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| THE MANCUNIAN SWIM SQUAD (REEL TWO) | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 6611 | |||
| Scenes from the Mancunian Swim Squad's 1972 trip to the Amateur Swimming Association 's (ASA) Championships at Crystal Palace, featuring competitors setting off from Manchester Piccadilly Station and arriving at Crystal Palace on foot. A series of relay races are shown, together with views of a diving competition. Diane Ashton is seen winning the 200m backstroke and is pictured in a back garden with her trophy, before the whole squad get back to regular training at New Islington Pool. Closes with races from the ASA Festival in Leeds and shots of the squad's Division II team preparing for a bus trip to Tynemouth. | |||
| [WESTHOUGHTON CARNIVAL 1972 & PRESTON GUILD MERCHANT 1972] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 6811 | |||
| Scenes from the Westhoughton Carnival 1972 featuring a variety of floats moving along the main street and locals enjoying themselves at a funfair. Ends with views of the Preston Guild Merchant 1972 including a medieval jousting display, parachuting from the Red Devils and a military band parade. | |||
| [CHESTER ZOO AND BIRKDALE GARDENS] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 5716 | |||
| The film begins with shots at Chester Zoo with an alligator, then images of snake moving in tanks. Footage of exotic flowers in a greenhouse, then wild birds in an aviary followed by a polar bear and tapir. Moving images depicting Birkdale gardens with birds feeding on the lawn and close-ups of a variety of different flower species. | |||
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| [AFRICAN LANDSCAPES AND WATERFALL] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 5520 | |||
| African landscape is filmed from a landing aircraft, followed by shots of a waterfall, rainbow, and foliage. | |||
| [KARIBA DAM AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 5521 | |||
| Footage filmed on the Kariba lake in Zimbabwe showing native foliage and animals such as hippopotamuses. VIews are then filmed from moving car windows and an aeroplane. | |||
| [JULIE IN THE GARDEN, BABY JILLIAN AND THE START OF A CARNIVAL 1972] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 7950 | |||
| Julie plays in the garden with her father, Allen, and then we see baby Jillian at home. She sits on the carpet, and then in a carry chair drinking from a cup and then she chews a ribbon. We see brief scenes from a carnival parade with a marching brass band, the local mayor and a dance troupe. | |||
| GRAPPENHALL WALKING DAY 1972 | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 8395 | |||
| Scenes from Grappenhall Walking Day 1972, the procession is led by church representatives followed by a brass band, children carrying banners and scouts and cubs. For Steven's 8th birthday party he has a football themed birthday cake. In the garden, children play and sit around a table for food. Christmas 1972, the boys stand in front of the Christmas tree in the sitting room. The children and other family members are seen opening presents. New Year 1973, the children play outside in the snow. They build a snowman and have a snowball fight with their dad. | |||
| FIRE | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 9229 | |||
| In September 1972 we see firefighters from the Lancashire County Fire Brigade fighting a fire at St. Leonard's Church in Padiham. Some of the firefighters use hoses at ground level and others fight the fire from the roof using long ladders. There are a crowd of onlookers watching as events unfold and some members of the public rescue items from the church. | |||
| [AUTUMN SPEED] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 9366 | |||
| High speed motorboat races in the Lake District shot through the trees that are changing into their autumnal colour. | |||
| [RED ARROWS IN BLACKPOOL] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 9367 | |||
| The Red Arrows at Blackpool Airport with the planes taxiing onto the runway and taking off. The display team fly in formation with coloured smoke trails and aerobatic flying. As part of the air show a Royal Navy Rescue helicopter flies low over the crowd followed by a Vulcan bomber fly past and various military aircraft, including a vintage Lancaster Bomber, being inspected by the public . | |||
| [PRESTON GUILD 1972: A SELECTION] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 9368 | |||
| Large crowds of spectators line the streets for the 1972 Preston Guild parade which begins with people dancing in historical costumes. A stage in front of the town hall has various civic dignitaries giving speeches. A torch lit procession with Illuminations above the roads. Bunting and paper decorations on various streets and scenes from the preparations for a street party. The film ends with views of the Guild Hall under construction | |||
| [CUB SCOUT FOOTBALL MATCH 1972] | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 9412 | |||
| Match action from a cub scout football match at a local park | |||
| [BURY PROCESSION & YUGOSLAVIAN HOLIDAY SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 9855 | |||
| Pom-pom waving majorettes and a brass band followed by decorated floats and cars take part in the Bury carnival parade. We also see a Hodson lorry with a rubber milling machine on the trailer. Over exposed shots of a holiday in Yugoslavia with boys snorkling in the sea and sightseeing scenes. | |||
| UNDERCOVER | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 10515 | |||
| A short film that begins with a wife discovering her husbands adult magazine and binning it. The husband returns home and rescues the mag only for his wife to throw it away again. To fool his wife he places the magazine inside the cover of a car mag only for this to be discovered again by the now irate wife. | |||
| FAG AND MATCH | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 10516 | |||
| An old woman desperate for a cigarette resorts to rolling her own with tea and cauliflower leaves. Then the woman uses her husbands football match ticket as a cigarette paper much to the annoyance of her husband. The film ends with the prize-winning film makers with their trophy. | |||
| [PARACHUTE DISPLAY AND CANAL BOAT SHOW] | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 11074 | |||
| A parachute display team perform, followed by scenes from a canal boat event as the local Mayor sails past on one of many narrow boats decked in bunting and Union Jacks. The Warrington Silver Band follow in another boat. | |||
| [YORK CITY CENTRE AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 11082 | |||
| Two boys are seen in a motorboat and a dinghy on the river. There are scenes in York city centre - the Minster seen from busy surrounding streets, and shots of buildings backing directly onto the river. | |||
| CUNARD 1972 SEA AND ISLAND CARIBBEAN HOLIDAYS | |||
| Date: 1972 Film Number: 11214 | |||
| Mr and Mrs Fisher go on a Caribbean holiday. The film begins with views from the aeroplane coming in to land on one of the islands, and the next scenes are from Antigua where we see Mrs Fisher eating a sugar cane. There are scenes from the deck of a Cunard cruise ship and scenes from Venezuela of a cable car above Caracas. In Antigua the Fishers stay in a beachside apartment. We see Mr Fisher snorkelling and catching fish. He poses with a big shell that he has found, and a fish. We see a fisherman with his catch of big lobsters, and we see Mrs Fisher with a lizard. | |||
| [INGHAM FAMILY - GARDEN AND PONY] | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 11444 | |||
| Mr Ingham holds his daughter on his knee as he sits on a bench in the garden. Two small boys play with a burst football in the garden. The Ingham family in the countryside with their grandmother and a pony. | |||
| [INGHAM FAMILY GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1972 Film Number: 11445 | |||
| The Ingham children play in the garden and then sit with their grandmother on a bench. Mr Ingham plays cricket in the garden with his son followed by a little girl feeding chickens. | |||
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