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| [CHILDREN IN NURSERY GARDEN 4] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2558 | |||
| Scenes of the children from Bradley Nursery School, in Nelson, playing on the climbing apparatus in the school playground. Includes footage of the boys and girls blowing bubbles through plastic pipes; playing with containers in a water-filled tub; swinging on a rope and making sand castles in the school's sand pit. | |||
| [BRADLEY NURSERY SCHOOL 1969] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2562 | |||
| Scenes of staff and children attending Bradley Nursery School in Nelson; 1969. Features footage of the children arriving at school; taking their coats off in the classroom; preparing themselves for lunch - washing their hands, brushing their hair, laying the table and eating their meal. Continues with scenes of the children participating in various activities such as painting, music, printing and modelling in clay. Also features footage of the children playing outdoors in the playground - on swings, seesaws, slides, swing-ropes and climbing frame. Includes shots of a nurse cleaning children's faces, and staff handing out milk bottles and cartons to the children at break time. | |||
| THE FIRST ACROSS. ALCOCK AND BROWN | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2647 | |||
| Film about aviation pioneers Alcock and Brown, who were the first men to fly uninterrupted across the Atlantic. Traces their early careers and interest in aviation. Both lived in Manchester whilst young. Their homes in Old Trafford, Chorlton and Fallowfield are featured, as is Manchester Central High School and Manchester Technical Institute. St Annes, where Alcock went to school is also featured. The film features Archive footage of early aviation, World War 1 and Alcock and Brown in a variety of locations. There is a reconstruction of the first uninterrupted Atlantic crossing from Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland which took place between 14 -17 June 1919. One of the men who first reached the 'plane on landing is interviewed as is Alcock's brother Eddie. The Science Museum in London - which houses the plane - is seen as is the Savoy Hotel in London, where a celebration lunch was held. The film also deals with Alcock and Browns lives following their Atlantic crossing. Commentary is provided by newscaster Richard Baker. | |||
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| [COUNTRYSIDE AND GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2680 | |||
| Scenes of the Hayden family (Mr + Mrs Hayden, daughter and possibly Mr Hayden's parents walking in the grounds and gardens of a stately home (?), and the various people in the garden at home. | |||
| [OLDHAM POLICE ON THE MOVE] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2797 | |||
| After a close-up of a police circular, the film depicts some of the preparations made by officers to police a Rugby Union game between the touring springboks and the Northern Counties team at White City Stadium in winter 1969. They line up and get onto buses. | |||
| FOCUS ON MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: 1969 / 1981 Film Number: 2929 | |||
| Scene from across Manchester City Centre: the Cathedral, Chetham School of Music, a wedding, the Town Hall, the Central Library seen from St. Peter's Square, Piccadilly Gardens in full bloom, Piccadilly Station Approach, the Old Shambles and Old Wellington Inn, and John Rylands Library. There are then scenes of Chester Morris Men dancing in Spinningfields, the Christmas lights on Deansgate, and shots of shop windows and interior displays in a department store (possibly Kendals). There is footage of a steam rally, a boating lake with ducks and geese, majorettes, the Poynton Jemmers (morris dancers) performing in King Street, and displays from mounted police, police dogs and pipe bands. | |||
| [TRAVELLER'S ENGLAND] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2963 | |||
| Footage of Lowther Wildlife Park in Cumbria, Appleby, industrial archaeology in Sheffield, a garlanding ceremony in Castleton, well-dressing in Barlow, Powis castle, the interior of Wedgewood Pottery factory and the film ends with assorted wildfowl at Martin Mere Wildfowl Reserve. | |||
| DUMFORD HIGH SCHOOL HOLIDAY TO AUSTRIA 1969 | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3023 | |||
| Austrian scenes and shots of a school party enjoying themselves. | |||
| [AERIAL VIEWS OF SKELMERSDALE] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 3051 | |||
| Aerial views of Skelmersdale. The housing estates and road system are clearly seen There is a brief shot of the interior of the cockpit of the aeroplane from which the film is shot. | |||
| [PICKING HEATHER] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 3107 | |||
