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Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

Director

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Producer

Jonathan Lewis

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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British Train Disasters, 1914 - 1975 (2013)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), £14.99

This is a compilation of newsreel reports from the British Movietone News archive. It is a comprehensive round up of items reporting on 76 disasters, mostly from the era of steam locomotion, with causes...

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Triumph of Flight (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows ‘Concorde’ on its inaugural flight from London to New York, the Red Arrows, the Graf Zeppelin. Also show the Vickers ‘Viscount’, de Havilland...

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Library of 20th Century Newsreels, The (1997 Video)

aka: 20th Century Newsreels

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 203 min., 1997 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Film footage from British Movietone newsreels of events which made history in the 20th century. Covers a large number of stories world-wide, from the Boer War and Queen Victoria’s funeral through the...

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Newsreel Nostalgia (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 65 min., AUS$29.95

Stories from ‘Cinesound Reviews’ and ‘Movietone News’ from 1908 to 1975, with original commentaries. The footage comes from the original 35mm newsreel prints and are complete newsreel issues as shown...

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Major Disasters (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...

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Early Cup Finals (1987 Video)

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels, featuring Cup Finals of the 1930s and 1940s. The games covered are Newcastle United vs Arsenal (1932), Everton vs Manchester City (1933), West Bromwich Albion vs...

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Put That Light out! (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...

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20th Century Disasters (1999 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...

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Nasa - The Big Missions (2006)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 468 minutes), £24.99

A compilation of original NASA and Movietone reports. The official films of each mission were designed to show the US public where their money was being spent and how far advanced the United States were in...

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