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| [AFGHANS AT CRUFTS] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 4096 | |||
| Afghan Hounds being groomed by their owners, paraded around the arena and inspected by the judges at an indoor dog show [probably Crufts at Earl's Court, London]. Also includes general views of the various stalls at the event. | |||
| THE FANCY | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 4577 | |||
| Student documentary about mouse-fancier, Jack Hartley. Scenes at his home in the north west (Manchester?), in the shed where he keeps and breeds his mice, and also at a mouse show, with judges inspecting the mice and awarding prizes. | |||
| [OUT IN AUSTRAILIA] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 5768 | |||
| Margaret and Arnold Ellis Snr's footage from their 1985 trip to Australia. Views from Albany, Frenchman's Bay and of tallships in a dock. Footage of an Australian football game, Middleton beach and a tour of an Albany house with fleeting shots of people. | |||
| ['MENACE' ON STAGE AT THE LIME STREET CLUB] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7370 | |||
| A rock band ('Menace') are seen rehearsing at the Lime Street Club in Dukinfield on a stage which has a backdrop of biker imagery. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [CASTLE HAWK RALLY AND PORTMADOC] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7372 | |||
| Scenes from the Castle Hawk Motorcycle Rally organised by the Spread Eagle MCC. Members of the Stalybridge Club lark about together on their bikes and pack up their tents. They are then seen being dragged on a makeshift sled behind a van driving along Portmadoc beach. Concludes with bikers setting off from Melbourne Street in Stalybridge and a brief shot of a pond. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, THOMAS BANGBALA [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7454 | |||
| Don Henry and Mohsin Zulfiqar interview Mr Tommy (Thomas) Bangbala at his home in Salford. Tommy Bangbala arrived in Liverpool from Ghana on a steamship as a steward boy in 1924, aged 17. Aspiring to get a good education and become an electrical engineer, Mr Bangbala recounts the hardships getting work as a black man, the discrimination he faced in the unions, on ships, in housing, The difficulties setting up family life when he was unable to get a house to live in. He talks about living in Liverpool and Manchester, the communities that black people lived in, the General Strike in 1926, his enlistment in WWII and subsequent exemption due to the essential work he did. Looks at how he finally managed to gain admission to the union as an electrical engineer and his work in Trafford Park, Openshaw and Altrincham. He talks about the Pan African Congress in Manchester in 1945 and how he used his membership in union & representation on the Trades Council to push the cause of black people within the union movement. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, THOMAS BANGBALA [PART TWO] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7455 | |||
| The second part of an interview with Tommy (Thomas) Bangbala - post war period. He talks about the race riots after the war and how that impacted on life in Manchester. The incidents of racism he was subjected to and the hardships his white wife had when it was known she was married to a black man. Also the impact on the children. His growing involvement in the Labour Party, Manchester City Council and Trade Union movement and how he represented the interests and cause of black people on these bodies. His industrial accident when he lost his hand and the litigation arising as a consequence of that. He compares his experience in the 1930s with what is happening in the 1980s, also a period of recession and severe cuts and unrest, with riots in the previous year. He is asked about Len Johnson the boxer and Communist Party member. He talks about Communism and the action taken by his Union to ban Communists from taking office. Interview followed by 10 minutes of photo material, family photos and other relevant documents. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, PAUL BOATENG | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7456 | |||
| Paul Boateng addressing a meeting in Manchester, chaired by Elouise Edwards, about racism and the law in the context of the duplicity of the British state & imperialism. He draws on historical evidence of racism and, if the most blatant actions are now outlawed, how the country has failed to deal with institutional racism. Contradictions between the 1976 Race Relations Act and Nationality & Immigration Acts. He talks about failures of the CRE (Council for Race Equality) and the necessity to be engaged in the labour movement and move out of dependency culture. He exhorts examples of black self-help, supplementary schools and Defence Committees. After a 30-minute presentation, the discussion opens to the floor with issues about repatriation, unemployment and youth. Following Boateng's departure (42mins) there is a further presentation by a black trade unionist, and further contributions from Elouise Edwards, Kath Locke & others about multi-nationals, exploitation of Asian workers in Cotton Mills and relationships between black and white workers. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, GRANVILLE LAWRENCE | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7457 | |||
