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Bristol Record Office – Digitised Film Archive

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No. Date Length Content Author/maker & Quality

Mono/Mute Colour/Sound

0001 1961 25m 58s

From Barley to Beer

Film depicting how beer is brewed at George & Co’s Bristol Brewery. Shows complete process from gathering hops and barley from the fields in a c50 mile radius from Bristol to brewing, casking and bottling. The film gives a history of George’s & Co – founded in 1788. At the time of the film, George & Co operated over 1300 pubs and delivered to many Free Houses as well. Shows cask deliveries to many Village and Bristol pubs that existed in the early 1960’s. Shows a George’s dray horse and cart making one of its final deliveries of ale to the Shakespeare Inn in Victoria Street. Shows the range of pastimes that can be enjoyed in the local pub including skittles, darts, dominoes and drafts. Film also shows the bottling process and deliveries across Bristol pubs.

F G Warne Colour/Sound


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0002 Late 40’s early 50’s

24m 50s

The Sad Tale of Ten Road Safety Boys

Film opens with the caption… ‘Ten Road Safety Boys Very nice to know One by one they blundered Just how – we’re going to show’ Shows the group of 10 boys sat on a bench with the Suspension Bridge in the background. Each boy is then shown committing a road safety blunder across many streets and suburbs throughout Bristol. Shots include a group of children being escorted across St John’s Lane, Bedminster outside Victoria Park Junior School - a lad falling off his bike whilst coming down Bridge Valley Road – a pedestrian crossing and buses in Winterstoke Road and shots taken in Canford Lane. Nice shots of Bristol streets and traffic. Film also shows Rosie the elephant leaving Bristol Zoo with her keepers on her way to being weighed. Rosie returns safely to the Zoo afterwards – makes the point that people make safety mistakes by forgetting things – Rosie returned safely to the Zoo, as elephants never forget! ‘Accidents are caused because people FORGET. Be like Rosie and never forget’ Film ends with each boy being given a copy of the Highway Code and captions reminding viewers to be wary on the roads.

F G Warne M/M with captions


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0003

c1933 10m 25s

Cine-kodagraph Newsreel. No Bristol Material.

- Oxford Undergraduates Lacrosse team practicing for Intervarsity match. - Rochester. Launch of new flying boat - Southwark. Tabard Players celebrating birth of Charles Dickens – performing

scenes from ‘David Copperfield’. - Welwyn Viaduct. New DH air express, the world’s fastest 4-engined air liner

passes the Flying Scotsman during speed trials. - Hendon in Egypt. RAF pageant at Heliopolis. Viewed by Prince Farouk. - Crystal Palace. Cars racing on the dirt track for their first public appearance. - Croydon.4-engined Imperial Airways Liner “Scylla”, largest in the world, leaving

on maiden flight from Croydon to Paris. Passenger Amy Johnson congratulates the pilot.

- Highbury. Arsenal v Newcastle. 14th October. 0-3 score.

- St.Paul’s. Pigeons outside the Cathedral.

Kodak Ltd, courtesy of British Movietonews Quality – good for age

M/M with captions


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0004A&B

c1942 52m 38s

Operational Control at Air Raid Incidents.

Bristol Training Film No.5 parts 1 to 4. Training film made in daylight, acknowledging that most air raids have occurred in hours of darkness. Footage supposedly of Bishops Palace, Redland Green area, Bristol

- Shows process from start of an air-raid. Air Raid Warden attending scene of a bomb blast. Checking damage and attending to casualties. - Warden directs Fire Guards to carry out rescue work and then leaves to report incident. Wardens’ Post notifies National Fire Service of the fire and then the Report Centre - Message timed and passed to the Map Room – copies distributed to representatives of the various Services. Liaison Officer reports to the Control Centre. Plotting Clerk plots the incident on the map. - Representatives of Police and National Fire Service. Police officer informs Divisional Superintendent. - Superintendent instructs a Police Officer to proceed to the incident. Leaves in car with colleagues. - The Officer-in-Charge sends message to Action Depot for immediate attention. - Medical Services send out a First Aid Party and an Ambulance. - Engineering Services send out a Rescue Party. - At the Incident, a Warden sets up an Incident Post and the National Fire Service (NFS) arrives. - No water so National Fire Service move off to a static water supply. - Police arrive and contact the Warden and Leader of the National Fire Service. Police Officer makes a reconnaissance. - Occupants rendered homeless are directed to a place of safety and later to a Reception Hostel. - National Fire Service at Static Water Supply. - Police Officer, on completing his reconnaissance returns and takes over Incident Post from the Warden. Incident Post flag is chequered in Cambridge blue and white squares. - Warden reports telephone out of action and the message is sent to Report Centre by cyclist. Fire service bring hoses to the fire. - Rescue, Ambulance and First Aid Parties arrive and Leaders report to Incident Officer. Each party hands in its pennant. - Wardens deal with slightly injured civilian as the Rescue Party Leader makes his survey and sends back instructions. Seriously injured casualties must be moved very carefully. - Rescue Party takes over from Fire Guard who has been trying to release trapped casualty. - Names and addresses noted wherever possible – also the place where the casualty is found - Wherever possible, telephone repairs are carried out during a raid. The Telephone Repair Party arrives and reports to Incident Officer.

F.G.Warne Bristol Quality – good for age

M/M with captions


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- Incident Officer leaves on a tour of inspection and a Warden takes charge of the Post. Fire is endangering a trapped casualty. The Incident Officer sends for the NFS Leader. The Incident Officer and Leaders consult and Fire Service Party is sent for. - The Incident Officer returns to the Post to send for reinforcements using the now repaired telephone.

- The Report Centre of each district transmits all information received to the Control Centre which thus has a detailed picture of the situation in all parts of the City. Here again the messages are distributed to the Service Representatives.

- Engineering Services, Police, Chief Warden and Home Guard are kept advised. - Representatives of the utilities inform their respective Controls as to incidents in

which their help is needed. - Incidents are plotted on a large scale map of the City - Liaison Officers at Report Centres keep the Control Liaison Officer informed of

the situation in their areas from time to time - The Controller at Work - Back at the Incident - A casualty is reported trapped in the basement - First Aid Party makes a rapid, but careful examination - Waterworks Repair Party and Road Repair Party arrive and the leaders report to

Incident Officer - A damaged water main is isolated - Reinforcements arrive and the road is blocked to all other traffic - The first of the trapped casualties is released as Rescue and First Aid Party

reinforcements arrive. - The party divides, one half attending to another casualty found buried under an

archway - The remainder carry out the rescue of the casualty found in the basement. First

Aid Party Leader calls for his men to help move the casualty. - Meanwhile the other members of the party are ready for rescue from the

basement. - Back at the archway the casualty is released and the two stretcher parties move

off. Close co-operation between members of Rescue and First Aid Parties - Raiders Passed - Incident Officer and Leaders make a final tour of the ruins to see that the fire is

out and that everyone is accounted for - The various parties depart, but first all Leaders report to the Incident Officer - The Raid is Over - Successful Operational Control at Incidents can only be achieved by the full use

of the chain of communications. And by close co-operation of all services through the Incident Officer.

- Team work at an Incident will save many lives and much property.


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0005

June 1932

4m 59s Opening of Bristol Assizes on 27th

June 1932

- Film shows Mr Justice Avory and Mr Justice Charles being escorted in a horse drawn carriage from the Mansion House in Clifton, in procession with the Lord Mayor – Mr T J Wise - to the Lord Mayor’s Chapel via Park Street and ends with the journey to the court complex in Broad Street. In those days the judges lodged at the Mansion House in Clifton.

Historical Background

- The Assizes were held twice each year from the 13th Century to 1971. In 1971

they were abolished and replaced by the Crown Courts. From the 13th Century,

judges and senior lawyers were commissioned as justices to ride off and hold the King’s Courts. Originally they mainly tried property disputes but later came to try criminal cases as well.

- Records of the Assizes only survive in quantity after 1559. By this time, the offences ranged from homicide, infanticide, theft (stolen goods were often under-valued as less than 12 pence to avoid making it a capital offence), highway robbery, rape, assault, coining, forging, and witchcraft to trespass, vagrancy and recusancy. Before 1733 most of the records are in Latin.

- The records of the Bristol Assizes are kept in the Bristol Record Office.

Maker unknown Quality – satisfactory for age

Mono/Mute


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0006 15 March 1902

1m 54s

Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth.

HRH George Prince of Wales viewing the cutting of the first sod for Royal Edward Dock. Shows steam shovel digging ground and depositing the material onto the back of a trailer attached to a steam train. Train then moves along the light railway.

Maker unknown Quality – satisfactory for age

Mono/Mute


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0007

9 July 1908

1m 36s Opening of the Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth

Alternative name - ARRIVAL OF SHIP - Production start date 09/07/1908. The opening of the Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth by Edward VII. ELS of royal yacht `Victoria and Albert' sailing through lock and cutting ribbon [the latter can only be faintly discerned, the distance from camera being too great]. There is a smaller flag-bedecked boat alongside the royal yacht (18). Cut to the yacht now closer to the camera and moving towards it, with the smaller boat still alongside (25). Two CUs of the yacht moving past the camera with members of the crew milling around on deck, some looking at the camera (65). ELS of Edward, two women and another gentleman walking away from the camera down a covered walkway. Both the King and the other gentleman are wearing top hat and tails [the group may be walking towards the royal yacht] (72). ELS of Edward, in uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, Queen Alexandra, and Princess Victoria (in black hat), accompanied by various local dignitaries and military men walking towards the camera along quayside next to the moored royal yacht. They turn towards a covered dais with three seats at top of steps (92). Two men in civilian wear walk up steps of dais, in turn, and bow to the King, Queen, and Princess Victoria (who are standing in front of seats), Edward saluting in return (104). Edward and entourage walk down steps of dais and walk towards the right where a small crowd can be seen in the background (111ft). An additional film of 46ft (originally acquired under the title ARRIVAL OF SHIP) also contains footage from this film, consisting of 36ft of the royal yacht moving towards the camera, which is a duplicate of that in the above copy, and a 10ft LS of various dignitaries and military men walking on quayside next to the moored yacht, which is not in the above copy. There is bad nitrate deterioration towards the end of the latter shot. Notes: The shot of Edward and company walking away from camera beneath a covered walkway (65-72) may be of the party following their arrival at Avonmouth by train from Bristol. The royal yacht was moored in the dock prior to the opening ceremony, the royal party boarded her and Edward will have changed into the Admiral of the Fleet uniform on board before the ceremony. See reports of the occasion in `The Times' 9 July 1908, p.10, and 10 July 1908, p.10. Both this film and KING EDWARD VII VISITS BRISTOL ART GALLERY may be footage from the Gaumont film THE KING IN BRISTOL.

Gaumont Company Quality – Poor (Figures in brackets indicate length of film in feet)

Mono/Mute


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0008 23rd

Nov 1965

3m 31s Blaise Castle Museum, Bristol

- Initial shots of Blaise Hamlet and someone [Presenter, James Thorburn?] using the old well pump.

- Same chap visits Blaise Castle Museum and footage shows him looking at the various displays including a Somerset ‘man trap’ made illegal in 1829.

BBC Points West Quality - Satisfactory

Mono/Mute


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0009

1972 12m 55s

Bristol-Bordeaux Exchange.

(2-part film) Film depicts the 25th Anniversary of the Exchange that started in 1947 with

27 students.

- BBC Film, by John Norman of BBC Bristol - Interviews with Bristol schoolchildren in Bordeaux and with the French founder of

the exchange – Professor Wassieau? - Compares cost of living between Bristol and Bordeaux. Summaries of Bordeaux

industry. - Second part of film shows Bristol Civic Visitors including Lord Mayor Alderman

Helen Bloom and Bristol Industrialists incl Gervais Walker. - Two British warships backed the Bristol expedition to Bordeaux by docking in the

harbour and the crews hosted a party for local orphans. - John Norman interviewed Mayor of Bordeaux who was also the Prime Minister of

France at the time – Monsieur Jacques Chavon del Mass? - Q - ‘If the people of Bristol and Bordeaux are already so friendly and do so much

together why is there any need for a referendum to ask if they want Britain to come into the Common Market’

- A – Typically that of a politician!

BBC Film Good Quality

Mono/Sound


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0010

1912 3m 23s The Bristol Boxkite aeroplane

In flight in 1912. Shows the plane being wheeled in front of a ‘British and Colonial Aeroplane Co Ltd’ shed

- Film shows a Capt Daring taking to the skies and landing in a field near Folkestone whilst on the trail of a villain.

- Daring gets to Folkestone too late to stop the villain and his partner board a ship. - Daring takes to a smaller boat in an attempt to catch up with the fugitives. - Film ends

Maker Unknown Quality – poor, though for age not bad

Mono/Mute With captions


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0011

17-24th June 1933

23m 21s

Some Glimpses of Bristol to Brighton Week

June 17

th to 24

th 1933 (pts 1 & 2)

Part 1 - Opening shot of display ‘Bristol Welcomes Brighton’ with sign post to Brighton,

139 miles. City Centre? Pics of City Centre with Paddle Steamer at St Augustine’s Reach. Traffic going by and crowds walking down to centre from College Green direction.

- Views up Park Street showing bunting, traffic and people. Band playing in front of Bristol High Cross and the Cathedral.

- Evening shots on City Centre – not very clear but shows Guinness Advertising Clock and Bovril ad. Night shot of Suspension Bridge lit up.

- Mayor of Brighton planting a tree on Brandon Hill. Attends with various civic dignitaries. In front of Cabot Tower. ? Can glimpse the canon captured during Crimean War? One Lord Mayor (from Brighton) using sledge hammer to hammer in tree stake, the other (Bristol Lord Mayor) takes over, more vigorously and breaks sledge hammer. The party leaves Brandon Hill accompanied by onlookers and lots of children.

- Street Pageant. Two main vantage points are used, College Green opposite Unity Street and Baldwin Street. At the end, camera is moved to the top of Park Street. Band and Drums leading lots of carnival floats - crowds of onlookers. Floats include people walking in medieval clothes carrying insignia flags. Other floats or foot processions include……..

- A boat - 1WW veterans? - More bands and drummers - Schweppes Cider float with cricketer and tennis player - Feather Flake – self raising flour - Purnell & Panter Ltd – Pure malt vinegar, pickles and sauces. - Mendips Milk, present day and older float - Frys small propeller airplane - Float 43 – Bristol’s Last Slaves - Old manual fire engine and present day version - Bristol City and Marine Ambulance Corps – first free ambulance transport from

1900. Stretcher on a hand-cart. Plus latest 1933 version. - ‘Bertie from Brighton’ - George’s Beers. First Horse-Drawn Brewers Dray with barrels of beer. - Jays (of Tottedown?) - Evening Post van advertising a carnival at Bristol Zoo. - Some cars containing civic dignitaries

F G Warne Ltd Bristol Quality – Good for age.

Mono/Mute with some captions


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- Float 6 – Cabot’s Matthew? With sailors walking behind. - WD & HO Wills - Brolac - WRVS? - Navy Band? - Cement Importers - Maggs Bedding - Pompey Soap Flakes - WS Morris Paints - Chappell’s Milk, Bedminster Parade - Dembo - Old bikes incl a Penny Farthing - Old Cars - Eat Moreton’s - Goats milk, nuts

Part 2 King Carnival at Bristol Zoo – attracting over 50,000

- Shows marquee’s, children and adults dancing, costume dancing displays, various acted performances

- Gym display by boys from?-jumping over horse, using parallel bars, forming a pyramid.

- Various stalls and roundabouts, boating in the zoo lake Air Pageant in honour of the Brighton Visitors. Planes shown at Bristol Airport, Whitchurch

- JS Fry & Sons The Mount Everest aeroplane – (DH 80A Puss Moth, G-ABWZ) on ground

- Tri-Motored Ford 4-AT-E, G-ACAK. On ground. - Shot of a twin winged DH 60G Gipsy Moth G-ABTP plane in the sky.

