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Cutter loader

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334706

Story no

1 / 3

BFI Summary - the Meco Moore cutter-loader is demonstrated and explained. COI Commentary - You may know the Meco-Moore. I dare say there’s one in your pit. Or perhaps there will be soon if you’ve got...

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Energy Alternative, The 1 (1990 Video)

aka: Alternative Energy

Director

Thelma Rumsey; Michael Steele

Producer

Ted Brocklebank; William Woollard

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 50 min., 1997 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series explaining why alternative energy is proving inadequate for our future needs and examining new approachs to energy efficiency.

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District Heating

Date released

1975

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

863

NoS ID

329104

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Alison Hawkes’ story this week is a load of old rubbish. But this rubbish provides heating and hot water for one hundred thousand people living in Nottingham. And in our pre-wrapped...

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Environmental Control in the North Sea (1993 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at waste and water management aboard a North Sea oil platform. Considers not just the inevitable solid and liquid wastes of the accommodation for several hundred workers, but the complex industrial...

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Biotechnology in the 21st Century Series (4 Parts) (2010)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 25 minutes), £249.00 (series)

Biotechnology is revolutionising life in the 21st century, but with every breakthrough comes controversy. Do the benefits of stem cell technology, gene-splicing, and other advances outweigh the risks? Using...

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Under The Surface: Copper-Bottomed Boat

Date released

1981

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

262

NoS ID

326049

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: Water means life for myriads of creatures. It means life and danger for man. This programme examines how we can keep a check on the under-water world: and safely explore it at the same time. A...

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The Year 2000

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

23

NoS ID

350155

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: How will you and I be living 30 years from now? London Line reports on the recent forecasting for the future carried out by some of Britain’s most eminent technologists - scientists -...

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Motorists Protest Basic Cut

Date released

27 Oct 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1738

NoS ID

040779

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

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

Nearly seven hundred protesting motorists rally in Hyde Park to hear Sir Miles Thomas uphold their claim, and Paramount’s cameraman obtains bystanders’ opinions on the proposed cut. Deputation interviews...

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The Inventive Brits: BUG-EYed Optica

Date released

1980

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

254

NoS ID

352403

Story no

3 / 3

COI synopsis: George Stephenson and Logie Baird are just two of a sterling breed of men who love inventing things: the British. Whether it’s in a tiny shed at the bottom of the garden or in a large...

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Diesel Locos

Date released

Feb 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

334738

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: The Hunslet locomotive used underground. COI Commentary - Here, in the making, is one of the answers to our coal problem. Our worst bottleneck is haulage - we need ten men to do the work that...

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