing at their home in Oldham. | |||
| [CLEARING SNOW DRIFTS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8323 | |||
| Footage of snow scenes near Oldham and then a road being cleared with a mechanical digger from the Pickford's coal yard. | |||
| [WHIT WALK IN OLDHAM] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8324 | |||
| Footage of a Whit Walk and crowds lining the cobbled streets in Oldham. The processions, in different sites throughout the day, include scout troops, a Rose Queen, religious services and brass bands. Wooden stages have also been set-up in the street for speeches. | |||
| [PLAYING WITH A PUPPY] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8325 | |||
| A short film showing the Pickfords playing with a small black Labrador puppy (the family pet, Picky) in the garden at their home in Oldham and out in the street. | |||
| [COAL YARD SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8326 | |||
| Footage of Oldham golf course and the Pickford coal yard. This film begins with various poorly executed camera tricks, including stop-motion animation, with golfing scenarios. The film ends however with good quality footage of the coal yard with the loading of coal sacks and wagons. | |||
| FLIGHT TO AN ISLAND | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 12181 | |||
| Scenes from a trip to the Isle of Man. We see the small plane taking off from an airfield and there are shots of moving scenery taken from the aeroplane window during the flight. The Dempseys stay at the Balqueen Hydro Hotel and take organised group daytrips around the island. They go rambling in the hills, on a boat trip to Chicken Rock Lighthouse, on a coach tour to Douglas, on a cycle ride to Rushen Abbey and a visit to Port Erin. There are scenes around the island including horse-drawn trams along the seafront, boats in the harbour, haymaking in the fields and The Witches Mill. We also see the group taking part in what appears to be a ballroom and country dance lesson. Mrs Dempsey is seeing taking photos of things that interest her, such as a seagull and a Manx cat. | |||
| 80,000 BOOKS | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 12186 | |||
| This film is about Fulwood Branch Library, the 80,000 books in the title refers to the fact that the Fulwood branch issued 80,000 books a year. In this film we see the library staff at work. They unpack new books from crates, prepare them for the shelves and later we see books being issued to library users. We see the staff at work shelving and doing various tasks around the library. We see the library users browsing the shelves and taking out books. The film shows us the full range of books on offer to demonstrate that there is something to suit everybody's taste, and we also see the children's library. We are shown the practical uses of the books. For example, we see cookery books, and then we see a lady in her kitchen at home using the book for recipes. There are similar scenes of people using the books to instruct them in gardening, decorating, bicycle maintenance, sewing, embroidery, crafts, tennis and cricket. We are shown the quick reference service, where people can telephone the library staff, who will look up information for them and relay it over the telephone. We also see various members of the Dempsey family at home enjoying their books. | |||
| [80,000 FILMS - EXTRACTS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 12187 | |||
| This film appears to consist of extracts of film made for RR1464/24. We see scenes from Fulwood Branch Library such as the staff at work around the library doing various tasks, such as shelving books. There are also brief scenes of the Dempseys at home, including a boy eating cereal and an elderly lady reading a book. | |||
| [CINE CLUB FILM] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 12191 | |||
| This is an amateur film, presumably produced by Preston Cine Club, John Dempsey was their founder member. We see a short sequence of events. We see men going up some stairs in a building, looking furtive. One of the men enters the room where a man at a desk gives him something hidden in a box of matches. The other man spies on them through the keyhole. After one of the men has left the room, the man spying on them enters and ties up the other man. He injects him with syringe and appears to leave him alive, but in a noose attached to the ceiling. We then see two cleaners in the building, who debate entering the room but leave without doing so. So we are left in suspense as to the fate of the man tied up in the office. | |||
| COMING SHORTLY | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 12192 | |||
| This appears to be a spoof trailer made for showing at cine club screenings. It advertises a film about a woman from 'the wrong side of the tracks'. | |||
| [SAILING SCENE] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8891 | |||
| Starts with sailboats sailing beside each other, with shots of the shore in the background. Family are on the boat sailing talking to each other, camera focuses on the dog. Next various shots of sailing alongside another sailboat. Film ends focusing on a blowing sail. | |||
| [CATTLE DROVERS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11886 | |||
| Droving cattle from the farm yard shed, along country roads to their new home in a field followed by the drovers moving more cattle back to the farmyard The film ends with a young boy doing 'magic' with a disappearing Collie dog, a puppy and a rabbit. | |||
| [A CAR JOURNEY IN THE SNOW TO MACCLESFIELD] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11887 | |||
| Moving deep snow on the farm with the aid of a tractor, the Collie dogs play in the snow and the ducks are released from their coop onto the snowy farm. Views of snowy country roads on a phantom car journey to Macclesfield. | |||
| [KINFAUNS CASTLE AND SCOTTISH SCENERY] | |||
| Date: c1950s Film Number: 5107 | |||
| Holiday film with scenes of Kinfauns Castle and its surroundings in Perthshire, Scotland. There are shots of boats moored on a loch, and of cottages in a village next to a loch. The film ends with footage of boats, including military ships, on a busy river. 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 | |||
| [ISOBEL WHITE AT WINDLESHAW CHANTRY AND BIRCHLEY HALL, ST HELENS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 5565 | |||
| Isobel White walks around Windleshaw Chantry, looking at the graves. She walks under an arch. Inside Birchfield Hall's chapel, she looks at and handles a chalice, with a second person. She walks down steps around the building's exterior and there are shots of the building's exterior, including windows and bricked up windows, trees and foliage in the grounds. | |||
| [FFESTINIOG RAILWAY; LANCASHIRE TRAIN RIDE] | |||
| Date: 1950-60 Film Number: 4273 | |||
| Compilation reel relating to the Greenwoods' family - family members are seen out and about in the countryside and watching the steam train, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in the station. Views of the Ffestiniog Mountain Railway, and Alf Langthorne is seen dismantling an Alvis car outside the family's soft-drinks business in Lydgate. Brief views of a family picnic, and scenes from a number of vintage car rallies and races. Views from the window of a train in Lancashire, passing through Whalley, Clitheroe and Chatburn, and a small boy is seen playing with a puppy outside the family's soft-drinks business, T Greenwood & Sons Ltd. | |||
| THE INTRUDER | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 5880 | |||
| Short amateur drama: two pairs of boys are camping in neighbouring fields and, after some belongings go missing, suspect each other of stealing. The boys start fighting, but come upon a third camp and discover the true "Intruder". They come together to confront him and throw the culprit into the lake as punishment. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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