| Presentation to a meeting in Manchester (chaired by Elouise Edwards) by Granville Lawrence on the the organisation of black workers within the trade union movement in his capacity of convenor at British Vitafoam and member of the General & Municipal Workers Union, GMWU. He defines the difference between black people struggling against racism and imperialism and their role in the Trade Union (TU) movement. He discusses all elements of the TU movement -getting work, contracts, union membership, the role of union and attending meetings. He gives many examples of struggles he has been involved in and the necessity to challenge the union because of their racism. How to use the union to expose the exploitation of multi-nationals in Africa, using Nigeria as an example. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, BERNIE GRANT [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7458 | |||
| As an Officer for the NUPE (National Union for Public Employees) for 5 years, Bernie Grant gives presentation to meeting in Manchester about what the trade union can do to combat racism. He speaks about the scarcity of officials from minority backgrounds and the deeply embedded racism within the unions. Uses example of black nurses in NHS to exemplify the extreme exploitation that takes place and how as workers their hands are tied. He gives a critique of the CRE (Council for Race Equality) and the kinds of practices that obstruct black workers from making changes. He proposes a series of ideas to combat these practices, including recognition of the particular needs of black workers, and the discrimination inherent in the rule books, language and literacy training. He presents a Trade Union Pack for Black Workers which integrates the issues about training, monitoring, glossary of terms, contact lists, etc. He also raises some of the problems this pack has created. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, BERNIE GRANT [PART TWO] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7459 | |||
| Second part of a meeting with NUPE (National Union for Public Employees) Officer Bernie Grant, with contributions from the floor including Kath Locke on checks made by NHS on overseas patients, due to come into force in October 1982, and the involvement of white workers in combating racism in unions. Bernie stresses the essential involvement of black people in this process. Suggests Racism Awareness course for whites. Also includes a discussion initiated by Mohsin Zulfiqar about monitoring, which is regarded with suspicion in the black community, but should be utilised by black people to prove discrimination. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, FARIDA MAYAT [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7460 | |||
| Presentation on organising unorganised workers to a meeting in Manchester, by Farida Mayat, a political exile from South Africa for 16 years, now working in London Law Centre. From working in hospitals she became involved in the union and organised childcare for workers before becoming a full-time advisor in the Law Centre. She defines unorganised as unskilled, lowest paid and non-unionised, which includes many women who lack childcare, have language difficulties, etc. Also many workers in sweat shops in East London. Talks about various ways contacts have been made - rights workshops in variety of languages, credit union, successful unionising. After 40 minute presentation, discussion opens to floor with contributions from Kath Locke and others over what has and has not worked in their experience. Proposal for a Steering Committee to help black workers progress in the union because union hierarchy obstructs black members from progressing. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, FARIDA MAYAT [PART TWO] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7461 | |||
| Second part of meeting with Farida Mayat, a political exile from South Africa for 16 years, now working in London Law Centre, with contributions from the floor. Discussion about Asian and Afro-Caribbean women workers from the Chair, who has worked in the NHS but never joined a union because she found it so racist - didn't see the point. Asks are there any unions addressing racism. Kath Locke gives a summary of efforts by the General & Municipal Workers Union (GMWU) and National Union for Public Employees (NUPE) to tackle the problem through the Fact Pack promoted by Bernie Grant at an earlier meeting. Further sharing of experiences including a cultural embargo to prevent black workers getting training and Kath Locke gave an example of attempt to establish a black union, the Coloured Seaman's Union, because of racism in the Seaman's Union. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, KUM KUM BHAVNANI | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7462 | |||
| Presentation at a Manchester meeting by Kum Kum Bhavnani on the struggles of black women, chaired by Kath Locke. Black being inclusive of women from both the African and the Indian sub continent. Defined as being a problem - either too lax or too strict. Three parts to the talk - a history of racism, commonality of experience across all women, and particularity of black women; racism before industrial capitalism; presence in Britain due to colonialism but sense of history from before settlement here. Looks at struggle of women from 4 perspectives, as workers, as dependants where defined in relation to men not as independent people, as having domestic responsibilities and childcare and as being perceived as objects and all this gives rise to in terms of domestic violence, prostitution, abortion, contraception. After 37 minutes, discussion opens to floor with contributions from from Elouise Edwards, Kath Locke and others about struggle in the home and Equal Pay Act. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, LINDA RETSALEY [?] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7463 | |||