Military Parade outside Bristol Cathedral along College Green Physical Training Display (at Eastville Stadium)

- 4,000 children take part and form words at the end of the display. - Shows netball and other sporting demonstrations followed by the mass display


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0012

1937 6m 57s Appears to be odds and ends from ‘Bristol – City of a Thousand Years’

- Beating the Bounds – of St. Nicholas’ Parish, Bristol - Around the Old City and Docks. Tramway Centre. St Augustine’s Bridge.

Cathedral, College Green, Park Street, Burke’s Statue, The Dutch House, Llandogger Trow, Kingsdown?, Broad Street/Tower Lane, St Peter’s Hospital?, Bristol Centre and Avonmouth Docks, Almshouses?,

- The Markets. Corn Street?, - The Lord Mayor’s Coach – at the bottom of Park Street/College Green. Black

and white horses. - Blaise Castle – A Bristol Beauty Spot

Kodak Safety Film



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0013 1937 37m 54s

Bristol – City of a Thousand Years

- Bristol’s eventful story opens with its Prehistoric Camp on Clifton Down. - Remains of a Roman home near river mouth at Shirehampton – excavated in 1934 - Normans left their mark on the town – Norman arch - Middle Ages, Bristol was rich and powerful within its walls and gates. - Two centuries pass, the city has pioneered in Empire building and the Merchants live in affluence in their Georgian houses. - Now 20

th Century Bristol, the Metropolis of the West. Shots of traffic across Bristol

Bridge - A City of Old-time Charm. Steep Street and other views - Entrance to the old Norman Abbey. - Llandoger Trow – where the Adventures of Treasure Island began and where Defoe first met Robinson Crusoe - Cock and Bottle Lane - The oldest Theatre standing in England – 1766. Bristol Old Vic - Home of the second oldest Free Library in the Kingdom (1615) - An old Bristol licensed house – Ye Shakespeare 1636 - Corn Street where Merchants paid ‘down on the Nail’ - Bristol Merchant Princes endowed many Almshouses - Roundheads and Royalists. Shows remains of the fort used to defend Bristol during the 1643-45 Sieges. Shows a plaque commemorating the fact that on 26

th July 1645 Col

Henry Washington attacked the Parliamentary defences between the Royal Fort and Brandon Hill. With a small force he effected ‘Washington’s Breach’ (at the present junction of Park Row and ? Street) through which the Royalist Troops entered Bristol and compelled its capitulation. Henry Washington was the Grandson of Lawrence Washington and an ancestor of George Washington the first President of the US. - St Stephen’s Tower (1469) – one of the glories of the West Country. Buried in St Stephen’s is Martin Pring a great Elizabethan seaman who discovered the Plymouth Harbour of the Pilgrim Fathers. Also buried is Edward Blanket who ‘discovered’ and gave his name to Blankets. - Traditional pomp attends the Lord Mayor. Procession down Park Street, in the Council Chamber - Some of the City’s famous Regalia, including Charter of Edward 3

rd which made Bristol

a County in 1373. - A city “Both Old and Alive” – J B Priestley - Cabot Tower honours the discoverer of the American Continent - Christmas Steps - Tudor House, St Peter’s Hospital - John Wesley Chapel, Broadmead, built 1739

F G Warne and R F Warne Good quality



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- Glimpses of Central Bristol. Bristol Cross, Queen Victoria Statue, City Centre, Dutch House/Wine Street, Corn Street, Park Street - Ancient ceremony still observed, “Beating the Parish Bounds” - City laced with Waterways, natural and man-made. Offloading cargo near Bristol Bridge and other shots around the docks. Views from Suspension Bridge showing River and Bonded warehouses in the background. - The Markets – St Nicholas Market - Glimpses of Clifton, Park Street, Whiteladies Road, Queens Road - A City of Ancient Churches. In 15

th Century, Bristol had nearly a score of Parish

Churches and eighty Towers. - The Cathedral – originally a Norman Abbey, founded in 1140. The Chapter House – a late Norman apartment, and the ‘Night Stairs’ trodden by the feet of Monks for nearly four centuries. Saxon tomb-slab found underneath the Chapter House floor. - Ruins of the Bishop’s Palace, sacked and burned by Rioters in 1831. - Civic visit to the Cathedral - St Mary Redcliffe – Chatterton the poet was from Redcliffe. William Canynge to whom the glory of Redcliffe is due, died in 1474. - The Corporation gave Henry 8

th £1000 for the Lord Mayors Chapel

- Leaning Tower of Temple Church, St John’s Church standing on an old city gateway. Sermons in St John’s were once timed like eggs. Southey the poet used to watch these Quarter jacks on his way to school. - ‘Curfew tolls the knell of parting day’ at St Nicholas and has done so since Norman times. - Bristol’s World Famous Gorge, shows Suspension Bridge, Bridge Tolls, traffic and pedestrians using the bridge Portway, shipping, steam train under bridge, paddle steamer, tennis being played on the sports ground with Navy boat passing by, good shots of river traffic - Bristol’s Lovely Downs. Shots of people at leisure, haymaking, football, golf, tennis, cricket, horse-riding, model airplane flying, preacher/speaker, bandstand - Blaise Castle and Grounds incl Blaise Hamlet - Bristol Zoo. Shots of gorilla, lions, tigers and cubs, raccoon, flamingo, monkeys, - Bristol’s links with Empire. Avonmouth Docks – Ocean Gateway of the West. General images of shipping and cargo being offloaded. - Municipal Airport at Whitchurch is the most important Air Station in the West of England. - A City of Education. Bristol University buildings. Victoria Rooms – the University’s Social Centre. - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery - Clifton College, Haig’s Old School – founded 1532 - Clifton High School for Girls, QEH School, Red Maids.


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0014 1951 17m 34s

Bristol, British City Produced for Festival of Britain

- Opening shots of car travelling along the Suspension Bridge with the caption ‘ BRISTOLIANS supplied the facts and tell the story’

- Views from the River Avon, along the Portway, Hotwells Road and into St Augustine’s Reach.

- Refers to the growing wealth, power and prosperity of the city and the 12th

Century Charter and to the building of castles, churches and schools. - Mentions each generation adding something of the spirit of his age. - Shows Queen Square – the ‘largest square in England’, laid out in the reign of

Queen Anne. Lord Mayor held second only to the Lord Mayor of London. - Horse and cart travelling past the Old Vic - Waterfront – Gateway to the sea for people eager to buy and sell. - “As England grew in power and importance, so did Bristol – it became the centre

for all the wealth and enterprise of the West Country” - Merchants built like princes in a princely age. - A thousand years of life – ‘as well as splendour there is squalor’. Shows the

bomb damage in the now Castle Park area and refers to the spirit of the City flourishing among the ruins.

- A new narrator (?Bob Wall?) takes over and says that as a business man, he’s not so interested about history and the past – sees Bristol as a great modern city and the commercial capital of the West Country.

- The city is no museum piece, but one of the most important industrial towns in Britain.

- Images of traffic moving around the City Centre. Great shots of the Centre taken from the CWS building.

- Overseas trade from the new docks at Avonmouth with new granaries and warehouses. Tobacco, cocoa, rum, timber, grain, petroleum, oil etc. Shots of ships being offloaded at Avonmouth and in the heart of the city – including wines and sherries. Blending and bottling is an ancient trade in Bristol.

- Establishment of cigarette industry and confectionery trade, printing, publishing, engineering etc. Bristol’s location is ideal for distribution of goods.

- Communications are good and show the largest covered goods yard in the world. Shows traffic along the Portway and Bristol Airport.

- Shows children sliding down the Sea Walls on the Downs, comments on the large open spaces and leisure activities. Bristol Zoo shots, boy being pecked by pelican.

- Film goes on to discuss how Bristol is a centre for learning – schools, museums, art galleries – lively tradition of scholarship started by St Augustine when much of Europe was in feudal darkness.

World Wide Pictures. Quality very good – professionally produced.

Mono/Sound with some captions


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- Great town for music and the arts with the theatre flourishing. Theatre Royal – Old Vic opened over 200 years ago and its future today is safeguarded by having the City Corporation as its patron.

- Shows night shots of Bristol and the speedway at Knowle Stadium and a wide choice of evening entertainment, including the City Centre.

- Film narration then transfers to an American who refers to John Cabot leaving Bristol to discover his country 500 years ago. Today’s pioneers of Bristol have turned to research in aviation. Shows Bristol Brabazon emerging from its hangar and flying over Bristol.

- In the ‘pioneering’ section, mentions the encouragement John MacAdam was given to make the first tarmac road. Other Bristolians built the Great Western – the first steam ship to sail to New York. Friese Green also came from Bristol, pioneer of the moving picture.

- Great moral leaders have also come from Bristol – John Wesley, philanthropist Colston, statesmanlike Edmund Burke. City Council holding a church service before every meeting to ask for blessing and guidance in their work – strong tradition of public service. Corporation only second to London in the amount of regalia.

- Shots of the City Council at work – looking very austere! - Shows Fire Engine going along St George’s Road towards Hotwells and

Ambulance turning into Southmead Hospital, a traffic policeman, a Bristol Waterworks employee, a road sweeper in St Michael’s Hill, a sewerage worker emerging from a sewer and a gardener all serving the city.

- Inevitably some bad legacies of the past. Shows gas works at St.Phillips with children playing in the street, with factories crowding out houses that are worn out and inadequate.

- Shows maps depicting the re-planning of the city with the large housing estates and new schools and new communities around? south Bristol?, Lockleaze?

- Pioneers in the social services too. Shows mothers and babies arriving at the Tower Hill Central Health Clinic. Film mentions the council’s provision of educational services.

- Pioneers who left to settle in America founded more than 30 new Bristols.


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0015 c1930s 11m 47s

The Road Problem Solved by the Bristol Road Heater.

Operation of the asphalt road surfacing equipment in Bristol by Anglo-American Asphalt Co. of London & Bristol. Film shows new and improved methods of dealing with slippery road surfaces. Film captures the machinery operating in a Bristol street with some children in the background.

F G Warne? – Kodak Safety Film Produced for Anglo-American Asphalt Good for age

Mono/mute with captions


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0016 1950’s?

3m 7s Views of the Bristol ship SS Peterston.

Ship coming through the double-railway bridge near the General Hospital and by The Ostrich.

[Some views of the Bristol ship ‘Steep Holm’ are also at the end of this film – see next page]

Unknown Quality good

Colour/mute


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0017 1950’s?

9m 51s Views of the Bristol ship Steep Holm - A suction dredger. In the Bristol Channel?

Shows the suction dredger in operation. Shows a tug boat called the Ernest Brown. Steep Holm sailing down the Portway. Ship in a Dock opposite Hotwell Road. Various operations/maintenance work being performed on board, including the installation of a new funnel.

Unknown Quality good

Colour/mute


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0018 1969 18m 4s Bristol Tempo – ‘The Port of Bristol at Work’

Promotional film aimed at new/existing customers. - Narrator opens by saying that the film will last for 20 minutes and describes the

amount of goods the Port would handle over a typical 20 minute period ie 420 tons of grain, 220 tons of concentrates, 66 tons of timber, 31 tons of canned goods, 166 tons of petroleum.

- In a year, enough petrol passes through the Port to keep all cars in Bristol running for 47,000 miles each.

- Direct pipeline takes fuel to the many industrial sites at Avonmouth, including ICI, and SW Gas’ Seebank Plant.

- Shows Bristol Rovers playing football at Eastville. ‘Men and Machines in the Ports team – both giving value for money’

- Shows the offloading of phosphate at Avonmouth to hoppers on the dock side and then to conveyors taking the product direct to the Imperial Smelting Corporation and Fisons just outside the docks.

- Shots of employees (?) dancing in a hall within the PBA. Compares at night out – say 4 hours – with how much grain can be shifted in the same time (2,000 tons) Five granaries holding over 90,000 tons. Served by 7 travelling shore elevators. Granaries can take 30 days intake. Shows the grain moving along conveyors and into storage. Film cuts back to dancing employees again. Grain story continues with shots of packing the grain and transferring the loose grain to barges and rail trucks. Show a granary with 26 lorry loading bays

- From 1970, road transport leaving Avonmouth will be on the motorways in a few minutes. Shows aerial shots of the M5 under construction just a few hundred yards of the dock gates and comments that by 1972, the M5 network will connect to Birmingham in the north and to Exeter in the West. Mentions the M4/M5 interchange that will further help distribution from the docks. Shots of motorway traffic and the Severn Bridge carrying traffic into South Wales. Every berth in the dock connected to the rail system too and a freightliner terminal is to be built just outside the Docks. Regular coasters serve the Docks and so do barges going to the Midlands and the Potteries. ‘Bristol is certainly favoured with perhaps the finest inland communications of any British Port.

- Film then turns to the administrative functions and a women’s voice takes over the narration. Shows the computer room, where accounting, payroll and statistical jobs are carried out. Also shows the system that records where any item of cargo is at any one time. Shots of the large main frame computers and batch processing, teleprinter machines etc from a 1969 office.

- Male voice takes over again and shows process from a driver reporting to the central lorry office to pick up his ‘authority to collect’ goods and then the system

F G Warne Good quality – professionally produced

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for loading lorries with goods. - Use of shortwave radio to speed up the job. - Shows a ship from Russia bringing timber from the Baltics and Siberia – being

offloaded at the dockside in the city centre – direct onto lorries outside where the new MoB will be. Shows the cranes right outside (Crane no.26 shown in operation)

- Shows a few warships moored in the centre and the film nostalgically mentions Bristol’s maritime time past with a shot of the Llandogger Trow to remind us of bygone days.

- Men of the Port would probably prefer to drink in their modern social club on the banks of the River Avon. Shows employees socialising in the club – drinking and playing skittles and possibly discussing their annual holiday (14 days ‘to go where they will’)

- Whilst employees go on their holidays, the Port will continue its work. Compares the amount of cargo that will be shifted during the 14 days vacation an employee will receive.

- Ex-ship deliveries are common and save time and money. Aluminum cargo going to barges and lorries. Grab transporter discharging cargo and logs being offloaded. During an employee’s holiday 330,000 tons of cargo will have passed through the Port. Shows a side-loading vessel being discharged very quickly (forklift trucks, no cranes needed) – making two trips between Bristol and Sweden in two weeks.

- Shows canteen and employees eating well with all the fresh food that comes into the Docks. Wine bond store, meat berth and cold store, fresh fruit and vegetables, cheese, tobacco – 3 bonded warehouses at the Port. Tea sampling, weighing, sorting, packing etc

- 8.5m tons of goods pass through the Port in a year and regular liner services link to all the major ports around the world.

- Specialised container berth is being built, and the latest in container cranes, small parcels received at a small clearing depot, large loads direct to the large transit sheds.

- Looking forward to new developments, training school for dock workers, amenity blocks for the men and plans for a complete new dock.

- Planning of ship traffic – shots of management planning the various arrivals and departures and the men and machines required. Time not wasted in turning around the ships. Shipers know that the Port is at the head of a safe channel and merchants know that it is an expanding facility with good communications.

- “Ship your cargo through the Port of Bristol and have it handled at the right Tempo”


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0019 Late 60s?

6m 47s

Brooks Linen Service – Bristol

Linen collection, laundering and delivery service for hotels by Brooks of Ashton Vale.

Maker unknown Good quality

Mono/sound


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0020 1946/7 20m 40s

Construction of HW Carter’s new soft drink bottling and fruit canning plant on an old

American military camp at Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, by Trentham's during late 1946 and the first half of 1947. It also features the factory in production manufacturing drinks such as Carter's Rose Hip Syrup and Ribena Blackcurrant Syrup, as well as canning fruit products. Scenes include the factory's laboratory and canteen in addition to the Aust Ferry boat "Severn King", "The Canner" magazine and stocks of "Blue Diamond Grapefruit Juice". Carters relocated to the Forest post 2WW after its Bristol site in Durnford Avenue was destroyed during the blitz.

Quality – satisfactory for period

Mono with a few captions


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0021 1936 11m 58s

Carter’s Fruit Juice Factory, Durnford Avenue, Bristol.

Have been making fruit cordials for over 100 years.

Preparing Fruit Syrup from English Fresh Fruits.

