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| [MISC. SALFORD STUDENT SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 10233 | |||
| Exteriors of Salford University building with graduates in gowns standing around with their families and friends talking, smoking and having photographs taken. Interior shots of students entering a building then standing around and talking. Next we have canteen scenes with students collecting , paying and eating their meals, [there is some duplication of these scenes]. The film ends with students drinking, talking and pints being pulled in the student bar. | |||
| [PRACTICAL FILM NIGHT 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10527 | |||
| The cine clubs 1973 practical film night features 4 short films and behind the scenes footage of the club members. The first film is 'Innocents Abroad' a short drama featuring an officious customs officer checking luggage for contraband. The second film is 'Counterfeit' about a group of fraudsters and their shady customers. The third film is 'Dr Spot' a comic tale of contagious spotty diseases. The final short film is 'First and Last' and shows how to jump the queue at the sales. | |||
| BURNLEY 73 | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10529 | |||
| A compilation of events held in Burnley during 1973 beginning with Burnley Show featuring shire horses, pony riding fancy dress and a wrestling match. Next we have a Gala Day held at Barden School and featuring a bed race and a dog show. The 22nd annual youth band concert is next with various marching bands. Scenes from a funfair are followed by Mr Pearce's model carousel. The Evening Star grand putting tournament is held in a park and we see the teenage winners being handed their trophies. The Lucas company gala and fete is next with various small funfair rides, budgie show and stalls. After a schools its a knockout style competition we have nice footage from and around Turf Moor football ground followed by a carnival parade, school girl volleyball and Highland dancing. | |||
| [THE QUEEN MOTHER SAILS PAST, AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11077 | |||
| After a helicopter display, the Queen Mother sails past moored narrow boats and watching onlookers, waving to them as she passes. There are views of a narrow boat under construction, and scenes in the park, where dogs run around, and a cricket match is underway. | |||
| [UNDER THE MOTORWAY BY BOAT AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11078 | |||
| Views from a canal boat as it passes under an complex motorway flyover; narrow boats moored on the canal for an event; views of passing countryside locations with a church, and then the cooling towers of a power station. | |||
| [HOLIDAYS AT BRYN ENGAN AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1972-3 Film Number: 11226 | |||
| Compilation of family leisure and holiday footage, including scenes at Bryn Engan house in North Wales; Mrs Coburn blowing up an inflatable boat, and a trip along the River Dee in this; a little girl bouncing along the street on a spacehopper; Bonfire Night, and holiday scenes in Anglesey. | |||
| [BOLTON SCHOOL TRIP TO VENICE & SICILY] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11447 | |||
| Bolton School boys camping in the woods followed by views of Venice taken from a boat. The boys packing up camp, swimming in the sea and observing the steam vents on a mountain. After views of the cliffs, harbour and beach the boys are sat at a cafe drinking beer then exploring some ancient ruins [Pompeii?]. On the beach in Sicily building sandcastles, swimming in the sea and campsite scenes. Close ups of a parrot and the boys trying to sleep in their sleeping bags. Boarding a cable car then views of Mount Etna and its volcano. The boys waiting for and then aboard a ferry in rough seas. | |||
| [CONISTON CAMPSITE SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 8624 | |||
| Brief shots of rodeo riders falling off their horses are followed by scenes at a campsite by Coniston Water, where people enjoy a football dribbling race, and then a game involving hurling buckets of water. Finally, young children play outdoors, some wearing fancy dress. | |||
| [ALISON AND STUART'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 8631 | |||
| The bride and her father, and wedding guests, arrive at the church; after the ceremony, the bridal couple leave the church and photographs are taken. | |||
| [VINTAGE CAR PARADE] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 9190 | |||
| A succession of vintage cars, interspersed with ordinary vehicles, pass by a fixed camera postion on the roadside. | |||
| [SCOUTS AT HULTON PARK 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9417 | |||
| The Scouts at Hulton Park camp site near Bolton, playing football, walking in the snow and in boats on the lake. | |||
| [SPORTS DAY - LONG JUMP, HIGH JUMP, OBSTACLE RACE AND RUNNING] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 9419 | |||
| Groups of boys take part in a Sports day featuring the long jump, the high jump, an obstacle race and running races. Possibly at Lowton St Mary's CE Primary School. | |||
| [SPORTS DAY - RELAY RACE, OBSTACLE RACE AND RUNNING] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9420 | |||
| Groups of boys take part in a Sports day featuring an obstacle race, a relay race and running races. Possibly at Lowton St Mary's CE Primary School. | |||
| [FLEETWOOD PITCH AND PUTT AND VANESSA'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9503 | |||
| On Fleetwood seafront, a group of men play a game of pitch and putt, and there are wedding scenes at the Parish Church of All Saints in Stand, followed by the bridal couple departing in a decorated car from the reception venue, Dunkenhalgh Hotel in Clayton-le-Moors. | |||
| ONE MAN'S HOBBY | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9555 | |||
| A look at the model railway of Sidney Stubbs, lifelong rail enthusiast and skilled craftsman, whose railway layout took 25 years to complete. We see him machining and producing intricate components, and look closely at the functioning railway, from the complex control system to the details on the rolling stock. | |||
| TED ROOCROFT - SCULPTOR EXTRA-ORDINARY | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9556 | |||
| A look at the work of pig farmer and sculptor Ted Roocroft. The film includes many of his sculptures on display in the Undercroft Gallery at Manchester Polytechnic, where he also taught. There are scenes of him working on a sculpture at his home in Cheshire, and the reel ends with a woman and child looking at one of his works in a gallery. | |||
| THE PUDDLE FURNACE | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9557 | |||
| Filmed at Walmsley's Atlas Forge in Bolton, and Barnshaw Smithy in Mobberley, this is a record of the manufacture of puddle, or wrought, iron, a dwindling industry even back in 1973. The film looks at the history of iron production, with some use of stills and diagrams, and the metal’s applications in industry and engineering, before scenes shot in the heat and smoke of the forge, and in the smithy, where a blacksmith is shoeing a horse. | |||
| [SUMMER 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9636 | |||
| The film opens with scenes of cattle grazing in field and then we see close up shots of wasps and of a butterfly on a flower. We then see scenes from Llandudno. The Great Orme Tramway takes people to the top where we see people relaxing in the sun. One man lets a sheep eat crisps off his bare chest. There are close up shots of a collection of Toby jugs on a mantelpiece. We then see various animals in a zoo including birds of prey, and there is a display of falconry. The film ends with scenes from home. We see a young boy in the living room with a cat, and then an older boy with a dog. | |||
| [WHIT WALK & HOLIDAY 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9818 | |||
| A Whit Walk through the streets of Radcliffe with children, church banners, cub scouts, brownies, girl guides, clergymen and mothers with their prams. A little boy and his dog play on the beach as the adults sit in deckchairs followed by shots of a hovercraft coming close to the shore. | |||
| SUBMARINE LAUNCHED AIR FLIGHT MISSILE SYSTEM [SLAM] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9920 | |||
| This is a promotional film for the SLAM system demonstrating its capabilities in attacking targets on the surface and in the air, it also shows how it 'complements the torpedo'. The film looks at the system's operation in a submarine at sea, training facilities at Vickers as well as land trials. It also includes some archive footage of submarine warfare and basic animation. | |||
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