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Record 7156 – 7175 of 11241
| [AT THE BAR AND AFTERWARDS] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 5708 | |||
| Couple stand at a home bar, laughing and drinking aware of the camera recording the action. The woman from the couple is then joined by another woman who continue drinking and laughing in a similar vain, then pose in a wig and hat. The two women fall to the floor laughing. The original couple dance the twist before cuddling on the sofa. The women then lark about on the stairs and attempt to slide down the bannister. | |||
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| [ROTARY CLUB XMAS SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 5710 | |||
| Camera pans across people seated at tables for a Christmas celebration. Women stand on a stage to sing and people are seen dancing and talking. Film ends with shots filmed from TV of the Pope and Vatican. | |||
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| [BUTTERFLY AND CHRISTMAS SCENES IN THE HOME] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 5711 | |||
| The film starts with shots of a butterfly in the garden. Footage of a Christmas party at home, drinks are poured at the bar for guests who stand, chat and smoke in merriment. A woman sits in an armchair by a Christmas tree and talks. The film concludes with women refilling drinks at the bar. | |||
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| [SCHOOL OVERSEAS HOLIDAY: ITALY] | |||
| Date: c1967-9 Film Number: 11406 | |||
| Pupils and teachers of Bolton School on holiday in Italy begins with the boys onboard a boat and then exploring Roman ruins including an amphitheatre. The boys swimming in the sea and clambering onto a surfboard. A large pelican sat on the harbour wall is followed by views from a boat and campsite scenes. More boat scenes exploring sea caves are followed by two boys on a ski lift and the pupils waiting for a train. | |||
| [MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY AND DOCK SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1967-9 Film Number: 9943 | |||
| A family holiday with seafront and Lake Windermere scenes. A tugboat in Barrow docks, possibly the Glasson Dock, followed by a naval ship launch and a submarine is seen in the Walney Channel entering the docks. Parts of this film were shot at dusk and are underexposed. | |||
| [SEASIDE SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1960s Film Number: 3704 | |||
| The Wintrobe family are seen on a beach crowded with sunbathers. There are general views of the beaches, and Avril Wintrobe is seen playing in the sand and with a doll. We then cut to scenes around the seaside town, strolling along the prom. There are shots of shops, the 'Majestic' Hotel and flowerbeds. | |||
| [WHIT WALKS AND WEDDINGS] | |||
| Date: *1966-71 Film Number: 1888 | |||
| Film including footage of various Whit Walks. Features shots of boy scouts, Failsworth and District Brass Band, a rose queen and her attendants and a variety of banner carrying groups. There follows footage of three weddings. Guests are seen arriving and mingling with the wedding parties outside the churches. There are brief shots of children in fancy dress and floats. The film finishes with footage of a reception. There are close-ups of the food and shots of people dancing. | |||
| OUR FAMILY [TURNER] | |||
| Date: 1966-71 Film Number: 7349 | |||
| Various family scenes based around baby Paula at different stages of her development. Family members gather outside for her christening, before the baby is pictured in her high chair, playing with toys and sitting in a pram. There are further domestic scenes at Christmas and then at a birthday party, where a group of children have tea and play party games. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [A CRUISE ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF ENGLAND] | |||
| Date: *1966 1979 Film Number: 3747 | |||
| A Canadian Pacific cruise to Casablanca, Lisbon and Teneriffe. An older women is the focus of the film - she is seen enjoying herself relaxing on the ship, taking part in life jacket drill, and sightseeing at the various ports of call. Activites include swimming in the pool, and sack and stilt races. The woman is also seen at home, and visiting another house, linking arms with her friends in the garden. | |||
| [SAILING - CONWAYS; WEDDING SAMUELS FAMILY; MARK C6 MONTHS] | |||
| Date: *1966-71 Film Number: 10404 | |||
| Preparing the boat and then sailing scenes off the Conway coast. Sefton and his best man ride to the synagogue in full morning suits on a tandem bike. Helen, the bride, leaves home and gets into the wedding car followed by underexposed scenes in the synagogue and the wedding service. A 6 month old Mark Samuels playing with a bucket and spade, walking in the countryside and paddling in the sea. | |||
