ICI Billingham Film Unit cine magazine that features three different items: a brief item on the retired ICI employees gathering at the Synthonia Club to receive their weekly tobacco allowance; activities, sports and competitions for the Billingham Junior Club members, boys between 12 and 18; and a New Year’s message and review of 1946 by the Division Chairman, Mr. A.T.S Zeally. Title: Just Billingham No. 9 December 1946 Credits: BFU Photography Sydney Boyle Script Norman Beale Commentary...

ICI Billingham Film Unit cine magazine that features three different items: a brief item on the retired ICI employees gathering at the Synthonia Club to receive their weekly tobacco allowance; activities, sports and competitions for the Billingham Junior Club members, boys between 12 and 18; and a New Year’s message and review of 1946 by the Division Chairman, Mr. A.T.S Zeally. Title: Just Billingham No. 9 December 1946 Credits: BFU Photography Sydney Boyle Script Norman Beale Commentary Spoken by Alvar Lidell Title: Pensioners’ Parade Every Friday at noon a hundred pensioners, retired ICI Billingham workers, gather at the Synthonia Club to receive their gift of cigarettes and tobacco.  Tracking shot down a line of seated pensioners. Pairs of pensioners chat together. Forms are filled out before they can receive their gift. Title: Meet the Boys At the Junior Club, boys of between 12 and 18 are clustered at a counter drinking ginger pop from half pint beer glasses. Exterior shot of old Synthonia club buildings. A PT instructor holding a football instructs a group of young lads. The boys do keep fit exercises in a hall. A succession of boys practice vaulting running towards camera. Two boys spar in a boxing ring, watched by the rest of the boys. A man in a pin stripe suit instructs one of the young boy boxers. A boy spars with one of his trainers. Young footballers in striped shirts run out from the changing rooms onto a pitch.  A match takes place on a misty day. Two boys play table tennis. The boys engage in various games and sports including pool, chess, reading books. Close-up of a pile of trophies and cups. A couple of men in suits light their cigarettes, part of a committee meeting around a table, presided over by the Synthonia Club chairman. A meeting takes place. The item closes with a shot of the boys relaxing with half pints of pop. Title: 1946 Months flip by from April to December on the title page. Title: A Review of some of the Events of the Year Title: A New Year Message from Mr. A.T.S Zeally, Division Chairman Speech to camera, mentioning food scarcity, and changing over from a war to peace time economy. A man walks along beside rail tracks in the marshalling yard at ICI Billingham. Two men are pushing a cart outside a factory building. Shot of sacks of ICI fertiliser, opens out into the loading bay of ICI factory warehouse, and to sacks hoisted down by rope to yard, assisted by workers on ground. Various shots of undeveloped ICI land and buildings down by the Billingham Beck, which is the proposed site of a new factory producing nylon. Draftsmen are working in an office on plans.  Close-up of plans: “Urea Plant. Proposed Layout.” Further shots of building site and other working plants at Billingham. General view of West Gate, with a works bus and a few pedestrians. Shot of Synthonia Club buildings. The Chairman continues with his speech to camera. Colour stock footage of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben across the Thames. Cuts back to shots of the Ammonia Plant at ICI Billingham. Low angle shots of a flag flying on a ship mast. A final speech to camera by the Chairman. He wishes everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. Title: A Billingham Film Title: The End