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| [MANCHESTER FIRES 5] | |||
| Date: *1965/6/8 Film Number: 851 | |||
| Manchester fires - a factory/warehouse fire on Back George Street; testing an aluminised suit; fire at a shirt factory on Great Ancoats Street - an elevator platform is used; police and press are seen; close up shot of a fireman wearing breathing apparatus. | |||
| WEST TO AURORA (AND NIAGARA) | |||
| Date: *1965/66/68 Film Number: 5614 | |||
| Passengers disembark from a Pan Am plane, and tourists take in the sights of New York, including the Statue of Liberty, by boat tour. Picnic scenes in Catoctin Mountain park. There are shots of suburban areas from the perspective of a moving car, and visitors look at the attractions in a shopping area, which include Madame Tussauds, a cinema, and a street artist. After a visit to a supermarket, scenes include children playing in a river, a man water-skiing, views of a suburban street, and a wedding party emerging from a church. At Niagara Falls, visitors view the waterfalls and take boat trips. | |||
| ANDREA'S ART [AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1965/67/68 Film Number: 5572 | |||
| In "Andrea's art," two children draw images on a long roll of paper. In "Serendipity," children play outside and take part in a various activities. A teacher plays the autoharp. Children play with clay, dress up, trampoline, dance round a maypole, play with toys, in the sandpit, and a water trough. They dig and look at flowers. In "Music and Movement," they mimic teachers' movements and dance to instruments and a record player. In, "Children at the Nursery school," children play with toys and on playground equipment. The children listen to a story and join in with teachers singing and playing the guitar. | |||
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| [CHARNLEY FAMILY; MORECAMBE; GRADUATION] | |||
| Date: c1966 Film Number: 8941 | |||
| At Marineland in Morecambe, trained seals and dolphins perform tricks. Afterwards, the family visit the amusements and feed the pigeons. Brief shots of a toddler in the garden with a kitten. On the beach, children go on donkey rides. On a family holiday to Ireland, the family go for walk along a country road. Later, the youngest boy can be seen helping a local woman bring the cows into the farmyard. A Holyhead ferry can be seen docking, cars then drive off the ferry. Back at home, Mr. Charnley goes rowing out on a lake. At home, Bernard watches as a butterfly emerges from its chrysalis. Bernard practices roller skating on the footpath outside the family home. The younger boy can be seen holding a pet tortoise in the garden. The film ends with brief shots of a graduation ceremony. | |||
| [WHIT WALK AND LAKELAND HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: 1965/68 Film Number: 10279 | |||
| The Stark girls dressed for the Whit Walk leave their home with their mother and grandparents. At St John's Church the walk begins with the children carrying baskets of flowers following clergymen and choirboys. The Stark family on holiday in the Lake District with farm scenes including a farmer shearing sheep and the family enjoying a boat trip on a lake. | |||
| POWER | |||
| Date: *1965/68/69 Film Number: 8492 | |||
| Various modes of power and transport - it begins with views of a power station, then looks at man-power in the form of a hiker. cyclist and a man inflating a balloon until it pops. Next we have vintage cars, steam and traction engines, go-karts, cars, buses, helicopters, a lathe, and McAlpine excavators and lorries. | |||
| BELLE VUE GARDENS | |||
| Date: 1965/8/72 Film Number: 6888 | |||
| A compilation of three films showing Belle Vue gardens and zoo, Blackpool seafront and aeroplanes taxing along at Manchester Airport. Two young girls and a brother enter Belle Vue Gardens and look at animals in the zoo, then take a ride on a minature railway. There is a short title caption credit continuing with a group of holidaymakers paddling in the sea, shots of Blackpool Tower and a crowded beach with children taking donkey rides. Concludes with scenes from the observation deck of various aeroplanes taxiing and taking off at Manchester Airport. | |||
| [CORNISH HOLIDAYS; HOME AND COUNTRYSIDE] | |||
| Date: 1965/9 Film Number: 4684 | |||
| The Bagley family are seen on holiday in Cornwall in 1965 and 1969 - on the beach and at Mevagissey. At home in Alderley Edge, Chris and Kim are seen in the garden on their bikes and the family take a trip to Wildboarclough. Further footage from a Cornish holiday of a fishing expedition, a boat trip and the carnival at Gorran Haven is followed by trick photography in the garden at Alderley Edge. | |||