- Lorries arrive with the fresh fruit in trays and tubs - Unloading four tons of fresh strawberries. A typical tray of newly gathered

strawberries - The fruit is crushed in the mill - The fruit falls into the settling tanks on the floor below - After settling, the fruit goes one floor lower to the ‘cheese’ and press room - A test is made and then the juice is drawn off. - ‘Cheeses’ are made from the pulp and they go into a hydraulic press and are

squeezed under 2000lbs pressure - After all the juice is extracted, the remaining pulp is discarded - The pure juice is centrifuged to remove slime - Pure cane sugar is added to the juice and the combined product is filtered

through a large 30 plate filter - The juice is pumped for storage and maturity into slate tanks, where gradual

inversion of sugar takes place. - Monthly tests are made until the juice is ready for bottling. The sucrose has then

been inverted naturally to Glucose and Fructose. - Jars are washed and sterilized - Finished product goes to a filling machine which fills 6 jars simultaneously. The

bottles are stacked and stored. - Analysis of RIBENA shows that the cane sugar has been almost completely

naturally inverted into Fructose and Glucose. - Film ends with the completed products shown.

F G Warne Good quality



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0022 A&B

1955 to 1960

50m 36s

The Changing Face of Bristol 1955 to 1960– Part 1.

Rebuilding programme post 2WW. Shows ‘before’ and ‘after’ images of development across a number of Bristol areas as follows –

- Redcliffe Hill. Traffic and people going about their daily business. Lead-shot tower, Redcliff Snack Bar, Victoria Motors, and the various stages of development of the new flats. Nice 180 degree panorama images showing Redcliff Church, Redcliff Hill and around to Bedminster Bridge junction. Shops shown include Mulletts, Hodder?, West Radio Ltd, Jacksons, Lead-shot tower, Jefferies, Bristol Drapers?, Puppitown and Pets’ Paradise.

- Bedminster Bridge junction. Shows traffic coming and going. Fry’s Prams. - Redcliff Roundabout, next to the Church. Panorama of traffic using the

roundabout with the docks and bonded warehouses in the distance. - A mini roundabout – where? – showing traffic and cyclists gingerly making their

way around it. Motorists appear uncertain as to who has right of way! - Redcliffe Hill, 15

th March 1960. Shows the new flats at junction of Bedminster

Bridge. Pets Paradise still standing at the junction of Guinea Street? - Image of City and County of Bristol map showing ‘Central Area’ –

Comprehensive Development Map No.1. This section introduces footage of the redevelopment of Broadmead. Shows shops including FW Woolworth, Barratts, The Lower Arcade, Georges Book Store, Union Street development, traffic using the now pedestrianised roads in Broadmead, Lower Castle Street development. Old tunnels shown (part of the old Bristol Castle?) and pedestrians walking past roped-off building work. Workmen wearing no safety gear standing above huge drops! Views looking down Union Street and panning around to the construction work around the bridge at the top of Union Street and people and construction traffic under the bridge. Shots of the completed work with shops such as Stuckeys shown and the completed buildings to its right and the completed bridge and steps.

- Fairfax Street development around Castle Hill Street in the Winter - ?January 195x?

- Caption – ‘Demolitions in St James Churchyard, Barr St, Haymarket and Bond Street – November 1953. Nice panoramic shot of the road system before the construction of Lewis’s.

- Construction of Lewis’s by John Morgan Builders Ltd. Shots of the dept store being built and the completed Store.

- Further images of the area around Castle Park and the waste ground and construction of buildings.

- Caption – 13th March 1959. Bond Street development – shows the Royden Hotel

and pans around to the new Lewis’s Store, showing more waste ground in the

Maker Unknown Quality – good. Nice slow panoramas too.



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foreground, ready for development. Penn Street – pre and post development. - Caption – 17

th March 1959. Images pan around from Lewis’s to ? Penn st/Old

Market?? - Caption – Broadmead Area 11

th April 1960. Towards Merchant Street and

Broadweir. Pans around to Fairfax House site. Views of construction of Fairfax House from Castle Green area.

- Shots of Milk Street, the Royden Hotel, Matthews Bakeries, York Street, Broadmead

- Caption – 7th April 1959. Temple Way, shows the Lincolns Building

- Caption – 24th March 1959. Queen Square roundabout. Construction next to

Almshouse. Merriotts shop [where is this rank of shops?] - Lower Castle Street. - Hotwells Road junction with Deanery Road and Jacobs Wells Road. Before and

after construction of the flats at the bottom of Jacobs Wells Road. Also shows Cathedral Garage in Deanery Road.

- Caption – 23rd March 1960. Jacobs Wells Road, looking down towards what is

now Globe Sports with the new flats being built in the background. Also shots looking up the road from Brandon Hill and showing the Swimming Baths too.

- Shots looking down on rooftops from around the St.Michael’s Hill area – can see the new Lewis’s store in the distance. Children playing in (?) school playground.

- St.Michael’s Hill – shots looking up and down the Hill - Derelict land and streets behind the University Tower building? Shows Stile

Lane. - Shows the building of the new hospital extension behind the BRI? or University

Buildings? near Tankards Close.


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0023 1955 to 1960

37m 56s

The Changing Face of Bristol 1955 to 1960 – Part 2.

Contains views of Great Ann Street, Lawford's Gate, Park Street, Barton Hill Flats, Haberfield Street, Bedminster Trading Estate, Princess Street, Redcliff Trading Area, Three Queens Lane, Portwall Lane, Canynge Street, Redcliff Residential Area, Redcliff Hill, College Green, Deanery Road, and College Street. The film also includes –

- Harper’s Used Cars garage, new block of flats [where?], - John Cozens House, The Swan Public House [where?]. - County Clothes, No2 bus to Lockleaze, The Sleep Shop, views towards the

University Tower from Park Street? - Derelict site corner of ?. - Maples, Clifton Triangle - Derelict site, building work [where?], women picking through the rubble. Barton

Hill maybe before the building of the flats? - Shops and Advertising hoardings in St Luke’s Road, Bedminster. Show the Post

Office, S Hawkins, Tobacconist and Newsagent, Herbert Knight Watchmaker, H Booker Family Butcher.

- Caption – 20th March 1959, Bedminster Trading Estate. Princess Street –

Hornby’s Dairy Truck, Albion Motors Ltd, Poeton? - Willway Street. Shots from Windmill Hill area showing WD & HO Wills in the

distance and train tracks in the close foreground, panning around to Willway Street

- Grosvenor Hotel [where?] - Victoria Street – pans from view towards Bristol Bridge to Redcliffe/Temple

Meads. Three Queens Lane development, Portwall Lane, St Thomas Street area. Redcliffe Caterers, Canynge Street, Redcliffe Motor Company Ltd, E&C Bowman Ltd – Vehicle Radiators and Body Work,

- Caption – 7th April 1959. Rumsey Motors?

- Shot looking down on rail tracks and Temple Meads from ?Totterdown? – shows cars emerging from ? Cattle Market tunnel under rail track.

- Plimsoll House, Redcliffe - Caption – 11

th March 1959. Redcliff Hill area. Development alongside the river.

- Passage Street, Tower Hill, Hovis Building, The Avon Cold Storage Company, Tower Hill Clinic.

- Bridge on Park Street with College Street beneath. Shots of the Council House, of Deanery Road and the building of Cabot House

- Bryan Brothers – Ford Dealer in College Street, and Cathedral Garage




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0024 1955 to 1960

32m 24s

The Changing Face of Bristol 1955 to 1960 – Part 3.

Contains views of Stokes Croft, the Central Area, the Western Daily Press Offices in Baldwin Street, St. Nicholas Church, with boat traffic alongside Bristol Bridge, Temple Church, High Street, Wine Street, Castle Street area (nice panorama), building work around top of Union Street, Baldwin Street, King Street, and the Centre. Also features views of Marlborough Street, Pipe Lane, Colston Avenue, Southwell Street (hospital boiler house - later Bristol Maternity Hospital), Whitson Street, Dove Street and Freemantle Place, Ninetree Hill, Montague Hill, Dalton Square, Oxford Street (Kingsdown), Paul Street, (shows plaque indicating where George Muller lived for many years), Alfred Place and Kingston Buildings. The film concludes with scenes in Feeder Road with a steam locomotive passing over the railway bridge, and Brislington Trading Estate – filmed on 1

st April 1960. Businesses

shown here include Heinz, British Process Mounting Co, Platt Hire Services, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank (hut!), Bryan Bros Showroom, Coca-Cola Southern Bottlers Ltd, Redcliff (caterers?) W&R Barrett The film also includes –

- Lamb and Anchor pub [where?], Cat and Wheel Pub [where?] - Grey Friars - Cotterell? - Caption – 24

th March 1959. Queen Square Almshouses being renovated. King

Street, Llandogger Trow, - City Centre. Some shots taken from Colston Hall? Excellent footage of the

Centre taken from many angles and vantage points. Traffic free for all – little regulation, if any!

- The old bus station and shots leading down to the Haymarket.




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0025 c1960 13m 38s

Chronic Cerebral Hypertension.

Filmed at Snowden Road Hospital, Fishponds Explains the impact of strokes and their consequences on the sufferers – using both consultations with patients and diagrams.


Colour/Sound Good quality


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0026 21st

April 1945

2m 34s PM Winston Churchill

Receiving the Freedom of the City at the Council House - near the end of the 2WW in Europe.

- Gives a speech at the Council House and comments on the support he has received from all political parties, but reflecting that now was not the time for celebration.

- His horse drawn carriage travels to the University Building. There’s a ceremony where Churchill, as Chancellor, confers honorary degrees on two Cabinet colleagues - Bevin and Alexander.

British Movietone News Quality – not brilliant

Mono/Sound


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0027 27th

March 1920

50s Bristol City v Huddersfield.

FA Cup semi-final played at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea. City lost 2-1 in front of a crowd of 35,863. Small amount of footage taken from behind one goalmouth. Shows players leaving the field – presumably at the end of the game.

Gaumont Quality – Not bad for the time

Mono/Mute


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0028 1959 11m 18s

Claremont.

Film about some of Bristol’s 300 cerebral palsy children who attend and are cared for at Claremont House School, Westbury-on-Trym. The children featured are not able to attend mainstream schools in the city owing to the severity of their condition. The film shows the activities that children at the school perform in order to help dexterity etc that will hopefully lead to an improved quality of life. History of the Film Filmed during the Summer of 1959. Directed by Philip Grosset and filmed by Ron Elson. At the London Amateur Film Festival the following year, it was awarded the Daily Mail Trophy as the Film of the Year, winning first place in the Documentary section with Marlborough House in second place.

It went on to gain award after award:

• Ten Best, 1959

• BMA Silver Medal for best non-commercial film, 1961

• Oliver Bell Trophy at the Scottish, 1960

• First in documentary section at Australian International.

• Broadcast Award for film best suited to TV, presented by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1964

• Winner at Vancouver Amateur Film Festival, 1960.

At Vancouver, the Russian judge wrote: "It evokes deep respect and gratitude to its authors". In 1964 a postcard was received by Newsletter which said: "Congratulations. Claremont seen on CBC TV in Canada. We lived in Bristol before we emigrated in 1957. John and Mary Getgood."

Bristol Cine Society. Quality - good

Colour/Sound


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0029 1962 10m 5s Back to Claremont.

Goes back to the school to show the progress being made in the condition of many of the children featured in the first film. Improvements shown in reading, writing, walking, cooking etc. Shows a visit to Weston Pier and a ride on the donkeys and the progression of some children transferred to mainstream schools and to work centres catering for the disabled. History of the Film In 1962 BCS returned to Claremont to see and record the progress made by children there since the first film. It was about the same running time as the original and was again in colour with an optical sound track. Back to Claremont, with the same director, won another Ten Best as well as a Bronze Medal from the BMA; and a medal for the film of social significance at the 1963 Scottish Amateur Film Festival. Dr. R.C.Wolfinden, Medical Officer of Health for Bristol, wrote that Back to Claremont was "a really splendid film which will do a great deal to answer the critics about the cost of educating spastics." At the London Amateur Film Festival (LAFF) - the I.A.C. festival held yearly in London - BCS was well represented. Claremont was awarded the top spot, the Daily Mail Challenge Cup as Film Of The Year & first in the documentary class. Runner up in the documentary class was our Marlborough House.


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0030 1966 10m 5s The Comfort Bringers, Bristol Mobile Physiotherapy

Shows the visit of a Mrs Steer to patients in their own homes who are not able to get to hospital. Also includes footage of patients being collected by Ambulance and then taken to hospital for physio and the use of modern equipment and staff. Shows the various techniques being used that were appropriate and modern for the era, the process for using the mobile service and the co-ordination between the various care organisations. Film ends with an appeal for more funds. History of the Film The late fifties and early sixties saw the making of some outstanding films of social significance; and they were films that gave to the name of Bristol Cine Society an extra dimension, even outside the amateur film movement. They also brought a host of trophies. A tradition was established for polished documentaries on medical-educational themes, a tradition that has carried on even into the 1970’s. Marlborough House, Claremont, Back to Claremont, The Helping Hand and Summer Holiday all added lustre to the society’s name.

The last of this first batch of such documentaries was made in 1962. Script writing and preliminary investigation for a film about the Bristol Mobile Physiotherapy service had been undertaken by Fred and Valerie Lorenz; and the film, sponsored by the Bristol Health Department and Bristol United Hospitals, got under-way in mid August. It was provisionally titled A Friend In Need. Shooting began at a patient’s home at Westbury under 2 kW of floods and spots under the supervision of Julian Baldwin.

The shooting of three minutes of film took, on this occasion, some two and a half hours. Eight hours’ work in one session saw the filming of all sorts of treatment for a number of disorders. The final shooting took place at the Central Health Clinic, Tower Hill. Alternative titles had included A Friend at the Door, but this excellent film (which gained a 4 Star award in the Ten Best) was finally called The Comfort Bringers. It will always be associated with Fred Lorenz.


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0031 1942 22m 13s

Control Room.

The work of the Civil Defence Services in Bristol. Depicts the operational chain of command and activities of each section of a City’s Civil Defence Services. Filming takes place in the Linden Road/Coldharbour Road areas of Clifton, Bristol and these locations are used to demonstrate the civil defence process from the time of the first report of a bombing incident.

Shots of a bombed area with Civil Defence men walking around (99). A diagram demonstrating their plan of action. From the scene of damage, the information is sent to a control point. From the control point, help is ordered to the spot (110). A man operates a crane which clears away the debris. A street scene outside a park and the commentary says that they have to keep the city alive and active (136). An incendiary bomb explodes and fire guards deal with these. A building falls down after the bomb hits it (185). The warden reports this to his post on a form. This information goes to the report centre (208). An animated diagram showing how the report centre collects the information from all the wardens in the area (229). The position of the various incidents is plotted on a map and an officer decides what services are needed (318). He writes out an action message which goes to the service depot. A diagram shows the first aid parties, ambulance parties etc. involved (330). At the service depot, the various people concerned are all sitting around. A man comes in and they go into action. Lorries and cars make their way to the scene. A bomb drops and rubble falls in their path, so they have to make a diversion (394). The services report to the warden as they arrive. The rescue party start freeing trapped people; when one casualty is nearly clear, the warden directs the ambulance to draw closer (468). At the report centre, the disposition of the services is shown on a board (488). Every action that the services take is passed on to the control centre (500). A diagram shows several divisions in the city which all communicate with the control centre (523). All the activities of all the divisions are plotted on a board. The activities of Clifton 13 are mapped out. The plotters pass messages on to the Intelligence Officer (605). The rescue party puts one casualty on a stretcher with an addressed label and he is taken to hospital. Less serious cases are taken to the first aid post (716). Another bomb drops and the warden reports this. A fire at Linden Road (755). Diagram showing the Report Centre is informed. Here it's given a number and plotted up. The officer writes an Action Message and the depot sends out fresh services (806). The Control Centre receives the information and it is plotted on the map (827 ft). RL.2 At the Control Centre, there are various Liaison Officers for the Public Utilities e.g. water, gas, telephones etc. (24). A diagram to illustrate what is damaged (63). All the people concerned are notified as to the damage (159). The Control Rooms of the Fire, Police etc. operate like Control Centre. Positions are plotted on a map. A diagram showing how the fire pumps are ordered from sub-division 3 to sub-division 2 and also

Produced by Shell Film Unit Quality good (Figures in brackets indicate length of film in feet)

Mono/Sound


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from sub-division 1 to 2 because 2 is under such great pressure at that particular moment (288). A fire-gutted building. The incident officer appointed, reports the fire to the Control Centre (367). A bomb hits the Control Centre. All their telephones are out-of-order (415). A diagram showing that the Control Centre is out-of- action (429). Back at the Control Centre, one of the outposts of the Civil Defence Army will send the Controller's message to Regional Control (489). They order reinforcements in from Somerset and get the standby team to take over Control Centre's duties (640). When the raid is over, the homeless go to rest centres. Engineers put out a burning gas main by flooding it. Nurses tend casualties (710 ft). RL.3 Next morning at the Rest Centre, they try to fix up the homeless with accomodation and give clothes to those who lost all theirs (73). In a board room, an emergency committee is discussing the badly damaged electricity etc. (120). Engineers at the scene of the damage, mending wires (140). The Civil Defence provide a mobile canteen for people like this who work long hours (148). The board room (154). A fractured water main (173). Back to the board room (182). In the street, people collect water from a tank (197). The board room (204). Debris is cleared away (255). The board room discusses the gas situation (279). One gas holder was lost (300). Someone comes into the board room with the latest casualty list (318). Nurses, stretchers, damaged buildings (347). The War Damaged Information Centre (372). High voltage cables are tested before being put into service (439). The docks (448). Diagram showing the plan of the Civil Defence (464). The commentary ends by saying that the task of the Civil Defence Army is to defend Britain and this it is ready to do (525 ft).