| Footage of two elderly women and a man picking heather on a hilltop. Continues with shots of a group of people outside a suburban house and footage from what appears to be a tropical garden and aviary. | |||
| [GREAT ORMES HEAD AND BLACKPOOL] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 3152 | |||
| Opens with film of Great Ormes Head and Llandudno from a cable car, including an outdoor stage hosting a performance by Alex Munro - an entertainer(?). Continues with shots of Blackpool illuminations and footage from 'Great Western City' - a Wild West themed tourist attraction. Closes with brief shots of water fowl, a garden gnome and flowers | |||
| [NORTH WALES HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 3154 | |||
| Film of a holiday in North Wales. Includes footage of Conway - featuring Telford's and Stephenson's Bridges and the castle. There are also shots of Anglesey and Menai Bridge and of Swallow Falls. Also contains footage of a zoo, cable cars and Snowdonia. | |||
| G.I.G.O. (GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT) | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3183 | |||
| A film about the use of computers and good practice associated with their use. The film explains the way computers process information using binary language (and illustrates this with experiments and animation), demonstrated numerous applications of computers (health, finance, travel, education) and goes into some detail about how they actually work. It also strongly recommends an intelligent approach to the information fed into computer systems. A variety of different machines are seen in operation, and the film is interspersed with interviews with both computer experts and ordinary members of the public on the streets of London. | |||
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| [STYAL MILL] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3184 | |||
| Footage of the textile mill at Styal in a state of dereliction, with footage of the surrounding countryside. | |||
| MATHER AND PLATT HYDROSTAT | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3212 | |||
| Views of the construction of a hydrostat at Mather and Platt's factory, its delivery to Scottish Animal Products in Glasgow and its installation, There is also footage of the installation and operation of a hydrostat for can sterilisation at a Tyne Brand Factory in the Newcastle area. | |||
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| [GYPSY FUNERAL AT PORTWOOD, STOCKPORT] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3257 | |||
| Preparations for a funeral at a gypsy site, Portwood, Stockport. Mourners are seen arriving, the coffin is placed into the car and the procession leaves slowly in the rain. Views of the site after cortege has left. | |||
| [ELLOR STREET REDEVELOPMENT] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3285 | |||
| Scenes of Salford residents walking the streets - old ladies, women with prams- followed by children and couples at a playground. There are shots of various tower blocks ("Beech Court" and "Hornbeam Court"), and a view of a church flanked by two towers. The grass verges built around the blocks are shown, and there is a shot of another playground. The film ends with scenes of construction going on at newer blocks of flats. | |||
| [EARLY MORNING IN ELLOR STREET] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3287 | |||
| Shots of tower blocks in Salford at sunrise with other sequence of cranes, churches, scrap land and builders moving in. The foundations of new buildings are under construction, rubbish is being burned, an old woman walks along the road with her shopping, and a shot of a church is juxtaposed with a building site. | |||
| [SALFORD OLD AND NEW] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3303 | |||
| Shots of snowy streets in the Salford area, with local children playing in it, old women struggling through it, and local pets avoiding it. The new tower blocks are featured, with residents, shots of families and children, and scenes in a playground. After more scenes around flats on Sorbus Close and Cherry Tree Court, there are interiors in terraced houses (kitchens, bedrooms, lounges), a scene in a factory working on unprocessed cotton, sunset behind industrial chimneys, and the film ends with shots of an outside toilet. | |||
| [SALFORD RAG WEEK AND DEMOLITION SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3304 | |||
| Scenes of Salford University students having their rag week procession through the streets. There are shots of floats people by students in fancy dress, while others collect donations from spectators and passersby. There are then shots of houses and shops in the Gladstone Street area of Salford, and scenes shot around Cromwell Secondary Boys School. There is then footage of the demolition of terraces, and of construction sites for the new flats. | |||
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