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Searched For: football
Record 101 – 120 of 667
[MACCLESFIELD CINEMA ADVERTS] | |||
Date: 1947 Film Number: 268 | |||
A compilation of adverts for various products and local businesses. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
FOOTBALL AT TURF MOOR 1 | |||
Date: 1947 Film Number: 685 | |||
A football match featuring Burnley v Middlesbrough on 4 March 1947. The two teams run out of the tunnel onto the snow covered pitch; some of the game is seen. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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FOOTBALL AT TURF MOOR 2 | |||
Date: *1947 Film Number: 687 | |||
Football at Turf Moor, Burnley. Shots of the game and spectators. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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EASTER FILM & CLEVLEYS 1947 - OUR FIRST MOVIE | |||
Date: 1947 Film Number: 1251 | |||
Three small children play with their toys in a back garden. Also features scenes of the Jones Family walking along the seafront in Clevleys. | |||
[MALPAS 1947] | |||
Date: 1947 Film Number: 7774 | |||
1947 Malpas starting scences are in snow with children having snow ball fights coldest winter for 50 years. Shots of girls undergoing out door activities such as skipping with cricket and football matches also seen. A few school trips, parties and festivals. Some scenes of horse racing and jumping throughout the film. | |||
[FAMILY LIFE IN THE SUBURBS] | |||
Date: c1948 Film Number: 8270 | |||
Compilation reel of Gleave family footage, shot mostly in and around their home in the suburbs of Poulton-le-Fylde. Family members and friends, adults and children and the occasional dog, are seen in the house and garden, and out on the street, playing, gardening or just larking around. Mrs Gleave is seen scrubbing her front doorstep. The reel also includes brief scenes at Lake Windermere, with boats including the the MV Swan of Barrow. | |||
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH FILM MAGAZINE | |||
Date: *1947-50 Film Number: 4374 | |||
Coaches are seen taking members of St Anne's on Sea Congregational Church on a trip to Brock Mill near Bleasdale in Lancashire. Children are seen playing in the river, before everybody has a picnic at Brock Mill. The second section shows the 11th Lytham St Anne's Boy Scouts 1950 Summer Camp at Langdale in the Lake District. The scouts are seen setting up camp, digging holes, chopping wood, cooking and playing football. | |||
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[SCOUT CAMP & OTHER SCENES] | |||
Date: c1947-53 Film Number: 6457 | |||
Views of a church and graveyard, two workmen cutting logs with a power saw at a mill and youths running across a hillside. Views of a fairground ride and from a scout camp featuring rock climbing, diving and swimming in the sea. Scenes of maypole dancing and a rose queen procession followed by shots of young boys running downhill towards the camera. | |||
[EGERTON CLUB FOOTBALL, MATTHEWS FAMILY AND BOXING] | |||
Date: *1947/49 Film Number: 7148 | |||
Action from a boys football match and from various boys' boxing contests. The football match (possibly played near Tatton Park in Cheshire) features an older man in goal for one of the teams, who is then pictured at half time with his family. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
F.A. CUP 5th ROUND 1952, BURNLEY v LIVERPOOL | |||
Date: *1947/52 Film Number: 686 | |||
This film includes a mixture of shots - a group of people in the Dales, one holds a clapperboard on which is written 'Another Mans Poison'. Following this are scenes from the 1952 5th round F.A. Cup match between Burnley and Liverpool. | |||
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BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS NO. 986 | |||
Date: 1948 Film Number: 129 | |||
St. George's Day Garter celebrations. The Duke of Edinburgh meets Don Bradman. FA Cup Final, Manchester United v Blackpool. | |||
BLACKPOOL YOUTH WEEK 3rd - 9th MAY 1948 | |||
Date: 1948 Film Number: 512 | |||
"A pictorial record" of the weeks events including football, drama, netball, a quiz, table tennis, and handicrafts. Boys and Girls Clubs participating. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
[MALPAS & OTHER SCENES 1948] | |||
Date: 1948 Film Number: 7770 | |||