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0032 c1950 5m 43s Trussing the Cooper

Filmed in the yard of the Bristol Brewery of Georges & Co. Ltd featuring Raymond Emery of Ross-on-Wye undergoing an initiation ceremony making him a member of the Honourable Society of Coopers.

- Film pans around dozens of staff waiting for the ceremony to take place. - Mr Emery is helped into a newly made barrel and the fun begins! Beer,

hops/barley is poured over his head – followed by coal dust? Then a mop full of water is doused on his head.

- Around 4 press photographers taking shots during the ceremony. - The barrel is then put on its side and the lad is rolled around the yard. - Afterwards, the crowd applauds and he receives a presentation from a fellow

cooper and a well earned pint of beer.


Colour/Mute


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0033 12 May 1937

5m 35s Coronation of King George 6th

. No Bristol material.

Kodak Ltd A Cine-Kodagraph Newsreel.

Mono/Mute


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0034 9 May 1937

10m 39s

Coronation King George VI Sunday, 9th

May 1937, Civic Service at Bristol Cathedral.

This film, the first half of which is in monochrome and the second in colour, features the civic and military processions from the Centre up to College Green, crowds on the Centre and around College Green, and the flower displays on College Green.

Kodak Ltd A Cine-Kodagraph Newsreel Courtesy of British Movietonews

Mono & Colour/Mute


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0035 May 1937

13m 41s

This film shows Bristol celebrating the Coronation of King George VI between Sunday May 9

th and Saturday May 22

nd 1937 (Coronation - Wednesday May 12

th

1937).

Film starts with a fun fair on the Downs, a street party in College Street (great shots here), and the arrival of the Lord Mayor on the Downs where a military march past and displays (some historical) are featured. It continues with views of flags, bunting and decorations in Queens Road, outside the West of England College of Art, the Victoria Rooms and on Cotham Hill. The film ends with views of Queens Road near the University, the bottom of Park Street, the Centre, Clare Street and College Green. Excellent flower display around the High Cross.

Kodak Safety Film Good quality

Colour/Mute


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0036 1968 7m 45s Courage (Western) Ltd

Film of the topping out ceremony at their new Avonmouth bottling plant. The film starts by showing a fleet of lorries leaving the Bath Street, Bristol, brewery before traveling through College Green and along the Portway to Avonmouth with what appears to be the first consignment of beer for the new development. Company employees, builders and roofers then drink a celebratory pint.

Maker Unknown Good Quality

Colour/mute


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0037 1963 to 1965

40m 30s

Cumberland Basin Bridges Scheme

Opening credits list all the Contractors involved in the Scheme. - Film opens with general scene-setting shots of Bristol and traffic flowing around

various locations including images taken from the original Haymarket Roundabout towards what is now the Cabot Circus area.

- Images of Bristol traffic jams and a model of the new road layout for the Cumberland Basin area.

- The film then moves to show the initial demolition work to accommodate the new structures and roads and all the stages of construction.

- Film includes aerial shots of the construction taken from a SWEB helicopter. Great shots of the bonded warehouse that now houses the BRO.

- Concludes with an opening ceremony held at the new swing-bridge and attended by the Lord Mayor and other civic dignitaries.

- Traffic then seen to be using the new road system and the new swing bridge in operation.

Filmed by W A Cliffe and Be Amice Annize D.R.E Contract Quality – good for age

Colour/mute


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0038 1961 2m 8s Brunel’s Bristol Dredger.

Working for the last time in the water near a brick-arched railway bridge.

Maker unknown Quality good

Colour/mute


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0039 1965 13m 40s

Feet First – Bristol Chiropody Services at Work.

- Film starts with some scene-setting shots across Bristol. Nice panorama across south Bristol suburbs from ? Hartcliffe Flats?

- Shows treatment of various foot ailments and infections and comments on the need for proper footwear.

Bristol Cine Society Producer Les Perry Quality good

Colour/sound


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0040 1930’s 20m 18s

When Winter Comes – Demonstration of Ford De Luxe car in the winter across various Yorkshire landscapes

and other Ford cars. ‘When winter brings its grey skies, and when driving conditions are at their worst – then is the reliability of your car of paramount importance’ Other Ford cars featured too. No Bristol Material

Pathe Good for age

Mono/Mute


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0041 1936 12m 29s

The funeral of King George V. No Bristol Material

Gaumont British News Good for age

Mono/Sound


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0042 1930’s?

6m 31s A Day with The Gipsies No Bristol Material

Gaston Quiribet for Hepworth? Good quality

Mono/Mute


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0043 4 May 1958

4m 11s Bristol Girl Guides Association South 1 Division Annual Guide Service, St Mary Redcliffe Church

- Opening shots of the Guides gathering and getting into formation on waste ground opposite the Grosvenor Hotel, Temple Meads.

- Headed by a group of Scouts plating drums and recorders the Guides in a procession, follow to the service in the Church

- No footage from inside the Church

Bristol Girl Guides Association South 1 Division Good quality

Colour/Mute


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0044 29 March 1958

27m 58s

The Presentation of the Freedom of the City and County of Bristol to the Gloucestershire Regiment

Opening shot showing the scroll to be presented to the Regiment. The film is narrated and covers the following:

- College Green shown before the ceremony starts. Area decked in flags and flowers with a saluting dias in front of Bristol Cathedral

- First to assemble are the Old Comrades from 1WW (&2WW) and then the soldiers from the current generation who assemble in formation behind the Council House.

- At the front, on College Green, the crowds start to gather along with Civic Dignitaries and invited guests. These include the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Mayor of Bristol (Alderman Percy Raymond), Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Sheriff of Bristol and many others mentioned.

- Old Comrades parade around the area followed by the younger generation and the marching Gloucestershire Regiment.

- Duke of Gloucester and Lord Mayor of Bristol come down Park Street in an open horse-drawn coach and arrive at the ceremony where the presentation takes place on a stage in front the Council House.

- Town Clerk introduces the ceremony followed by a speech by the Lord Mayor who then presents the scroll-casket to the Duke of Gloucester – who in turn gives a speech himself accepting the freedom of the city on behalf of the Regiment…….”This City has been the breeding ground of men of spirit for many generations…” Also mentions the city’s strong tradition in education and the Merchant Venturers who helped to build the city as a centre of commerce.

- Also mentions recently flying in one of Bristol’s latest products – the Bristol Britannia.

- Casket given to the Regimental Sergeant Major for safe-keeping at the end of the presentation.

- Note – can see some temporary buildings and waste land in Park Street as a result of Blitz damage.

- Duke inspects the Regiment whilst the narrator gives a little history of the Glosters and then he goes along the row of Old Comrades, speaking with many of them.

- Regiment then marches off around the City Centre followed by the Old Comrades. Film shows the parade and the crowds in front of the shops in the Centre.

- Narrator mentions the Battalions that would have marched through Bristol including the 1/6

th, 1/4

th, and the 12

th – ‘Bristol’s Own’

Ceremony ends and everyone disperses.

F G Warne Quality very good.

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0045 c1960s 12m 15s

The Helping Hand

Film features children filmed in various hospitals and special schools and starts at Winford Hospital. Shows a number of polio sufferers.

- Teaching also provided at the Independent Hospital School. - Film follows those children who need continual help who go to the Bristol

Education Committee’s (BEC) Open Air School for Physically Handicapped and Delicate Children.

- Shows the school for the deaf at Elmfield in Bristol and how the children are taught.

- Hillfields Park Junior School featured where children with reading and writing difficulties attend a special class.

- Some children cannot stay at home (broken homes, ill-treated etc) so the BEC provides two residential schools – Croyden Hall, near Minehead for girls is featured.

Bristol Cine Society Good quality

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0046 1932 13m 20s

Lord Mayor’s Hospital Extensions Fund – Pageant and Festival.

- Initial shots showing a procession around the City Centre and lots of floats making their way to The Downs.

- On The Downs, various dignitaries gather and are welcomed. A Century of Hospital Progress.

- An appeal film for funds for hospitals, looking at the valuable work they do. The film is introduced by the Bishop of Malmesbury, chairman of the organising committee of the Lord Mayor's Hospital Extension Fund.

- He comments on the need to raise £250,000 in the 7 years from 1932 for hospital extensions and new equipment. Each year there will be intensive fundraising including one month in each year where there will be a house-to-house collection. In 1932, £65,000 was raised from this method in Bristol

- Film aims to show audiences the progress made in health provision over the last 100 years with the aim of encouraging contributions to the fund to ensure progress in health provision in Bristol continue over the next 100 years.

- The film re-enacts how a street accident in 1832 was dealt with and then shows the same incident but in the 1932 setting and the improvements in methods, emergency service provision, process, procedures and healthcare over the following 100 years.

Film closes with a reminder that in addition to house-to-house collections, donations may be sent to an address in Colston Avenue.

Gaumont British News Good for age

Mono/Sound and some captions


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0047 May 1935

7m 42s Episodes in the Gracious Reign of King George V - Jubilee of King George V – ‘The King God Bless Him’ No Bristol Material

British Movietone News

Mono/Mute


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0048 1935 16m 53s

Silver Jubilee – 1910 to 1935. King George V and Queen Mary. Celebrations in Bristol – 6

th May 1935

Part 1 (6 minutes 31 seconds) begins by listing all the groups and organisations taking part and concludes with scenes of them marching up from the Centre to Bristol Cathedral. Part 2 (10 minutes 22 seconds) begins by showing the decorations at Queen's Road and Cotham Hill and the floral decorations outside the Victoria Rooms, around the Centre and at Old Market. It continues with the Jubilee Carnival held on Durdham Down showing such things as the helter-skelter and roundabouts before highlighting floodlit buildings around the city including the Cathedral, Suspension Bridge and St Mary Redcliffe. It ends with a review of naval, military and RAF units on Durdham Down on Saturday May 11

th with His Grace the Duke of Beaufort GCVO, Lord Lieutenant of

Bristol, taking the salute. This concludes with a Royal Salute of 21 guns fired by the 66th

Field Brigade RA (TA). History of the Film

This is the first film produced by the Bristol Film Society. The film was shot, according to the credits, by cameramen of the Bristol Amateur Cinematographers. When the film was shown at the IAC Fellowship meeting in May 1935 it was announced that it had been made by members of the Bristol Branch of the IAC Fellowship. It appears therefore that the Bristol Amateur Cinematographers and the IAC Branch were either one and the same thing or at least that they enjoyed a number of common members. The film, in two parts, is still in the Society film library and has been shown to the public on many occasions over the years. In 1968 the original 1935 film was placed in the archives of the British Film Institute for preservation as historic footage and the BFI helped the society purchase a copy of the film for future use.

Bromhead, Merchants Road, Clifton Good quality

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0049 1920 33s "Kino - Girl of Colour"

1920 filmed by William Friese-Greene in `Biocolour', possibly an experimental stereoscopic format for use with glasses using alternative colouring.

This film shows a girl sitting at a table eating and moving fruit about. It ends with a man sitting at a table opening a cigarette case and a girl sat in a chair sorting through an assortment of flags. BFI entry “Made Aug/Sept 1920. A young woman, wearing an enormous rose on her dress, sits with a bowl of fruit, and runs her hands through her hair (24) Young woman wearing a hat eats an apple (45) William Friese-Greene?, wearing a trilby, sitting at table with a bowl of flowers (49) A woman wearing a scarf, on a lawn (53ft) Note: The film is a demonstration of one of the Friese-Greene Biocolour processes, with frames stained alternately green and red. The man visible at (45-49) appears to be William Friese-Greene, which suggests that some of the film may have been shot by Claude Friese-Greene”. No Bristol Material

William Friese-Greene Good for age

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0050 1935 27m 39s

Kleeneze.

Company film for employees to see at evening presentations that end with the singing of the Kleeneze song. - Caption, ‘The Growth of Klee-e-ze has been phenomenal’ Mentions growth in floor space from 1923 at the Chalks Road, Whitehall site, to 1925 and then to 1935 with up-to-date factories covering 8 acres at Hanham. Footage of staff and trucks coming and going. - Caption - ‘The founder of the firm (Mr Harry Crook) The Best Boss in the Land’ Shows Mr Crook working at his desk - Caption - Genial Mr George Crook, Sales Director. Shown in his office. - Caption - Mr H J Dury, Admin Director. Shown inspecting the ends of brushes. - Caption - Mr R O Gough, Secretary. Shown in office. Caption - Brushmaking Past and Present. Demonstrating the old and new methods. Caption – Some Stages in the Making of a Kleen-e-ze ‘Quadrant Sweeper’ Flirting & Trimming. Caption – Some Stages in the Making of a Kleen-e-ze Twisted-in Wire Brush. Weighing the bristle, cutting wire into correct lengths, twisting, bending, turning the handles, stoving the handles, wrapping, screw-eyeing, finishing, Caption – Some Stages in the making of a Kleeneze Mop. Weighing the cotton, twisting, trimming and spraying to improve the Mop’s dust-collecting properties, bending and shaping, Caption – Assembling the Completed Mop Caption – Making some other Kleeneze Brushes – toothbrushes, hair brushes. Film shows visitors to the factory observing the brush making process. Shots of the canteen area with staff having their lunch. Men and women are shown eating separately! Shots of staff playing different sports – cricket, tennis and football. Caption – Mr L Webster (Sales Manager) who watches over his sales staff like a father so they call him ‘pop’. Caption – The ‘Searchlight’ Editor at Work. Caption – ‘The Silver Lady’ – Every Branch and Sub-Manager is anxious to Win Her! Caption commenting on the contribution and interest of staff in the business. The film then goes on to show a Sales Rep arriving on a householder’s doorstep to effect

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a sale. The Rep at his home then makes out the weekly order sheet containing all his sales and posts it to the factory for processing. Post is shown arriving at the factory. Post is opened and sorted and the process of handling each order is shown – from making the orders to dispatch and eventual arrival at the household. The film invites branch staff not working in Bristol if they would like to visit the Bristol site to see the products being made. The Film concludes with an invitation for staff at the Presentation to stand and sing the Kleeneze Fighting Song to the music of? Alla Marela?


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0051 Date? Early 1970’s

7m 21s New Look at Biscuit Packaging.

No date. Packing ‘Butter Thins’ 1/3 per packet: partly by hand at Peek-Freans factory and by E.S. & A. Robinson, Fishponds, Bristol – using the ‘Kliklock’ system. Captions and images explaining Faultless Forming, Controlled Carton Supply, and Easy Opening with Tack Sealer.


