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Record 280 – 299 of 459
| [INDIA PART 2 - DAILY LIFE AND RETURNING HOME] | |||
| Date: 1943-45 Film Number: 8869 | |||
| Scenes on and around HMS Garuda Naval Station in Coimbatore - rural life in India, and miscellanous scenes on the base - weddings, naval officers and local workers, leisure activities in the countryside and at the beach. The reel concludes with the journey home on HMS Hunter, travelling through the Suez Canal to Gibraltar. | |||
| [PANTOMIME PERFORMANCES] | |||
| Date: 1943-47 Film Number: 1385 | |||
| Various pantomime performances shot at the Queen's Park Hippodrome, Manchester; Empire Theatre, York; Grand Theatre, Doncaster and Manchester Hippodrome. | |||
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| SUNNY GUERNSEY | |||
| Date: *1943 - 48 Film Number: 668 | |||
| A family holiday in Guernsey - includes views of the harbour and a close up shot of a couple on the deck of a ferry; shots of a market; cliffs and rock climbing, and a sunset. | |||
| [JOHN THIS IS YOUR LIFE - 7 TO 15] | |||
| Date: 1943-51 Film Number: 8364 | |||
| Compilation reel begins with John looking at all the birthday cards he received for his seventh birthday. Later, he runs and plays in a field dressed in a Native American costume and pretends to hit his mother with a tomahawk. In December, John counts down the days to Christmas Day and writes his letter to Santa Claus and puts the letter in the fireplace. On Christmas Eve, John hangs up his Christmas stocking and reminds his mother to not forget the party. Through the use of trick photography, presents, decorations and food 'magically' appear on the table. John decides it's time for him to go to bed. While he sleeps, Santa brings his toys to life. The next day, friends and family gather around the table for Christmas dinner. They light candles on a cake and John blows them out. Shots of friends and family (some wearing military uniform) drinking tea and generally fooling around. A woman and her husband (who is wearing a military uniform) pose for the camera with their young baby. John holds a calendar up to the camera, the 8th of July is marked for John's birthday. In the newspaper we see an article for the 1944 Holidays At Home. As well as a leaflet for Poole's Caucasian Circus. At the circus grounds, John goes on some of the rides such as the merry-go-round and waltzers. The film cuts to scenes of young boys playing football. The family stop at Mersey View, Frodsham to visit some friends, we see views of the helter-skelter. On Porth Wen beach they go swimming in the sea while others sit in the sun. The film cuts to a mother and her baby waiting for her child to come out of Warrington Grammar school. Back at home, family and friends sit around the table for tea and birthday cake. John can be seen blowing out the candles and cutting the cake. At an outdoor swimming pool, some adults watch as others dive from the diving board. Includes some slow motion shots of diving. Afterwards, they all enjoy a picnic together. The film ends with scenes of Grappenhall youth football team competing in the 1951 semi-final. | |||
| SAM HANNA CRAFTSMAN, TEACHER, FILM MAKER | |||
| Date: *1943/45-46/50/54-55/74 Film Number: 5220 | |||
| Sam Hanna narrates a story of his working life, from his training as a craftsman and teacher through to his film-making. Mr Hanna works on a cabriole leg and shows examples of furniture he has made in his home. After brief shots of Sam writing notes for his handicraft teaching, the film concentrates on Mr Hanna's film-making as he sets off in his car with his wife to film craftspeople around the country. Sam's films of the Burnley Home Guard are featured together with footage of his father meeting King George VI, holidays in Switzerland and his links with the local Swiss community. The film also includes shots of Mr Hanna's workshop and pioneering film equipment and ends with Sam at his typewriter writing a book about his life. 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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| 28TH LANCS B. N. HOME GUARD. OFFICERS CAMP BARLEY. 5/6TH JUNE 1943 | |||
| Date: 1943/55 Film Number: 1264 | |||
| 28th Lancs B.N. Home Guard at Officers training camp at Barley on the 5/6th June 1943. Includes shots of men being trained in defence and camouflage techniques. Also includes the Royal visit to Malvern Mill in Nelson on 14th April 1955. | |||
| [HOME GUARD] | |||
| Date: c1944 Film Number: 103 | |||
| The Home Guard march through the streets of Altrincham then assemble in a field to display manoeuvres and combat. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 52 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 150 | |||
| One by one, soldiers serving in India come in front of the camera to deliver personal messages to family and friends in Oldham. At the end they all gather round the mess room piano to hear 'Jungle Swing', and wave and cheer at the camera. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 58 | |||
| Date: c1944 Film Number: 153 | |||
| One by one, soldiers and seamen serving in India come in front of the camera to deliver personal messages to family and friends in St. Helens and Liverpool. At the end they all gather round the mess room piano to sing "We'll meet again" and cheer and wave at the camera. | |||
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| THE BIRTH OF A SERVICE | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 155 | |||
