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[CUBS AND BROWNIES GANG SHOW 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9402
 
The 1976 Gang Show featuring Cubs and Brownies. The variety style show includes singing, musical performances, dancing and comedy sketches. There is a black and white minstrel show. The film ends with speeches from the cub pack leader
 
 
 
[SCOUT CAR AT BLACKPOOL 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9404
 
The film opens with scenes of various pedal powered scout cars in the pits followed by races on the promenade at Blackpool. The Scout and Girl Guide Marching band then performs for the watching crowds.
 
 
 
[FIVE-A- SIDE FOOTBALL COMPETITION]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9406
 
In this film we see various cub scout five a side football matches which take place both indoors and outside. Then we see the prize giving to the winners and runners up.
 
 
 
[CUBS' FIVE-A-SIDE COMPETITION 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9410
 
A cubs five-a-side football competition with matches played both indoors and outside. We then see the trophy being awarded to members of the winning team.
 
 
 
[PRACTICAL FILM NIGHT 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10530
 
Produced in one night these three short drama films are an exercise in editing and telling 3 separate stories using the same cast,set and shots. The 3 titles are 'Snap' - two little old ladies discover a bundle of cash and win at cards, 'Corner Café Conspiracy'- two little old ladies drug and steal money from the café's patrons, 'The Biter Bitten' - a pickpocket gets his comeuppance with the help of a snake.
 
 
 
THE SUMMER OF 1976
Date: 1976 Film Number: 11105
 
Countryside scenes during the summer of 1976 in Bollington. Opens with woodlands scenes and close up shots of flowers. There follows scenes of children playing in a stream and adults sunbathing. There is a Whit Procession and a cricket match with scenes of the match and spectators. Canal scenes with boats and swans on the canal and and boys fishing. People working in a printing press. Landscape views and close up shots of ladybirds and flowers. People riding horses.
 
 
 
[CAMPING HOLIDAY, STEAM TRAINS AND HALLOWE'EN]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 11232
 
Compilation of family leisure and holiday footage, including a camping holiday – beach and campsite; countryside scenes; steam locomotives on the Chester – Wrexham line, and family fun at Hallowe’en.
 
 
 
1976 LEAGUE CUP FINAL
Date: 28/02/1976 Film Number: 11327
 
Telecine highlights of ITV's coverage of the 1976 League Cup final between Manchester City and Newcastle United at Wembly Stadium on 28 February 1976. We have match action and the goals from Peter Barnes and Dennis Tueart for Man City and Alan Gowling for Newcastle. The film ends with the trophy presentation to City's captain Mike Doyle.
 
 
 
[RYLEYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 11443
 
Exteriors of Ryleys Preparatory School with crowds of children watching the laying of the foundation stone for the Ryleys Centenary Hall. Pupils place coins in the mortar before the stone is laid by Edmund-Hine Esq. Speeches then a brass band and a religious blessing service conclude the ceremony. A Christmas concert is held with pupils playing the piano, trumpet, violin, trombone and guitar. Classroom scenes at Ryleys with pupils reading followed by a cake being brought to the top table in the schools dining room as pupils clap and cheer.
 
 
 
[NEW YORK AND NIAGARA FALLS]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9258
 
Scenes in New York, including visiting a war memorial with an eternal flame, then crossing into Canada to view Niagara Falls. The reel ends with shots of a hedgehog on a lawn and a bird on a patio.
 
 
 
[Q.E.II AND NEW YORK]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9261
 
Random shots of a school playing field, and ducks and swans in a park; scenes aboard the Queen Elizabeth II and shots of the skyline as the cruise liner enters New York harbour.
 
 
 
[HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES MAY 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9771
 
A compilation reel of family leisure activities, including a visit to the National Railway Museum in York, and scenes at an outdoor army event with a marching band, gymnastics, and a motorbike and horse rider display. There are scenes in Chester with army personnel constructing an amphibious bridge to transport a jeep across the river. The reel ends with another marching military band display in the city.
 
 
 
[HOLIDAY 1976]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9813
 
A Whit walk through the streets of Radcliffe with religious banners, children, clergymen, cub scouts, girl guides and brownies. Holiday scenes from Weston-Super-Mare with views of the seafront and pier
 
 
 
[CHEDDAR GORGE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 9814
 
Views of the Cheddar Gorge, a village and the entrance to Jacob's Ladder followed by seaside holiday scenes with a young boy on children's funfair rides then on the beach.
 
 
 
[HEATON PARK & OTHER SCENES]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10073
 
The Shaw family sat on rocks by a river then walking the dog in Heaton Park with views of Heaton Hall. In the garden with the dog is followed by graduation scenes of Elaine Shaw at Durham University including interior shots of the graduation ceremony. A historical fayre in Durham with people in Elizabethan costume, market stalls, spinning wool and a ducking stool The film ends with beach scenes.
 
 
 
[BOWLEE STEAM FAIR, MIDDLETON]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10125
 
A well shot film featuring the Bowlee Steam Fair held in Middleton. The various steam powered engines include a carousel, an organ, a water pump and many traction engines and steam rollers
 
 
 
XMAS MORNING 1976
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10283
 
The Stark girls go to bed on Christmas Eve then wake on Christmas morning and open their presents.
 
 
 
[HOLIDAY,GARDEN & DOMESTIC SCENES IN BROUGHTON]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10295
 
A biplane doing acrobatic turns in the distance followed by a yellow bird and a group of flamingos. A group of children and adults do the conga down a suburban street and then dance in the garden. A snowy garden and main road in Broughton with passing cars. Two girls, twins? pulling crackers in front of the Christmas tree. A phantom car journey along country roads and sheep on a farm. Children play in the garden then a woman dancing, waving flags. Scenes from a wedding with the arrival of the bride, the bride and groom posing for photos and departing in the wedding car. Jimmy Savile leads a parade of decorated taxi cabs and a hamster in its cage. Children on a large funfair slide and playing by a paddling pool in a caravan park.
 
 
 
[CORNWALL]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10415
 
Views of the Cornish coastline from the cliffs and of a garden. Mark and Tim play on the beach with Mark building sandcastles. In the garden the boys play, try to erect a deckchair and Mark plays with his toy cars. The Samuels boys play with coin operated remote controlled boats then in a playground on the slide and swings followed by a ride on a miniature railway The film ends with a kitten playing with a tent's guy ropes.
 
 
 
[SCHOOL SPORTS DAY & PLAYGROUND SCENES]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 10452
 
In a garden a boy and girl sit at a table drinking tea and eating biscuits then pick flowers and plant seeds The little boy plays with a spider while his sister cuts the lawn. Children folk dancing at a school show then the Mills children riding horses and playing cricket in a caravan park. It's a knockout style games at a school's sports day then a steam traction engine rally with funfair rides. The children enjoy donkey rides then in a playground take turns on the slide, see saw and swings followed by the little boy fishing with a net.
 
 
 
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