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0052 1937 16m 9s Lamb Leer Cavern, Mendip Hills

In the 1930’s the UBSS made the earliest cine-films taken in caving conditions in the UK (apart from some shots taken in ‘show’ caves) According to UBSS documents, this film was the 7

th in the world to be shot underground

– earlier ones being made in America either as newsreels, or footage for commercial films, and a single attempt in 1928 by the Czechs. This film (a joint effort with Wessex Cave Club) shows the descent into and the return to the surface. Note the use of candles and some carbide lamps to light the way and the lack of helmets! Of note to caving enthusiasts will be images of the famous aerial cableway constructed across the Main Chamber between winter 1936 and spring 1937.

Filmed by E K Tratman. Good considering the pioneering underground filming

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0053 3rd July

1936 8m 6s London Mayor’s Visit - 1936

“Bristol Civic Film”. State visit of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Recorder and Sheriffs of London, 3

rd July 1936 on the occasion of the Royal Show at Ashton Park. After being

entertained over night by the Lord Mayor of Bristol at the Mansion House, Clifton, they leave in procession to the Council House. Finally they cross the Suspension Bridge.

Bristol Civic Film Satisfactory quality

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0054 1953 34m 54s

Lord Mayor of Bristol – appears to be a ‘year in the life’ type of film.

Film shows bands parading at the cenotaph and journey to the Cathedral. Laying of foundation stone of the Redcliff Reconstruction Scheme by Alderman Chas. R. Gill, Chairman of the Housing Committee with Mayor Alderman Kenneth A. Brown, 19 November 1953. Red Maids Girls. Visit to Bristol Transport & Cleansing Depot. Christmas tree. Visit to a private house where a young BBC Bristol reporter (Cliff Michelmore?) is seen interviewing the house occupants and the Lord Mayor. Visit to the Children’s Hospital, St Michael’s Hill. University Rag Week at the Victoria Rooms “Billy Ternant”. Meeting in Queen Square with WRVS and possibly Civil Defence ladies in front of a single-deck bus with poster “Kube Japan”. Visit to Corn Exchange. Unknown Georgian house (Blaise?) Visit to a new primary school on housing estate. Meeting with French civil official and naval officer featuring a rowing demonstration with a crew “ESN” on River Avon. Visit to a construction site (on the Portway?) – possibly Northern Foul Sewerage Scheme? Film concludes with an evening dinner function at the Mansion House with guests.


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0055 1958 10m 58s

Marlborough House

Film about the work of Marlborough House a centre for children with learning difficulties. Presented and narrated by the City’s Mental Health Officer. Shows children and adults with various disabilities and the education and training they receive to help them with their conditions and help them find a place in society. History of the Film A letter dated 30th May 1957 to Philip Grosset from a representative of D.W.Dunscombe Ltd., concerned an enquiry being made by Mrs White of Marlborough House Training School for the Mentally Handicapped, situated on the hill behind the Bristol Royal Infirmary. It seemed that the Marlborough House Parents’ Committee wished to have a 16 mm sound film made of the activities of Marlborough House which might help them in their fundraising activities. They had little in the way of funds but were willing to supply the film stock. Could Bristol Cine Society help? Bristol Cine Society could. (Their committee had approached a number of professional units but the costs involved were prohibitive).

Producer-director and, for the most part, cameraman was Philip Grosset; while Joe Higgins helped in various ways as carrier of equipment, holder of lights etc. The film was shot on a 70E. "This has a Switar lens", wrote Grosset, "that was stolen from a wealthy family, buried in a garden, dug up, cleaned and reassembled. I bought the camera and lens for £45". Marlborough House was one of the Ten Best amateur films of 1958.

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0056 4th Feb

1963 4m 4s The visit of Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport,

for the inauguration of the Cumberland Basin Scheme, 4 February 1963 Shows the Minister arriving at the Council House and at a temporary stage placed on the construction site. He’s accompanied by Gervais Walker and other civic dignitaries at a very snowy Hotwells. He is introduced and makes a speech. The Group and a crowd of onlookers including the press view a bulldozer demolishing a house in preparation for the construction works. Marples is shown signing an autograph for a youngster and a woman before he leaves.


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0057 1930’s 8m 30s Mendips Safe Milk

“Mendips Purity Milk Co.” c.1930’s. Milk, Butter, Cheese and Cream production by hand at Chew Stoke near Bristol. Captions and film explain the process – Mendips Milk is received from some 100 Chew Valley Mendip Farms. Shows cattle in the local fields and farms, Milking by Hand, Testing for Fat Content. A chemical test showing the amount of fat in the milk. After being revolved for three minutes the samples are removed and the results read off and note. Testing for Bacteria, Testing for Cleanliness, The Butter Room, Cream Separating, Cheese Making. End of First Part

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0058 1936 32m 21s

The Key to Perfect Health – Mendips Purity Milk Ltd Commercial/Sales Film

Part One

Similar opening shots to ‘Mendips Safe Milk’, then the captions and film introduces milking by machinery and the following processes are explained - - From farm to creamery where samples are taken for testing. Tests for fat content . A chemical test showing the amount of fat in the milk. After being revolved for three minutes the samples are removed and the results read off and note. Testing for Bacteria, Testing for Cleanliness. - On completion of the tests, the milk is then treated by either Pasteurising, Homogenizing or Sterilising Processes. Each process is filmed and explained – right the way through to bottling and cold storage. - The company supplies over 70 schools in Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire with 130,000 bottles per month – and over 150 works and offices with 1/3

rd pint bottles.

Shows workers drinking milk at various establishments and the captions explain the health qualities of drinking milk. - Production of Mendips Blended Butter and Mendips Cloverland Butter is explained. - Cream Separating - Cheese Making Part Two (Mendips Creamery)

- Sterilised Milk process – ‘which the company were the Pioneers in Bristol’ – and a view of the homogeniser.

- Bottle Washing Process - Filling Plant – automatic filling of the milk bottles and loaded into cradles ready

for insertion into tanks to raise the temperature to destroy germs. Then to the cooling tanks to finish the process.

- Bottles placed in cases ready for dispatch. - Lorries loaded and shown leaving Chew Stoke and distributing the milk to

Roundsmen in various parts of Bristol (Clifton) and to doorsteps. One shot shows the milk being delivered opposite the Museum and University Tower. (some great shots here)

- Images of children drinking the milk in their homes. - Captions showing the range of products that the Salesmen can supply. Images

shown of the complete product range. - Film closes with a shot of a Group of Roundsmen ‘ready to serve you with milk

and dairy products’

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0059 1974 15m 27s

Avonmouth - The Motorway Port

Film about Avonmouth Docks and how the new motorway network makes the facility an even more attractive proposition for shipping customers. Opening shots of traffic using the new Motorways. Some facts/information given in the film –

- Bristol is nearer in terms of nautical miles to trade routes, than any other major British Port and is able to function at all stages of the tide.

- And now, it is at the head of a comprehensive network of motorways. Has an effective rail network too.

- Royal Edward Dock adapted to meet modern practices, including roll-on, roll-off. - Bristol is 9

th in the UK as far as the £value of imports into British Ports. But the

new infrastructure developments could well place the port in a leading position. The present state of achievements is also mentioned

- Cedric Platt of United Molasses is shown observing a sample of product. His company has been at Avonmouth since 1909. Largest molasses terminal in te country. Location of Avonmouth important to the company and storage capacity recently increased.

- New Pack Tank site - 3m tons of Petroleum Products handled every year. - Range of cargoes brought to UK through Bristol is enormous. Metals, chemicals

etc. 600,000 tons of bulk raw materials pa are handled for Fisons, Commonwealth Smelting and Bristol Chemicals Ltd. Shows the system for handling the operations for Commonwealth Smelting.

- Important marketing and distribution centre for the food and drink trade. 40% of the UK’s tea trade comes through Bristol – making it the UK’s premier tea port. Last year Avonmouth received 53,000 metric tons of coffee and a similar amount of raw cocoa.

- 1m tons of grain and animal feed arrive every year and an increase in refrigerated produce from NZ has required in increase in cold storage facilities. Can handle 2,500 tons of palletized frozen meat every year.

- Illustrates how today’s operations mean that ‘Bristol means business’ as it has always done over the years.

Refers to the start of Bristol’s Port in the 13

th Century in the Broad and Narrow Quays in

the Centre and the addition of the Floating Harbour in the 19th Century.

- Expansion continued in the 19

th Century to the mouth of the River at Avonmouth,

First City Film Productions Executive Producer, David Powell, Produced by Bob Hunter, written and directed by Roger Dunton. Editor John Fanner Commentator Richard Bebb. Good quality film and narration throughout.

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with the Dock there opening in 1877. Twenty Five years later work started on the Royal Edward Dock. (shows a clip of the Prince of Wales cutting the first sod – same as Brofa 153).

- Mentions 2nd May 1972 when work started to transform the whole PBA operation

with a new West Dock. (Scheduled for completion in 1976). Shows civic dignitaries including Lord Mayor Alderman Helen Bloom and the cutting of the first sod by? Shots of heavy construction work. Diggers moving earth etc. Joining the new dock to the sea will be the biggest lock in Britain capable of taking ships with drafts of up to 43 feet. The dock will be 1200 ft long and 140 ft wide and will cover 70 acres. Substantial savings in construction costs owing to revolutionary diaphragm walling system that allows re-enforced steel structures to be constructed on site.

- Shows the scale model of the new dock at the Wallingford Research Station and how shipping traffic are likely to operate.

- Gives other detail like the turning circle available to shipping within the dock area and the working areas behind the quays that can unload, store and distribute a ship’s cargo quickly.

- In terms of efficiency and geographical location Avonmouth makes sense – and now with the new bridge across the River Avon, the M5 will be able to bring traffic right into the docks through a new access road and the rail link will bring train traffic just as close.

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0060 Date? 1m National Anthem

Appears to be a TV closedown sequence featuring a band playing the National Anthem in front of Windsor Castle. Shows a portrait of King George 6

th.

The band is the Central Band of the Royal Air Force based at Uxbridge. No Bristol Material

Maker Unknown Good for age

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0061 1937 3m 16s Coronation Naval Review, King George 6th

.– a cine-kodagraph newsreel.

King and Queen reviewing the Naval Fleet – off Portsmouth by day and by night with illuminated ships. No Bristol Material

Kodak Ltd courtesy of British Movietonews Satisfactory quality

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0062 24 July 1962

2m 39s Unveiling of the Samuel Plimsoll bust.

On Hotwell Road at the entrance of the Cumberland Basin. Ceremony conducted by Lord Mayor, Alderman LK Stevenson, a member of a well known shipping family to the hooting of a Bristol sand ship.


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0063 30 Jun 1948

25m 46s

Port of Bristol 1848 – 1948 Centenary Celebrations

100th anniversary of civic ownership of Bristol Docks celebrated on 30

th June 1948.

Bronze plaque unveiled at the bridge-head at the City Centre by the Chairman of the Port Authority, Alderman AWS Burgess JP. Opening shots looking down on the stage with the arriving dignitaries near the ‘W’ shed at St Augustine’s Reach with Anchor Road in the background. Scenes of people and traffic including horse and cart. Lord Mayor, MP’s, City Councillors and a large number of users of the Port were present. All the guests embark on the Paddle Steamer ‘Bristol Queen’ at Broad Quay. Shots of the Paddle Steamer proceeding through the City Docks, views of Cabot Tower, Albion Dockyard with a ship in the dry dock, Brunel’s original swing bridge in operation, traveling down the River Avon with views of people and buildings on the old quayside. Various captions of the dignitaries and shots of the guests as they travel towards Avonmouth. Shows Sea Mills Signalling Station, Horseshoe Bend, a tug pulling goods upstream, Pre-fabs, Pill (the home of pilots for centuries), the approach to Avonmouth, the Old entrance to Avonmouth Dock, entering Royal Edward Dock and disembarkation at ‘S’ Shed where luncheon was served. The King is toasted, Chairman of Port Authority makes a Presentation and so does the Minister of Transport, and Mr Whitehouse. Finally, all the guests depart and leave Avonmouth.




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0064 10 Sept 1957

13m 38s

Annual Inspection of the Bristol Constabulary.

By Sir William Johnson CMG, CBE. Opening shots of Bristol Docks with St Mary Redcliffe Church in background, Bristol Police Headquarters and the saluting platform at the Memorial Ground, Horfield Shows Police Officers arriving and parading with horse section too. Dignitaries – including the Lord Mayor - arrive, are welcomed and take their seats. Lord Mayor and Sir William inspect the horse section and watch the horses and riders parade. Then they are introduced to Policemen and women – possibly new recruits? And then to larger groups of more mature officers. The groups of police officers then parade around the pitch and salute towards the stage. Police cars of the day also demonstrated in a procession. Guests depart.

F G Warne Ltd Good quality

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0065 1960 33m 57s

Bristol – Port of Many Trades.

This film shows the activities in the busy Avonmouth, City, and Portishead Docks featuring in detail loading and unloading, customs checks etc, before ending with a short history of the Port of Bristol. [?? Note: Some scenes in this film were used in HTV's "Thought For Food" - Accession Number 38513] Opening shots of the ship ‘Bristol City’ entering Avonmouth Docks with barrels being

unloaded. Other scenes include – - Loading boxes onto trucks from the storage bays. Loading sacks from ships

straight into rail freight containers and onto lorries. - Testing, weighing and recording of goods from New Zealand and the emptying of

tea chests from Ceylon - The ship ‘City of Bristol’ - Measuring and marking of barrels - Unpacking of huge barrel of tobacco leaf - Shots of vast quantities of timber being unloaded - Animals arriving for Bristol Zoo too – lions, ostrich, giraffes. - Freight train leaving and arriving at the Docks with carriages full of goods. - Arrival of meat into cold storage (lamb or pig). Weighing and cutting the meat. - Loading and unloading of grain, and chemicals?

Next series of shots show a ship arriving in the City Docks coming under the

Suspension Bridge. - Scenes of ships and the cranes in front of the old Industrial Museum sheds. - Loading and unloading goods in the City Docks including Harveys Sherry, Coal?, - Cars, Helicopter – at Portishead?

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0066 c1950s 43m 45s

The Port of Bristol – Comprising the Bristol, Avonmouth and Portishead Docks.

Opening shots of St Augustine’s Reach. “Bristol has been called the cradle of the British Empire – and her contribution to history down the ages has indeed been long and purposeful” “Situated on the West Coast, Bristol is the most inland of England’s major Ports”. Therefore the geography is good – 13m people served within a 100m radius. Portishead – smallest dock handling timber and coal, Avonmouth – 90% of the Port’s foreign trade is dealt with and 7 miles up the River Avon, the City Docks now chiefly engaged in the short sea continental and coast-wide trade. In 1809, three miles of the original course of the Avon were enclosed by lock gates to form the Floating Harbour. 1497, Cabot sailed from these Quays on his momentous voyage of discovery to Newfoundland. 1837 saw the launching of the Great Western – the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic under her own power. For centuries Bristol as been forging links between the old and the new world. The father of William Penn who founded Pennsylania was buried in St Mary Redcliffe described by the Queen as the fairest parish church in England. Shows the PBA’s principal admin office in Queen Square. Docks are Municipally owned. Management delegated to the Docks Committee, members appointed by Bristol City Council. Docks were purchased in 1848. Private investment encouraged the building and opening of Avonmouth Docks in 1877 and Portishead in 1879. 1884 these Docks taken over by the City Corporation owing to the impact of competion. All kinds of cargoes are handled, including – food, timber, petroleum, fruit, wine, tobacco, raw materials for industry. Discharge of wood pulp shown in the City Docks – 100,000 tons received from Scandinavia every year – for the paper and printing industry. Timber being offloaded.

