Gladstone historical film show - 9 th May 2015 2 pm

No Type Film name / length (+ start / stop times) / Internet address / comments FIVE TOWNS EXTRACTS (length 02:04) 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvoLdpc3bQ A 1950s (?) film about the 'five' towns. 1959 Stoke on Trent Skyline, Smoking Chimneys, Industrial (length 02:07) 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_SR3r32ZBU The Fifties in the U.K. Film 90521 (length 01:51) - silent film Overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjnAEHsmWg 3 The fifties in the UK - black and white archive of postwar Britain - streets in the Potteries and other parts of the country. Hometown - Stoke (1959) (length 01:01) 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrrckBce1A Stoke on Trent - Past in pictures (length 02:02) 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_vC9_EpTyg Etruria Pottery, (1926) (length 01:18) This film made before genuine colour film was available using William Friese-Greene's technique with 6 the image being passed through colour filters onto black and white film stock : alternating frames were then stained red or green and, when projected, gave a reasonable colour effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6iHx_07tk Twyfords in the 1920s and 1930s (length 04:37 start 00:40) 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqL6pWuDJ2w Ceramics Pottery Ladies - UK TV Documentary - Clarice Cliff (length 25:53 start 03:00 stop 13:00) 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzCSKLaP-E Wedgewood Pottery (1966) (length 02:22) 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuzGASZq41c Wedgwood Pottery (1966) (length 02:45) 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB4h8DMDISk Trent Valley, Staffordshire (1926) (length 00:21) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cxED1UJyTs 11 A very short canal sequence at Etruria near the Wedgwood factory showing Shelton steelworks in the background : again using the Friese-Green colour method Potbanks (length 02:25 start 00:05)) Canals 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BV0Qbx2M0 The importance of canals to the pottery industry Barging Round Britain With John Sergeant – (length 22:16 start 06:10 stop 13 12:35) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyztWEbO8S0 Coal Fields of North Staffordshire (length 25:07 start 01:00 stop 11:00) 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjEFWCPHK8c Mining Bevin Boys (1944-1945) (length 03:32) 15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itJM0QB8cx4 Shelton steelworks in the 1930s (date ?) (length 01:33) 16 Steel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HGtRZbk09k This is the only old film of Shelton Bar I have managed to locate Conservation, 1960's - Film 30351 (length 12:55 stop 06:33) 17 Conservation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z--2aPebKB0 A review of the reclamation of derelict areas in the city Stanley Matthews, un puntero con 50 años (PEPELOTAS) (length 03:38) 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7M21C5-M0 A summary of Stanley Matthews' career from Spain ! Misc The Launch of the Lidice Shall Live Campaign - Stoke-on-Trent Sept 6th 1942 (length 01:38) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y90-qQmUzo 19 Local coal miners led by former doctor Sir Barnett Stross MP founded the organisation “Lidice Shall Live” to raise funds for the rebuilding of the village after its total destruction during the war. Gladstone historical film show - 9 th May 2015 2 pm

No Type Film name / length (+ start / stop times) / Internet address / comments Trentham Gardens Issue Title Up And Over (1942) (length 01:22) 20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w8E4d5tMTw Alton Towers (1966) (length 02:20) 21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhdwq7csNw Excursions Stoke Garden Festival 1986 (length 02:04) 22 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIK7_CXLEqo holidays Happy Days at Blackpool 1926 (Pt 1) (length 06:16 start 02:12) 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16wPQuUDQhU I have selected the pleasure beach section to show 24 Surprise film (length 00:40) – details at the end of the handout

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Whatever Internet browser you use there will be an addon / extension available which will allow videos from sites such as Youtube to be downloaded. I use Firefox and I can recommend 'Flash video downloader' as an addon : it has the added advantage of allowing various formats and qualites of a file to be saved.

Please note that many downloads from Youtube will be in '.flv' format and standard Windows media players will not handle this file type. However, there are a number of freeware programs which will play this type of media file (and many others) and I recommend VLC (www.videolan.org).

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“ “ SURPRISE FILM” details

GLOUCESTER UK - Bertram Mills Circus Elephants 1957 (length 00:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQOsdgTqDc

I couldn't locate a film showing the circus elephants walking from Stoke station to Hanley anywhere, but this has the elephants of Bertram Mills Circus parading through the centre of Gloucester in 1957.