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- "J. Smith, a celebrated Lancashire steeple-jack, felling a stack 160 feet high, on the side of the new railroad station at Bolton. At the opening of the picture flames are seen at work on the props, which take the place of the portion of the chimney which has been cut away. As the timbers collapse, the chimney falls with a tremendous commotion of dirt and smoke."
- A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipping.
- When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
- Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- 1937. Comedy directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Stars Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway and Jimmy Hanley. Rival cotton mill owners work together to win a contract when love blossoms between the rival's off-spring.
- A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
- The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.
- Filmed in Rusholme, Manchester, for the great Mancunian Film Corporation, Cup-tie Honeymoon is a riotous post-war comedy from the North of England where the gags come quicker than the team's wingers!
- Joe Smart is a radio repairman who enters the political arena competing in an upcoming election against his own boss. Joe wins the election, but encounters loads of trouble in the process.
- School caretaker "Flatfoot" Mason, a former Music-hall artiste harbours a secret. He has a daughter, Betty who unbeknownst to her was adopted when his wife died. Now a teenager, she's a pupil at the school, which causes complications when the staff feel that Randle is being "over attentive" to Betty. Told to steer clear of her, Flatfoot reluctantly agrees, but Betty thinks he's rejecting her and decides to run away to make her name in show-business. Randle, assisted by his fellow caretakers, trace her to a seedy cabaret club and tries to persuade her to come home, but will she listen or risk spiralling into a life of debauchery?
- Joe and Fanny's married daughter visits them with her G.I. husband. The son of Joe's boss tries to start an affair but everything turns out all right in the end.
- Two incompetent private detectives are hired to clear the name of a friend accused of robbery and murder. They wind up in a seedy Paris night club, and get into a fight, but finally prove their friend's innocence.
- The Royal Kiltie Juniors perform a variety show, and are interviewed by Peter Sinclair, while McDonald Hobley speaks to their parents.
- Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught, and they enroll her with a special teacher.
- A female lawyer hears a knock on her door one night and discovers that it is an old boyfriend, whose current girlfriend has thrown him out, and he needs a place to stay the night. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he must leave the next morning. When he returns home he finds that his girlfriend has been murdered. His former lover agrees to defend him without telling the court that he spent the night with her. Complications ensue.
- A theatre producer and an actor try and have a quiet month in a country cottage. Their efforts are thwarted by the arrival of a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters.
- Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.
- During the war, a titled family objects to their squadron leader son being engaged to the daughter of a working class factory laborer.
- Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
- Living in a cold, ruined castle, the eccentric Mortmain family try to make ends meet.
- Two football-loving railway workers get into trouble after racing their engine home to get to a match on time.
- When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?
- The story of the fast freight, 4.48 pm, Bristol to Leeds, vacuum braked throughout.
- A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.
- The British children's magazine program, which has been running since the late 1950s, targets children between the ages of 6 and 14.
- The work of men making steam locomotives, and the impact on their jobs of the arrival of the diesel engine.