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Wines shipped into Bristol from France, Spain and Portugal since the 12th Century. The

first shipment of sherry to arrive in England came into Bristol. Shows barrels of sherry arriving. Film then leaves the old quays in the centre and heads on to Avonmouth. Beyond Hotwells, “the old time mecca of society in Bristol” and under the Suspension Bridge. As move downstream, can see huge flower mills dominating the landscape at Avonmouth. Grain handled in huge quantities – 1m tons per year from Canada, Australia, North and South America and the Black Sea Ports. 4x berths linked to the granaries are all equipped to handle the cargo. 6,500 tons can be discharged from a vessel in one day. Process shown for quickly discharging, storing and transporting the grain. Handling of meat then shown. Arrives in cold storage. 1200 tons of meat discharged per day. Some direct to storage on-site and some direct to lorries for inland distribution. Meat examined by Food Inspectors. Importation of petrol and oil is shown. 4.5m gallon petrol tanker is shown being maneuvered by tugs before discharge. Over 1m tons of petroleum products are imported through Avonmouth every year. 4x deep water jetties. Process of discharging to pipelines and storage tanks is shown. During 2WW Avonmouth was a key receiver of petroleum products and in one of the war years, received over 5m tons – probably a world record at the time. Nice shots of Shell/BP/Esso petrol tanks leaving the docks by road, rail and barge. Importation of Tobacco is shown “Devine, rare, super excellent tobacco – a sovereign remedy to all diseases” !!! 1786 Wills family started importing tobacco into Bristol from Virginia in the US. Today the City is the HQ of the Imperial Tobacco Company. 40,000 tons of tobacco imported each year. Casks of tobacco stored in the transit sheds and then dispatched to Bristol by barge and lorry to arrive at the bonded warehouses – three of which are owned by the Port. Shows the casks being unloaded and stored to mature for up to 3 years. Three samples taken for test blending. “For nearly 300 years Bristol has been importing this luxurious necessity, or is it a necessary luxury” Bristol first established trade with the West Indies in around 1500 when merchants were seeking a cheaper source of spices than Italy. Today the trade is in bananas. Film shows a Fyffes Line ship offloading passengers and baggage to a terminal where passengers then book train tickets for their onward travel. Also shows a customs check. The ship then goes to another berth to offload its cargo of bananas. This has to be done quickly to prevent the fruit from perishing. To prevent bruising of the fruit, straw placed in


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steam heated railway vans that have been weighed and moved into position alongside the quay. Bananas offloaded. 30,000 tons arrive per year – around 25% of all the UK’s import. Workmen transfer the bananas from conveyor belts to the waiting vans. About 1m bananas handled every hour in this way and a normal cargo is discharged in 16 working hours. Shows the rail vans being loaded in a continuous movement. Each van is de-coupled and weighed separately before moving off around the country for distribution. Film shows the handling of timber at Avonmouth, Portishead and City Docks – over 100,000 tons handled each year. Shows huge mahogany logs. The film lists and shows other commodities that come through the Docks including – apples, other fresh fruit, dried fruit and canned fruit, grapes from Greece, oranges from Brazil, Spain and Israel, currents. Shows a rep from the dock and one from the merchant each checking the consignments as they are offloaded. Mentions that long ago, Bristol was associated with the West African slave trade – today the ‘traffic is not in brown bodies, but brown beans’ Thousands of tons of cocoa beans arrive from Africa and Brazil for Bristol and Birmingham factories. Animal feeding stuffs from the River Plate arrive for processing at the local mills. Red ore from the Persian Gulf – used in the manufacture of paint is shown being off-loaded. Canadian aluminium offloaded. Zinc phosphates and concentrates imported for National Smelting Companies – over 1/4m tons annually. Shows direct delivery to the company. The 3x docks represent a capital investment of over £11m and cover an area of 1,400 acres. Sites still available for industrial development. 1700 employees are on the payroll and the film goes through some of the not so obvious occupations on site – metal working, carpentry, rope making, soldering, telephone cabling, police, and divers. Ship repair facilities shown – dry docks and workshops, refueling – coal and oil. All berths linked by landline and ship to shore telephone Every cargo berth is connected by rail to British Rail’s main line. Road and inland waterway connections are excellent too. Little cargo needs to be man-handled these days. Different types of handling trucks and platforms are shown, including forklifts

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demonstrating their worth. Cranes, conveyors etc. A look at Bristol’s export trade. This includes – train base, prefabricated school rooms - cars, Land Rover, Commer, Morris, Austin, Vauxhall – bicycles, Rudge and Raleigh – all heading to places like Istanbul, Mozambique and Melbourne. Finally, a look at a ship about to leave for New Zealand with a cargo of English Portland Cement and some last facts – 5.5m tons of goods pass through the port each year. Ship shape and Bristol Fashion.


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0067 Late 1940’s

3m 26s Prince Charles at play

Scenes of Prince Charles as a baby at Sunningdale with Mum and Dad. No Bristol Material

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0068 1971 to 1974

45m 8s The construction of Bristol Water Works Purton extraction plant on the Gloucester to Sharpness Canal 1971 to 1974

This film begins with a view of the canal showing a Gloucester based tug towing the Gloucester barge "Tuffley" which is loaded with a cargo of wood. It then features the railings near the Anchor public house at Epney on the River Severn, south-west of Gloucester, a pleasure craft on the Avon at Tewkesbury, a view of the Severn in a rural locality and a motor boat on the Gloucester/Sharpness canal. The film ends with detailed coverage of the building work, included in which are a few frames showing "Concorde" flying over accompanied by two chase aircraft while engaged in its testing programme from RAF Fairford. The Severn Scheme, providing a new source of water supply for Bristol Waterworks, involved constructing an intake and treatment works at Purton on the Gloucester/Sharpness Canal at the cost of £8.8 million. The treatment works was built alongside the canal and high lift pumping station transferred water through a 46 inch diameter steel trunk main to a reservoir at Pucklechurch. The ground at Purton was first broken on 24 August 1970 when preliminary work on site excavation and road building began, while on 21 February and 1 March 1971 marked the start of contracts for the civil engineering and building work and laying the 17.8 mile main to Pucklechurch. Also in March 1971 the wooden manually operated Purton upper swing bridge was replaced with an electrically operated version which increased the carrying capacity from 5 to 60 tons, vital to provide heavy excavation and construction vehicles access to the site of the raw water reservoirs on the north side of the canal. In March 1972 thrust boring of the 36 inch and twin 66 inch pipes beneath the canal was completed, connecting the raw water reservoirs to the intake pumping station. Water from the works was first put into the general supply in April 1973, before the official opening by HRH the Prince of Wales on 16 October 1973. The company intended that as many employees, local children and people from the community at Purton and surrounding area as possible should attend. In total there were 330 invited guests and 360 children, and to commemorate the event a plaque was fixed in the control room.


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0069 17 April 1956

26m 16s

The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17

th, 1956

Occasion - to open the new Council House. Shots of coats of arms, flags, Queen Victoria’s statue and Council House, College Green. Swans and boats in Bristol Docks, Campbell’s pleasure steamer, crowds at quayside. Gun salute. Arrival at Temple Meads railway station. Crowds line the route, visit to St Mary Redcliffe church. Journey from the church across Prince Street bridge to Charles Hill’s Albion Dockyard in Cumberland Road. Queen views photographs and paintings and signs visitors book and introduced to long standing employees? To the new Council House (casualty from crowd lying on the ground, attention by nurse). Members of Princess Elizabeth Club, disabled spectators. Motorcycle to and from Mansion House. The Portway, Suspension Bridge.


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0070 Date? 2m 33s Bristol Redmaids School Service, Bristol Cathedral

Annual Service. Short film showing school girls and guests at the service.

Maker unknown Poor quality

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0071 2 June 1953

13m 21s

Bristol Coronation River Pageant.

An authentic reconstruction of the historic visit of Queen Elizabeth 1st of 14

th August 1574

when she voyaged in state through the Avon Gorge and Bristol’s famous harbour. Shows the group dressed in costumes of the day including Queen Elizabeth, Lord Burleigh and Ladies-in Waiting. Historical characters portrayed by members of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School under the direction of Edward Stanley. Principal costumes designed by Miss Iris Brooke. Procession consisted of the Royal Barge – red canopy – the Port Master’s Barge – blue canopy – and two escorts. Barges are seen entering the River Avon. The Queen embarks at Avonmouth. Old prints and original paintings depicting the scene were consulted in the reproduction of both costumes and craft. The Royal Barge was once attached to the Royal Yacht, ‘Victoria and Albert’ The Port Master and his deputy with their wives. Barges enter the docks system and film concludes with acknowledgements - Crews costumes courtesy of Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre. Boats handled by personnel from The National Sea Training School, Sharpness and HMS ‘Flying Fox’, Bristol. Elizabethan Yeoman by members of the Pilot Apprentices of the Channel Pilot Company and the Bristol Boys Brigade.


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0072 1944 13m 33s

Roads Are Dangerous – Take Care!

Images of Bristol schoolchildren in class painting Road Safety images and receiving instruction from their teacher. At the end of school the children leave and the school warden makes sure they cross the busy road outside the school in safety. Shows Betty and Billy making their way home and some demonstrations of bad practice and corrected practice. The filming takes place in and around St John’s Lane and the film then shifts to the junction of Muller Road/Stapleton Road. The children then walk up Muller Road towards Fishponds Road with Eastville Park on the left. There is then a scene in Fishponds Road with a Policeman opposite Eastville Park. As the children are about to cross the road, a US Army 6-wheel truck can be glimpsed driving past. The remaining scenes appear to have been shot in the Luckwell Road/Totterdown/Windmill Hill and Knowle area. History of the Film – Extract from the school log at Victoria Park Community Infants School, St Johns Lane, Bedminster, Bristol “6 June 1944. For three days, the City Photographer, F G Warne will be making a

‘Safety First’ film using the children of Class I. The special children will be Janet Davey, [played ‘Betty’. Now lives in Cornwall and now Janet Cuff] Carl Pearce [played ‘Billy’], David Freestone, Patrick Upton, and Sylvia Bosley. The film will subsequently be used by the Police for Safety First Lectures to Infants. Scenes will include Classroom, Playground, Roads and a House and Garden. 8 June 1944. Filming of ‘Safety First’ picture now finished. If successful, the Police

Authorities will show it to the Parents and Children of this school first. 29 September 1944. The film ‘Take Care – Roads are Dangerous’ made by the children

of this school was shown for the first time to Visitors, Parents and Children. Mr H Brand, Assistant Education Officer, introduced Mr F G Warne and the Police Sergeant [P C White] to the audience.” Historical note: the first day of filming, 6th June 1944, was the very day

of the D-Day landings in Normandy during the Second World War. Opening sequence: an interior shot of children painting in a classroom. Looks like Class 6 in Victoria Park Infants School. Further film location details are noted below - 3'39 St Johns Lane, near the junction with St John's Crescent. Children emerge from the gate marked 'Girls' (still there).




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4'23 Same gate, with houses in St John's Crescent visible in the distance. 4'29 St Johns Lane again. Houses further along glimpsed in the background, e.g. on the corner by Wedmore Vale 5'02 Children seen walking eastwards along St Johns Lane. They cross the turning for Raymend Walk. 5'27 Children crossing St Johns Lane. Side of Victoria Park Infants School in the background, with its distinctive stone carving on the side. In the playground, by the the low boundary wall, is the side of a construction that appears to be an air raid shelter. 5'34 A suburban crossroads. There are white stripes painted on trees and traffic lights, as commonly seen during the war (and in other parts of this film). A bus, car and truck pass by. Previously identified as the junction of Muller Road and Stapleton Road, presumably now demolished for the large M32 junction. 6'34 By Eastville Park, in Fishponds Road. 8'23 Sequence by a wide road with 1930s houses. Unidentified. (Possibly the water tower in Knowle that's visible in the distance on the left?) 9'50 Sequence in Ashton, at the junction of Smyth Road and Duckmoor Road. The church in the background is St Aldhelm's in Chessel Street. At 10'07 a man walks a horse past the camera. 10'38 Sequence in Windmill Hill. The house in question is number 21 Brendon Road. The children walk up and the film shows views in both directions of Brendon Road. At 12'10, the junction with Cotswold Rd / Dunford Rd is clearly visible. The final scene is presumably the interior of the same house, although there's no way of telling for sure.


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0073 c1960s 6m 35s Bristol Rotary Club Dinner – at Stokes Croft

Film of guests eating dinner interspersed with images of past Presidents, old shots of previous gatherings, press reports of Rotarian Appeals for funds for the Little Theatre, Bristol Symphony Orchestra, the Unemployed (newspaper clip dated 16 April 1923), Youth Club funding (article dated 14 October 1935). Spokesman for Bristol Rotary commenting that it is an advantage for businessmen to be involved in the Rotarian movement.

BBC Points West? Average quality

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0074 1947 2m 42s The Royal Tour of South Africa 1947

Royal Party is shown leaving London by train then boarding the ship ‘Vanguard’ for passage to South Africa. En-route, the Royal Party is entertained by a comedy show on deck. Young princesses playing a game on deck. Ship arrives in SA – looks like Cape Town. Welcome party. No Bristol Material.

Cine-kodagraph newsreel Poor quality

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0075 Pre 2WW 1930’s?

3m 57s Rush Sunday at St Mary Redcliffe Church

Shows guests traveling to the service by car and the choir outside the Church. Arrival of various groups and scouts etc. After the service, the mayor? is shown leaving the Church in a horse-driven carriage and other guests are collected by car.


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0076 1941 6m 47s “Bristol” – The Action of the Burt-McCollum Sleeve Valve

Captions and images explain the removal and re-assembly of the cylinder assembly of a Bristol Radial Aero Engine.

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0077 c1937 5m 55s St John with St Anselm, Clifton – Part Two

Mothers’ Meeting to Lyme Regis, 1937. Group of women gather in Bristol and board a bus for the trip – leave from Apsley Road in Clifton? Next shots are on the beach at Lyme Regis Next shot is in the Vicarage Garden with the Reverend and the picking of pears by a Scout. St George’s Day Parade 1936 – with Scouts in the garden. Whist Drive in the garden, June 1936. Getting ready for their Coronation Rally, 1937 – looks like Girl Guides.

Maker unknown Satisfactory quality

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0078 c1959 17m 43s

St Matthias Restored

St Matthias College, Fishponds, featuring teacher training, children in a school and going out in the country, foundation stone laying ceremony, (no date), and visit of Princess Margaret on 4 November 1959.


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0079 1938 31m 41s

St Werburgh’s Nursery School, James Street, Bristol

This film shows a ‘day in the life’ of the school that was opened on 7th September 1931 to

accommodate 120 children aged 2-5 years. In 1938 it became necessary to enlarge the buildings to accommodate 200 children. The complete school day is illustrated from the time parents drop their children off, to when they are collected at the end of the day. Captions are in italics with a brief description of the film that follows….. The school is open each day at 8.30am Opening shots of parents bringing their children to school - either walking or in all sorts of prams! “Come with me and see just what happens here every day of the week” Children hang up their coats in the cloakroom and then put on an apron that they wear for the day. As soon as the children arrive they are provided with a meal consisting of 1/3 pint of milk, a biscuit followed by a teaspoonful of cod liver oil emulsion The children are shown sat at tables, eating the biscuit, washing their mug and plate, taking a spoonful of the emulsion, getting a cup and tea towel to protect their aprons whilst they brush their teeth, brushing their teeth, returning the towel and mugs to their individual stations, brushing their hair in front the mirror, brushing and tidying the area where they had just taken the snack, folding away the tablecloths, removing the tables from the dining area ready for the start of the school day. Children are then shown sat around the classroom listening to the teacher. They appear to be saying a prayer and singing – and applaud themselves! Various exercises are completed before the chairs are moved out of the area. The morning session is devoted to play (out of doors weather permitting) Children shown outside playing with shapes, in a sandpit, with toy prams, dressing teddy

M W Dunscombe Photography by RG Lawrence Good quality for age Superb film!



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bears, on small scooters, painting, assembling objects, using miniature tea sets, cleaning cloths in tin basins, using hammers, washing baby dolls, emptying tin bath water down a drain, putting washing on a line, blowing bubbles, cleaning trays, watering plants in a border and putting away the watering can. The kiddies in turn are allowed to play in the shower-bath Children shown in bath of water with hair nets and supervised by a teacher. Around 6 at a time – boys and girls mixed. Afterwards the teacher helps to dry the children. On admission each child is weighed, measured and medically examined. This process is shown and includes mothers with their children. This medical examination is repeated every six months A rather nervous looking lad is shown going through the medical check. The dentist inspects teeth twice a year. Children needing treatment are dealt with at the clinic Shots of the dentist inspecting several sets of teeth. Twice weekly some twenty children are sent to the clinic for the benefits of sunlight treatment. Children are shown getting into the back of an Education Committee van on their way to the clinic. Minor ailments are treated at the school daily. A girl is treated for a knee scratch, a boy for an ear condition, a girl with? weepy ears, a girl with a cut on her ankle, a boy with a nose problem, a girl with a cut knee, and a girl with a cut finger. A good wash and brush-up before dinner Children are shown washing their hands at individual washing bowls or at sinks, disposing of the water and brushing their hair. They then lay the tables and set out the chairs ready for lunch. Following a prayer, some children bring the bowls of food to a serving table.


