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  1. Imagined Worlds. Part 2: The Day the Earth Moved (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Dr Dan McKenzie, FRS, was one of the research scientists whose work resulted in the revolutionary theory of plate tectonics in 1970. He describes his work and ideas and explains how these contributed to the...

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  2. Imagined Worlds. Part 6: Professor Tom Bower (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Tom Bower, Professor of Child Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, has been engaged in research on the intellectual abilities of very young children for over 20 years. He now believes that babies can...

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  3. Wreck and Raising of the ‘Mary Rose’, The. Part 4 (1984 Video)

    Producer
    John Selwyn Gilbert
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min.

    Continues the story of the ‘Mary Rose’ since her raising on 11 October 1982. Now in dry dock at Portsmouth, the hull is constantly sprayed with water to prevent the timbers drying out. Margaret Rule,...

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  4. CLEANER

    Date released
    Mar 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346035
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A 14-ton mobile vacuum cleaner, for cleaning out industrial boilers. NCB Commentary - Steam and coal mining have always gone hand in hand, and research into greater boiler efficiency has...

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  5. DOUBLE DUTCH

    Date released
    Apr 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345953
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: new methods of tracing gas leaks in the mains devised by Dutch engineers. NCB Commentary - Subsidence in mining districts is a common happening. Houses and roads, and what lies beneath the...

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  6. TREE SHIFT

    Date released
    Nov 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346228
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 2 tree-planting machines imported from America show what can be done in transplanting large trees at an open-cast site. NCB Commentary - The coal we need often lies just below the surface of...

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  7. Mortgage Lenders (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Gillian Holmes
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

    Mortgage lenders got their fingers burnt by dealing too freely in the housing boom of the late 1980s. Now they are much more particular about their clientele, but the pendulum may have swung too far the...

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  8. THE BIG MEETING

    Date released
    Oct 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345759
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Durham miners’ gala. NCB Commentary - Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles, Half church of God, half castle ‘gainst the Scot, And long to roam these...

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  9. PRIVATE EYE

    Date released
    Feb 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345775
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS Summary - an N.C.B. surveyor makes an amateur 16mm film. BFI synopsis: Edgar Pritchard from Walsall Wood Colliery makes a film about poachers. NCB Commentary - Edgar Pritchard, in the dark coat, is a...

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  10. TROUT AGAIN

    Date released
    Dec 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346230
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A miners’ angling club on the Sirhowy river in South Wales, where the water is now made clear by new coal washing techniques. NCB Commentary - Before coal reaches the customer it must be...

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