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| CRUISE MEDITERRANEAN 1929 PART 2 | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 4565 | |||
| Scenes from on board ship and shore locations during a Mediterranean cruise. Places visited include Venice, Dubrovnik and possibly the North African coast. | |||
| A DAY IN LIVERPOOL | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 5604 | |||
| Promotional film that aims to capture a day in the life of Liverpool. Workers arrive in the city by ferry and railway and rush to the offices and nearby docks. There are traffic scenes at Pier Head, by the Overhead Railway and on the Floating Roadway. Trade is highlighted with footage of cargo handling, cotton trading, and the import of livestock. There are shots of the docks and warehouses before the film moves on to the Grand National, shipbuilding at Birkenhead, vehicles on the transport ferry and seaside scenes at New Brighton. A White Star liner arrives in the port, there are views of the city's classical buildings and of a busy Church Street. After scenes of building work in the city, workers are shown returning home. | |||
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| [PRINCE OF WALES; 1929 SCOUT JAMBOREE, ARROWE PARK] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 5790 | |||
| Brief views of the Prince of Wales being driven along a crowd-lined street are followed by scenes at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree at Arrowe Park on the Wirral - views of the campsite and scouts march past the camera with banners declaring which part of the world they come from. 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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| [COCKERMOUTH CARNIVAL - FLOATS] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 5934 | |||
| Scenes from the carnival in Cockermouth, Cumbria on a rainy day in 1929. Spectators with umbrellas watch various floats passing by including children dancing, a blackfaced 'Hawaiian Troupe', cowboys, horses and dogs. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [COCKERMOUTH CARNIVAL - FLOATS AND CARNIVAL QUEEN] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 5935 | |||
| A rainy Cockermouth Carnival in 1929 - spectators with umbrellas watch floats passing by including children dancing, a blackfaced 'Hawaiian Troupe', cowboys, horses, people in fancy dress and the Carnival Queen. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE CITY ON THE MERSEY - LIVERPOOL | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 5988 | |||
| Tinted film of views around Liverpool including one of its parks, the Walker Art Gallery and St George's Hall and the Pier Head. Concludes with people disembarking a ferry, and views of the ferries crossing the river. | |||
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| [WHIT FRIDAY WALK WITH TRAMS] | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 8786 | |||
| A Whit Walk procession including small children, scouts and guides, and a marching brass band, makes its way through cobbled streets in Manchester on a wet day. On the main road, three trams on the no. 31 route glide slowly along beside the procession. | |||
| [MISCELLANEOUS SCENES FROM 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 10764 | |||
| The film opens with scenes of women diving into an outdoor swimming pool. We see a man with what appears to be a machine to sharpen knives. There are shots of a group of young people out in the countryside, and of a man on horseback. Huntsmen and their hounds pass by. We see young girls doing country dancing and some in women in a garden. | |||
| [READING REGATTA 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 10765 | |||
| The film opens with shots of a swan on a water and then we see a boat race on the Thames. Some of the racing scenes are shot from a moving boat. | |||
| [BROCKENHURST CAMP 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 10766 | |||
| Scenes from a camping trip. We see a group of young people larking about at a campsite and then they set off on a hiking trip. | |||
| [GSTAADD 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 10769 | |||
| Scenes from a skiing trip to Gstaad in Switzerland. We see people skating on a frozen lake. People make their way up a mountain through deep snow, and then we see them skiing back down. People walk with sledges. We see local children and a farmer leading his cow. The film ends with scenes of people with skis boarding a train. | |||
| [WINTER AT ESTHWAITE] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 11296 | |||
| Drinking champagne by a frozen lake then a group of adults skating on the lake at Esthwaite. | |||
| [CLIMBING EAGLE CRAG] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 11297 | |||
| A group of men hill walking and climbing Eagle Crag on a windy day with views of the surrounding mountains and lakes. | |||
| AUDENSHAW CARNIVAL JUNE 29TH 1929 IN AID OF THE AUDENSHAW HOSPITALS FUND | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 8440 | |||
| Comprehensive views of a sunny Audenshaw Carnival shot from various locations along the parade route. Views of many of the participants, including brass bands, children dancing, boy scouts and horse-drawn carnival floats. | |||
| [GEE FAMILY PICNIC] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 8447 | |||
| The Gee Family, parents, children and grandparents have a picnic beneath some trees. The children run around, Father reads, the children play with a ball as Grandmother reads. | |||
| [IN THE GARDEN, BY A LAKE, ON THE BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 8448 | |||
| The Gee family in the garden with the youngest child being held by various elderly relatives. The family enjoy a drive out and stop for a rest by a lake. The children and baby in a pram play in the garden. The family go paddling on the beach. | |||
| [GEE FAMILY PICNIC IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 8450 | |||
| Children run around the front garden whilst an adult reads the paper sat in a deckchair. The Gee family enjoy a picnic on the lawn. | |||
| [PADDLING ON A WINDSWEPT BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 8453 | |||
| Brief shots of the Gee Family enjoying a picnic and the paddling on a windswept beach and building sandcastles. Aerial shots of an unknown location taken from a plane. | |||
| [GAWSWORTH HALL AND CHURCH AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 8758 | |||
| Compilation of rural scenes - Gawsworth Hall and church; a group of people stand around by a car; farm workers chat and smoke; two small boys return home from school; a range of farm animals is seen, and a woman and boy have fun playing with three dogs in a garden. | |||
| [RHYL CARNIVAL JUNE 1929 AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 8760 | |||
| After miscellaneous shots of people out and about in the countryside, picking flowers and watching ducks on a pond, there are snippets of car journeys, and a driver stopping to share a beer with his two female companions. Rhyl Carnival gets underway with some inventive floats, including an Electrolux vacuum cleaner. The reel concludes with scenes in an open air swimming pool, and a close-up of a young man smoking a cigarette. | |||
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