| [OBAN, CHRISTMAS AND FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1966-71 Film Number: 10862 | |||
| Compilation reel of family leisure footage, including a holiday in Oban and another at a Holimarine caravan park; Christmas scenes at home with children opening their presents; children and a baby in a Manchester park; children playing in the garden, and having a snowball fight on a wintery street, and races at a school sports day. | |||
| THE REDEVELOPMENT OF NORTHWICH [REELS 1 & 2] | |||
| Date: 1966-72 Film Number: 3865 | |||
| Footage of the redevelopment work in the town of Northwich. Buildings are demolished and there are shots of the town centre before it is remodelled. There are shots of building sites and partially erected buildings. There is footage of the new concrete shopping centre being put together, and in reel two, scenes of the official opening of the centre on the 21st of July 1972 by the Duchess of Kent. | |||
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| [BUILDING OUR HOUSE - TY COCH] | |||
| Date: *1966-72 Film Number: 10128 | |||
| Shot over several years, this is a record of the filmmaker and his wife turning a derelict farmhouse on Anglesey into a habitable rural home for themselves and their dogs. The film includes scenes of the couple hard at work on the building itself, where a lot of structural alterations were involved, and a wide range of building skills required, and also outside, clearing the overgrown land to turn into a garden. | |||
| THE CS12 MACHINE | |||
| Date: *1966/73 Film Number: 6621 | |||
| Promotional film which looks at the manufacture and operation of a ring spinning frame at Scragg Yarn Developments Ltd of Macclesfield. Opens with views of steel workers feeding a blast furnace, followed by frame components being machined in a lathe and thread being tested in a laboratory. The completed frame is then seen being operated, including close ups of various working parts and scenes of a woman lacing up the machine and changing bobbins. | |||
| [YUGOSLAVIAN HOLIDAYS] | |||
| Date: *1966/73 Film Number: 6689 | |||
| Scenes from the West family's holidays to Yugoslavia in 1966 and 1973, including views of Dubrovnik, Karcula and Mostar. | |||
| BREDBURY ST MARK'S SCOUTS | |||
| Date: 1966-73 Film Number: 8600 | |||
| A compilation reel of local scouting activities, including autumn fetes, and camping scenes with the scouts cooking, washing up and building fires. There is also another camp in Rowarth, where the scouts make a rope bridge and go sailing. | |||
| [MISCELLANEOUS HOME SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1967-73 Film Number: 10143 | |||
| A compilation of offcuts, including indoor and outdoor scenes at the filmmaker’s home in Anglesey. There is show jumping at an outdoor event, and hot air balloons are inflated and take to the sky; a group of boys fish in a river; a dog goes mad at feeding time, and a cat is seen eating a mouse. Elsewhere, a woman wearing a leg plaster cast shows how to tackle a staircase; there are scenes in a greenhouse, a woman digs up vegetables from the garden, and a man clears snow from a yard. | |||
| [AUDENSHAW AND OTHERS] | |||
| Date: 1966 - 1974 Film Number: 2828 | |||
| Mixed footage - driving through Audenshaw, Blackpool illuminations, whit walks, Belle Vue Prize band, a cricket match at Old Trafford, suburban gardens in Dukinfield, and shots of Stockport centre in the evening / early morning. | |||
| [KENDAL PAGEANT AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1966-76 Film Number: 8215 | |||
| Scenes from a Pageant in the Cumbrian town of Kendal to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the town's Royal Charter are followed by various people in various different gardens, as well as general views of Kendal streets. | |||
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| [THE 1969 CHA DANCE] | |||
| Date: 1966/7/9 Film Number: 4311 | |||
| The Altrincham CHA [Countryside Holidays Association] hold an Easter Party and Dance at Christchurch Hall in Timperley, with an Easter Bonnet Parade and Sybil Bletcher being pulled around the hall on a cart. Dancing lessons for members with Harold and Rose Corby are seen, and there is footage from a Review Night, with comedy sketches and singing. The CHA are seen walking at Ilkley before descending on Harry Ramsden's restaurant for fish and chips. Walking holidays to Grasmere in 1966 and Scarborough in 1967 by Altrincham CHA are also seen. | |||
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