Malpas scenes of varies weddings, bee keeping and a Lambeth conference. A trip to the Isle of Man where you see the air craft taking off and aerial views from on the aircraft. A selection of sport footage women and men hockey, diving and football. clips of horse-drawn trams and faces of the men involved in the Paris council. | |||
IRISH CAMP | |||
Date: 1948/9 Film Number: 11411 | |||
Crossing the Menai Straits on board a train to Holyhead then the boys from Bolton School on the ferry to Ireland. Campsite scenes followed by a visit to the Spanish Arch in Galway before struggling to erect tents in a gale force wind. The boys diving in the sea, walking in Galway and cooking fresh mackerel for dinner. Hiking in Warwickshire with the boys walking in Stanton and Stow-on-the-Wold. Views from a train approaching Carlisle followed by the boys queing for campsite food. The boys walking in the grounds of Fernehirst Castle then playing football with a tennis ball. The film ends with the Bolton school boys and teachers waiting for the 'Windsor Lad' steam train. | |||
[ABEL STREET SCHOOL vs ROSEGROVE SCHOOL FOOTBALL MATCH] | |||
Date: c1949 Film Number: 5222 | |||
Non-chronological footage of a football match played at Turf Moor stadium in Burnley between Abel Street School and Rosegrove School. In addition to the general play there are shots of the crowds on the terraces, of players running on to the pitch and of the referee tossing a coin with the team captains. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html | |||
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[BURNLEY SCHOOL FOOTBALL MATCH AND PRESENTATIONS] | |||
Date: c1949 Film Number: 5236 | |||
Action from a school football match played at Turf Moor stadium in Burnley featuring pupils from Abel Street School, followed by a prizegiving ceremony. Includes general football action and shots of the crowd in the main stand. After the players walk off, the film cuts to a room where a cup is presented and medals are handed out to individual boys (who presumably played in the match). For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html | |||
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[GASWORKS PLAQUES, BURNLEY SCHOOL FOOTBALL] | |||
Date: c1949 Film Number: 5237 | |||
General action from a school football match played at Turf Moor stadium in Burnley featuring pupils from Abel Street School, preceded by shots of plaques relating to Oswald Street Gasworks. The plaques record the opening of the original gasworks and of an extension. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html | |||
[FOOTBALL SCENES AND BOYS VAULTING] | |||
Date: 1948/50 Film Number: 7149 | |||
Footage of varying speed featuring scenes from football matches (possibly played near Tatton Park in Cheshire), a football practice session and boys performing gymnastic vaults. Slow motion scenes from an older lads' football match are followed by shots of a practice session for younger boys. In a gymnasium, boys vault over a wooden vaulting box with the aid of an instructor and the film ends with speeded up colour footage of another boys' football match. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
[TWO WEDDINGS, PERSHORE HOUSE SCHOOL AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
Date: 1948/52-4 Film Number: 6832 | |||
Family footage showing the Swift family in their garden and on street outside houses. Men are seen loading a boat onto a van and then launching it on West Kirby's Marine Lake. Scenes from two female family members' weddings and a number of outdoor events at Pershore House School, Birkenhead. | |||
THE JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS | |||
Date: 1949 Film Number: 903 | |||
Jubilee celebrations in Leigh 1949, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Borough of Leigh - street decorations; the council in session; civic dignitaries gathered for the civic luncheon; people arriving in cars and on foot for the opening of the local government and industrial exhibition; exhibits and spectators at the Co-op Hall; bowling finals at Pennington Hall; a pageant at St. Josephs Hall; modelling fashions through the years; at the gym; hydroplane racing; a torchlight procession; a swimming gala and presentation of prizes; the carnival procession - fancy dress, floats - some pulled by ponies, morris dancing, fire engines; a firework display at the football ground. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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