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Record 320 – 339 of 459
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 219 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5685 | |||
| Servicemen in the Far East send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester and elsewhere in the North West. The film opens in a garden setting with pagodas as the men arrive in jeeps. They are met by an officer who tells them how the film is going to work before introducing the first callers. Messages are delivered in relaxed settings around the grounds, including a scene in which three sailors are fishing by a river (and only manage to ‘catch’ a tin can). The film ends with the men walking past the camera in single file, waving and saying their goodbyes, before piling back into their jeeps and driving off as ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ plays in the background. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 226 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5686 | |||
| Servicemen in the Far East send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester and elsewhere in the North West. The film opens in a garden setting as the men march along a path singing ‘Glory Glory What a Hell of a Way to Die’. They are met by an officer who tells them how the film is going to work before introducing the first caller. Other messages are delivered in relaxed settings around the grounds, before the whole group march off singing ‘Glory Glory’ again, waving and shouting out their farewells. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 273 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5687 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Stockport and Salford send personal messages home to their loved ones from the grounds of Central Studios in Bombay. The men deliver their messages in a variety of set-piece situations: in the garden, in a courtyard, listening to the radio by a parked car and on a bench. Includes a brief scene in which one group ‘interrupts’ filming to ask what is going on and are invited to deliver their own messages. The film ends with the group of contributors walking silently away from the camera, turning back to wave as they go. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 328 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5690 | |||
| From a film studio set in Bombay decked out to look like a ‘mess room’, men serving in India send personal messages home to their loved ones in and around Manchester. The film opens with two similar-looking men who suspend their game of darts to introduce the first contributors. Further set piece techniques are used around the set to introduce more groups of callers. Ends with the men picking up their hats and leaving the room, saying their personal goodbyes, as the gramophone plays ‘I’ll be Seeing You’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 388 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5692 | |||
| On leave in Malabar Hill in Bombay, servicemen send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester, Salford and Stockport. After an opening view of the Bombay skyline, a group of soldiers stroll along a track past the camera as an officer with a handheld microphone invites three of them to deliver their own message home. Further contributors are filmed in other parts of the leafy grounds before the group walk away from the camera and back down the track, turning to wave and say goodbye as they depart. | |||
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| [VICTORY PARADE THROUGH HOYLAKE HIGH STREET] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 7885 | |||
| Victory Parade through Hoylake High Street on VE Day. | |||
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| NOW WE ARE FIVE | |||
| Date: 1944-7 Film Number: 4399 | |||
| The Wain family's ration books are seen in the hall of their home, and Judith and Kathryn are seen with baby George Peter in the garden. The family go to the opening of Pole Bank Gardens on 26 August 1944, and Judith and Kathryn try different hats on their baby brother. On VE Day, Kathryn, Judith and Peter are seen in the garden with the day's paper and waving Union Jacks. In August 1945, the family go on holiday to St Anne's, where they are seen playing on the beach and at an open-air swimming pool. | |||
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| [EVENTS, PROCESSIONS AND VISITS] | |||
| Date: c1944-53 Film Number: 3126 | |||
| Film of various events, processions and visits - most of the footage is shot in Horwich and Bradford. The various processions feature floats, people in fancy dress, soldiers and children dancing. There are scenes of a play being acted out, Belle Vue Zoo (?) is featured and there are streetscenes from Bradford and Bolton. The Coronation decorations in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens are seen and there are shots of trains in Bradford Railway Station. | |||
| ROCHDALE VICTORY PARADE, SUNDAY 16TH MAY 1945 | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 221 | |||
| Troops, nurses, civilians etc. march past Rochdale Town Hall on a wet day. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| THE FRUITS OF VICTORY | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 618 | |||
| Newsreel showing the private and public response to news of the end of the war in Europe. Showing the family in front of the radio; news in the office; an effigy of Hitler being hoisted into the rafters of a factory bedecked with flags and garlands; on the street via newspapers; scenes of street celebrations, and children building bonfires and sitting amongst ruins. (Manchester and Liverpool?) | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 241 | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 623 | |||
| Malaya, Christmas 1945 - servicemen from Wigan, Cheadle and Gatley gather to send their messages home. They end by singing ' Show me the way to go home'. | |||
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| ROPE | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 910 | |||
| The ascent of Scafell in the Lake District. Reel 1 : Scafell Pike shown on the map; general views of the countryside - waterfalls, streams, snowcapped hills; playing in the snow; eating lunch. Reel 2 : The ascent - the boys are roped together, one falls - bandaging the in jured leg; the stone war memorial on the summit of Scafell; back in the classroom. | |||
| WARRINGTON GREETS HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 2240 | |||
| King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are seen visiting the people of Warrington on 7th March 1945. School children line the streets and wave flags as the royal cavalcade travels slowly past. The Mayor of Warrington and other civic dignitaries, greet the King and Queen as they get out of the car. The royal party stand on the steps outside the town hall address the crowd. Also features footage of a military parade including shots of a brass band, troops and nurses. | |||
| AROUND THE DIVISION | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 3233 | |||
| Footage of staff at various ICI divisions celebrating the victories in Europe - flags are flying, staff assemble for the camera and give victory signs, and there are other scenes of workers in factories doing their jobs. | |||
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| CHRISTMAS 1945 | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 4318 | |||
| Christmas message from Harry Korris and Robbie Vincent (two popular music hall and radio stars) to customers of ABC Cinemas. Harry Korris plays Santa, and Robbie Vincent plays an elf - they tell a few jokes and pull a large cracker containing the message. | |||
| [MANCHESTER VICTORY CELEBRATIONS] | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 4425 | |||
| Servicemen, women and civilians are seen on the decorated streets of Manchester celebrating VE Day. There is dancing, bonfires and fireworks in Albert Square and Piccadilly Gardens, as well as views of illuminated trams and a street party. The film ends with colour footage of the decorations being brought down after the celebrations. | |||
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| NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN: ACCIDENT PREVENTION DISPLAY ORGANISED BY PRESTON ACCIDENT PREVENTION COUNCIL | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 4668 | |||
| Delegates are seen arriving at a meeting to arrange the road safety demonstration and there is footage from the event itself, staged at Avenham Park in Preston. Local children entertain the crowds and a number of different causes of accidents are demonstrated, including stepping out from behind a vehicle, turning on a bicycle without signalling and overtaking at the wrong time. Advice is also given on what to do if you discover unexploded bombs or weapons - do not touch them. | |||
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| [V.E. PICNIC] | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 5072 | |||
| A group head off on an outing to celebrate V.E. Day. They walk down a country lane, jokingly give the Nazi salute to camera, and generally lark around. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| VETRANS [SIC] OF 1914 - 18 REMEMBER | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 5214 | |||
| Remembrance parade in a Burnley park featuring war veterans and serving members of the forces. After shots of newspaper headlines from July and August 1945, veterans and army cadets march through the park as a military band plays. A drumhead altar is made before a clergyman leads prayers. After shots of the assembled crowd, the parade resumes and proceeds past the mayor. The film ends with brief footage of the mayor laying a wreath at the war memorial outside St. Peter's Church. 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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| THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WINSTON S. CHURCHILL VISITS FULWOOD AND PRESTON, 27TH JUNE 1945 | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 6143 | |||
| Visit by Winston Churchill to Preston on 27 June 1945. Crowds line the streets to greet him, and he visits the Conservative Working Men's Club before addressing the crowds outside of the Harris Free Library in Preston. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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