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| [ROWING, FLYING AND PANTO WEEK 1955] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 8654 | |||
| The film starts with the "dental picnic" with groups of students rowing to the Red House Pub for drinks and a game of football. The next segment "Student Fliers" follows The University of Liverpool Air Squadron and showing them planning their routes, taking aviation classes and flying. The last section of the film shows the news items. With students showing off inventions and an event at the University of Liverpool Geoffrey Hughes Memorial Athletic Ground. | |||
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| [MORTENSEN HOLIDAY ABROAD AND GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1955 Film Number: 9160 | |||
| Stan and Jean Mortensen go on holiday with friends. They drive over mountain roads to the beach. Beach scenes as Stan plays in the sea on a dinghy and Jean takes a cruise ship. Back home in the garden, Jean hangs out the washing and their son plays cricket and football. | |||
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| SECOND DAFFODIL RALLY MARCH 1955 | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 8343 | |||
| Crowds gather to watch and take part in the Warrington and District Motor Club rally. Officials can be seen checking cars prior to start of the rally, competitors gathered around vehicles and cars setting off at timed intervals. The cars make their way towards Jenkin Chapel, Cheshire. Shots filmed from a car dashboard as it drives along a snow covered roads. Time control near the Cat and Fiddle pub in Macclesfield. Test 2 at Blore involves reversing manoeuvres. Drivers stop for lunch in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. We join the drivers again in Harpur Hill for test 3 which includes making emergency stops at the bottom of a hill. The cars then head for the finish line. We see close ups of newspaper articles reporting on the event. The Daffodil cup winner was F. Snaylem. At the Lion Hotel, winners are presented their trophies. | |||
| [MISS JUNE RUTHERFORD'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 8857 | |||
| Scenes of June Rutherford's wedding at St. James' Church, New Brighton on New Years Day 1955. Family and friends arrive at the church and pose for photographs followed by the three bridesmaids who also pose for the cameras. The bride arrives by car with her father and they pose for the photographer. June and her husband exit the church, posing for the cameras together and with the wedding party. | |||
| [A WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9294 | |||
| The bride and groom with the rest of the wedding party stand outside the church posing for photographs then the happy couple pose by the wedding car brushing away the confetti from the bride's veil. Mrs Sagar and her two children Richard and Elizabeth are joined in a garden by two elderly women. | |||
| [SLEDGING] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9304 | |||
| Richard, Elizabeth and Mrs Sagar sledging then the children pulling the sledges up a hill before sledging down again. | |||
| [BROOKLANDS GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9306 | |||
| Views of the flowerbeds in full bloom in the garden at Brooklands with Richard and Elizabeth sat on deckchairs. Two Dachshund dogs playing in the garden and the gardener at work, digging by the greenhouse | |||
| [HOLIDAY IN BUDE, CORNWALL] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9309 | |||
| The Sagar family and friends boarding a pedal boat then Richard firing a toy gun at the camera. Two photographers taking photos of a model sat on the bow of the pedal boat then Mrs Sagar and friend sunbathing. | |||
| [CUTTING THE WEDDING CAKE] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9310 | |||
| Elizabeth sat on her mother's knee showing her handbag to the camera with Richard and a dog. Richard sat on his mother's knee with Elizabeth waving. A man wearing a top hat smoking and playing with a doll. The bride and groom cutting the cake at a wedding reception with two child bridesmaids. | |||
| [ELIZABETH AND RICHARD SWIMMING] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9315 | |||
| Beach scenes with a motorboat and a girl attempting to water-ski. Mrs Sagar sunbathing then Elizabeth and Richard swimming in the sea. The film ends with two women walking to the sea whilst being filmed on a cine camera by a man. | |||
| [IN A PEDAL BOAT] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9316 | |||
| Mrs Sagar and friend walking up the beach are joined by a group of children with a girl handing out sweets. Mrs Sagar with Richard, Elizabeth and another child in a pedal boat waving to the camera. | |||
| [GOLF CLUB 1955] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9845 | |||
| The members of Oldham Golf Club, including George Pickford, are seen out on the golf course playing golf. | |||
| [IN THE INGHAM'S GARDEN] | |||
| Date: *1955 Film Number: 11425 | |||
| A pan across the flowerbeds followed by a woman with a cat walking through the garden. | |||
| [WALMSELY'S LTD AND CYCLING SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1955 Film Number: 8220 | |||
| Inside the Walmsley's Ltd factory in Bury, we see men working and close ups of the machinery in operation. The film cuts to street scenes where crowds of people are standing by and looking over the school wall where a bicycle rally is about to begin. School children with numbers on their backs line their bicycles up against the walls. The mayor can be seen leaving the school grounds. Shots of residential houses and of the children cycling through the streets as part of the cycle rally. | |||
| ROYAL VISIT 1955 | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9518 | |||
| School children arrive on buses then spectators line the road with Union Jack flags . The royal motorcade drives slowly down the main road with the Queen and Prince Phillip waving from the royal car, once the cars have passed the crowd disperses and heads towards the waiting buses | |||
| IN SEARCH OF SCOTLAND - WESTWARD TO ARGYLL | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 9572 | |||
| Scenes from a touring holiday of western Scotland. Locations visited include Benmore Botanic Garden, Inveraray Castle and Glencoe. There are scenic landscape views; children play at a boating pool; we see a man living in a homemade hut by the roadside; a group of young women visiting from South Africa sit and chat in the rain, and there is a boat trip around the Inner Hebrides which includes a visit to Fingal’s Cave. | |||
| [LYMM CANAL CLUB OUTING AND ABERSOCH] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 10471 | |||
| On board a Lymm canal club boat and on the towpath watching other boats pass by. Cows in the fields and rowing boats on the canal. Seaside scenes at Abersoch with beach, boats at sea and general family holiday scenes. The film ends with out of focus close ups of flowers. | |||
| WILD BOY OF THE WOODS | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 10924 | |||
| An amateur film produced by Altrincham Grammar School. The fiction film tells the story of a wild boy living in the woods who the local people are afraid of. A Professor, his wife and son, Tony, trap the boy and teach him to speak and wear clothes. When the mother's necklace goes missing, the family immediately blame and punish the wild boy. Distraught, the wild boy returns to the woods. Once the Professor and his wife realise Tony was the culprit all along, they return to the woods to find the wild boy. Tony gets into an accident and is rescued by the wild boy. The boy is a hero and the family apologise to him. | |||
| [COUNTRYSIDE SCENES & FILM LOCATION] | |||
| Date: 1955 Film Number: 11091 | |||
| A car on a steep and winding countryside road followed by the driver and passengers examining a road map. A man holding a small child then two women and a man climbing a hill. Views of a snowy hillsides, lakes and mountains with a group of sheep in a snowy field. Scenic views of the lakes then people sat by a car, hill walking, enjoying a picnic and walking on a beach. The film ends with shots of a film production involving a police car on a country road. | |||
| [HOLIDAY IN SWITZERLAND] | |||
| Date: *1955 Film Number: 928 | |||
| A holiday in Switzerland - a coach party prepare to depart; streetscenes; a football match - Swiss flags and a band in national costume; general views - waterfall, harbour, lakes and mountains; a cable car station. | |||
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