| [FISHING FROM FLEETWOOD] | |||
| Date: *1965/72/4 Film Number: 4448 | |||
| Life on board a trawler at sea - nets are mended, the catch is hauled in, sorted and gutted. There are rough seas, and the trawler returns home, stopping via the Scottish Islands before arriving back at Fleetwood where the fish are unloaded, sorted and filleted at the market. | |||
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| [ELK MILL MULE SHOTS] | |||
| Date: 1965/79 Film Number: 4054 | |||
| Film of a spinning mule in operation at Elk Mill in Royton, Oldham. Close-ups of the various parts of the machinery are seen, as are more general views of the mule in action and the people operating it. | |||
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| THE SPINNING MULE | |||
| Date: 1965/79 Film Number: 4055 | |||
| Film of a spinning mule in operation at Elk Mill in Royton, Oldham. Close-ups of the various parts of the machinery are seen, as are more general views of the mule in action and the people operating it. | |||
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| [THE SPINNING MULE - TRIMS] | |||
| Date: 1965/79 Film Number: 4056 | |||
| Film of a spinning mule in operation at Elk Mill in Royton, Oldham. Close-ups of the various parts of the machinery are seen, as are more general views of the mule in action and the people operating it. | |||
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| [DEATH OF A TREE; LIVERPOOL; TRIP UP BLACKPOOL TOWER] | |||
| Date: 1965/6 Film Number: 9359 | |||
| A compilation of three short films beginning with 'Death of a Tree' which begins with a newspaper headline 'Victim of the Gale' followed by shots of the felled tree. The second film, 'Liverpool' features ships on the Mersey, the Liver Building and seagulls. After a brief interlude where a boy plays with an etch-a-sketch the final film is 'A trip up Blackpool Tower' with views from the lift going to the top of the tower. | |||
| TOWN BELOW THE MOOR | |||
| Date: 1966 Film Number: 233 | |||
| Rochdale's development through the industrial revolution and after is the theme - road, rail and canal building; sheep farming; weavers cottages; the development of factories; large mills and the emergence of steam power; the Rochdale canal; steam trains leaving Littleborough and Rochdale stations; the pollution of the River Roch; slums in the town centre created by the factory system; shots of council housing in the 1920's and general views of the town and its centre. | |||
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| SIXTY GLORIOUS SUMMERS | |||
| Date: *1966 Film Number: 397 | |||
| An opening sequence shows Southport in the 1920s. The rest of the film describes all the attractions of holidays in Southport - Pleasureland; boating lake; beauty competition; the pier; the beach; open-air pool; model village; pets; golf course; Rufford Old Hall; Hesketh Park; flowers; Flower Show; final aerial views. | |||
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| THE GEORGE SAXON ENGINE, MAGNET MILL, OLDHAM | |||
| Date: 1966 Film Number: 400 | |||
| Extensive shots of Magnet Mill which opened in 1903 and closed in 1967. Views of engine room. Shots of interior of mill with men operating machinery. View of boiler house which houses Lancashire boilers. Close ups of various parts of the engine whilst commentary explains how engine works. 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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| SPINNING YOUR FUTURE | |||
| Date: *1966 Film Number: 415 | |||
| Traces the development of the cotton industry in Lancashire, and its decline after 1914. Shows the new machinery which replaced the old from 1959. | |||
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| [WAUGH'S WELL] | |||
| Date: c1966 Film Number: 703 | |||
| Commentary by Brian Trueman, from Bowedge near Burnley, where 2 weeks before people had gathered to pay homage to writer Edwin Waugh - shots of the countryside and Waugh's house on the moor. He talks of Waugh's love of Lancashire dialect, and recites several dialect poems. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL SHOW, 1966] TRAILER | |||
| Date: 1966 Film Number: 709 | |||
| Trailer for Blackpool Show, 1966 - including beach photographer and archive footage. | |||
| POSITIVE POWER TRANSMISSION | |||
| Date: *1966 Film Number: 715 | |||
| Made in conjunction with Holroyd Machine Manufacturers, the film shows the use of Renold Chains on heavy duty machinery. | |||
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