Currently on eBay, and possibly of interest to some locally. The magnetic tape soundtrack for a local comedy movie called “Jael’s Nail” (1950). Evidently it was a locally-made 16mm comedy of some quality…

The Daily Mail Challenge Trophy, for the most outstanding film entered, went to Jael’s Nail, a black and white comedy by the Stoke-on-Trent Amateur Cine Society.

It also won The Wallace Heaton Cup for Best Photography, 1950. Of unknown ‘local colour’ and length. I’m not sure if the visual part of the movie survives, and can’t immediately find details for it online.

Update: Movie Maker reel listing from 1977: “A comedy about a man who claims to have the original nail with which Jael killed Sisera as told in the Old Testament”. So possibly Biblical and not of much local Stoke interest, re: local scenes and settings. Although I guess it might just have a contemporary 1950 Stoke setting? I’m imagining a sort of strange Stokie hybrid of Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, and Waiting for Godot, with a dash of The Life of Brian.