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Searched For: football
Record 468 – 487 of 667
| [CONISTON CAMPSITE SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 8624 | |||
| Brief shots of rodeo riders falling off their horses are followed by scenes at a campsite by Coniston Water, where people enjoy a football dribbling race, and then a game involving hurling buckets of water. Finally, young children play outdoors, some wearing fancy dress. | |||
| [SCOUTS AT HULTON PARK 1973] | |||
| Date: 1973 Film Number: 9417 | |||
| The Scouts at Hulton Park camp site near Bolton, playing football, walking in the snow and in boats on the lake. | |||
| THIS LIVERPOOL | |||
| Date: 1973-4 Film Number: 5779 | |||
| Everyday scenes in Liverpool - general views of St George's Hall, Liverpool Lime Street Station, St John's Market and the Anglican and Catholic Cathedrals are followed by busy street scenes. Comedian George Roper poses for pictures next to a promotional Tetley dray. Footage of the Grand National, Aintree and events at the Liverpool Show. Liverpool Football Club are filmed playing at Anfield and fans are seen in the city centre waiting for the homecoming parade following their 1974 FA Cup win. Brief shots of the players holding aloft the FA Cup as they ride an open top bus. | |||
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| L.S. LOWRY: 'THE INDUSTRIAL ARTIST' | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 2021 | |||
| Using examples of his work and contemporary views of the North West this film looks at the life and work of L.S. Lowry. Includes an interview with Lowry at his house in Mottram. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| CENTRAL LANCASHIRE NEW TOWN | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 2499 | |||
| Film showing how the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) hopes to Orchestrate the development of 55 square miles of Central Lancashire. The film is based on the Outline Plan of the Corporation and deals with development under six headings; housing, employment, education, shopping, recreation and transport. Features aerial footage, maps animation and diagrams as well as footage of many places within the Central Lancashire Development Corporation and some outside, such as Lancashire and Liverpool. | |||
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| CIDIWHACK; THE LITTLE MAN; SMACK BANG WALLOP; BIG EARS | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 5881 | |||
| A compilation of four short amateur dramas. "Cidiwhack" features a boy who falls and injures himself, then applies a magic cream which develops special powers to help him fight off bullies. "The Little Man" features an unlucky girl whose fortunes change after receiving a magic ring given to her by a little man. In "Smack Bang Wallop" different groups of youngsters fight over some recently discovered blueprints. A boy finds and drinks a strange drink, grows enormous ears, gets bullied at school and gets involved in a mass brawl in "Big Ears". [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| TOMORROW'S MERSEYSIDERS | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 7171 | |||
| Documentary depicting the work of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo and the lives of young Merseysiders at a time of transition and change. After early shots inside the busy offices, the film looks at the newspaper production process whilst reflecting on the social effects of Liverpool's slum clearances and the abandonment of older buildings. It highlights constructive youth projects, events and campaigns supported by the paper such as the Liverpool University Settlement and the Echo Challenge Cup for inter-school football. Concludes with the Echo being sold to passengers boarding the Mersey ferry. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [MORECAMBE FC CELEBRATIONS 1974] | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 8811 | |||
| Scenes from Seacliff Beach in Scotland, followed by scenes from home of a pet cat. A woman holds a Morecambe FC scarf and Morecambe Town Hall displays a banner that reads 'Well Done Morecambe FC'. Crowds of people are out celebrating and we see the football team go through the streets on an open top bus with the trophy. | |||
| [MORECAMBE FC CELEBRATIONS 1974; MORECAMBE CARNIVAL] | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 8812 | |||
| Scenes of crowds of Morecambe FC fans celebrating outside Morecambe Town Hall. The football players arrive in an open top bus and meet the mayor. We then see scenes from Morecambe Carnival, there are floats, morris dancers, marching bands and people in fancy dress. | |||
| [FOOTBALL MATCHES 1974] | |||
| Date: 1974 Film Number: 9407 | |||
| Match action from three different schoolboy football matches played in a local park. | |||
| [CUBS IT’S A KNOCKOUT 1975] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 9399 | |||
