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Record 581 – 600 of 11241
| [TEA IN THE GARDEN AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 8761 | |||
| This compilation of family footage includes women in a garden playing with dogs and a kitten, and three women taking afternoon tea in deckchairs on the lawn, before the visitors take their leave at the front door. Two young men smoke cigarettes, standing by their car on a country lane, and one of them is then seen enjoying a drink in the back garden with the women. | |||
| BLACKPOOL 1929 | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 726 | |||
| A family holiday in Blackpool and St. Anne's, showing various activities and amusements - fairgrounds, parks, open air swimming pool. | |||
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| DEANE SERMONS | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2757 | |||
| Film of Sermons Sunday, 23-6-29, at Deane Church. Clergy are seen outside the church, the congregation leave the morning service and a sermon is delivered before a large crowd in the churchyard. | |||
| [PARKINSON FAMILY SCENES; JOHN AND DAPHNE] | |||
| Date: *1929-30 Film Number: 6910 | |||
| Scenes showing the Parkinson family at home and in the garden. Babies (Daphne and John) are seen in prams and playing on the lawn. Family members are seen posing for the camera outside the house and during an afternoon tea party. | |||
| AT WESTHOUGHTON - JOINT FRIENDLY SOCIETIES GALA AND CROWNING OF ROSE QUEEN | |||
| Date: 1929/30 Film Number: 51 | |||
| The Westhoughton Rose Queens of 1929 and 1930 are crowned in two separate sequences which also show the processions and ceremonies involved, including the laying of wreaths at a war memorial. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [SPORTS DAY] | |||
| Date: *1929/30 Film Number: 608 | |||
| School sports activities; sheepdog trials; boys on cross country run, clapped on by spectators along the route; a game of golf; a man and a woman in the grounds of a factory; the family in the garden. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [FISHER FAMILY 4] | |||
| Date: 1929/30 Film Number: 752 | |||
| Family scenes on the Isle of Man and in the South of France - paddling in the sea at Juan les Pins and a crowded beach. | |||
| TOM'S FIRST APPEARANCE ON THE MOVIES | |||
| Date: 1929/30 Film Number: 1024 | |||
| Family film of Tom and his baby sister - playing in the garden; on the beach at Cleveleys. Armistice Day 1930 - wreaths are laid at the cenotaph. (Identical to 1026 apart from the end Armistice day section) | |||
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| GLENGARRY CINEMA TOPICAL NEWS No.4 | |||
| Date: 1929-30 Film Number: 1165 | |||
| Local newsreel events - includes various scenes around the city of Chester before, and after, the electric tramway system was replaced by buses. Also features an air pageant held at Wythenshawe aerodrome on the 22nd June 1929 - scenes of Altrincham Carnival - and the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla anchored at Trafford Docks, on the 23rd June 1929. Crowds of approximately 50,000 people are seen wandering around the quayside and on board ship. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [THE BEHRENS FAMILY, HOLLY ROYDE] | |||
| Date: c1929 - 30 Film Number: 2105 | |||
| A group of adults are seen standing on the steps of Mr and Mrs Behrens house, 'Holly Royde' , in Withington. A car is parked in the driveway. Somebody gets into the passengers seat and it drives off. Also includes shots of individual family members walking around the garden. | |||
| [RICHARD ZIMMON AND RUTH BEHRENS PLAYING IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1929-30 Film Number: 2156 | |||
| A girl and boy are seen playing in a hammock, in the Behrens family garden. They both try to push each other out by rocking the hammock side to side. | |||
| [TRAVIS FAMILY COMPILATION] | |||
| Date: 1929-30 Film Number: 10605 | |||
| Compilation of varied family leisure footage, including a mealtime; sporting scenes as people practise their golf swings and tennis serves; garden scenes – a man digging in a border, and close-up shots of family and friends. In winter, some people go tobogganing or lark around in the snow, and there is an informal hockey match. Away from home, shire horses pull a plough, aided by farm workers; there is an open-air display of dancing and physical exercises at a girls’ school; people enjoy messing about in boats, and there is fun at the seaside and in an open-air pool. | |||
| [EUROPEAN HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: *1929/30 Film Number: 3618 | |||
| Scenes from a holiday in Europe, taken by John Hindley. Views of cars on a street, general views of a river and the town beyond, a memorial garden and people on a balcony, possibly France. Also views from a riverboat, possibly sailing along the Rhine. | |||
| [OUTDOOR PILLOW FIGHT] | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5006 | |||
| Spectators watch an outdoor pillow fighting competition where each competitor has to knock their opponent off a log. Ends with brief views of a small boy walking next to a stream. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [CLOWBRIDGE COUNTRY SHOW] | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5007 | |||
| Scenes from a country show , probably in the Clowbridge area of Lancashire - girls take part in a sprint race, then prizes are handed out (possibly for a dog show). Horse racing scenes conclude. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD BOYS' AND GIRLS' REFUGES AND HOMES PART 1 | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5033 | |||
| The film shows children living at the Children's Garden Village on the Belmont Estate, Cheadle. They are seen going to school, sitting in a classroom and playing in the playground. Nurses look after the babies and the children do housework and play outside. The girls gather a pile of hay and play with dolls while some of the boys play cricket and some throw hay at each other, before a pony and a dog are brought out. Young patients at the Milne Perrins Sanitorium are followed by the boys walking en masse to Manchester Central train station on their way to the Birkdale Summer Holiday Camp for Poor Boys. At the game there are scenes on the playing field, with various races and a prize-giving. There is also a 'wheel of death' game on the beach - the boys roll each other downhill inside a rubber tyre. The film ends with some trick photography and a game of cricket. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE SERVICE OF THE SEA | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5605 | |||
| Appeal film made in aid of the King George's fund for Sailors. Looks at the work of the fund - the Seamen's Mission providing food, shelter and clothing for sailors onshore and the Royal Liverpool Seaman's Orphanage with the children playing in the grounds. There's a look at the training ship, Indefatigable, which teaches boys seamanship, and at the Homes for Aged Mariners. The film ends with an appeal for funds. | |||
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| [COALY DRINKING AND LANTHWAITE STREAM] | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5920 | |||
| Footage of the family gathered outside, with Coaly the dog drinking from the bird bath. The children wade in the stream and build a dam. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [LANTHWAITE GREEN STREAM] | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5921 | |||
| Children wading in the stream at Lainthwaite Green while their mother looks on. Some footage of the water running down the rocks. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [PLUMTREE AND PIGLET] | |||
| Date: c1930 Film Number: 5922 | |||
| The family walk and play in the garden at Plumtree in Kendal, with Coaly the dog. Two girls play on the swings, and a boy looks at baby chicks in a cage. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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