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Off to the South Pacific - The Sy St George Sails from Dartmouth on 27,000 Mile Voyage Seeking Treasure and Scientific Wonders

Date released

14 Apr 1924

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1363

NoS ID

079691

Story no

1 / 4

LV yacht moored. [SUBTITLE]: THE SHIP’S MASCOT MV 2 men with cat each. [2ND SUBTITLE]: CAPTAIN BLAIR WHO COMMANDS THE EXPEDITION MV Captain talking to another man. [3RD SUBTITLE]: LADY CURZON COMES ON...

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Diamond Makers, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Adrian Pennink

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Although diamonds take millions of years to form naturally, scientists are learning to create in just a few days synthetic versions that have the same atomic structure. Considers the potentially catastrophic...

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17th Year, The (1940 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A rare example of an Italian Fascist film. Mussolini is seen praising the achievements of his regime, 17 years after the take-over. Sequences of industrialisation, agriculture and Italian colonial conquest.

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We’Re Still Here: Folkestone Riots. Tape 17 (1989)

Distribution

Reference only, Videocassette. Betacam.

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Masai Women (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Chris Curling

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Studies the Masai, herdsmen in the Rift Valley of Kenya, focusing on the role of women in a society in which a very high percentage of marriages are polygamous and only the men are entitled to own the...

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Ladies’ International Hockey. America Easily Defeated by England, 17 Goals to 1

Date released

13 Mar 1924

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1354

NoS ID

079658

Story no

1 / 5

The following title appeared at the beginning of the issue, before the main title above: CAN YOU WRITE A FILM TITLE? £25 WILL BE GIVEN IN PRIZES EACH WEEK FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON THE TITLES IN THIS ISSUE. EVERY...

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Tennis

Date released

27 Jun 1929

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

330

NoS ID

049917

Story no

6 / 7

NFTVA ‘Silent News Films’ (1965): "All England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. England’s hope, HW Austin, defeats FT Hunter in the second round." The two players posing for the camera in a close...

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Year at Kew, A (2005)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.99

Alan Titchmarsh tells the story of a year in the life of Kew Gardens, a month by month journey through the garden, following the work of a commited team of experts offering a unique insight into the gardens,...

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Imagined Communities (1992 Video)

Director

Maggie Millman

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Explores the origins of nations and why people feel such deep attachments to their country, with reference to Benedict Anderson’s book ‘Imagined Communities’.

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Schindler (1983 Video)

Director

John Blair

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 79 min., 1999 sale: £14.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Oskar Schindler was a Czech-German industrialist and a German spy. He was also the only German to save thousands of Jews from Hitler’s extermination camps during World War 2. This documentary of his life...

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