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Record 4472 – 4491 of 11529
 
 
[METALWORK SKILLS - METAL FILE IN USE]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5172
 
Brief film depicting a man in a workshop filing a piece of metal that is clamped in a vice. 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
 
 
 
[WOODWORK SKILLS - TRIMMING CURVE WITH CHISEL]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5174
 
Brief film featuring close up shots of a man carefully trimming a curve on a piece of wood using a bevel edge chisel. He holds the blade of the chisel in one hand to control his work. 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
 
 
 
[METALWORK SKILLS - PLANISHING]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5175
 
Brief film consisting of close up shots of a man shaping a metal bowl by striking it with a hammer on to a 'mushroom stake' held in a bench vice. 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
 
 
 
[METALWORK SKILLS - FILING AND MEASURING]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5177
 
Brief film depicting a man in a workshop filing a piece of metal that is clamped in a vice. He releases the object and measures it with a set square. 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
 
 
 
[METALWORK SKILLS - USING A HACKSAW]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5178
 
Brief film set in a workshop in which a man uses a hacksaw to cut a metal rod held in a bench vice. 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
 
 
 
[METALWORK SKILLS - SINKING]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5179
 
Brief film set in a workshop where a man begins to shape a metal disc into a bowl. He uses a wooden mallet (what looks like a bossing mallet) to repeatedly hammer around the outer rim of the disc that rests on a concave block held in a vice. A second shot provides a close up of his work. 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
 
 
 
[FILING, RIVETING AND USING A SPOKESHAVE]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5180
 
Brief film set in a workshop where a man is seen shaping a piece of metal with a file, hammering rivets into metal and using a spokeshave to carve and smooth wood. 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
 
 
 
[WOODWORK AND METALWORK TECHNIQUES - A COMPILATION OF LOOP FILMS]
Date: *1941 1956 Film Number: 5202
 
Series of close-up shots demonstrating the use and handling of a variety of handicraft tools. Includes techniques such as gauging, chiselling, sawing, planishing, sinking, filing, riveting and using a spokeshave. 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
 
 
 
[COLD CHISEL]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 5300
 
A workman hammers down onto a cold chisel, that he holds to a 45 degree angle, as he works on a piece of metal clamped in a bench vice. 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
 
 
 
[SURFACE DEVELOPMENT CYLINDRICAL SCOOP]
Date: *1956 Film Number: 5301
 
Short animated technical drawing film showing an elevation diagram taking shape and a wheel rolling to and fro along the bottom of the screen over the words 'SURFACE DEVELOPMENT CYLINDRICAL SCOOP'. 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
 
 
 
[WOODWORK SKILLS - CHISELLING OUT A CURVE]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 5303
 
Short film showing a man in a workshop chiselling out a curve in a piece of wood that is clamped in a bench vice. 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
 
 
 
[WEDDING OF MISS D'ARCY/ COUNTRYSIDE SCENES AT ASHURST BEACON]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 5546
 
Family and Notre Dame highschool students wait at St James RC church for Miss D'Arcy's wedding. People enter the church, the bridesmaids get their photo taken, the bride arrives and enters. The bride and groom have their photo taken, the family leaves the church and talk in the grounds. The bride, groom and bridesmaids walk at Carmelite Lodge, and the married couple are driven away. Helen White talks to the driver in the White's family car, a Ford Pilot. There are shots of the countryside at Ashton Beacon, including fields, trees, a house, and wooden gate.
 
 
 
[NOTRE DAME STUDENTS VISIT WALSINGHAM SHRINE; SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPH; SPORTS DAY]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 5555
 
Students walk past St Mary's Lowe House and Grotto. Nuns wait and students get on coaches in North Road. The coaches leave for the drive to Little Walsingham. Students and teachers walk around the abbey ruins as a group of nuns looks on. The girls, wearing veils, proceed through the village, some carry icons and lanterns. People watch this procession, including a policeman. The coaches return to North Road and the students get off. The students stand in rows on a staggered platform as their photograph is taken. Shots of the stained glass in the school chapel. The girls partake in races and an obstacle course for Notre Dame high school's sports day.
 
 
 
[MANCHESTER UNITED V BLACKPOOL]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 6071
 
Television coverage from the deciding game of the 1955/56 season between Manchester United and Blackpool. Manchester win the game 2-1 and the title.
 
 
 
FULWOOD URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL CIVIC SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH 1956
Date: 1956 Film Number: 6142
 
Local dignitaries are seen arriving and then making their way to Fulwood Parish Church for Civic Sunday. Following the service, a procession passes through the streets, featuring local police, nurses, armed forces and youth groups.
 
 
 
[SPANISH HOLIDAY]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 6148
 
Footage from touring holiday of Spain - views of a carnival procession in Madrid are followed by scenes of several Spanish towns, villages and countryside. In Seville, they go to a bull fight and there are views from brief visits to North Africa and Gibraltar. A trip to Granada and the Alhambra is followed by airport scenes in Spain and back in England, including views of the landing taken from the cockpit.
 
 
 
[DANCING AT THE PARTY]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 6214
 
Underexposed scenes from June Miller's 21st birthday party. June and sister Diane are seen in ball dresses standing outside the family home in Ashton-on-Ribble. Scenes of people boarding a small aircraft which then takes off conclude.
 
 
 
[OVER HILL AND DALE EASTER 1956 AND OTHER SCENES]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 7204
 
Hill walking in the Peak District, a Rose Queen crowning and procession in Hatherlow near Stockport and the Hodkinson family on holiday. A group of ramblers catch a train from Romiley to go hill walking, visiting Speedwell Cavern, Black Tor and Edale. Inside Hatherlow Sunday School, the Rose Queen is crowned and children perform and dance on the stage before a scholars' walk moves through the local streets. In the holiday scenes the family visit Bournemouth, Southampton and Portsmouth before the film concludes with shots of the sights in London. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[BLACKPOOL ROCK AND OTHER SCENES]
Date: 1956 Film Number: 5635
 
Blackpool seafront - amusement arcade, shops and stalls. Man selling rock to female customers. Followed by a variety of scenes - an elderly couple outside their house, the woman and two dogs in the garden, a woman painting outside then going to a pond and starting to weed it. 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/
 
 
 
LANGDALE HOLIDAY 1956
Date: 1956 Film Number: 7098
 
Scenes showing members of the Natural History Society at Heywood Grammar School taking a week's holiday trip to the Lake District -shot with a converted ex-RAF gun camera. Includes footage of pupils and teachers arriving at the Wayfarer's Lodge on the Langdale Estate, a table tennis game and teenagers playing mixed doubles on a tennis court. Pupils are seen fell walking up Helvellyn and Striding Edge, swimming in Rydal Water and Tarn Hows lake, and having a picnic close to Stickle Tarn. Continues with unsteady shots of pupils rowing boats on Lake Windermere, as seen from a moving boat. Ends with members of the school sat on summits of Swirl How and Coniston Old Man with shots of Coniston Lake below.
 
 
 
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