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| FERNDALE MILL SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 6550 | |||
| Ferndale Mill's Christmas works dinner featuring employees being served meals from the canteen and sat eating at tables, followed by scenes from a works outing to Windermere and Morecambe. Concludes with all the workers gathered for what appears to be a retirement presentation on the seafront at Morecambe. | |||
| WHITSUNTIDE PROCESSION 1949. STAND UNITARIANS | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 6559 | |||
| The Stand Unitarians' Whit Walk procession assembles in a country lane before setting off and making its way into the town centre past watching crowds. | |||
| [EGERTON BOYS CLUB HIGH JUMP AND BALL GAME] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 7162 | |||
| Boys practice the high jump in a playing field, possibly situated near Tatton Park in Cheshire. Ends with shots of boys playing an indoor ball game similar to basketball. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [THE PRIORITY PINT, MODEL BOATS AND WORKINGTON SHOW] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 7308 | |||
| Compilation reel featuring magic tricks, a model boat regatta and an agricultural show. Opens with a man making objects disappear, reappear and alter with the aid of camera tricks. The film cuts to a model sailboat racing competition, believed to be held at Barepot in Cumbria, with boats racing from one side of a lake to the other. Concludes with scenes from a country fair, possibly at Workington, featuring displays of livestock, a parade of vintage cars, a high diving demonstration, show jumping and Cumbrian wrestling. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| CHRISTMAS 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 5637 | |||
| Family Christmas scenes - people and dog in lounge; girls playing table tennis; men doing a jigsaw. Christmas dinner is served; there are views of the tree and decorations and people in paper hats; shots of men playing pool and everyone in the lounge again. 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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| [ISRAEL 1949] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 6873 | |||
| Reel 1 A Moss family trip to Israel on a tour of various locations. Footage includes Haifa street scenes, around Haifa Bay, Mount Carmel, Acre Old City and Nahariya. A sequence shows children living on a Kibbutz and countryside landscapes are seen from a moving car. A Military parade shows the Jewish paramilitary organisation Haganah and Navy and Police officers on horseback marching along a street. Wreckage of Israeli buildings show evidence of recent fighting, The Moss family and friends sit around outdoor table, Judith Moss plays with other children on Herzliya beach. Includes a short sequence on the streets of Tel Aviv. Reel 2 Various scenes, including surrounding the town of Tiberius and the Sea of Galilee from hillside, the countryside from a moving car and Judith Moss with her family. Children wear colourful costumes for the Jewish holiday Purim as playing ring-o-roses. Footage includes Herzliya beach scenes, shots of oranges being sorted and on conveyor belt at a orange packing factory and general street scenes in the city of Jaffa. Evidence of recent warfare is shown in Jerusalem, with rubble of collapsed buildings amongst the cityscape. There are shots of King David's Tower, Mount Zion and the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. The reel continues with a sequence showing people spinning and weaving cloth in an unidentified village, Judith Moss is seen dressed up for the Purim Holiday and children from an orphanage on Mount Carmel wear fancy dress costumes as they pose for the camera. Concludes with Judith Moss and family playing on Herzliya beach. There are also some shots of Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. Reel 3 The Moss family on a Sunday morning in Tel Aviv, people walking along streets and gardens, and taking a promenade along the sea front. Includes a brief shot of a shipwreck close to the seashore. Footage shows the family arriving at the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya and Judith Moss playing on the beach and posing with soldiers. Scenes in Jerusalem show people walking along shopping streets (with young boy selling newspapers) with wreckage and debris of war torn buildings in background. The camera pans across the city from the hillside showing the Old City with rubble and burnt out cars on the streets below. People (including Orthodox Jews) walk along in the Mea Shearim district. Included are shots of The Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital. Badly destroyed buildings are seen in the city of Jaffa. Judith and family take a visit to Ramat Gan Zoo and later stands with a group of children on a beach as they sing and clap. The road trip continues with footage of the Negev Desert and Negba Kibbutz. | |||
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| [MIDLANDS & MERSEY] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 6679 | |||
| Views taken around Lichfield Cathedral, Kenilworth Castle, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Upper Slaughter. A large country house is then seen, followed by the RSC at Stratford Upon Avon and Warwick Castle. A panorama of ships on the River Mersey with the Liverpool skyline in the background concludes. | |||