| The cub scouts take part in a 'It's a Knockout' style competition with football, relay races, tug of war, and a sack relay race. We also see them taking part in a competition where they push each other around in wheelbarrows. | |||
| [CAMPSITE GAMES] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 8627 | |||
| Fun and games at the Coniston Water campsite, including campers competing in a football dribbling race, and having a water fight. | |||
| [ASTLE PARK RALLY 1975] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 11897 | |||
| Driving vintage tractors at Astle Park in Chelford near Macclesfield in front of a crowd of spectators. Various steam traction engines including one powering a washing machine Children on two seat swings and a group of men play a game of football followed by shots of a steam traction engine powered carousel lit up at night. Children ride a miniature steam railway followed by a parade of various steam traction engines and steam powered vehicles. The film ends with a competition for the best steam engine and vintage tractor with the winner receiving a small cup. | |||
| [WASHING THE DOG] | |||
| Date: c1976 Film Number: 5739 | |||
| One of the Greenwood boys practices his football skills whilst sporting an England tracksuit. Views of the garden and two dogs. Two boys in an inflatable dingy float on a river. A dog washed by a boy in a large refuse bin. | |||
| [CHARITY FOOTBALL AND TV FILMING] | |||
| Date: 1975-9 Film Number: 11158 | |||
| Scenes from a charity football match. People play a game of football, and the players lark about on the pitch. There are shots of the spectators, amongst the spectators is a man wearing a gold chain of office. We then see a TV production being filmed in Bollington town centre. We see actors wearing period costume and the film crew. The locals stand around watching what is happening. The film ends with a brief shot of crew on the catering bus. | |||
| [YOUTH FOOTBALL AND WASHING UP] | |||
| Date: 1975-9 Film Number: 11172 | |||
| Scenes from a youth football game, and then brief shots of an elderly lady doing the washing up. | |||
| [BABY HELEN AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1975-9 Film Number: 11181 | |||
| This film consists of brief shots of various people in different locations. We see Helen and John as babies, the Murphy boys play football in Kerridge, Aunty Marie at home, baby Helen sat in her pram while her mother cuts her nails, Karen poses with flowers then helps Helen learn to walk in the garden. We see Aunty Marie at the door, and then Cheryl is jokingly pulled through a door to pose in front of the camera. We see spectators at a bowling match, amongst them is Ada Warren. Aunty Marie sits with Helen in her pram and Karen is embarrassed to be filmed wearing shorts. We then go to Pott Shrigley where a shepherd helps a sheep to give birth to two lambs, the sheep then licks the lambs clean. There are more scenes of Karen playing in the garden and then there are landscape views shot from Green Lane. We see Tom, Jean and the film maker's mother on the Rec, and then Karen with a hen and her chicks. We then see scenes from Morecambe with Aunty Marie, Graham and his father. There are shots of the sea and people windsurfing and water skiing. We see Margaret Muir, Ron Povey and Alf on the mill car park, and then more scenes from the garden where Cheryl puts make up on Karen. | |||
| 6 GOAL BEST | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 1288 | |||
| George Best scoring six goals in the F.A. Cup tie between Manchester United and Northampton Town in 1970. Also includes shots of the crowd and fellow team mates. | |||
| SUPER SWAN | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 5584 | |||
| Documentary looking at the setting up of a community festival in the Old Swan district of Liverpool. Scenes from a community meeting to launch the project are followed by preparations, with women sewing bunting and decorating the streets. During the festival, children take part in various entertainments and there are views of several different street theatre performances. A civil war battle is re-enacted, and the film ends with street parties, races, children singing and dancing into the night. | |||
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| TOWER GRANGE | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 5949 | |||
| An introduction to Tower Grange in Broughton, Salford: a rehabilitation home run by the Sisters of the Cross and Passion for young girls with domestic, scholarly or emotional problems. General footage of Salford is followed by a look at a typical week at Tower Grange. The girls are seen getting up in the morning, making their beds, doing chores, and taking part in various lessons. Footage of prayer groups, individual counselling sessions, meal times, needlework, as well as visits to the countryside, the local swimming pool and library, and work experience at a hairdressers. At the end of the week the girls go home to visit their parents. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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