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| MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE. ARANDORA STAR. JUNE 1935 [1] | |||
| Date: 1934 Film Number: 3808 | |||
| Footage from a holiday cruise around the Mediterranean aboard the Arandora Star, with visits to Venice, Solfatera near Naples and Dubrovnik and Kotor in (former) Yugoslavia. | |||
| [ON THE RHINE] | |||
| Date: 1934-5 Film Number: 3272 | |||
| Footage from a holiday in the Rhineland - shots of a viaduct near a German town on the banks of the Rhine, and members of the touring party posing with local policemen and Nazi officers. There are shots of ruins, a cart being pulled along a road by cattle, a large mountain and passing steam trains. There are shots of a small town decorated with swastikas, a tugboat pulling a ship across a lake. Several castles along the length of the Rhine are featured, and there are animated scenes and street scenes in another town. | |||
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| IDEAL HOTEL BLANKENBERGHE OUR HOST AND HIS DAUGHTER | |||
| Date: 1934-9 Film Number: 3271 | |||
| Footage of a holiday tour through Germany - a boat trip past villages and hotels is followed by street scenes in a German resort, a beach with a pier and neat rows of beach huts, the holidaymakers drinking in a bar, visiting Zeebrugge and seeing a monument. | |||
| HOLIDAY SNAPSHOTS PART 1 | |||
| Date: c1934-44 Film Number: 1389 | |||
| Scenes of the Smith family on holiday in Anglesey, Torquay and Colwyn Bay. Also includes shots of a 1934 Scout Camp; two elephants walking down the middle of a busy street and three members of a Civil Defence group standing in a back street spraying each other with water from a stirrup pump. | |||
| BLACKBURN'S HOMAGE | |||
| Date: 1935 Film Number: 128 | |||
| A procession including veterans, disabled men, nurses and civic dignitaries. A crowd assembled in a park for a ceremony; soldiers fire a salute; shots of the crowd leaving the park. The park seen at night, illuminated. A bonfire seen. A procession of children, from Audley Council School, in fancy dress; a procession of decorated lorries. Shots of the crowd in the centre of town, and finally shots of a torchlight procession in the park. | |||
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| [SILVER JUBILEE YEAR] | |||
| Date: 1935 Film Number: 1948 | |||
| Compilation reel of various activities and events attended by the Preston family in 1935. Includes a naval review of several decorated shipping vessels. Members of the Preston family are given a guided tour around an Ocean liner and the 'Bremen' is seen leaving the docks accompanied by tugboats. Further scenes include a carnival procession in Reddish - Lower Mosley Street bus station in Manchester - the Preston family drinking tea in their garden at Glengarry in Stockport - various high angle shots of streets decorated with flags, bunting and streamers to celebrate the Silver Jubilee. | |||
| [CAMPHILL AND RATCLIFFE] | |||
| Date: 1935-39 Film Number: 519 | |||
| Activities at Camphill, home of the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club - including rigging; National Meeting in 1936 and 1937 (the latter featuring a visit from the German pilot Hannah Reitsch); and Slingsby's Gull II. Some aerial shots. 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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| SCENES OF GENERAL INTEREST | |||
| Date: c1935-40 Film Number: 2061 | |||
| Film featuring a variety of subjects and locations. Includes footage of: The HMS Rodney; King George 6th and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) driving past waving crowds; biplanes flying in formation; hunger marchers; ferries at Liverpool, the Ribble in flood; various trains; beacons to commemorate the jubilee of George V and Preston Dock. There is also footage shot in Blackpool, including some shot from a roller coaster. | |||
| HAFFNER HOLIDAYS 5 | |||
| Date: *1935/37 Film Number: 677 | |||
| Holiday scenes - views of a military parade; a lake and waterfall; a shipyard; fairground; a barbecue on the beach; a general panning shot of woods. | |||
| [ROTTERDAM] | |||
| Date: *1935/37 Film Number: 1949 | |||
| The Preston family, from Stockport, are seen on a cruise holiday. They visit Rotterdam and Ostend. Includes various streetscenes; shots of windmills; people in national costume at Volendam and shots of a war memorial at Ypres. | |||