| Presentation to a meeting in Manchester on the Struggle of Black Workers by Linda Retsaley, replacing John La Rose who was unable to attend. Linda, born in Soweto and now working with Manchester's Abasinidi Women's Co-operative. Trade Unions and basic education go hand-in-hand and are the only way to challenge multinationals. Talks about the divisions between workers and those whose interest such divisions serve. Talks about trade unions in relation to capitalism and its history. Gives a very strong anti-capitalist analysis and how some Africans are trying to make it work for them. Talks about missionaries' role in softening the edges of capitalism in Africa. Wearing a PAC (Pan-African Congress) tee shirt with Azania written on it, she explains the meaning of this in the South African context. Gives a forceful explanation of the importance of armed struggle in South Africa and the necessity for it to be fought on colour lines - black consciousness. After 37 minutes, discussion opened to floor with contributions from Kath Locke about multinationals, comparison between South Africa and Britain. Also issues of foreign aid and the implications of that in Africa. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, MR ERNEST MARKE [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7464 | |||
| Mr Markes puts his life story to this meeting in Manchester to educate others about what it was like. He arrived from Sierra Leone as seaman in 1917 when he was 14 years old believing Britain was the motherland. Jobs very scarce so eventually went to Guyana but realised imperialism created the same problems everywhere. Worked as seaman periodically when no other work could be procured. Came to Manchester in 1924, married and settled in Salford where most of the black community was at the time. Took to many kinds of work to earn a living - market stalls, selling medicines, Belle Vue Gardens 1951-52 - NYE (New Years Eve) Side Shows, snake charming act. Had to use many devices to progress himself. He was a delegate to the 1945 Pan-African Congress. Talks about Norman Manley (father of Jamaica's PM), a brilliant lawyer who was involved in an important case in Manchester. He also talks about Len Johnson and his membership of the Communist Party. He says the only 'ism' that helped black men was communism. Also talks about family life and particularly the relationship between black men and white women because his second wife was a Yorkshire woman. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, MR ERNEST MARKE [PART TWO] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7465 | |||
| The final minutes of Mr Marke's presentation about his life on coming to England from Sierra Leone in 1917 when he was 14 years old believing Britain was the motherland. He talks about family life and particularly the relationship between black men and white women because his second wife was a Yorkshire woman. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, MR MUNIRO FARO [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7466 | |||
| Filmed in his home in Gorton, Manchester, Muniro Faro recounts his life in England where he arrived in July 1942 in Hull from Nigeria. He arrived as an experienced engineer/ fitter. From Hull, he moved to Manchester and has remained here since. Very disillusioned with the poverty he saw on arrival, totally contrary to what he'd grown up believing about England. Initially employed as labourer at Trafford Park as emergency worker during WWII. He was able to join the union because of credentials and then made his way in various skilled jobs at different companies. A delegate at THE Pan-African Congress in 1945, he talks about context for the Conference, black people's reaction to it, the individuals who were there - Jomo Kenyatta, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, T R Makonnen - and his impressions of them. Recounts a story about Kenyatta and the police at Platt Fields because of Kenyatta's reputation as such a rousing and fiery speaker. Also talks about the relationship between Trade Unions and Pan-African Conference, Black Consciousness in USA. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, MR MUNIRO FARO [PART TWO] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7467 | |||
| The second part of an interview with Muniro Faro filmed in his home in Gorton, Manchester. Muniro Faro recounts his life in England where he arrived in July 1942 in Hull from Nigeria. At the end of the interview Mr Muniro Faro gives a commentary about a series of photo stills, including family photos and some from the 1945 Pan-African Conference with photos of Jomo Kenyatta, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, WEB Du Bois and T R Makonnen. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK WORKERS, LIVERPOOL CONNECTION WITH WALLY BROWN [PART ONE] | |||
| Date: 1982 Film Number: 7468 | |||
| In a meeting chaired by Kath Locke at 8411 (Community Centre), Moss Side, Manchester, Wally Brown talks about the history of black people's settlement in Liverpool. Refers to documents of the time such as the Picture Post in 1949 covering the British colour bar. Many examples of racism during & post-war- e.g. ban on entering Liverpool 8 ballroom in Rialto Cinema. In 1948, the first race riot in Liverpool - attacks on black houses and restaurants - but mainly blacks arrested. Talks about efforts of the black community to organise themselves as white-led initiatives - Stanley House - seen as patronising. The 1967-68 Hunt Report on Youth & Community Work ignored Liverpool and in 1972, more race riots. Gives examples of how black people have organised in Liverpool - Black Links Magazine, campaign for Paddington School in Edge Hill/Egerton, campaign against article in the Listener about 'half caste' problem, establishment of Charles Wootton Centre, Wanleechey, Liverpool Black Organisation and Army Navy Stores campaign, and the Liverpool 8 Defence Committee arising out of the 1981 riots. Establishment of Law Centre and relationship with City Council. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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