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Record 8324 – 8343 of 11241
| [HOLKER HALL, CONCORDE OVER CLEVELEYS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1971-72 Film Number: 7221 | |||
| Assorted footage featuring members of the Hodkinson family. Opens with a visit to Holker Hall in Cumbria, with views of the house and grounds. At Cleveleys, a big crowd turns out to watch Concorde flying low along the coast. Dorothy is shown with her granddaughters enjoying the rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and there are also shots of the sea front and Illuminations. Comedian Frank Carson arrives by helicopter at the Rossall School fete in Fleetwood, which also features a parachute demonstration. At Fleetwood, a steamer departs for the Isle of Man and a lifeboat is launched. Also features scenes in Scarborough, Knaresborough and Gretna Green. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| HOLIDAYS IN FRANCE 1971 | |||
| Date: 1971/2 Film Number: 6492 | |||
| Scenes from a Waller family camping holiday in France in 1971. Views of the campsite at Mont Richard and of the ferry crossing from Dieppe to Dover. Followed by a second holiday to Sarlat from 1972, featuring a visit to Rocamadour and wandering around the countryside in the Dordogne. | |||
| [STEVEN, PHILIP AND FAMILY] | |||
| Date: 1971-2 Film Number: 8375 | |||
| Richard's christening was held on the 5th of September 1971. Friends and family can be seen arriving at St Wilfrid's Church in Grappenhall. After the service, guests make their way to a restaurant for a meal. The film cuts to scenes of Steven riding a mini motorbike in a field. In December, the family celebrate Philip's birthday with a football themed birthday cake. Later, the family can be seen arriving at Hartford Hall in Northwich. Richard's grandmother takes him out for a walk in his pram. Back at home, Richard plays with his stuffed toys. In May 1972, the family go on holidays to Cemaes in Wales where they stay at the Woburn Hill guest house. On the beach, Steven and Philip play football with their grandmother. They go swimming in the sea followed by building sandcastles. The family celebrate Richard's 1st birthday with a mouse themed cake. Out in the garden, Richard plays with his toys and with his brothers. | |||
| [HOPWOOD FAMILY SCENES - CHRISTMAS, WEDDING, ZOO, BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1971-2 Film Number: 8507 | |||
| A compilation of scenes from the Hopwood Family. A large group of family members spend Christmas together packed in to a small sitting room, there are domestic scenes in the kitchen as food is prepared and the washing up is done. We see a couple in the garden, he does the gardening while she puts out the washing. There are family wedding scenes and we see the family out and about on various daytrips. They take a trip to the zoo where we see various animals, and there are countryside scenes where a large group of family members have picnics, sunbathe and go for walks. There are beach scenes too, where the family relax on the beach and eat ice creams on the seafront. | |||
| [BARROW PARADE 1972; IT'S A KNOCKOUT 1971] | |||
| Date: 1971/2 Film Number: 11022 | |||
| A police car leads troupes of dancers at the beginning of the Barrow parade followed by brass bands, people in fancy dress, decorated floats with carnival queens and several kazoo bands. We next see the kazoo bands on the carnival showground marching in elaborate formations and the Carnival Queens sat on their thrones. Scenes from the TV show 'It's a Knockout' featuring competitors collecting buckets of water whilst wearing roller-skates, heading footballs past a goalkeeper on a trampoline and doing an obstacle course carrying a ladder. | |||
| [BOLTON BOYS IN TURKEY] | |||
| Date: *1971/72 Film Number: 11442 | |||
| Campsite scenes from the Bolton School Boys holiday in Turkey. Seaviews then the boys preparing and cooking over a fire. Next we see the boys boarding a coach then sat on a wall eating. Exploring the ancient ruins of Troy including an ampitheatre and the Temple of Hadrian. More campsite scenes followed by the boys sat at a cafe then looking at soome more ancient ruins. A local man cooks lamb on a spit over burning coals followed by the boys sleeping and eating at the campsite. | |||
| [SADDLEWORTH MUSICAL SOCIETY - DIE FLEDERMAUS & YEOMAN OF THE GUARD] | |||
| Date: 1971-2 Film Number: 10690 | |||
| The Saddleworth Musical Society's production of ' Die Fledermaus' with the stage crew painting the scenery, hanging cloths and adjusting the lighting followed by full dress rehearsals with an orchestra. A production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard' in 1972 with performers in costume being photographed for the programme. Backstage crew hanging lights and building the scenery followed by rehearsals of the operetta. | |||
| [CANAL BOAT HOLIDAY AND STEAM RALLY] | |||
| Date: *1971/2 Film Number: 11850 | |||
| The Moston boys on a canal boat holiday on the Trent and Mersey canal, we see the boys opening locks and passing boats as they sail through the countryside. At a steam rally we see vintage tractors, cars and motorbikes as well as various steam traction engines. Returning to the canal boat we pass through the Thurlwood Steel Lock and cross an aqueduct. | |||
| [TROOP ACTIVITIES 1971-2] | |||
| Date: 1971-2 Film Number: 5405 | |||
