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| "OUR SPECIALITY - YOUR SECURITY" | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 438 | |||
| Promotional film for National Farmers Union Insurance Services - a hayrick overheats and the farmer contacts the N.F.U. office in Stratford-upon-Avon for help. They send a rick inspector who instigates precautions against fire, and ten days later it has cooled. Shots of rick fire, where the farmer had not advised the N.F.U. | |||
| YORK | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 439 | |||
| Promotional film for National Farmers Union Insurance. A brief visit to the York branch of the N.F.U. followed by a tour of the city ending at the birth place of Sir Thomas Herbert (15th century) which is now the branch office. Interiors, showing staff at work. Close-ups of reps. Smiling staff leaving at the end of the day. | |||
| ULSTER WAY | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 440 | |||
| A travelogue - arriving at Belfast Lough; views of shipyards; Belfast city; coast road; Ballygalley Bay; farmers bartering at a cattle market; a typical Homestead; Vale of Antrim; Cushendum; Carrick-a-Rede - rope suspension bridge across a gorge and views of cliffs and the sea; Ballintoy; Giants Causeway; pigs on a farm; cutting peat; Lough Neagh and a fisherman; donkey carts and jaunting cars; homeward bound by sea. | |||
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| FRIDAY THE 13TH | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 441 | |||
| A promotional film for National Farmers Union Insurance - a day of disasters on the farm, beginning with oversleeping. The farmer's cattle have damaged someone else's crops; his farm hands force a car off the road; cattle get into a garden; disaster upon disaster. None of these things would be so bad if only he'd had N.F.U. Insurance cover. | |||
| PANTO DAY IN LIVERPOOL - UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BRIGHTEN MERSEYSIDE WITH THEIR MERRY CHARITY APPEAL | |||
| Date: *1930 Film Number: 637 | |||
| Newsreel film showing students in fancy dress as they dance before the crowds at the docks. Includes views of decorated floats and a street procession in the rain. | |||
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| ALL ABOUT MISS MUFFIT | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 735 | |||
| "The story of a little girl who grew up!" - shots of a little girl in the garden with toys and pets; acting out nursery rhymes; visiting Rhyl and Southport. | |||
| DOWN ON THE FARM | |||
| Date: 1930s Film Number: 736 | |||
| A visit to a farm - riding on a tractor, haymaking, the farm animals. Also some reversed jumping and running sequences; a swing in a tree; and some village shots. | |||
| [A RUGBY MATCH] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 824 | |||
| A band plays for the crowds at a rugby match; the team runs out onto the pitch. A group of adults are seen at a bus station - interior shots on a bus and view of the road from the bus window. A procession to Widnes war memorial and a wreath laying ceremony. At the end, the filmmaker experiments with some trick photography. | |||
| [A FAMILY GROUP] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 828 | |||
| A family group - in the garden of a large house, and at the seaside. | |||
| [CHILDREN PLAYING] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 829 | |||
| Children playing - at the seaside, running up and down the beach and paddling in the sea; in the garden. | |||
| [SHEEPDOG TRIALS] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 853 | |||
| Out in the country - various shots of a large waterfall; crowds of spectators at sheepdog trials; feeding the pigeons. | |||
| [IN THE PARK] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 879 | |||
| A visit to the park - childrens' play area; pushing the baby in a pram. At the seaside - donkey rides. The rock garden in Moss Bank Park. | |||
| [WALKDEN WHIT WALK] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 915 | |||
| Whit procession through Walkden town centre including altar boys; may queen; brass band; the church banner of St. Pauls. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 916 | |||
| A group of women on a visit to the Isle of Man - shots of town and promenade. | |||
| [THE OUTING] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 917 | |||
| A group of women at a holiday resort - shots of packed cars; by the sea; in the woods. | |||
| [A GOLFING HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 918 | |||
| A game of golf. Brief shots of several people in the woods. | |||
| [BY THE SEA] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 919 | |||
| A family holiday - paddling in the sea; on the promenade; feeding the seagulls. | |||
| [MERCHANT SHIP/FROZEN MEAT CARGO] | |||
| Date: c1930s Film Number: 943 | |||
| The merchant ship, Belnor Oslo, leaving dock. Animal carcasses are unloaded from a ship onto waiting LMS railway vans. | |||
| [CROWN MINES/COLLIERY TESTS] | |||
| Date: *1930 Film Number: 975 | |||
| Static shot of a meter board with moving needles on arched and round clocks. A model lift shaft pulley in operation. | |||
| [GLIDING, THE RACES] | |||
| Date: *1930 Film Number: 1012 | |||
| Gliding - a large group of men haul a glider across the moors; in flight. Activity on the race course. | |||
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