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Today’s menu includes steamed fish, mashed potatoes and baked apples with custard. Some children are at the serving table where they serve the mashed fish/potatoes on plates. Other children take the plates to each child sat at the tables. Leftovers are served by teachers. Here the babies, (average age 2 years) clean their teeth after dinner. Cleaning of teeth, going to the toilet and another brush-up are all shown. In spite of the daylight, and the trains passing every few minutes, the children rest from 1.5 to 2 hours every day. Children are place in mini beds with blankets around them and most appear to sleep. When they awake, they get changed and help to tidy away all the beds and bedding. The afternoon is devoted chiefly to physical activities, both in and out of doors Indoors, a teacher is playing at the piano and groups of children are seen performing various exercises. Outdoors, children are shown on a slide, walking along planks and climbing frames. A nice panoramic shot of activities here and of a passing steam train. Now for TEA – each child has 1/3 pint of milk, whole-meal bread and butter, one teaspoonful of cod liver oil emulsion, and a piece of raw apple. Staff are shown preparing the food and the children prepare the tables with table cloths and plates etc. They also pour the milk from jugs into mugs themselves. The bread and butter and milk consumed first, then the cod liver oil and finally the apple. The time on a school clock is shown at 16.30. Teachers help the children to put on their clothes and the parents arrive to take their children home.


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0080 Early 1950s?

5m 41s H O Strong & Sons Ltd, Bristol ‘The Autotronic Punching Machine’

Push Button Control Fully Automatic Cycle Machine uses a mold that is pressed into card/paper to make specific shapes ‘Inclined Trym Press’

With 5 station rotary table arranged for box doming. Operator is shown using the machine to attach photographic covers to boxes. ‘No.8 Mackay Blocking and Embossing Press fitted with triple Roll Feed’

Embossing machine in use with a company leaflet toasting success to the Toronto Fair in 1951.




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1950s? 3m 42s H O Strong & Sons Ltd, Bristol ‘Hydraulic Powered Toggle Press’

350 ton toggle press. For heavy embossing and cutting operations. Equipped with automatic roll feed and cut-off.




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0082 1950s? 3m 6s H O Strong & Sons Ltd, Bristol ‘Metal Stamping Machine’ ??

Film shows the machine in operation with captions describing the particular elements and safety features.




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0083 1963 12m 16s

H O Strong & Sons Ltd, Bristol ‘Rotary Feed Inverted Box Drawing Machine’

Film shows the machine in operation with captions describing the particular elements and safety features.




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0084 1950s? 16m 17s

H O Strong & Sons Ltd, Bristol ‘Semi-automatic label punching machine’

This film shows the machine in operation together with some examples of the finished work including labels for "Neptune Orangeade", "H.P. Sauce" and H.P. Malt Vinegar", "Camp Coffee", "Kraft Dairylea Cheese Spread" and "Guinness Extra Stout".




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0085 c1960s 19m 40s

Thought for Food

Film for potential new merchants

Narrator starts by listing the principles that ‘Thought for Food’ means to the PBA – Reduced handling, first class storage, cleanliness, and prompt delivery. These principles referred to and illustrated throughout the film. Over 1700 ships enter the Port of Bristol every year and over 40 major items of food are handled. Film shows and explains the preparations that are made before a ship arrives with its cargo, and how goods are handled and delivered when they arrive. Why use the Port of Bristol? Because –

- Within 100 miles live 13m people - The Port is only 85 miles from Birmingham and the Midland Cities, the industrial

heart of England. - London, the biggest shopping centre in the world is only two hours journey by

train - The PBA is alive to future developments and needs – it will provide the facilities

you want.

Film concludes with some of the new Port developments.

F G Warne Produced for the PBA Good quality

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0086 c1960s 19m 40s

Through Bristol for Britain

Australian apples imported at Avonmouth Docks – when there are no home varieties of apples available. Film goes through the process and planning in preparation for the ship to arrive. Film is seen also from the ship’s perspective – role of the pilots, use of tugs, on board activities etc as the ship moves into the dock. Film then shows the sorting of the load into batches for the various merchants. Ledger clerk calls the merchants if local or sends a letter if further away, to say their apples have arrived. Lorries arrive from the various merchants and then loaded with their consignment. Rail trucks are also loaded. Roads used include the Portway linking to Bristol and other routes (pre M4/M5) Lorry seen delivering apples to a wholesaler in King Street in the centre of Bristol. From there, the apples are then shown displayed and on sale at a shop and then eaten by some children.

F G Warne Produced for the PBA Good quality

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0087 Late 1940s

28m 33s

The Two C’s – Care and Consideration

“Road Safety Council – The Two C’s” (parts 1 & 2). Late 1940’s. The Highway Code explained in actions and captions on Bristol’s roads. Excellent shots of 1940’s Bristol streets – traffic, cyclists and pedestrians. Park Street, Blackboy Hill, The Downs, Queens Road, The Centre in the rain, Queen Square, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, housing estate, Kellaway Avenue, cyclists in front of the Full Moon in Stokes Croft.

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0088 c1944 5m 22s US Troops in Bristol during 2WW

American troops at Clifton College exchanging flags with British troops in front of civic dignitaries. After the ceremony, the British and US troops are shown marching down Park Street amid scenes of bomb damage. (Appears to be footage taken from the ‘Citizens of Bristol at War’ films)

Maker likely to be Dunscombe Average quality

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0089 1976 2m 33s USA Charter

Christmas Scrolls 1976, Lord Mayor of Bristol signing scrolls to be sent to towns named Bristol in USA. A spokesman (who?) explains how the idea of the scrolls came about and what was highlighted within – John Cabot, William Penn, commentary on the 10,000 people who sailed from Bristol to the new world, and a message of greeting from this Bristol to those in the US. The scrolls were flown to America, via Concorde.


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0090 May 1935

13m 22s

Royal Silver Jubilee of King George V & Queen Mary

Film describes important moments in history and the important technical advances made between 1910 and 1935. It then features the Jubilee Day Thanksgiving Procession in London (May 6

th 1935), the service in St Paul's Cathedral, and finally the journey back to

Buckingham Palace. No Bristol Material

Universal Talking News Special Edition Average quality

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0091 6th -10

th

July 1955

42m 7s Make Way for Yesterday

Silver Jubilee of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain. The VCC was founded by three enthusiasts SCH Davis, JA Masters and JH Wiley in 1930. Today – 1955 – the Club has a membership of over 1400, who between them own over 1000 cars all aged before 1916. No car made after 1916 was classed as a ‘veteran’. Silver Jubilee of the Club celebrated by holding an international rally in the UK. Cars came from Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Eire, Belgium and the US. The film shows the progression of the cars from five starting points – London, Bristol, Cambridge, Chester and York. The 5-day rally included a run to Stratford-upon-Avon, a tour within the triangle of Stratford, Cheltenham and Leamington, driving tests and a ‘concorde delegance’. The film shows the cars leaving each of the starting points. In Bristol, the starting place is from the Victoria Motor Company Garage and the film pans around the Regent petrol pumps on the forecourt. The guest starter is Dr AE Russell, Chief Designer of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. With the starter is the Chief Constable.


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0092 1944 7m 18s Welcome Home to Britain

Shows British troops returning home by ship after being released from POW camps. Many of whom were captured in Norway in 1940. Shows the troops at a camp receiving their pay and double ration cards. A few of the troops are interviewed and then some are shown returning to their homes. The Advance in Italy

Shows the progress of the 5th and 8

th Armies advancing through Italy.

No Bristol Material

Gaumont British News Good quality

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0093 1936 16m 27s

War Without End

A British Acoustic film produced by Exclusive Films for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London showing advances made in medical science over the years.

This film begins by showing the advances made in medical science over the years, before concentrating on the position it had reached in the mid-1930's. It features sterilisation and operating techniques, ultra-violet ray treatment, heat lamps, x-ray therapy, the iron lung, the electro-encephalograph, heartbeat monitoring and recording,

and two Monospar ST 25 flying ambulances, G-AEVN and G-AEWN. The film was almost certainly directed by Francis Searle who was a regular Hammer/Exclusive director and by the 1950’s was one of their foremost directing talents.

No Bristol Material

Exclusive Films Produced by King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London Good quality

Mono/sound


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0094 1948 8m 23s West Country Gazette – News Magazine Programme

This newsreel film begins with an item on Grass Track Speedway at St Austell in Cornwall. It then features the Port of Bristol Centenary Celebrations held on June 30

th

1948; (featuring docker Joe Pring – who was still working at over 90 years of age) the West of England Academy (Bristol) fashion show; and the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show at Bodmin; before ending with Mr Elliot O'Donnell, a Bristol ghost hunter, in action

in St James Parade, Bristol.

Bristol Cine Service, Alma Vale Road, Bristol Good quality

Mono/sound


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0095

c1955 - 1960

22m 57s

The Welding Construction Company

The construction of the St lvel factory at Westbury, Wilts, by Welding Construction of Avonmouth. This film, made for The Welding Construction Company, Chittening Estate, Avonmouth, shows the construction of a new St Ivel dairy products plant at Westbury, Wiltshire, for Alpin & Barrett of Yeovil. No date, but appears to have been made c.1955/60. It begins with scenes of welding, screwing and painting pre-fabricated space frames for the factory at Avonmouth. They are then shown being transported by a Pickfords lorry via the A4 from the Portway, through Bristol City Centre, Keynsham, and Saltford to Bath. The lorry then takes the A365 from Box to Melksham where it turns on to the A350 before finally arriving at the Westbury site. The film then features steel erection and roofing before showing the completed warehouse containing cheese, butter and sandwich spread in operation.


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0096 1942 24m on Bristol

The Blitzed City of Bristol

Opening caption… By Royal Command. This film was specially shown to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Mary on October 27

th 1942.

Chew Magna 1942. Signposts have been removed to avoid giving assistance to the enemy.

Shows village scenes The only evidence of wartime activity is the mobile First Aid Ambulance Shown parked in front the church. The only person the photographer could find is Mr Betty, the village butcher. He lost some cattle through enemy bombing. Mr Betty with dog This house on Chew Hill is the only damaged property. Note – Bomb crater in the foreground Damaged house shown. The film then moves into Bristol and shows the following

- Damage to Redland Park Church. - Clifton Parish Church

Residential sections had their share of bombs

- Shows damaged houses An Englishman’s home was his castle. Mr Joe Gordon survived but his wife was killed

- Shows Mr Gordon looking at the wreckage of his home

All Saint’s Church

M W Dunscombe Produced especially for Ernest D. Fear of Kansas City, Mo.,USA.” Who was born in Chew Magna, Somerset

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- Shows damage to the interior The remains of Fear’s shop on Bristol Bridge

- Shows Fear’s shop and general views of the devastation in and around Bristol Bridge and Bridge Street.

In the heart of the City – here stood Ye Olde Dutch House The main shopping centre

- Pans of the damage in the Castle Street area. St Peter’s Church was of historical interest

- Images of the wrecked church Broadmead

- Shows damage throughout this area including the Upper Arcade. - Film then takes a look at Stokes Croft, Victoria Street, leaning tower of Temple

Church, Redcliffe Street. “We can take it”. Two women of a party of seven sheltered in the cellar when the front of the house was blown out. All were saved. Bombs wiped out this entire street which consisted of working class homes Shows a flattened Willway Street in Bedminster


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0097 1943 43m 30s

The Citizens of Bristol at War – Part 1

“This film – The Citizens of Bristol at War – has been viewed and approved for exhibition by the Censor, Ministry of Information.”

Opening caption… By Royal Command. This film was specially shown to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Mary on October 27

th 1942.

Produced in 1942 especially for Ernest D Fear of Kansas City, Mo, USA Opening shot showing the book – “Annals of Bristol” Foreword – BRISTOL, England – the home of pioneers for it was from this port, John Cabot set sail in 1497 and discovered the Continent of North America. Shots of old paintings depicting medieval Bristol scenes and Cabot’s voyage. Today, the Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill perpetuates his memory September 3

rd, 1939 saw the commencement of the war for democratic freedom…led by

Hitler, Nazi Germany started world aggression and was joined by fascist Italy in 1940 and the Japanese in 1941…. ..Thus forming an unholy trinity of blood and hate which encircled the entire universe. Film shows clips of newspaper articles announcing the outbreak of war. Bristolians flocked to join the Territorial Army and Air Forces and are seen at a parade on Durdham Down where General Sir Archibald Wavell takes the salute as the recruits march past. Through the medium of this motion picture, another chapter is added to the long history of Bristol…. ….Preserving for Posterity a memorable record of the Citizens of Bristol at War. Men and women from all sections of the community enrolled in the air raid precautions services….and many other branches organized for civil defence that were nationwide.

M W Dunscombe Produced especially for Ernest D. Fear of Kansas City, Mo.,USA.” Who was born in Chew Magna, Somerset

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Introducing the executives and representative personnel of Bristol’s ARP and CD Services.

- General Sir Hugh Elles, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO – The Regional Commissioner

- The Chief Constable, Mr C G Maby CBE - Asst to Chief Constable, Mr F W Hicks MBE - Mr A H Johnstone OBE. Chief Regional Fire Officer of National Fire Service - Group Officer J R Drew, Royal Observer Corps in charge of area ROC Posts. - Chief ARP Controller, Mr H M Webb MBE - Dr R H Parry, MB, BSc, Medical Officer of Health in charge of all medical

services in the City - Mrs Herbert Thomas MBE, County Organiser of Women’s Voluntary Service in

conversation with the US Consul, Mr Roy Baker - A Group of ARP Wardens - Members of a Street Fire Party - An old soldier of the First World War is now a fully trained spotter in the Royal

Observer Corps. - The Medical Staff of a First Aid Post - Three smart girls of the National Fire Service - Mrs Dorothy Batt, BEM – affectionately known as ‘Our Auntie Doll’ – who saved

many people trapped in a bombed house.. - A veteran of the Blitzes – Mr P W Salmond one of the first wardens to be

enrolled for ARP in 1938 - And last but not least ‘Moaning Minnie’. The siren which sent people to cover

when enemy planes approached. In the Winter of 1940-41 the German Luftwaffe bombed the City many times causing heavy casualties and widespread destruction to property As the raids took place at night, the following scenes have been re-enacted to record the work of the ARP and CD services as they operate under Blitz conditions. At a royal observer corps post, the approach of enemy planes is notified to headquarters and their directional course plotted over a wide area. Information received is circulated to the principal control centres for ARP, Police and Fire Services Deputy ARP Controller, Mr G H Gibbs, Chief Inspector W G Andrews in charge of Police ARP Control.


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The Regional Fire Officer is contacted

- People shown being escorted off a bus and into a shelter just before the air-raid starts and houses being evacuated as the residents take to the shelter – Clifton number C1680

- A street party goes into action as incendiary bombs fall. - Fire-Watchers on business premises saved many buildings by promptly dealing

with incendiaries. Shows a stirrup pump being operated to obtain water for putting out the fires.

- All incidents are recorded minute by minute on a special map at ARP Control. - The National Fire Services tackle big fires - People trapped on roofs are rescued in this manner - Ambulances and rescue equipment kept parked in side streets ready for action - Tribute is paid to the bravery of the ARP personnel. Many gave their lives that

others might live - The Incident Officer operated from a central position amid debris from HE

Bombs. - Search is made for casualties - Girl messengers showed great courage in maintaining communications. - Chief Constable and his Assistant study reports from Police Control Centre. - The YMCA mobile canteen provides refreshments…. - On many a night over 1,000 cups of tea have been served during the height of a

blitz. Also shows a tea wagon supplied from the US. - Injured are brought to safety when other means of escape had been cut off. - At a First Aid Post. Shows an Ambulance donated by a US Ambulance service - At the casualty bureau records are kept for notifying next-of-kin of the killed and

injured. - Supplies of blood for transfusion are dispatched to hospitals - At last The All Clear. Shows residents emerging from the shelters and the

winding down of the emergency services. - And so ends a record of typical scenes that occur during a blitz…

Now let’s see what goes on after a heavy raid….

