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| MANCHESTER UNITED TRAGEDY | |||
| Date: 1958 Film Number: 6067 | |||
| Compilation of newsreel items relating to the Munich air disaster of February 1958 and its immediate consequences for Manchester United. Scenes of the plane wreckage on fire, players injured in hospital, and the coffins of the dead returning to Manchester. Footage from the team's FA Cup matches from that season, including the final against Bolton at Wembley (Bolton won 2-0). Also includes a visit to Manchester by the doctors and nurses from the Munich hospital who saved the lives of several players and manager Matt Busby. | |||
| [MANCHESTER UNITED'S 1958 FA CUP MATCHES] | |||
| Date: 1958 Film Number: 6068 | |||
| Compilation of footage from three of Manchester United's 1958 FA Cup matches, played just weeks after the Munich air crash in which several players died. Games featured are the 6th round replay against West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford, the Semi-final replay at Highbury against Fulham, and the final against Bolton Wanderers which United lost 2-0. | |||
| [MANCHESTER UNITED V AC MILAN] | |||
| Date: 1958 Film Number: 6069 | |||
| Footage from the first leg of the European Cup semi-final between Manchester United and AC Milan at Old Trafford. The teams are seen coming onto the pitch and there are scenes from the game which Manchester United won 2-1. | |||
| [SMITHILLS TECHNICAL SCHOOL, BOLTON] | |||
| Date: c1960 Film Number: 4628 | |||
| Pupils from Smithills Technical School in Bolton are seen playing on the school football pitch, being taught chemistry and practising first aid. There is also footage from lifesaving practice at the swimming pool and from football and netball matches. | |||
| [SCHOOL SPORTING SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1960 Film Number: 4629 | |||
| Pupils [probably from Smithills Technical School in Bolton] are seen participating in a number of different sporting activities - at the swimming pool, diving in slow-motion, playing football and doing the long jump. | |||
| MOSCOW | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 1577 | |||
| Opens with footage of streetscenes and historic sites in Moscow. Followed by scenes from state and collective farms: Pyatigorsk, Kuban Steppe, Georgievsk, Karavayevo and Latvia Sigulda. Ends with shots from Leningrad and on the beach at Bulduri | |||
| SMALL TOWN | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 4543 | |||
| Film about Glossop, made for its twin town of Millau in France. After being told off by a policeman, three schoolchildren are set the task by their teacher of finding out a bit more about the town that they live in. They look at the course of the Glossop Brook through the town, some of the parks and leisure activities available and some of the surrounding towns and countryside. There are scenes of the town's industries - such as paper and brush-making - and the film looks at Glossop's local government. A new mayor is sworn in, and a procession passes through the town to mark the occassion. | |||
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| [CYCLING AND CAMPING 1959] | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 7258 | |||
| Camping scenes and footage of people riding tricycles. Opens with shots of young men washing in a stream before general views of tents and activity on various campsites, including one at a racecourse. A woman cooks bacon on a stove at the back of a van whilst a baby is rocked in a pram outside. There is footage from what appears to be a tricycle time trial that passes through Pimhill in Shropshire, before children and adults are seen in a park with their tricycles. Concludes with views from a moving van and shots of people walking in wintry conditions near a waterfall. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [LIVERPOOL STREET SCENES AND MAJOR LESTER CP SCHOOL] | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 5478 | |||
| Black and white film of boarded up and partly demolished terraced houses in Liverpool. A few scenes of Liverpool city centre including the docks and The City of Liverpool College of Technology. Finally, Major Lester CP School playground is shown with the children playing football and other games. | |||
| AND THEN THERE WERE TEN [AND OTHER STORIES] | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 5483 | |||
| A selection of drama sketches by the boys in class 1 at the Major Lester CP School in Liverpool. Several short stories are shown which usually involves the boys dressing up as pirates and cowboys and indians, as well as playing various different sports. The first sketch shows a boy being sent off from a football match, with his team going on to win a trophy. The boy then steals the trophy from the headmasters office, and is eventually caught and reprimanded. The next story involves the boys day-dreaming about pirates, with the following sketch showing a boy cheating to win a boxing match and the prize money, only for his deception to be discovered in the end. The fourth story shows a jealous classmate stealing the pen from another boy, only to be chased and finally pushed in the lake with the pen being retrieved. Following that is a story of a child in the class who cannot win at any sporting competitions, but beats all of his fellow classmates in a pie-eating competition. Finally, the last story shows the boys playing at cowboys and indians. | |||
| HAVE YOU A MOMENT? | |||
| Date: *1959 Film Number: 8287 | |||
