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Winter Kicks Off

Date released

6 Dec 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

394

NoS ID

033580

Story no

1 / 5

Deep drifts isolate entire districts. Snowploughs work overtime clearing Sierra highways after season’s first storm.

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Mende of Kpuawala Village, The (1990 Video)

Director

Bruce MacDonald

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Mende of Sierra Leone are mainly rice farmers, who also grow some cash crops. The film shows that development projects and their timetables favoured by the new chief can sometimes clash with local values...

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'Frisco Turns Tap On’

Date released

12 Nov 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

387

NoS ID

033546

Story no

4 / 5

£20,000,000 water project inaugurated. Twenty years under construction, scheme brings city’s supply 150 miles over Sierra Mountains.

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Snowbound Train Maroons Two Hundred Three Days

Date released

24 Jan 1952

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2181

NoS ID

043481

Story no

4 / 5

Chicago-San Francisco Express is held up by mountain snow-drifts. Passengers are rescued after three days in train.

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Phantom of the Opera at the Albert Hall (2011)

Director

Laurence Connor

Producer

Cameron Mackintosh

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 160 minutes), £19.99 (DVD):" £24.99 (Blu-ray)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "The Phantom of the Opera", Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular staging of the musical on a scale never been seen before. Inspired by the...

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Winter Grips California

Date released

3 Feb 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

515

NoS ID

034332

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 shot list

Record fall in high sierra. Snow-ploughs work day and night to clear trans-continental highway.

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Sierra Leone

Date released

1961

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

101

NoS ID

328342

Story no

1 / 1

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Shooting Freetown (2011)

Director

Kieran Hanson

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £15.00

A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,...

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Sierra Leone Afro National Band

Date released

1972

Series name

London Line

Issue no

412

NoS ID

350096

Story no

3 / 3

COI synopsis: The Sierra Leone Afro National Band play ‘Kilimanjaro’.

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Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Carr

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain live in a village high in the mountains and face an extreme climate with poor soil. With access to winter pastures across the...

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