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| [HAWESWATER AQUEDUCT - CONSTRUCTION] | |||
| Date: *1949-50/53/55 Film Number: 2307 | |||
| Scenes of the construction of Haweswater Aqueduct, between Garnett bridge, near Kendal, and Heaton Park Reservoir in Manchester. Features footage not used in the final production. (See Accession No. 2301) | |||
| [ANGLESEY 1949] | |||
| Date: *1949-50/7 Film Number: 4122 | |||
| Members of the Hill, Welch and Rendell families are seen on holiday in Anglesey, playing on the beach and swimming in the sea. Shots of their campsite, and they visit the Ty Newydd ancient monument and go boating. The Welch children are also seen building a model railway on a sand-castle. | |||
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| [VISITS TO ISRAEL] | |||
| Date: *1949/50/63/64/65/66 Film Number: 6874 | |||
| Moss family visits to Israel in the late 1940s and the mid 1960s. Reel 1 William Moss, family and friends on a 1949-50 visit to Israel. The reel begins with the Weiser family on a hotel balcony and shots of local women collecting water from a well, then carrying containers along on their heads. Arab peoples are seen on the streets of Nazareth. Footage includes a road trip around Upper Galilee and the Huleh Valley. Various sequences show members of a religious kibbutz in the grounds of the settlement and while having a meal. William Moss is seen riding on the back of a camel and family friends, including Lucy and Harry Weiser pose for the camera. There are brief shots of Tel Aviv sea front and a panoramic view of Haifa Bay. Concludes with shots of a desert landscape, cloud formations and a sunset seen from the window of an aircraft. Reel 2 A mixed compilation showing visits to Israel in 1949-50 and the mid 1960s. Shots include an aeroplane taking off at Manchester Airport then arriving in Amsterdam, with air views of landscapes below. Men are seen snorkelling in the Bay of Haifa. Street scenes along Allenby Street in Tel Aviv and people sunbathing on sea front. A young girl (possibly Amira Weiser) wears a head-dress dances in front of the camera on a balcony and is later seen playing with other family members on the beach and swimming in the sea. There is a sequence showing building construction at the Rebecca Sieff WIZO Centre for the Family (Jerusalem Baby Home). Concludes with a visit to Caesarea and the Dead Sea during the mid 1960s, with some brief shots of an Italian holiday in Rome showing Piazza del Popolo, St Peter's Square and the Roman Forum. Reel 3 1960s footage of a Moss family holiday with showing visits to Jerusalem and the Old City and beach scenes at Herzliya and Haifa. Family members are seen diving into a hotel pool, swimming in the sea and posing for the camera. Shots include trips to king Solomon's Mines, the Gesher Haviz Kibbutz Guest House and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. | |||
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| ANNIVERSARY SERMON SUN 4TH MAY 1949 | |||
| Date: 1949/51-52 Film Number: 1348 | |||
| The anniversary sermon at St. Pauls Church in Walkden on Sunday 4th May 1949. Includes scenes (some taken from a high angle) of the procession in the church yard and street. Also includes footage of the crowning of the Rose Queen. | |||
| [APPLEY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S OUTING] | |||
| Date: *1949/51/2 Film Number: 4677 | |||
| A group of children are seen assembling at the Undenominational Mission Hall in Appley Bridge, getting onto coaches and setting off on a day trip. A group of men play cricket in a park, the children are seen in rowing boats on the boating lake and there is a tug-of-war competition. On another occasion, a group of boys are seen playing ice hockey and skating on a frozen pond in Appley Bridge. | |||
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| [HILL DALE ROSE QUEEN PARADES] | |||
| Date: *1949/51/2/4 Film Number: 4680 | |||
| Footage from two Rose Queen parades in and around Hill Dale and Parbold near Wigan. Floats, dancers and children are seen passing through the village and arriving at the show ground where speeches are made and the Rose Queen is crowned. | |||
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| [QUARRY SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1949/51/2/4 Film Number: 4681 | |||
| Scenes from Mr Finch's quarrying business in Parbold near Wigan - men are seen breaking up stones with hammers and pneumatic drills, cranes move large amounts of rock, and there is footage of blasting. | |||
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| [LEE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH EVENTS] | |||
| Date: *1949/52/54 Film Number: 3120 | |||
| Film including visits to Arnside, in Cumbria, and the South Coast and footage shot around the Horwich area. There are shots of lakes at Arnside; coastal scenes, Compton Acres Gardens, a garden of shells, Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset and Beaulieu Motor Museum in Hampshire. There is also footage of events at Lee Congregational Church at Horwich, including a procession and delegates to a conference and youth rally. | |||
| [KISSING COUPLE, VANESSA AND JUDITH IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1949 1952/54 Film Number: 6849 | |||
| The Moss children at home, playing in Heaton Park and baking in the kitchen. A middle-aged couple are seen kissing, cuddling and fooling around in a living room, and there are shots of Judith Moss singing with friends and playing outside on a winter's day in Heaton Park. Vanessa Moss is seen putting on a party dress and dancing in front of the camera on her 4th birthday. Vanessa is also seen playing on a tricycle in the back garden and, as a baby, being bathed and changed by her nanny. | |||
| [CHURCH PROCESSION, WELSH HOLIDAY AND BLACKPOOL SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1949/52/54/57 Film Number: 3113 | |||