| North West Fire Services parade through a town, then air raid scenes are shown and it is explained that some of the fire-fighters are part-time. Members of the Fire Service are then shown involved in various activities - training recruits, maintaining water supplies, housekeeping and administrative duties, firefighting, maintaining machinery and buildings, making toys for children in hospitals and doing munitions work in spare time, attending emergencies, and fighting fires aboard ship. The film ends with an appeal for donations to the Welfare Fund - a collection will be taken at 'this' cinema. | |||
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| MEN OF ROCHDALE | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 169 | |||
| A dramatised account of the first Co-operative Society, which was founded in Rochdale in 1843. After attending a meeting addressed by GJ Holyoake, the people of Rochdale decide to form a co-operative and open a shop. There is opposition to this from local business men but the shop opens and becomes increasingly successful. With the profits, they invest in a share of a corn mill, but when a rumour is spread about the financial soundness of the enterprise they manage to allay the fears of the members and avoid disaster by a clever bluff. Later there is another crisis when the American Civil War upsets the cotton industry, but they keep going and support the northern United States. The history of the co-operative movement is brought up-to-date and there are scenes of production in co-operative factories. The film finishes with the ghosts of the original pioneers expressing their opinions of the progress and their disappointment with modern society. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| HOLIDAYS AT HOME | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 220 | |||
| Series of organised events for the 'Holidays at Home' initiative in Rochdale. The mayor launches the programme, and there are scenes from a number of the events including some entertainers on stage; boating; bowling; children's sports day; an agricultural show; dancing in Falinge Park; a fashion pageant; swimming gala; and children's dog show. There are also scenes from a coach trip to the Roman Road at Blackstone Edge, and the mayor is seen talking with Reginald Dixon, the Blackpool organist, in his RAF uniform. | |||
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| [LIVERPOOL'S FLAG DAY FOR SEAMEN] | |||
| Date: *1944 Film Number: 299 | |||
| An appeal, mostly using captions, for funds for Atlantic House - a seamen's welfare establishment in Liverpool. | |||
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| SONG OF THE PEOPLE | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 462 | |||
| "A survey of the influence of the 'common people' on history" achieved through dramatic reconstructions with songs, poetry and music. Sponsored by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, the emphasis is on workers' co-operation and participation as opposed to history text book accounts. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 132 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 546 | |||
| A group of servicemen send individual messages home to their families and friends in Manchester, from a jungle in Burma. They end by singing together - 'She's a lassie from Lancashire'. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 183 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 621 | |||
| Members of the RAF stand in the goal mouth of a football pitch, and send messages home. Each man introduces the next. At the end, they march towards the camera, waving, as the narrator mentions their home towns of Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale, Wigan and Bolton. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 199 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 622 | |||
| Men from the Black East African Regiment moving timber in camp area. Messages home - the men, mainly from Stockport and Blackburn, pass on their messages home whilst playing badminton and map reading. Ends with an African tribal dance performed by the East African troops. | |||
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| SERENADE TO BRITAIN | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 656 | |||
| The U.K. tour of an 85 piece official U.S. Army Forces Band - the band in transit, and performing in Manchester's Kings Hall at Belle Vue, and Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall - shots of the dance floor. The finale takes place in the Royal Albert Hall, London. | |||
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| MORECAMBE 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 811 | |||
| A look at the various events taking place in Morecambe on 11th September 1944 - the RAF Swimming Gala; a demonstration of self inflating dinghies; and a water polo match between teams from Lancashire and Cheshire - prizes are presented. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| SALUTE THE SOLDIER MARCH PAST 16 APRIL 44 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 1194 | |||
| A procession of soldiers are seen marching along Barlow Moor Road and Princess Road in Didsbury passing a group of officers on a podium who salute them. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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