| [LISBON RALLY] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 5702 | |||
| The film begins with various time trials held in Portugal. The cars are inspected in Lisbon town square as various cars perform to crowds in the sqaure. Shots of local fishing boats and the sea follow. Birdseye countryside views, a catcus garden and streetmarket. | |||
| THE 726 COMBINE | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8231 | |||
| Promotional film for Massey-Harris combine harvesters in Trafford Park showing the sale, delivery and demonstration of the equipment on a farm. An expert and the farmer discuss the mechanics of the harvester using an instruction manual, and each step of the combine's preparation for the field is explained in detail. The film includes a cartoon sequence demonstrating health and safety procedures. | |||
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| BENNY SEPT 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8334 | |||
| Three horses follow a woman with her bicycle through a field. She feeds them before taking Benny back to the stables. In the next scene she takes Benny for a ride through the fields and down a country lane. | |||
| W.C.S. OUTING TO KNARESBOROUGH JULY 1949; W.C.S. OUTING TO BLACKPOOL OCTOBER 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8335 | |||
| Members of Warrington Cine Society can be seen boarding coach to Knaresborough. They can be seen having a picnic along the riverbank, Knaresborough castle can be seen in the background. Some of the members go paddling in the river. Shots of Knaresborough, including the viaduct and rowing boats on the river. In the next section of the reel, the group travel to Blackpool. Crowds of people can be seen walking along the promenade. Shots of Blackpool tower then shots filmed from the lift going up the tower. At the top of the tower, people can be seen taking in the view. The film ends with shots of Blackpool illuminations. | |||
| 1949 PICKERNICKS | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8342 | |||
| In Llanarmon, the group have a picnic near a river. In Ellesmere Port, a family play ball games near parked cars, later the boys do some fishing. In Winsford, two women sit in a field knitting. A man rows an inflatable boat in the river and can later be seen carrying water from the river in buckets. In Kelsall, the family go blackberry picking. In Ainsdale, the family and friends have a picnic on the beach. | |||
| [PICKERNICKS 1949] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 8360 | |||
| A woman and a young boy walk along the promenade of Parkgate before returning to their parked car. Next they visit Thurstaston and go for a walk before visiting the beach where they throw stones into the sea. The man with them can be seen wearing a military uniform. In the next scene, the group are in Wales where they visit Swallow Falls and Valle Crucis Abbey. In Winsford, a group of people can be seen sitting outside a lodge. Out on the river, some people can be seen in a rowing boat while others are in an inflatable boat. On the beach, the group play football, cricket and enjoy a picnic together. The film ends with the boys attempting to fly their toy wind up aeroplanes, the adults don't have much luck either! | |||
| [WEDDING AT ST PETER’S CHURCH, PRESTBURY] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 9219 | |||
| In this record of the wedding of Edward Vincent Cooke and Margaret May Cope, we see the bridal party and guests arriving at the church; after the ceremony, the couple, bridesmaids and close family members pose for photographs outside. | |||
| [FRENCH HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 9297 | |||
| Cars drive down a tree lined street viewed from a street cafe. Exteriors of the Hotel Maitagaria in Biarritz with people sat at tables followed by views of a beach with people walking on a pier in the distance. | |||
| [CROSS-COUNTRY RACE AND BARBARA] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 11428 | |||
| Scenes from the Bolton School cross country race with pupils running through snow covered fields. Close up of Barbara in school uniform then of her sweeping the garden. | |||
| [BARBARA AND A SHEEP] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 11429 | |||
| Barbara walking in a field then helping to release a sheep from a basket into a field of geese. The film ends with Barbara placing many candles into a birthday cake. | |||
| [TITLES AND HIKING PREPARATION] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 11437 | |||
| Titles for 'Boxing 1953' and 'Scott Country 1949' followed by pupils of Bolton school in a churchyard and then preparing a hiking expedition from a barn in a farmyard. | |||
| [BOYS STARTING HIKE] | |||
| Date: *1949 Film Number: 11438 | |||
| Bolton School boys sat at the table of a country house then starting a hiking expedition through a garden and an unknown village. | |||
| THE THREE WHO FLUNGS | |||
| Date: 1949 Film Number: 9457 | |||
| This short comedy film stars Frank Randle, Dan Young and Alec Pleon who are all tring to get past the stage door keeper to see Betty. At first they try to bluster their way in and when that fails they resort to disguise first as Russian dancers then as three Chinese magicians. After successfully gaining entrance to the stage we have a musical interlude then the magicians perform various tricks until they're chased off the stage by the manager to much laughter from the audience. | |||
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