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Five day week?

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334707

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: Miners discuss the possibilities of a five day week for miners in a pub. COI Commentary - 1st man: A Five Day week. Can we afford it? 2nd man: Well, I am all in favour of a five-day week. We...

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Miners visiting Ruhr

Date released

Feb 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

334739

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: A tour of the Ruhr by British mining engineers. COI Commentary - In July, I was one of thirty miners chosen by Colliery Consultative Committees to go to the Ruhr and see for ourselves what the...

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Time Team: The New Town of a Norman Prince (1994 Video)

aka: New Town of a Norman Prince, The

Director

Graham Dixon

Producer

Tim Taylor

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A oak beam and some stone arches link a house in Much Wenlock in Shropshire to the development of the new town 800 years earlier. The discovery of evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall, identification of...

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The problem of smoke elimination

Date released

Jan 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

334736

Story no

1 / 2

NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...

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Time Team: On the Edge of the Empire (1994 Video)

aka: On the Edge of Empire

Director

Graham Dixon

Producer

Tim Taylor

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

Follows the discovery of new archaeological details of the Roman frontier site of Ribchester in Lancashire, part of the northern frontier for the first hunderd years of Roman rule in Britain. The team finds...

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At Last the 1948 Show (1967)

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 320 minutes), £29.99

AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW debuted in 1967 and it is now considered a pioneering comedy series. This Collector’s Edition includes all 10 surviving shows, plus two near-complete reconstructions and a partially...

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Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1998 Video)

Director

Richard Rose

Video recording of Richard Rose’s 1998 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. David Jansen is Proteus and Graham Abbey is Valentine.

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Hamlet (2010 Video)

Director

Joseph Haj

Video recording of the Folger Theatre’s 2010 modern dress production of Hamlet directed by Joseph Haj with Graham Michael Hamilton in the title role. Videographer for WAPAVA is T.J. O’Toole.

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The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947

Date released

Jan 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

334737

Story no

2 / 2

NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...

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Twelfth Night (1998 Video)

Director

Daniel Fish

Videorecording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1998 production of Twelfth Night directed by Daniel Fish with Tari Signor as Viola and Floyd King as Malvolio. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

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