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| SEYMOUR PARK COUNTY INFANTS SCHOOL GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR 1957 | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1332 | |||
| Day to day activities of the staff and children of Seymour Park County Infants School in 1957. Scenes include morning assembly, reading and storytelling sessions, P.E. in the school hall, and the crowning of the Rose Queen. | |||
| NIGHTFALL | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1351 | |||
| Doctors at Withington Hospital perform a caesarean section. The baby is monitored in a cot, the patient stitched and the baby carried from the theatre. | |||
| THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1356 | |||
| Non - local items about the Pope, fashion in London, illegal parking in London and cricket at Worcester. The 1957 FA Cup Final, which finishes Aston Villa 2 - Manchester United 1 is featured, attended by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. | |||
| [MOTOR RACING] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1446 | |||
| Motor car racing at Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire, believed to be the Lancashire and Cheshire Meeting on 25th May 1957. Shot from Lodge Corner. Cars featured include a Fiat 600, Simca Aronde, Lotus 11, Jaguar D Type and Volkswagen Beetle. | |||
| MANCHESTER UNITED THE CUP FINAL 1957 | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1512 | |||
| Opens with captions and stills commemorating the Manchester United players and officials who died in the Munich air disaster, Old Trafford is seen with its flag at half mast. The film continues with footage of the 1957 F.A. Cup Final, in which United were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa, intercut with shots of the crowd. Captions describe the match's crucial moments. Queen Elizabeth II presents the trophy. | |||
| TURKEY, JUNE - JULY 1957 | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1574 | |||
| Footage shot in Turkey, at Istanbul, Buyukada and Ankara, featuring streetscenes. Also shots of boats on the Bosphorous as well as farming scenes, mainly cattle, at Bursa, the Anatolian Plateau, Konya, Giftelier and Karacebey. A bird sanctuary is briefly featured before footage from the Asian Coast on the Sea of Marmora and Kilyos on the Black Sea. | |||
| [HALLE TOURS 1: GERMANY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND POLAND] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1580 | |||
| Film of Halle orchestra tour in Europe. Members are seen sightseeing, window shopping, waiting at border controls, disembarking from coaches and talking. There is also footage of buildings and streetscenes in locations including Dusseldorf, Viersen, Nurnberg, Prague, Warsaw and Lodz. | |||
| [MAYOR'S PROCESSION, TWO WEDDINGS AND A HOLIDAY IN TENBY] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1685 | |||
| A compilation film - includes footage of the 1957 Mayor's Procession; two weddings held at Bethesda United Methodist Church [?]; a caravan holiday at Tenby and brief shots of the 1958 Royal Lancashire show in Blackpool. | |||
| [THE LAST SERVICES AND EVENTS AT BETHESDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 1957] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1686 | |||
| The film starts with the congregation of Bethesda United Methodist Church leaving the building after attending the last ever morning service and Sunday School on the 31st March 1957. Further footage includes the First United Service at Newchurch, 7th April 1957 and the last Bethesda Ladies Aid picnic at Harrogate and Knaresborough on the 30th May 1957. Concludes with pre and post demolition shots of a street in Boothfold, Waterfoot, in the same year. | |||
| [A DRIVE THROUGH THE MIDLANDS, EXCAVATION AT ORDSALL AND SOUTHPORT SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1957 Film Number: 1791 | |||
| Opens with footage shot from a car travelling down from the Malverns, through Worcester and up the M5 motorway to Birmingham. Also features shots of an excavation in the grounds of Ordsall Hall. Following a brief shot of a sunset there is footage of a lorry carrying passengers into the sea at Southport in order to board motor boats | |||
| [CHESTER ZOO; SEASIDE HOLIDAYS AND PARKS] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 1975 | |||
| A variety of footage. Includes an outing to the seaside; animals at Chester Zoo and scenes in Alexandra Park. Includes shots of a group of adults looking through a telescope on a windy pier in New Brighton - they all link arms and walk along the pier towards the camera. | |||
| THE INQUISITIVE GIANT | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2025 | |||
| Film showing the planning and construction of Manchester University's Jodrell Bank radio telescope. Also features a brief history of telescopes and some of their discoveries in space. | |||
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| [TRANS-AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY - TRIMS] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2719 | |||
| Trims from a film dealing with trans-axial tomography - the scanning of a cross-section of the body. | |||
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| [TRANSVERSE AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2728 | |||
| Demonstration of the tecniques of transverse axial tomography, a radiography process, showing the machines with and without patients, and explaining the principles behind it. | |||
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| [THE X-RAY TREATMENT OF MEDULLOBLASTOMA IN CHILDREN - 2] | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2738 | |||
| Footage of treatment for medulloblastoma in children: after shots of microscope slides, the film shows a boy who has problems walking and poor hand / eye co-ordination. He is measured, and then placed in a frame which can screen off parts of his body and deliver concentrated doses of radiation to his head and spine. Several other children are shown after successful courses of radiation treatment. | |||
| MORECAMBE | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2760 | |||
| Opens with brief sequences of a woman in a garden, people playing pitch and putt on a golf course and a man working with some tools in a shed. Continues with footage from a largely deserted Morecambe. Various seafront fairground stalls are seen as is a big wheel , roundabout and roller coaster. A sailing ship, 'The Moby Dick', is seen docked and there are shots of an empty open-air theatre. Closes with footage of a rough sea. | |||
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| FIFTEEN MILES AROUND MORECAMBE BAY | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2763 | |||
| Film shot at various locations around Morecambe. Features footage of Lancaster, including streetscenes, and shots of Glasson Docks. Kirkby Lonsdale, Newby Bridge and Cowan Bridge are also featured briefly. Furness Abbey (a ruin) is seen as are the churches of Heysham, Tunstall and Cartmel. The River Lune and some of the countryside surrounding Morecambe is also featured. | |||
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| AN AUTUMN STROLL ALONG THE RIVER | |||
| Date: *1957 Film Number: 2779 | |||
| Film of a river and the surrounding countryside. | |||
| EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETICS: AN EXHIBITION OF STUDENTS' WORK | |||
| Date: 1957 Film Number: 2810 | |||
| Film of experimental shapes and designs constructed by engineers and draughtsmen, while studying their own reactions to shapes and forms. | |||
| [WATERING CAN] | |||
| Date: *1957 Film Number: 3108 | |||
| Film including footage of a woman pouring water from a watering can over two young girls in a garden. Also includes footage from a coastal location - shots of boats, a harbour and water-skiing - and shots of a garage forecourt. | |||
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