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| [SCHOOL TRIP TO LAKE DISTRICT] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10337 | |||
| On a school trip to the Fallbarrow in the Lake District, the staff and pupils of Carr Mill primary school take part in various outdoor activities such as archery and grass skiing. | |||
| [FAMILY HOLIDAY IN ISLE OF MAN] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10369 | |||
| Holiday scenes including family members on a caravan site, children sitting with their feet in the stocks, also playing on a climbing frame in a playground and paddling in the sea with their mother. | |||
| [MARK SAMUELS, ABERSOCH 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10406 | |||
| Mark plays with a toy wheelbarrow and helps his mum with the gardening. We next see Mark jumping in the puddles as it rains and looking through binoculars wearing a sea captain's cap. After sweeping the driveway we see Mark with a bucket and spade on the beach at Abersoch, then Mark on a speedboat ride and petting a horse. After scenic views of the Welsh countryside Mark paddles in the sea with his mum. Preparing a sail boat and putting a lifejacket on Mark before he gets into the boat with two other children and sails in the shallows. Mrs Samuels flying a kite then Mark and his dad in a yellow sports car. Mark sleeping then being tickled by his dad and jumping on the bed. The film ends with Mark playing with a toy tool kit in the garden. | |||
| [A VISIT TO MORECAMBE] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10673 | |||
| After packing up their car for the trip, family members are seen walking along Morecambe seafront; a young child goes on a pony ride along the beach, and has fun in an amusement arcade and on a funfair merry-go-round. | |||
| [WHIT WALK, VETERAN CAR RALLY, AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 10704 | |||
| Compilation reel – a Whit Walk procession makes its way through Manchester city centre; veteran cars set off on a rally; in a garden, a wedding guest poses for the camera, and a lad falls off a swing. | |||
| [WOOD CUP FINAL 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 10867 | |||
| Royton and Milnrow contest the Wood Cup Final in 1973. We see various batsmen and the scoreboard at the fall of each wicket. The first team are 89 all out while the second team reach 51 for 3 before rain stops play. | |||
| HOLIDAY IN CORNWALL | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 11007 | |||
| Cliff top walks and views at Sandymouth followed by a little boy playing with a ball in the garden. Streetscenes at Kilkhampton and a parade led by a brass band with the Rose Queen in an ornamental horse drawn coach. A girl diving and swimming into a sea pool, the Derbyshire family enjoying a picnic then rowing boats on a river. Cliff top views of a harbour and boats going out to sea followed by beach scenes, surfers and children paddling in the sea. A summer fete with stalls selling produce, a coconut shy and bowling game then views of Port Isaac harbour and beach. | |||
| THE SPOTTER | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 8754 | |||
| A boy uses his binoculars to watch planes at Manchester Airport, both from a viewing area and from outside the perimeter fence. He also watches trains in different locations, including Crewe station, where other trainspotters have gathered. | |||
| [OUT AND ABOUT IN DIDSBURY] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 8755 | |||
| Scenes shot in and around Didsbury village, from the busy streets with constant traffic to the parks and peaceful gardens. Local landmarks featured include Fletcher Moss Gardens, the College of Education, and pubs such as the Dog and Partridge and Ye Old Cock Inn. | |||
| [BEACH SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11808 | |||
| Views of a beach with a young girl in a dinghy with her dad, followed by them both bodyboarding in the surf. | |||
| [CLIFF TOP WALKS] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11813 | |||
| Views of surfers from the cliff tops in Cornwall. Hannah and Susan walk on the cliff top, then play badminton in the garden. | |||
| [DRIVING TRACTORS] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11861 | |||
| Young men driving tractors on country lanes then cutting the wheat before driving tractors on the Moston farm. The film ends with a teenage girl sat by a river then on a beach. | |||
| [BALING CORN BY HAND] | |||
| Date: *1973 Film Number: 11882 | |||
| The farmer inspects the cut corn and bales by hand which is then collected by the family onto a trailer pulled by a tractor. Loading hay onto a baling machine and a steam powered saw cutting a log at a steam fair. The film ends with the cutting of the hay from a tractor. | |||
| LOWER WITHINGTON ROSE QUEEN FESTIVAL 7TH JULY 1973 | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 11895 | |||
| The festival parade begins with a marching band, a girls' dance troupe, men in fancy dress collecting money for charity and decorated floats pulled by tractors. The Rose Queen and her retinue arriving at the show ground in a horse-drawn carriage followed by the coronation ceremony. Prizes are awarded by the Rose Queen to the best fancy dress and decorated float. | |||
| [SALFORD UNIVERSITY HALLS OF RESIDENCE 1] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 3312 | |||
| Scenes at Salford University's three halls of residence (Davy Hall, Joule Hall and Faraday Hall) as students arrive. Various methods of arrival are on show - arriving with parents, driving one's own VW Beetle or merely walking in with a rucksack. Numerous different fashions are evident, and there is an inquisitive dog. | |||
| COLIN HACKNEY INTERVIEW | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 3362 | |||
| Interviews conducted by Colin Hackney - NO SOUNDTRACK | |||
| MANAGEMENT MATTERS | |||
| Date: 1973-4 Film Number: 3166 | |||
| Promotional film from Manchester Polytechnic Department of Management, with an introduction by Sir Alex Smith, Director of the Polytechnic. After this, there are animated diagrams of the management programmes on offer. The film then shows various of the courses and of student life: studying on the factory floor, report writing and office skills, role play, plus the library, canteen and bar. There is also footage of the department building, Hilton House. | |||
| A Home For New Ideas | |||
| Date: 1973-5 Film Number: 2633 | |||
| A promotional film for Rufflette curtain products - a newly married couple ("Jack and Suzie") move into a new house and tackle the thorny issue of soft furnishings. Through a series of 'fantasy' sequences, Suzie imagines and then realises all of her curtain desires with the help and hindrance of her nice mother-in-law, her nagging mother, Jack and an avuncular voice-over man. The film climaxes in a dinner party. | |||
| [BELMONT SPECIAL SCHOOL- ACTIVITIES 1973-74] | |||
| Date: 1973-1974 Film Number: 1370 | |||
| Features a variety of school trips and events, including a visit to Blackpool zoo, Hathersall Lodge and a bonfire. Also includes sports, Rose Queen celebrations and a birthday Party. | |||
| [ST ALBAN'S CHURCH ACTIVITIES - 1973 AND 74] | |||
| Date: 1973/4 Film Number: 4248 | |||
| Compilation of events during 1973 and 1974 at St Alban's Church, Blackburn. Views of the church hall and school. The Good Friday Procession is seen, with a cross being carried through the streets before an outdoor Mass is held. There are rooftop views of the church and surrounding area, probably taken from a crane. Bi-Centenary Mass is seen on 20 June 1966 and several members of the congregation are seen with Papal medals, including John Conlon, a local school master. Good Friday and the May Procession in 1974, as well as a service in the church grounds for Corpus Christi in the same year. | |||
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