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[MOTION]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2289
 
Opens with shots of flats and a man sweeping a road. Continues with footage of a busy city centre and a car crusher. This footage is intercut with shots of snooker balls being potted. The film ends with a succession of balls being potted and the sound of a toilet flushing.
 
 
 
[TRAFFIC]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2290
 
Film containing footage of busy roads, shopping areas and car parks in Manchester. Features a soundtrack of people talking about traffic and shopping problems. Ends with a car approaching the camera and 'crashing' into it.
 
 
 
[CITY LIFE]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2291
 
Film attempting to show 'what makes up the fabric of a city'. Includes shots of Manchester city centre, especially around Piccadilly Gardens. There are close ups of families on park benches, policemen, flowers, shoppers, tramps, bus queues taxi ranks, traffic and shop signs and a young couple. The film closes with a shot of the Town Hall clock at night.
 
 
 
JOBS
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2292
 
A light hearted look at a man's search for a job. He is seen reading a newspaper and heard considering possible career choices. He attempts to work with computers, in a photographic studio and as a chef but loses all three jobs after inept performances. As the film closes he concludes that 'this country doesn't know talent, I think I'll join the brain drain, unless I go into film production'.
 
 
 
[Building At Walton Summit]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2409
 
Opens with shots of a lorry tipping on the Walton Summit site continues with workmen, surveyors and machinary on the site. Closes with footage of some housing and ongoing building work.
 
 
 
[Construction Work And Tree Planting]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2410
 
Opens with footage of construction work on the Walton Employment Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with shots of a septic tank, cesspit and building site at a farm. Closes with shots of tree planting at Astley Park.
 
 
 
[Housing And Farming]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2411
 
Opens with footage of Bow Lane houses near Bamber Bridge, the M6 and sound barrier banking under construction between the two. Continues with footage from Calverts farm, including shots of a cess pit and footage of the Walton Summit Employment Site near Bamber Bridge. The site is being prepared for construction.
 
 
 
[ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2412
 
Various shots of new road workings and development sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Closes with a 'homes to rent' sign surrounded by fields.
 
 
 
[PUBLIC ENQUIRY AT PRESTON GUILD HALL]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2413
 
Footage of the final summing up at the Public Enquiry, held at Preston Guild Hall, regarding the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) on 24-1-75. The officers of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation are seen at a table next to a large mounted map. Speakers are seen as are the audience and members of the press. Continues with footage of a customer and information officer at a Central Lancashire Development Corporation enquiry kiosk. Closes with shots of people arriving at the Guild Hall arcade.
 
 
 
[TREE PLANTING CEREMONY - ASTLEY PARK]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2414
 
Film of a tree planting ceremony at the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Opens with a group of workmen standing at the site. Continues with footage of Sir Frank Pearson (Chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation) and the Mayor of Chorley, who each make a speech and plant a tree. The various VIPs leave and the workmen continue to plant trees.
 
 
 
[Factory Under Construction]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2415
 
Opens with footage from a farm. Continues with footage from the Walton Summit Employment Site, showing work taking place on the semi-built superstructure of a factory.
 
 
 
[TREE PLANTING AND FACTORY CONSTRUCTION]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2416
 
Film opens with footage of the tree planting ceremony held in Astley Park (see film number 2414). Continues with shots of 'Calverts Farm', including building work and new buildings. Closes with ground level and aerial footage of the Walton Summit Employment Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) including partially built factory units and roads.
 
 
 
[TREE NURSERY AND FACTORY BUILDING]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2417
 
Film opens with footage of a partially built factory on the Walton Summit Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Builders are seen laying the roof. Continues with footage of a tree nursery, a motorway and a farm. Closes with shots of the Culbeck shrub nursery.
 
 
 
[Tree Nursery, Farm And Construction Work]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2418
 
Opens with footage of shrub growing and tree growing nurseries run by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with shots of a farm. Closes with footage of construction work and housing on the Moss Side Site.
 
 
 
[Factory Units]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2419
 
Opens with footage of the Walton Summit site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), including factory units under construction and completed. Continues with footage of the Astley Park site, showing construction and surveying activities.
 
 
 
[TREE PLANTING AND CONSTRUCTION SITES]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2420
 
Aerial footage of a tree nursery, a farm and the Moss Side, Cop Lane and Walton Summit sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of a motorway, a river, some greenhouses and construction work.
 
 
 
[Central Lancashire Construction Work]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2421
 
Features aerial footage of the Astley Park and Walton Summit Constrruction Sites. Continues with ground level footage from Walton Summit including construction work and the interior of a factory unit. Closes with shots of construction work at Clayton Brook including houses being built.
 
 
 
[GORDON OAKES - OFFICIAL VISIT 1]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2422
 
Film of the official visit by Mr Gordon Oakes (Undersecretary of State for the North West) to various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). The official party, including Sir Frank Pearson (Chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation ) are seen at various sites including Astley Hall, the Whelmar building site, Culbeck shrub nursery and Walton Summit employment area. The group, numbering around seven, travel by helicopter and Land Rover and are also seen at the Central Lancashire Development Corporation offices.
 
 
 
[GORDON OAKES - OFFICIAL VISIT 2]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2423
 
Film of the official visit by Mr Gordon Oakes (Undersecretary of State for the North West) to various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) (see also film no. 1422). The official party, numbering around seven, is seen by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation offices, by a helicopter (which takes off) and at the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation.
 
 
 
[IMPORTING CATTLE]
Date: 1975 Film Number: 2424
 
Film opens with a British Caledonian plane landing at Manchester Airport. Cattle are unloaded from the plane in crates and herded into vans. Closes with the vans travelling down a motorway.
 
 
 
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