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Water pipe bursts during workers strike (1983)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Interview

Report on the first casualty of the national water workers strike, a burst water pipe at Eltham Road in London. Local residents talks about how they’re going to cope. Station Officer at Lee Green fire...

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Flood! (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 54 min., 1996 sale: £17.50 (inclusive)

Films of the 1953 floods in East Anglia and earlier floods including 1937 and 1947 in the fens. Includes sequences filmed around Hunstanton, Gorleston, Felixstowe, Harwich and Canvey Island and a film...

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Life at the Water’s Edge (1986 Multimedia, Video)

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 20 min.; 80 slides. col. Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

Explores the ecological basis of wetlands explaining the ways in which they can be beneficial in providing a moderation for flooding. The water hyacinth is discussed as an example of what starts as a pest in...

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Harlech Castle’s Thousand Years of History

Date released

24 Aug 1922

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

574-1

NoS ID

128644

Story no

3 / 5

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Premier’s family in stirring Welsh pageant." Lloyd George, his wife and daughter Megan. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Harlech Castle". The scene at the castle. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Rehearsing: Miss Megan...

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Beyond Famine? (1986 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

In 1974 world attention was focused on a sever famine in Bangladesh which killed hundreds of thousands of people. flooding in that year had destroyed crops and killed livestock, but when similar floods...

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Glenmark

Date released

Nov 1967

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

66

NoS ID

327824

Story no

3 / 5

COI synopsis: The prevention of storm flooding in New Zealand.

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Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974 Video)

Director

Tony Lanzelo; Boyce Richardson

Producer

Len Chatwin; Colin Low

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the way of life of the Cree Indians of Northern Quebec, as exemplified by three hunting families in their winter hunting quarters, at a time when the traditional Cree hunting grounds were threatened...

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Snow, Ice and Floods

Date released

24 Jan 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1338

NoS ID

019804

Story no

10 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rhine Floods. DESCRIPTION: GERMANY - Bonn has suffered severely from the rising waters of the Rhine. SHOTLIST: Mostly aerial views of the Rhine Valley, which has not previously...

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Passenger ferry safety in question (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on new concerns over the safety of passenger ferries following the earlier sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Seven crewmen have refused to sail on Sealink’s Vortigern, and Townsend...

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France Has Floods Too

Date released

13 Oct 1960

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

60/83

NoS ID

109401

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

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

Heavy rains brings severe flooding and damage to central districts of France

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