| Activities of the 3rd Barrow-in-Furness (Grammar School) Scout Troop, 1971-2. Youth hostelling in the Lakes and Scotland, and camping in the Duddon Valley and other places in Cumbria. General scouting activities - hill-walking, swimming, preparing and cooking food. The scouts also bake a cake and are seen mucking around on a home-made raft. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [CANARY ISLANDS 3] | |||
| Date: *1971-73 Film Number: 3838 | |||
| Canary Island holiday footage. Mr and Mrs Marland and friends on board a ship. Views of the coastline and mountains, as seen from the ship. General views of the island, much of it shot from a moving vehicle. | |||
| [WINDSOR CASTLE; MORECAMBE; GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 6004 | |||
| Scenes at Windsor Castle are followed by views of Morecambe - gardens and sea front. A group of children are seen playing with the dog back home in Bury. | |||
| ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF HOG | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 6031 | |||
| Animated film to promote Manchester University's Rag Week - a hedgehog called Hog is seen wandering around Manchester. | |||
| SELECTION BOX | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 7226 | |||
| Members of the Young People's Fellowship at Hatherlow devise and star in their own film. Opens with a short comic sketch before the opening titles in which a young boy on the street peers through a window and is scared off by a "lion". A subcommittee then discusses how to make a film that could be shown at club meetings. Each member has a different idea; a spoof tour of Romiley, games and activities at the club, a Frankenstein monster carrying off a girl from a churchyard and a James Bond-style movie featuring a car with special gadgets. The resulting film, a combination of all four ideas, is then shown to club members. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [SELECTION BOX OFFCUTS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 7227 | |||
| Off cuts and out takes from 'Selection Box', a film made by members of the Hatherlow Young People's Fellowship. YPF committee members come up with ideas for films. 'Son of Metropolis' features shots of a modern city (St Peter's Square, Hulme, Piccadilly Hotel and other Manchester tower blocks) and an inventor trying out his 'drive-able chair'. A second idea shows two men challenging each other to a duel to see who gets the girl and the final idea showcases club facilities with young people playing badminton. There follow out takes from the rest of the film together with family scenes including Jane and Christine playing with the family dog. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [WEDDING PHOTOS AND A SUNNY DAY IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 7837 | |||
| The bride and groom pose for photographs with their bridesmaids and best man while guests stand and chat. In a sunny garden, a young girl enjoys jumping through a water sprinkler. | |||
| [SWISS ALPS AND SKELLY CHILDREN FEEDING A DEER] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 7911 | |||
| The film starts with shots of the Swiss Alps filmed from the window of an aeroplane. We see the Skelly family in their garden and Paul plays in the street with a ball and the dog. We then see the Skelly family on a day out. They enjoy a picnic and then we see the Skelly children, along with other children, feeding and petting a deer in the car park. The children push an adult on a rope swing. Back home Paul and Kay pose for the camera holding their dogs. | |||
| FAMILY ALBUM | |||
| Date: 1971-3 Film Number: 7928 | |||
| The Shalks family album begins with Mrs Shalks leaving home for the maternity hospital, Aspland Maternity Home, and then we see a nurse carrying a new born baby girl, Julie, from the hospital. We then see lots of scenes of the baby girl at home and in the garden playing, being bathed and fed by her mother. There are holiday scenes from the Ofir Hotel, Portugal. We see the family around the hotel pool, Julie plays by the pool and in the pool with her father. We see Julie playing on the beach and in a playground and there is a also a folk dancing scene. | |||
| [ISLE OF WIGHT AND LAKE DISTRICT HOLIDAYS] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 8542 | |||
| The Lister family enjoy a touring holiday of the Isle of Wight. Arrving by ferry, they visit locations around the island including Ventnor, Blackgang Chine, Ryde, and St Catherine’s lighthouse. The reel ends with scenes from a caravan holiday in the Lake District. | |||
| [FISHPOND AND MAYPOLE] | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 8969 | |||
| The reel begins with a man walking around a garden with his granddaughter; they stop to look at a fishpond. The rest of the reel is scenes from a school festival, with children running around outside and dancing around a maypole in mock-historic costume. | |||
| A DAY AT BELLE VUE ZOO | |||
| Date: c1972 Film Number: 11311 | |||
| A comprehensive look around the attractions of Manchester's Belle Vue zoo, featuring a wide assortment of animals and birds, funfair attractions for adults and children, and elephant rides though the zoo. There is a Western shoot-out and a child gets a ride inside a Dalek. The reel ends with a firework display. | |||
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