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| [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. | |||
| [SALFORD RLFC - AFTER THE MATCH] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3307 | |||
| Scenes in the dressing room of Salford RLFC after a game. The players enter the room, tear off muddy kit, drink beer and talk before the communal bath. After this, they get dressed. | |||
| [SALFORD UNIVERSITY DEGREE CEREMONY 1969] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3318 | |||
| Footage from the degree ceremony at Salford University in 1969. There are speeches from various VIPs from the University hierarchy, and successful graduates are congratulated by the Duke of Edinburgh. | |||
| FILMMAKING DEMONSTRATION | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3334 | |||
| Film demonstrating basic principles of camerawork and editing, with storytelling sequences made gradually more elaborate, the use of foreground and background focusing, zooms, travelling and hand-held shots, close-ups, wide-angle shots and light effects. The basic material shows a woman setting up a lounger in the back garden, then hearing something and running to see what it is. | |||
| [ROSIE IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3335 | |||
| Accompanied by a soundtrack of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' by the Beatles, this film is composed of shots of Rosie walking around the garden. | |||
| [ROSIE ON HILLSIDE] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3336 | |||
| Footage of Rosie walking across the hills at Rivington near Bolton, with a classical music soundtrack. | |||
| [MECHANICAL ENGINEERING I] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 3343 | |||
| Scenes shot in the Mechanical Engineering department of Salford University. Students work at desks overseen by a teacher, and one of them is then seen operating an electronic microscope and a circular saw, cutting an oblong of metal. | |||
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