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Hound Trails

Date released

Feb 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

334740

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: Hound trails in Cumberland. COI Commentary - Six to four the field! Six to four the field! It’s hard work for Charlie Parkinson’s lungs, but he’s not afraid of that - he used to be a...

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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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Village Squire, The (1935 Film)

Director

Reginald Denham

Producer

Anthony Havelock-Allan

Feature film comedy. The local squire insists on staging a production of Macbeth. A visiting film star halts the play’s progress and falls in love with the squire’s daughter.

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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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Henry V (1944 Film)

Trailer for HENRY V (1944). Laurence Olivier is seen seated at Denham Studios in 1944. He reads a letter he has written to Filippo Del Giudice telling him of the completion of the film. There follows a...

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As You Like It (1997 Radio)

Series

Monday Play, The

Director

Ned Chaillet

Producer

Ned Chaillet

Radio version of the play adaptated and directed by Ned Chaillet. Imogen Stubbs is Rosalind.

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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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Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940 Film, Video)

Director

Brian Desmond Hurst

Producer

Brian Desmond Hurst

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A dramatised account of a fictional encounter between a German spy and two sisters, Caroline and Edith Grant, designed to show what precautions can be taken to hinder any infiltration or invasion by the...

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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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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