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| [MAMMOTH CRANE LIFTING A LARGE PIPE] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 9240 | |||
| The 'Mammoth' crane lifts a large pipe into place with the Liver Building seen briefly in the background. | |||
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| [STEVEN AND PHILIP] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 8374 | |||
| Family and friends arrive at St Wilfrid's Church in Grappenhall for Philip's christening. At a restaurant, the group of family and friends sit down for a meal. At home, Steven helps his mother cut the christening cake. On Ainsdale beach, Steven builds sandcastles and plays in the sand before having some ice cream. Back home in his grandparents garden, Steven plays with his toy cars and picks flowers before his Father drives him back home. At home, Philip can be seen crawling around the sitting room. In the next scene, Steven plays in a snowy garden. He stands next to the tall snowman before his father takes him sledding. Later, Steven plays with a friend in the snow while Philip watches from indoors with his mother. | |||
| [JEFF'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 8526 | |||
| The film opens with scenes from Jeff's wedding, we see the bride and groom outside the church after the ceremony. Confetti is thrown and the couple leave in a car. We then see snow scenes. There are shots of a cat in a snowy garden, family members on a snowy street and a man, and then some children, clear the snow. | |||
| [COBURN FAMILY SCENES 1967-9] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 11222 | |||
| Compilation reel of family leisure footage, including trips to the countryside and North Wales – Criccieth and Portmeirion; garden scenes; kite flying; a home firework display on Bonfire Night, and rough seas at New Brighton. | |||
| [COBURN DOMESTIC AND LEISURE SCENES 1967-9] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 11223 | |||
| Compilation reel of family domestic and leisure footage, including a new baby, winter scenes, and visits to Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey and Chester Zoo. The reel also features scenes at the site of New Brighton Tower Ballroom in the aftermath of the 1969 fire, including aerial shots of the building. | |||
| [SCENES IN IRELAND] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 11317 | |||
| A holiday in Ireland, visiting relatives, featuring family and general rural scenes, including donkey rides, peat cutting, builders at work on a new house, a motor boat trip on a lake, and a picnic in a scenic location. | |||
| [CANAL CONSTRUCTION WORK AND SHIPPING] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 8012 | |||
| Cranes on the Manchester Ship Canal unloading large metal pipes from the freighter ‘Andre’; drilling and pile driving in the canal; welders at work on the piles; a tugboat tows the cargo ship ‘MV Carchester’ along the canal. | |||
| [BABY LOUISE, ABERSOCH, WEDDINGS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1967-69 Film Number: 9502 | |||
| Compilation reel of Healey family and leisure footage, including young Louise as a baby and toddler; two weddings; holiday scenes in Abersoch; Lancashire County Fire Brigade tackling a fire at Britain Hill church; conker championships; a rail journey stopping at Broadfield Station in Heywood, and scenes in Portmeirion and Caernarvon. | |||
| [NICOLA - THE EARLY YEARS] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 9553 | |||
| Baby Nicola is seen in her carry cot, being bottle-fed by her grandmother, lying in a basket in the garden, and being bathed. As she gets older, she crawls around the house, shares a dog basket with a poodle and is fussed over by relatives. The reel ends with family members out and about in the countryside. | |||
| [WONDERFUL WORLD] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10132 | |||
| A young man relaxes by listening to a record of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’. Sitting in a comfortable chair, he smokes a cigarette while we see images inspired by the lyrics – babies, children, the natural world etc. He finishes his cigarette, stubbing it out as the song reaches its end. | |||
| [DOGS AND PUPPIES] | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10136 | |||
| Scenes from family life with dogs, including walking in the countryside in all kinds of weather or playing on the beach and in the sea. A kitten makes an appearance, and the arrival of a large litter of puppies means a lot of work for the owners. There are also scenes at a dog training class in Knutsford, and a man demonstrates how an apprentice guide dog is put through its paces on a course. | |||
| STEAM AGE GIANTS | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10137 | |||
| Scenes from a traction engine rally held in mid-summer at Burtonwood Airfield. An assortment of engines and steamrollers are on display to the crowds of visitors, some of whom join in a vigorous tug of war with an engine. There is also a parade of vintage cars and motorcycles, and a funfair, with a merry-go-round and a short rifle range. | |||
| THE BIG GAMBLE | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10139 | |||
| A man struggling to find the money for a bill uses drastic measures, firstly pawning his wife’s fur coat, and then, tempted further, risking the proceeds on a roulette wheel in a local casino. But will his gamble pay off? | |||
| THE AERIAL | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10140 | |||
| While his wife goes shopping, a man goes up to his attic to fit a TV aerial. Discovering something alarming up there, he is horrified to find an old wartime bomb which starts ticking, But is the situation quite as desperate as it seems? | |||
| HARVEST TIME | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10141 | |||
| Countryside scenes at harvest time, including a combine harvester and hay baler at work in the fields, bees and other insects on flowers and berries, and a woman on a country lane picking blackberries to take home, while out walking her dogs. | |||
| JUST THE TICKET | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 10142 | |||
| A man who longs for a cine camera comes up with a clever ruse to acquire one without letting his wife know he is spending the money. A fellow conspirator and the timely purchase of raffle tickets seem to be just the ticket for this cunning plan. But he is not the only one who can play at that game… | |||
| [POLICE DOG TRAINING AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 10150 | |||
| Scenes of a police dog being trained to tackle an armed offender; a woman takes two dogs out for a walk in a forest, and there are close-up shots of a cat eating a half-dead mouse. | |||
| [REGENT ROAD, ALTRINCHAM AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 10151 | |||
| Scenes in park and at an open-air show, also shots of a cat walking up and down a ladder. Regent Road has cars in a car park and shots of a modern church building. The reel ends with a woman taking two dogs for a walk in the woods and then playing with them. | |||
| [SOLDERING, DOG TRAINING AND OFFCUTS] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 10152 | |||
| A compilation reel including scenes of children in a garden, dogs at a training centre and playing on a beach, and a man doing welding work on a car. | |||
| [DOG TRAINING AND MISCELLANEOUS OFFCUTS] | |||
| Date: 1967-9 Film Number: 10154 | |||
| Scenes at the dog training centre in Knutsford where a woman and her dog go through training exercises and the dog leaps over various obstacles; also miscellaneous offcuts and titles from the filmmaker’s other films. | |||
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