| [BOYS' BRIGADE 1936-1937] | |||
| Date: 1936-7 Film Number: 1193 | |||
| Members of the 72nd Boys' Brigade from Salford are seen participating in a procession through St Peters and Albert Squares in Manchester. Also scenes from a camping holiday in North Wales including a visit to Conway Castle and the beach, a boat trip, hill-walking, sports day at camp and lads playing football. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [WE WILL REMEMBER THEM] | |||
| Date: c1937 Film Number: 878 | |||
| A meeting of the East Lancashire Regimental Association; a civilian procession to the war memorial followed by a wreath laying ceremony; line up of uniformed soldiers in barracks yard. | |||
| THE MARCH OF TIME, FEATURING KEITH HODKINSON | |||
| Date: 1936-41 Film Number: 7200 | |||
| Family film featuring shots of Keith Hodkinson as a baby and toddler. Baby Keith is seen at 2 weeks old and then in a number of locations with his parents, including Scarborough and Southport on holiday. Keith, family members and friends are also filmed in the garden of the new family home in Romiley, where the adults talk, play cards and do some gardening. Includes brief footage of a visit to the 'Empress of Britain' steamship in dock, possibly at Liverpool. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [THE INGHAM CHILDREN AND FAMILY PETS] | |||
| Date: *1936/7/8/9/45 Film Number: 8902 | |||
| Shot over several years, the Ingham children are seen in their back garden with the family pets - various dogs and a cat, then playing with bicycles, a toy car and pram; in winter, they build a soldier snowman. Adults are occasionally seen; there is a brief shot of the boy at a boating pool, and men playing golf. | |||
| BLACKPOOL PLEASURE BEACH | |||
| Date: *1936/40/4/6 Film Number: 4418 | |||
| Scenes from Hart family holiday to Blackpool - they are seen on the beach playing with the dog, and walking along the sea-front on a rough day. The family visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as well as Derby Baths indoor pool, and an outdoor swimming pool. Ice-skating scenes, with service men in uniform on the rink, are followed by the family in a park. | |||
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| [ARMY CAMP AT BELLE VUE] | |||
| Date: *1937 Film Number: 931 | |||
| A regimental band board a double decker bus. An army camp at Belle Vue - field exercises; ammunition is unloaded from a truck; a visit from an officer. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| ON HOLIDAY IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND | |||
| Date: 1937 Film Number: 2784 | |||
| Film of the Higginson family's holiday to Germany. They visit Bonn, Dresden, Sebnitz and Nurnberg. A paddle steamer packed with 'excursionists' is seen in Bonn, as are some Choristers. There are streetscenes in Dresden - Nazi banners are seen on some buildings. The family are seen walking in a forested area and relaxing at an outdoor cafe. Also features shots of a market in Nurnberg and soldiers marching. | |||
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| [TERRITORIAL ARMY IN STRETFORD] | |||
| Date: 1937 Film Number: 2874 | |||
| Film shot in Stretford. Opens with very brief footage of the filmmaker's daughter, Juliana, as a young child in Victoria Park. Continues with shots of Territorial Army members marching along a street and the mayor, Mr Smith, and various civic dignitaries attending St Matthews Church. Closes with footage of children, including Juliana Morley, playing in Victoria Park. | |||
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| TOURING EUROPE BY CAR JUNE 1937 [1] | |||
| Date: 1937 Film Number: 3810 | |||
| Footage of a touring holiday around Europe - locations include Brussels, Cologne, the Rhine, and Southern Germany (places include Heidelberg, Rothenberg and Bavaria). Other locations include Lucerne, Lauterbrunen and Drundelwald in Switzerland. | |||
| A VISIT TO SWITZERLAND | |||
| Date: 1937-9 Film Number: 3270 | |||
| Footage of a holiday in Switzerland - scenes in Lucerne, fountains, flowers and gardens and a boat trip on the Lake, showing lakeside hotels, villages and mountain scenery. St Bernard puppies are shown, and there are shots of the alpine countryside taken from a cable car. Various holidaymakers are seen around a gorge and throwing snowballs on a mountainside., and after a railway journey, the film ends in Campione in Italy. | |||
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