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Living On A Volcano

Date released

1967

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

441

NoS ID

350631

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: A look at life on Ascension Island.

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Britain Tracks the Moon Men

Date released

20 Dec 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1907

NoS ID

026264

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Britain Tracks the Moon Men. DESCRIPTION: Gemini Seven blasts off and two American astronauts are on man’s longest ever flight in space. On Ascension Island, a small British...

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News in a Nutshell: Annual Ascension Day Service at Finchale Priory

Date released

25 May 1936

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

36/42

NoS ID

093485

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

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The Pope’s Ascension Day Blessing

Date released

25 May 1939

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

564

NoS ID

059095

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Roving Camera Reports: Ascension Day and Princess Juliana in Holland

Date released

9 May 1940

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

662

NoS ID

060398

Story no

3 / 10

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Papal Ceremony Revived after 63 Years

Date released

1 Jun 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/44

NoS ID

090649

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

His Holiness leaves the Vatican to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension and afterwards imparts his blessing on huge concourse.

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(Untitled record)

Date released

8 Feb 1970

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

70/12

NoS ID

114012

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Deacon Barry Knight, assistant curate at the Church of the Ascension, is a full-time police Sergeant - probably the first man in blue to wear the cloth, also.

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Public Launching

Date released

28 Nov 1957

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

57/96

NoS ID

107985

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

For the first time, the American public is taken behind the scenes at Cape Canaveral Missile Launching Base, Florida, to see the launching of a Snark missile along the 5,000 mile range of Ascension Island.

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Desalination Research

Date released

Sep 1968

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

32

NoS ID

324738

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: Desalination plant on Ascension Island and the flash distillation process developed by a research centre in Scotland.

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The Duke and Michael Parker

Date released

11 Feb 1957

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

57/13

NoS ID

107539

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

The Duke of Edinburgh’s tour ends on a sad note - the resignation of his private secretary, Lieutenant Commander Michael Parker.

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