- The famous Anderson Shelters prove their worth in protecting lives - Provided free to those with small incomes, these shelters consisting of steel

sheets were assembled by the householder, sunk in the garden and covered with mounds of earth or sandbags

- Specially constructed surface shelters withstood the blitzes and thereby saved thousands of people.

- University students under the direction of Mr CM MacInnes, operate a fully organized information bureau.


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- The public are informed about water, gas and electricity supplies, rest centres, communal feeding and other arrangements which come into action immediately after a Blitz.

- The Home Guard relieve the Police for traffic duties and keep ‘Nosey Parkers’ out of trouble

- Damping down smoldering fires is easy in daylight when there are no ‘Jerries’ about.

- The Regional Commissioner discusses reports from all ARP and CD Centres. - Blood transfusion is given in hospitals. - Dr E Whitby, wife of Brigadier L E H Whitby (who appears again later in the film),

is responsible for transfusion at this hospital. - The WRVs distribute clothing thanks to the splendid help from the American

people who have provided so much for Britain’s war effort.

- Queen’s Messenger mobile canteens driving along a road. On the side of the vans can be seen ”Food Flying Squad, USA to Britain. Ministry of Food”. The vans pull up and the W.V.S. distributes hot drinks to demolition workers.

- The Lord Mayor of Bristol’s camp for bombed-out women and children,

“Hinnegar Camp”, is visited by the mobile canteens and tea and food handed out. A group of the women with their children. W.V.S. workers, wearing Y.W.C.A. badges, holding some of the children in their arms

A DAYLIGHT RAID ON THE CITY

- The following scenes filmed an hour after a Nazis sneak raider dropped a bomb which destroyed property and set 3 buses ablaze.

- Women and children were among the many casualties. - The searching for clues to identify the victims.

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0098 A&B

1943

56m 30s

The Citizens of Bristol at War – Part 2 Some other aspects of civilian life in War-Time

A Red Cross van delivering crates of supplies from the USA – a gift from the American Red Cross - to a church acting as a W.V.S. clothing store. The W.V.S. workers mark the crates as they arrive. Lady Wraxall, Lady Elles and Lady Wills, wearing British Red Cross uniforms, helping with the work of sorting the clothes. Loading supplies of food and drink onto a mobile canteen. W.V.S. workers serving tea to demolition workers at another site, Ford food van delivering pre-cooked food to emergency British Restaurants.

- A truly personal service is given by thousands of civilians who donate a pint of their blood to save the lives of others.

- Mainly for the armed forces in all theatres of war, blood is also transfused to civilians injured in air raids.

Blood donors queuing outside an Army Blood Transfusion service donor registration department. A nurse escorts them inside. The donors giving blood. Afterwards they lie down and sip tea. Brigadier L.E.H. Whitby at his desk. (His own life was saved by blood transfusion in the 1WW) Queen Mary visiting the Blood Transfusion Depot. Her car draws up and she is escorted inside past a line of nurses. At the laboratory the blood is prepared for storage. The plasma is separated for long-term storage and distribution. Red Cross nurses carrying bottles of plasma out to a waiting Army car. Another car arrives and delivers containers. Queen Mary talking to nursing staff, then leaving. Home Office van, at a factory site. A mobile gas chamber is erected on the site. Women


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workers being fitted with gas masks. A Home Office worker inside the chamber releases the tear gas. Women workers donning their gas masks and entering the chamber. Inside the chamber. Women emerging, more entering. The purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the gas mask and boost confidence. Women emerging from the chamber with tears streaming from their eyes, after removing their gas masks, in order to prove their efficiency. Titles advertising the C.H.G. 3 hr. Continuous Projection Equipment. A Ministry of Food demonstration of the decontamination of food after gas pollution. Members of the decontamination squad wearing protective clothing. One of them carries a field kit for testing the density of mustard gas. Spraying mustard gas over sacks of food. Members of the public watching the demonstration. The poisoned food is removed in a special lorry. Treating the food at the decontamination site. A sample of cheese is analysed. Treating food containers with bleach. Using the field kit to test contaminated food. Immersing a sack of flour in water. Pressure hosing vegetables. Scrubbing canned goods with bleach. Raking food over in the open air to speed the decontamination process. Testing potatoes with the field kit. A demonstration of street decontamination: a yellow warning sign; spraying mustard gas on the road. Civilian defence personnel and watching members of the public all wearing gas masks. The gas squad arrives and spreads bleach powder over the affected area, thereby igniting the gas. Women members of the gas squad in their full protective clothing. Bomb disposal men digging out a 1000 kilo bomb on the outskirts of the city – 18 months after being dropped during a blitz. Clearing the civilians from the houses nearby; ‘road closed’ sign. The BDS van. Excavation work around the bomb. Part of the bomb casing is hoisted out of the trench. Digging out mud around the bomb. The disposal men enjoying a tea-break. Measuring


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the excavated casing. The disposal crew smiling after the completion of their job. THE FOOD SITUATION

- Nazi propaganda said “Britain is Starving” – thanks to the Merchant Navy, the following pictures give proof to the lies circulated by the enemy.

Civilians entering a Food Control Office, where their ration books are issued. A woman holding bottles of cod liver oil and blackcurrant juice. A ration book is opened to show the contents. A line of shops, including a Co-op. store; a baker’s window; a fishmonger’s window. Line of shops with improvised replacements for blown-out windows: Boot’s, Home and Colonial Stores. Shoppers passing by. Grocer’s shop window. A shopper looking in the window of Lennard’s shoe shop. A vegetable stall. Shop notices inviting customers to register with them. A butcher’s shop. The butcher examining a customer’s ration book, then cutting a steak. An old woman emerging from the shop. Customers queuing outside the Eastwood Dog Shop and Beauty Parlour. Groceries representing a week’s rations laid out on a table. Queen Victoria’s statue at College Green, underneath which a notice points the direction to the British Restaurant. Customers inside the Restaurant serving themselves, and eating. An M.O.I. loudspeaker van on College Green, covered with salvage propaganda posters. Girl workers dancing on the Green during their lunch-hour. SALVAGE


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A waste-bin hung on a lamp-post, intended for kitchen scraps. An elderly woman has just emptied scraps into the bin. A waste-cart arrives and the bin is emptied on top of the food in the cart. The lorry dumps the food waste at a depot, where it is boiled for pig swill. Sterilizing the empty bins by steam. Filling bins with cooked swill, which are then collected by a farmer. A farm girl feeding the swill to pigs. Clearing trees from afforested ground to provide timber and release land for food. Bulldozers and steam engine in operation hauling down trees. W.V.S. van, provided through the American Red Cross, on the site; serving tea to the forestry workers. SCRAP METAL The Wills Memorial Building of Bristol University. Workmen with oxy-acetylene torches removing the ornamental railings from outside the University, for salvage. Men similarly removing railings from outside a church. Flag-bedecked cannons captured at Crimea and which had stood beneath the Cabot Tower, being hauled away through the City, for salvage. Loading the cannon onto a railway truck. Paper salvage: a street container bearing large caricature of Hitler – people insert their old books through his mouth into the container. “Ram your books down Hitler’s throat and help to keep our ships afloat” WOMEN BUS CONDUCTORS & NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE PERSONNEL A woman bus conductor issuing tickets inside a bus. A long bus queue. A single-decker austerity bus draws up at the stop. The crowded interior of the bus. National Fire Service women filling static water tanks in the basement of bombed-out houses ready for future use in an emergency. NATIONAL SAVINGS ‘DOWN OUR STREET’ Terraced houses in Twinnell Rd. The street fire-guard notice-board. A National Savings poster. A woman savings collector calling at a house and handing over stamps.


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‘Auntie Doll’, a savings collector and A.R.P. warden, walks over the bomb site where she had rescued a baby and 20 people and calls at a house, where she gives savings stamps to a housewife. Women workers at an aircraft factory buying savings stamps. A Home Guard field exercise: a mock attack; setting up a field gun; rescuing a ‘wounded’ comrade. After the exercise the unit packs up and marches off. United Nations day, June 14

th. 1942: a parade of military and civic dignitaries including

Lord Mayor Cozens, led by a military band, walks down from the Cathedral to the city centre. Soldiers carrying the flags of various nations at the ceremonial gathering in the city centre. Speech by a civic dignitary. The parade marches round the centre past the platform: contingents in the parade include soldiers, fire service, veterans, sailors. “B.A.B.S.” – The British-American Bellows Society Miss Parsons of Toledo, Ohio and Mr Mason from Miami, Florida – both with the American Red Cross in Britain, visit the ‘Bellows’ Guest Homes in Somerset. Two American members of the British-American Bellows Society, Miss Parsons and Mr. Mason visit the Arcadia Bellows Guest House at Weston-in Gordano, which looks after children from bombed-out homes. At the entrance they are met by the children and the founder of the Bellows Houses, Frank B. Whittaker. Miss Parson handing out dolls to the children. The children singing. They wave as the visitors leave. They next visit the original Bellows Guest House at Cheddar – formerly a blacksmith’s – and are shown the bellows. (The Bellows Society was founded in Bristol in 1941 by Frank B Whittaker with the financial aid of many American families) The visitors chat with Mr. Whittaker. Miss Parsons performs the initiation ceremony for new members: operating the bellows while holding hands with the children. The children and the visitors eating tea. UNCLE SAM REQUESTS THE PLEASURE…


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Officers and Men of the US Army invite ‘BABS’ to spend a day with them at a West Country Emergency Hospital. U.S. soldiers entertaining children from a Bellows Home, at a West Country emergency hospital. The children singing into a microphone (the song is being recorded by the BBC for transmission to the U.S.A.). A soldier holding a microphone in front of a little girl. The children wearing the soldiers’ hats. The founder of the Bellows Society, Frank B. Whittaker, accepts a donation from the soldiers. The soldiers entertaining the children; teaching a toddler to play American football. The children are lifted into a truck to be driven back to the Home.


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0099 A&B

3rd part

issued in 1946

50m 52s

The Citizens of Bristol at War – Part 3

The W.V.S. entertains visiting US Army Officers at a garden party held in their honour.

Says, Mrs Herbert Thomas to Mr Roy Baker – US Consul – “We do so much appreciate all the splendid help we have received from our good friends, the people of America………..” A NAVAL OCCASION OF HISTORICAL INTEREST Lt. Alec D. Fear of the U.S. Navy presents a captured German flag to the city of Bristol at a ceremony at the Bristol Savages. Alderman T.H.J. Underdown accepts the flag. Fear, with Underdown and Savages’ president Willis Paige. Paige making a speech, Fear with some fellow crew-members. Fear showing the captured flag to some of the members of his family. MY DAY IN BRISTOL Eleanor Roosevelt and Lord Mayor Cozens leaving the Red Cross Services Club, during Mrs Roosevelt’s visit to Bristol on November 6

th 1942.

Mrs Roosevelt, Cozens and Mrs Herbert Thomas of the W.V.S. watch a W.V.S. demonstration: a mock air-raid situation is re-enacted, with fires, casualties etc. – the W.V.S. show how they deal with it. Mrs Roosevelt making a speech. General Davis, the U.S. Armey’s first negro general, watching the display with another officer. Women applauding Mrs Roosevelt.


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She tastes soup made on an improvised stove, inspects a mobile canteen, chats with onlookers and is then driven away by car. RED ARMY DAY, Feb. 20

th 1943

Contingents of the British armed forces and civil defence groups parade through the city centre. Lord Mayor H.A. Wall and other civic and military dignitaries including A.V. Alexander watch the parade from a platform. Civilians watching the parade, which includes nurses, veterans, artillery, armoured cars, a mobile gas chamber and a ‘War on Waste’ van. The platform party leaving. A poster advertising a ‘Wings for Victory’ week; the Appeal target board. Official car pulls up bringing an Air Marshal for a parade celebrating the success of the ‘Wings for Victory’ week. The parade passes by the platform in the city centre from were the Air Marshal takes the salute. Groups in the parade include mounted police, and R.A.F. band, a W.R.A.F. contingent, cadets, U.S. and British soldiers. A civic dignitary speaking from the platform. The Air Marshall speaking. U.S. Army men present a ‘Stars and Stripes’ from the ‘Bristols of America’ to the city of Bristol at a ceremony in the grounds of Bristol Grammar School, April 24

th 1943. Lord

Mayor H.A. Wall receives the flag. General Harry Ingles makes a speech. The Home Guard present a flag to the Mayor, watched by Ingles. The colours are then carried away by soldiers. U.S. Independence Day celebrations in Bristol, July 4

th 1944: soldiers and officers

parade past the Victoria Rooms. Civic dignitaries including the Lord Mayor F.C. Williams taking part in the parade. At the Washington Memorial the Lord Mayor makes a speech, and a wreath is laid.


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After the ceremony the parade marches back, and Williams is seen in conversation with U.S. officers outside a building marked ‘Overseas Rendezvous’. The visit of the crew of H.M.S. Jamaica to Bristol, Oct. 18

th 1944, to present to the city

the White Ensign flown during the sinking of the Scharnhorst. (The ship itself is not seen). The officers and ratings marching down past the Victoria Rooms. F.C. Williams with the ship’s captain John Hughes-Hallett. The parade continues into the city centre. Williams and Hughes-Hallett. The visit of Winston Churchill to Bristol on April 21

st 1945 to receive the freedom of the

city. At Temple Meads Station he inspects a guard of honour then steps into an open coach with Lord Mayor W.F. Cottrell. Crowds watch as the coach pulls up outside the Council House. Churchill waving. The ceremony inside the Council Chamber: the Lord Mayor, and then Churchill, speaking from the platform. Crowds line the route outside. Police? emerge from the Council House bearing maces, followed by the Lord Mayor and Churchill, who enter an open coach. Guests emerging from the Council House, including Ernest Bevin and A.V. Alexander. Crowds lining Park St. some spectators stand on the roof of the Berkeley Café. Alexander and Bevin arrive at the Wills Building to receive honorary degrees from Churchill, the Chancellor of Bristol University. Cheering crowds. Churchill looking out from a window in the Wills Building. The degree ceremony in the Great Hall: the presentations; Churchill speaking. (n.b. this section on accelerated motion because of a camera fault.) Churchill, Bevin and Alexander appear before the crowd outside after the ceremony, still wearing their academic robes. Later they are seen leaving by car.


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Portrait of Churchill. Newspaper photos of VE-Day celebrations in London. Crowds outside the Council House in Bristol on VE-Day; a man distributing Union Jacks to be waved. Lord Mayor W.F. Cottrell and the Sheriff, Sidney Clifford, stand with other officials outside the Council House to listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers of Churchill’s VE-Day message. They then enter the Proclamation Coach, which tours the city centre, the Lord Mayor addressing the crowds at several points. German submarine U-1023, surrendered by the Germans, sails into Bristol docks for public inspection. With its British crew on deck it moors near the city centre. Watching

crowds. PORTLAND, 23rd June 1945. Civic Visit to HMS Jamaica at the invitation of the Captain and Ship’s Company. Demonstration of close range guns. Presentation of City coat of arms. PEACE ON EARTH At 12 midnight on 14

th August 1945, Mr Clement Atlee recently appointed PM of the New

Labour Government….broadcast to the nation announcing the surrender of Japan – thus ending the war which lasted 6 years. Following two days of national celebrations known as VJ-1 and Vj-2 days… Sunday August 19

th was dedicated as a day of national

thanksgiving. Special procession and service held in the Cathedral. Thus ends our motion picture record of Bristol’s Wartime activity…… “We bring to a close episodes in the Wartime life of the Citizens of Bristol with a picture that has made World history….Roosevelt and Churchill photographed in mid-Atlantic at their famous meeting which formulated the Atlantic Charter THE END


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