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| [ROYAL EVENTS IN MARPLE] | |||
| Date: 1967/70/7 Film Number: 4138 | |||
| Film of several Royal events in Marple. Groups of children waving flags line the road to see Queen Elizabeth II on her way to open a garden and leisure centre in 1967. There is a garden party for the Silver Jubilee at the Brook's family home, and the Queen is seen at Hazel Grove in the same year. A display of decorated cakes are shown at a college, and a class of ladies make Easter Eggs in the kitchens. The film ends with Nigel Brook and Edna Wheawell (Thelma Brook's mother) walking the dog in the park, and then returning to her house in Cavendish Road, West Didsbury. | |||
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| HOLIDAY MOMENTS 1967 | |||
| Date: 1967/c75 Film Number: 5043 | |||
| The Smiths' camping holiday at Highbank Farm, Hardhorn on the Fylde coast. Michael and Hazel play while Mr Smith has a wash and shave. They sit outside a beach hut at Cleveleys and the children play on the beach. The next section is filmed much later, when Michael and Hazel are teenagers and on holiday in North Wales with their parents. They visit a beach and fairground, watch a ferry depart from Holyhead to the Isle of Man, and see a donkey derby at Pontins in Prestatyn. Back in 1967, the children play on swings and a slide and a 70th birthday party is held for Jack and Alice. There are hill walking scenes and, finally, footage from a Whit Walk on a rainy day in the Swinton area. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [WEDDING; CHRISTMAS PRESENTS; CARAVAN SITE] | |||
| Date: *1967/76/81 Film Number: 3820 | |||
| Scenes from the wedding of Kevin and Lucy. Guests arriving and the wedding party posing for photographs. Further scenes at the reception, cutting the cake and dancing. Brief scenes of Daniel in the bath, pretending to swim. Children opening their christmas presents in the lounge. Finally men riding motorbikes round a caravan site. | |||
| [PARK AND COUNTRY SCENES; DANCING] | |||
| Date: *1967/77/81 Film Number: 3827 | |||
| Views of a snow covered street and of children sledging. Also snow scenes in Stamford Park, including the childrens playground, wildfowl and rabbits, skating on a frozen pond and footprints in the snow. Further countryside snow scenes. Continues with scenes at a dog show or obedience class. Ends with scenes of elderly and middle-aged couples dancing, children dancing and a fancy dress parade, possibly in a church hall. | |||
| POWER BEHIND THE SPINDLE | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 406 | |||
| An old gentleman explains to a young boy how a steam engine works, using models and shots of various engines working. Cross compound engine, tandem compound engine, and triple expansion engines are shown. 1968, and the dismantling of a steam engine which has been replaced by an electric motor. Locations include Saxon Mill, Droylsden, Ace Mill, Chadderton and Coppull Ring Mill in Lancashire. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| INTERLACING THREADS | |||
| Date: c1968 Film Number: 413 | |||
| Contents of course in textile technology which introduces new fibres, processes, machines and instruments to the students. Shows spinning laboratory, testing laboratory and design department. | |||
| ST. MARY'S THE BAUM | |||
| Date: 1968 Film Number: 449 | |||
| A portrait of a Parish Church - its buildings, activities and services. (Narrated by the Rev.R.A.Shone) | |||
| THE RIVER SPODDEN | |||
| Date: 1968 Film Number: 452 | |||
| From its Lancashire source near Shawforth; through Whitworth; near the Lancashire-Yorkshire railway; to Rochdale. | |||
| A NEW IMAGE | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 595 | |||
| 'Clogs and shawls now a myth in N.E.Lancs.' Burnley and the surrounding area seen through the eyes of the family of Londoner Reg Johnson. Contrasted to the hustle and bustle of London's rush hour are scenes including - the surrounding countryside; the Lake District and Skipton; Manchester airport; local schools, colleges and industry; housing; leisure activities - including rock climbing, canoeing, and football at Turf Moor. | |||
| CANADA 1968 | |||
| Date: 1968 Film Number: 746 | |||
| A family holiday in Canada - opening shots at the airport, and a view of the runway on take-off; a busy open-air swimming pool, and children playing in an inflatable pool; Expo 1968 - exhibitions, displays and parades; camping and fishing on Lake Gautier. | |||
| [WHITWORTH ART GALLERY] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 773 | |||
| The Whitworth Art Gallery - exterior shot of a banner advertising a printing exhibition and interior shots of some exhibits; streetscenes in Manchester, including Central Reference Library and Piccadilly gardens; shop fronts; the Odeon and Oxford cinemas and the National Film Theatre Manchester. | |||
| [TECHNICAL OPERATIONS] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 774 | |||
| Close ups of parts of different machines - including one with a plate which reads 'Mather & Platt Manchester', and a large satellite dish. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [GOING SHOPPING] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 775 | |||
| Shots inside a shopping precinct; close ups of the feet of people in the street; and a police morris minor parked in the street. | |||
| [MAKING A SPEECH] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 777 | |||
| Close up shots of a male student making a speech. Behind him is a banner which reads 'The Suppression of French....' | |||
| [A LOOK AROUND MANCHESTER] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 796 | |||
| Brief glimpses of Manchester - traffic around St. Peters Square; shop windows; exhibits at the Whitworth Art Gallery; office blocks; Piccadilly station approach; cinemas on Oxford Street - the Odeon, showing Anne of the Thousand Days, and The Lost Man at the Oxford. | |||
| THE PORT OF MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 1052 | |||
| Made for the Ports and Terminals Exhibition 1969, shipping and cargo handling facilities are shown along the Manchester Ship Canal - includes the pipelines of the Queen Elizabeth II oil dock; oil refineries at Stanlow; grain is discharged to a waiting barge and transported direct to the Kellogg's factory on the Trafford Park Industrial Estate. | |||
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| [CAPTIONS AND TITLES] | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 1122 | |||
| Title and captions. In the drawing office - office workers pose for the camera; rolls of paper stacked on desks. | |||
| GOODBYE TO STEAM | |||
| Date: 1968 Film Number: 1150 | |||
| Chronicles the last few days of steam at Rose Grove Railway Station - August 1968 - Includes shots of the locomotive Oliver Cromwell that hauled the last regular steam train on BR. | |||
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| FOUR WITH BETJEMAN | |||
| Date: *1968 Film Number: 1359 | |||
| Poet John Betjemen looks at the work of Victorian architects Alfred Waterhouse and Norman Shaw. Manchester Town Hall, Cragside stately home (Northumberland) and Bedford Park garden suburbs (North London) are studied. | |||
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| SCOUTS CAMP - PLAS BODAFON 1968 | |||
| Date: 1968 Film Number: 1440 | |||
| Film of the 2nd Urmston Scout Group's visit to camp at Plas Bodafon, Wales, in 1968. Includes scenes of boarding the bus; the camp site; cooking; games and sport (with and without guides); hiking and visits to the beach, Snowdonia and a RAF station. | |||
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