| Promotional/fund-raising film for the Liverpool Boys' Association, looking at the various activities and centres run by the charity - table tennis, dances (including an appearance by Frankie Vaughan), variety shows, campsite at Heswall. The Duke of Edinburgh visits the sports facilities at Fazakerley, and there are scenes at the Association's hostel for young men, Sydney House. Ends with an appeal for funds and/or volunteers to help run the clubs. | |||
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| [FOOTBALL AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1959 Film Number: 8292 | |||
| Friends and family gather at home for a 21st birthday party. The film cuts to shots of the seaside, a group of women can be seen sat down doing some drawing. Two men spend time in the park with their dogs. The film ends with scenes of a amateur football match at a local pitch. | |||
| [JEWISH LADS' BRIGADE] | |||
| Date: 1959-60 Film Number: 1781 | |||
| Promotional film made for the North London Jewish Lads' Brigade in 1959. The first half of the film focuses on activities taking place at the club house, after school. The boys are seen doing physical exercises in the gym; playing table tennis and billiards; reading in the library and having dancing lessons. The second half of the film is shot on the Brigades Annual Camp. Companies from other areas, including a Manchester Battalion, are seen doing various washing up chores and drills. Includes interior shots of the Quarter Masters Store, meal times in the canteen tent and a boy having his knee bandaged in the camp hospital. | |||
| [THE MAYOR'S PROCESSION 1959 and 1960 / OLDHAM YOUTH FESTIVAL 1961] | |||
| Date: 1959/60/61 Film Number: 698 | |||
| Mayors Processions, Oldham - shots of the processions and spectators. Oldham Youth Festival - a gymnastic display; boys brigade band and procession. | |||
| THE BET | |||
| Date: c1960 Film Number: 2002 | |||
| Compilation including two men studying racing form on the street, Louis Armstrong in concert, watching the races at Oulton Park (Cheshire), views from a car driving along the M1 in Bedfordshire, people playing in a park, and wrestling possibly at Belle Vue, Manchester. | |||
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| [ANNE THE EARLY YEARS] | |||
| Date: c1960 Film Number: 11118 | |||
| Film documenting the early years of Anne. The film opens with Anne as a small baby in her pram and then we see her christening. There are views of the church and then Anne and her family arrive along with the guests. The family pose outside the church after the ceremony and then Anne and her family leave in a car. We see Anne with her parents giving her a drink from a cup. Then there are scenes of boys playing football in a park. We then see Anne as an older baby in her pram, and then playing on the living room floor in front of an open fire with a teddy and a clapping monkey toy while a room full of her relatives look on. We then see her being fed in her high chair by her mother, the table is set for dinner behind them. The extended family then sit down for a meal. They have plates of bacon and tomato, and little bowls of fruit salad. They distribute cups of tea. We next see Anne as a toddler playing in the park. We see her playing in a playground and with a boy who has a tricycle. She plays with another toddler and some dogs, and her extended family who are there too. | |||
| [WALKING IN NICKY NOOK AND BUDGIES] | |||
| Date: *1959/61/62 Film Number: 8795 | |||
| The Cookson family and friends walking with their dogs in Nicky Nook in the forest of Bowland and Bleasedale in the Wyre district of Lancashire. A man swings on a rope then a picnic followed by a boy playing football with one of the dogs. Views of a coastal town with a man sea fishing from the beach and views of the promenade. A man checks the nesting boxes of his budgies and a pond filled with goldfish. | |||
| OUR HOLIDAY AND BONNIE SCOTLAND | |||
| Date: *1959/61/62 Film Number: 11797 | |||
| A holiday at Pontins holiday camp in Morecambe, with shots of the building, the SS Berengaria, a young couple playing bowls, table tennis, crazy golf, swimming, and tennis. The film ends with underexposed scenes of dancing, football coaching, and match action featuring holiday camp patrons. In the following Bonnie Scotland film, we visit Gretna Green's blacksmiths, including a newly married couple exiting the blacksmiths. A young woman skims stones on a loch, and views of mountains, boats, coastal scenes, and Gretna Hall. | |||
| [ROSE QUEEN PARADE, THE LAKES AND TEIGNMOUTH] | |||
| Date: *1959/62 Film Number: 8788 | |||
| The Cookson family walking their pet poodles then the Cookson girls playing with the dogs. A man sea fishes from a rocky beach possibly in North Wales. The Cookson family enjoy a picnic in the countryside followed by a Rose Queen parade with majorettes, marching bands and people in fancy dress. Views of Lake Windermere and Ambleside, walking the dogs with the dogs and children paddling in the lake. Views of Teignmouth harbour and a boat ride with a man holding up to the camera todays catch of fish followed by views of a cathedral and slightly underexposed views of boats coming into harbour. | |||
| NEWS STORY | |||
| Date: 1960 Film Number: 172 | |||
| The making of one edition of the Guardian, featuring and explaining the various jobs and processes - reporting, editing and sub-editing, the wire room in London transmitting to Manchester, compositing and printing, late news arriving and being inserted. The newspapers are distributed nationally and internationally by road and rail, are delivered to the door by lads on bicycles and read by people in bus queues. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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