| Opens with footage from an ornamental garden with peacocks in it. Continues with footage of a young couple wandering about in snow covered countryside. A man is seen in a newsagents and then a street. Continues with footage from a religious procession in Bolton - groups of nurses, children, Ukrainians and members of St Patrick's Church are all seen. Also features footage from a holiday to North Wales, Castles and coastal areas are seen as is a woman in traditional Welsh costume. There is footage of a whit walk and of a church wedding. Includes visits to Morecambe and Blackpool - people playing pitch and putt golf and water-skiing. There are shots of Blackpool sea front and Pleasure Beach, including footage taken from a cable car. Closes with brief shots of an airport, people posing for photographs after a wedding and an old house. | |||
| [MANCHESTER PICCADILLY, BUS TRAFFIC] | |||
| Date: *1949/53 Film Number: 492 | |||
| Buses and passengers in Manchester Piccadilly - boarding and alighting from various angles; a queue for a football special; hazards of boarding moving vehicles; and general safety. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [ODDS AND ENDS - LAKES] | |||
| Date: *1949/53 Film Number: 5218 | |||
| Short collection of clips set in the Lake District. Features shots of the Hanna Family (Bob, Zena and Sam) including Sam Hanna drinking milk next to his car. There is close up footage of a red squirrel, an exterior shot of the Ruskin museum in Coniston and views of Tarn Hows and the Langdales. Also includes scenes at a country fair and a travelling shot (filmed from a boat) of campers swimming in a lake. 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 | |||
| [CELEBRATING A HUNDRED YEARS OF METHODISM IN WHITEWELL BOTTOM, 5TH TO 13TH MARCH 1949] | |||
| Date: 1949/54 Film Number: 1689 | |||
| Church members celebrate one hundred years of Methodism in Whitewell Bottom; 5th - 13th March 1949. The congregation are seen leaving the chapel on a winters day - A group of people walk down Brock Clough Road and assemble to sing hymns and listen to an open air sermon. Further activities and events include Whitewell Bottom Wesleyan Sunday School's procession on the 1st May 1949 and civic dignitaries attending the reopening of Whitewell Bottom Chapel on the 3rd October 1954. | |||
| SOME ZOO FRIENDS, A DAY IN CAMP, SWITZERLAND 1954 | |||
| Date: 1949/54 Film Number: 8609 | |||
| A compilation of three films. The first features animals in Manchester and Edinburgh zoos; the second is a record of a day in camp made by the 7th Heriot scout troop, and shows the boys getting up, packing their kit bags, chopping wood, cooking, and swimming. The final film is a tour of Switzerland, with visits to Berne and Geneva as well as mountain scenery, lakes and waterfalls. | |||
| [BELGIUM, FRANCE, HOLIDAY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1949/54/55 Film Number: 6869 | |||
| Moss family holidays to Henley-on-Thames, Belgium and the French Riviera. Boats sail down the River Thames and a young Judith Moss chases pigeons. The family Bentley car is hoisted onto a ferry as they prepare to set sail for Belgium. Judith and Freda Moss play with friends on Ostend sea front pushing a toy car and having donkey rides, and a group of children play on the beach as linking hands and dancing. Footage includes a visit to Bruges showing the Market Square and cafes, female members of the family pedal a vehicle on the promenade of Knokke and Judith Moss takes a motorboat ride with her father William on a lake. The reel continues with shots of houses near Le Souts, more beach scenes and the ferry returning home to Dover. Vanessa and Judith Moss are later seen playing at their family home and playing on the beach at Juan-les-Pins | |||
| THE PORT OF MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: *1949/56/58/64 Film Number: 569 | |||
| Begins by briefly touching on reasons for the canal's construction, then concentrates on the means by which the Manchester Ship Canal is an efficient transporter of a great variety of cargoes. Depicts cargo handling equipment and storage facilities along the canal, and closeness to good road and rail communications. Reflects international nature of trade. Shot of Matt Busby jogging and a match between Manchester City and Manchester United. | |||
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| [MR FLETCHER] | |||
| Date: *1948-49/57 Film Number: 5314 | |||
| An old man [believed to be a Mr Fletcher], a woman and a smartly-dressed younger man pose with a dog in a tennis court and gardens. After shots of the group in an empty tennis court, the men and the dog are shown in a rose garden before the dog plays with a ball on a lawn. The film ends back at the court where people play tennis. 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 | |||
| UNILEVER MAGAZINE NO. 1 | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 324 | |||
| Three magazine items: i) The Atomic Age - the use of radioactive traces in animal feedstuffs. Research at Harwell. ii) Harvest in Plums - production line canning of plums at Batchelor's in Sheffield. iii) Herrings for Sale - fishing for, gutting, packing and smoking herrings - mostly women working. Bird's Eye freezer at Yarmouth. | |||
| PEDIGREE PARADE | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 325 | |||
| A story of our livestock through the ages - Royal Agricultural Show; history of cows' pedigree; Milk Marketing Board and their cattle breeding centre; pigs and bacon; poultry and eggs; horse family history from highwaymen for speed to reliable shires and horse-drawn vehicles in town; sheep and wool. | |||
| A STORY OF ACHIEVEMENT | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 327 | |||
| A drama-documentary which traces the history of the invention of margarine, studying the development and eventual amalgamation of Van den Burghs and Jurgens. The supply of raw material is shown and the introduction of Lever Bros. interests, up to modern production methods. | |||
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