You are bidding for a video record of the long discarded 16mm film described below. When the film was made it provided a unique insight into its particular subject. Over the last thirty years a number of enthusiasts realised that such films provided an untapped source of information on past techniques and methods At some time in the past it would have been rescued after being discarded as obsolete by the original owners .

Any money raised from the sale of this video will go towards offsetting the costs of more rescues.

This DVD recorded during a showing of the films described.

Summary of Contents

This DVD consist of silent films all proably at least 65 years old   Some  considerably older.  Some  of the films are not titled

Ayrshire in tubular standings with host to wash down.  Hornby and Clarks  were the processor  may be numbered  elsewhere as well. Context suggests about 1948 and show what at that time would be a up to date herd  in attested buildings  and an up to date milk processor . Includes footage   on the milk being delivered to school by electric pram.  

S W peninsula farming and china clay and slate.

Slate processing presumably Delabole  when they still had railways  both narrow gauge in the quarry and laded on to trucks for delivery.

Tin mining .

Again in Cornwall  the headshaft  and narrow gauge rail trucks  and of course the stamping  and the chimneys

China clay Kaolin  show extracting it by high pressure hose.  Right through to tooth paste/

A separate film on china clay Silent extracting grading and drying  before loading into trucks  and transferring into ships  then in a pottery  making the clay them throwing it making slip ware  firing and decorating  making transfers  silent  which does include pottery as well

Icing on aircrafts

Show how clouds can contain ice forming crystals which an aeroplane can quickly lose lift.. Silent film so not too informative.   Hight comes into to it as well.

 Devon Agricuture

Sheep being sheared  cattle being milked  got horse, probably pre war,  tails are tied up  but they are machine milking  but some are still done by hand.   Bottling  suggest a producer retailer  with surplus milk going to Daws Creamery  to make butter  in rolls and clotted cream.  Pigs are kept to feed on the by products and sold at local market town. Exeter is the leading town and chief market  and used to be a wool town.   Road and rail converge on Exeter. All appers to be Devon and Cornwall.

Baffinland

 Summary of Contents  This must have been taken in the early 30s Filmed account of a missionary who served there for some years. The film was intended to show what was then very little known territory  and the work of the missionary  among the “Eskimo people”. While this films attitude was patronising it does include some unlikely scenes such as Eskimos blasting coal  from cliffs  (shipping  from Canada is would cost £30 a ton ) Traditional dress and huts were still in everyday use  but it appears they had motor boats  although the Narwehal whale could provide both meat and raw material for building  kayaks and feeding the huskies. Construction of a traditional wooden framed  kayak is shown including preparing the hide to stretch over the frame  and sewn into place.. The virtues of the design are then demonstrated. Like so many of these films it ends unexpectedly.    

1hour 45 of silent films

.However this does mean that you if you are the successful bidder I will prepare your copy and send it to you BEFORE expecting you to pay. Assuming you are find it proves to be what you expected from the description all I ask is that you pay preferably by PayPal within SEVEN DAYS of the DVD reaching you.I can make this offer because so far with few exceptions everybody who has purchased a DVD this way has been fascinated by the contents of the video they selected and only too happy to pay.

To my mind that seems a very fair way to work for both parties.