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Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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Frigate (1983 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

Two official films of the Royal Navy, featuring two generations of ships. FRIGATE (1972) is about life for young officers on board F40 ‘HMS Sirius’, a Leander class frigate. BOXER - FOREWARNED IS...

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Destroyer (1982 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Two official films of the Royal Navy, featuring two type 42 destroyers lost in the Falklands in May 1982. ‘HMS SHEFFIELD’ (1975) contrasts life aboard D80 ‘HMS Sheffield’ with Gibraltar shore...

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Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Subject

Music

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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Forties Scotland (1948 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 75 min.

Three COI films of the 1940s reflecting urban and rural life in Scotland. WAVERLEY STEPS (1948) looks at Edinburgh and its people, CROFTERS (1944) at a highland community apparently hardly changed by the...

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Fearless Navy (1978 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 66 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

Three films recalling some lesser known aspects of the Royal Navy. BROAD FOURTEENS (1945) was shot in Weymouth and features the work of the men on the motor torpedo boats. DRAGON SQUADRON (1973) follows the...

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Gentle Highway/Barging on (1995 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 26 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

The waterways of England played a quite, but not totally unnoticed, part in the national war effort between 1939 and 1945. A cinema short BARGING ON (1944) was commissioned by the North West Regional Canal...

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Sapper Tasks (2002)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (55 minutes), £16.95

This 1947 film reviews work of the Royal Engineers from port to front line with many examples from World War II featuring British and Commonwealth engineers. Units shown include post and airport...

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Warship Eagle (2002)

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (55 minutes), £12.95

A candid portrait of life aboard HMS Eagle sailing from Mombassa to Singapore in 1966, under the command of Captain John Roxburgh. Creates an impressionistic picture of life aboard HMS Eagle, using...

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Building London’s Victoria Line (2002)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £12.95

In 1962 London’s first new tube line since before the war authorised. It took five years to build the Victoria Line (between Walthamstow and Victoria) and British Transport Films covered all the aspects of...

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