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[AFTER DEGREE CEREMONY]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3328
 
Students group together in Peel Park having received their degrees from Salford University. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/
 
 
 
[LANGUAGE CLASS AT SALFORD]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3347
 
Scenes shot in a German language class at the University of Salford - students sit on long tables with tutors, talking and smoking.
 
 
 
[SHOOTING TECHNIQUES]
Date: *1973 Film Number: 3378
 
Film demonstrating various film-making techniques using examples shot in a garden. It shows focusing on foreground and background (and moving between the two), cutting, various different levels of shot and ways to film people's faces. The film also features zooms and tracking shots.
 
 
 
[FILM TECHNIQUE]
Date: *1973 Film Number: 3380
 
Footage of a woman in a suburban garden shot to demonstrate various camera techniques - zoom, tracking shots, camera angles and editing among others.
 
 
 
THE PRECINCT
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3446
 
The film looks at the pedestrianisation and redevelopment of Bolton Town Centre between 1969 and 1973. Includes the planning history, black and white stills of the centre as it used to be, a lot of footage of pedestrians and traffic and a scale model of how the new centre will look. Also interviews with shoppers, the precinct in Winter and a Remembrance Day parade outside the Town Hall. Views of the redeveloped site and a short section of pixillation towards the end. The voice over describes the background to the changes.
 
 
 
[PARACHUTE AND MOTORCYCLE DISPLAY]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3449
 
Footage of various stunt displays in the Lancashire region, with motorcyclists forming pyramids of men, and parachutists flying through the air.
 
 
 
ELECTRICAL MACHINES
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3488
 
An Open University film about the use of electricity. The first half of the programme shows various experimental apparatus developed in the nineteeth century to generate an electrical charge, and details the history of the exploration of electricity. The second half of the film shows early electricity traction equipment, demonstrating it with shots of the Manx Electric Railway.
 
 
 
THE USE OF FERROUS METALS IN CONSTRUCTION
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3491
 
An Open University film about the use of various forms of iron in the construction of bridges. The shortcomings of stone bridges are explained, and there are shots of the first iron bridge at Coalbrookdale. Developments in the iron and engineering industries lead to the use of wrought iron, and the construction of more ambitious bridges, like those at Conwy castle and over the Menai straits, and ultimately, the Forth Bridge, designed by John Fowler and opened in 1890.
 
 
 
[BLACKPOOL ZOO]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3777
 
Footage of a visit to Blackpool Zoo, with shots of various animals in cages and enclosures and scenes of the Weiner children, David and Debbie. A miniature railway is seen, and there are shots of various rides at the Pleasure Beach. The children are also seen in a swimming pool - undersea footage is cut into the action.
 
 
 
[KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK ACTION]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3781
 
Footage of Knowsley Safari Park, with shots of various wild animals around and on top of the cars of visitors, intercut with feature material of lions in the wild. Footage of seals in their pool is intercut with feature footage of alligators swimming in for the kill. The Weiner children, David and Debbie, are seen.
 
 
 
[SCENES SHOT FOR] OPEN MIND
Date: *1973 Film Number: 3790
 
Footage shot for a production called 'Open Mind' - a group of children are playing by a school fence, and then by the banks of a canal or river (location possibly Sale).
 
 
 
CONTINENTAL HOLIDAY - [IBIZA 1]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3840
 
Brief scenes at an airport and views from a plane as it takes off. Ibiza scenes, including hotel exteriors, landscapes and streetscenes. Mr and Mrs Marland and friends sitting at street cafes and in a variety of locations around the island. Reel ends with shots of glassmakers at work.
 
 
 
[IBIZA 2]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3841
 
Footage from a holiday in Ibiza. Includes streetscenes, the sea front seen from a boat, people at the beach and at the cafe and landscape views. Also views at a Spanish Airport and from the plane as it takes off. Final views of the plane landing in England, airport not known.
 
 
 
[CLIMBING MAY 1973]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 3873
 
Footage of students from Sir John Deane's College in Northwich on a rock-climbing trip to Wingather near Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire. There are shots of various students tackling climbs of varying difficulty. There is also footage of a colony of wallabies that live in the area.
 
 
 
[VARIOUS DOG SHOWS]
Date: *1973 Film Number: 4085
 
Footage of Afghan Hounds being shown at one indoor and three outdoor dog shows. The dogs are seen being groomed and paraded by their owners, inspected by the judges, who then present prizes. The final dog show featured is probably Blackpool.
 
 
 
THE WHITE TREASURE
Date: *1973 Film Number: 4185
 
The film looks at the limestone area of Derbyshire, and the commercial quarrying of limestone. It emphasises the natural beauty of the area, and how quarrying works hand-in-hand to preserve it. The various different uses for limestone are explored - from road-building and the steel industry to water treatment at Ashton-in-Makerfield, sewage treatment in Sheffield and the use of limestone in the plastics and cosmetics industries. The film ends with a quarryman and a rambler enjoying a pint together as the sun sets in the countryside. Scenes include the Runcorn Bridge, Tissington Village in Derbyshire and the ICI works at Northwich.
 
 
 
THE ROAD TO A THOUSAND HORIZONS
Date: 1973 Film Number: 4477
 
Mr and Mrs Wells are seen on an extensive touring holiday of Spain and Portugal in their Austin J2 camper van in July and August 1973. They visit many different places including Montevideo, Oporto, Seville and Gibraltar before travelling back home through France.
 
 
 
FOUR HANDED DENTISTRY
Date: 1973 Film Number: 4928
 
Instructional film aimed at student dentists demonstrating techniques employed by dentists and dental nurses to aid the treatment of a patient. The film shows the correct positioning of a patient for the use of a drill and suction equipment, as well as the preparation and handling of filling materials.
 
 
 
OLD ENGLISH CRAFTS; CHARCOAL BURNING
Date: 1973 Film Number: 5146
 
Jack and Bill Allonby are filmed undertaking the process of traditional charcoal burning in Grizedale Forest. They are pictured collecting grass and building "hurdles" (wind shields) made of wood and bracken. A large stack of timber is constructed, starting with a centre pole supported by a tripod. A "motty peg" is shaped and placed on top of the centre pole to create a chimney for the stack. Jack and Bill are seen lining the sides of the completed stack with grass and soil to prevent air getting in. Grass sods are dug and placed on top of the stack for the same purpose. After shots of the men taking a break in their nearby "living cabin", the motty peg is removed from the stack, charcoal is placed inside the chimney and the burning process begins. Jack and Bill are shown returning to the stack, cooling it using water and soil, then opening it up and transferring the charcoal into sacks using oak baskets. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html
 
 
 
[RACHAEL'S CHRISTENING]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 5388
 
This short film shows mother and baby Rachael before and after her Christening, as well as the party arriving and entering the Church, then chatting and posing for photographs. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
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