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  1. She’s Tennis Champion: Maureen is Youngest Ever

    Date released
    10 Sep 1951
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2142
    NoS ID
    043261
    Story no
    3 / 5

    Beating Shirley Fry, sixteen year old Maureen Connolly thrills US tennis world and wins women’s title.

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  2. Champion Shows How

    Date released
    24 Aug 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    51
    NoS ID
    031587
    Story no
    3 / 6

    Gertrude Ederle, famous as first woman to swim channel, trains aspiring youngsters in water art. 1. Gertrude’s "biggest" rival. Peggy is only three, but she’s a great little swimmer.

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  3. Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

    Director
    Serge Viallet
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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  4. Ancient Civilisations (6 Parts) (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 1999 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series looking at how the ancient civilisations in China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and meso-America originated, what sustained them and why they fell.

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  5. Breaking the Ice, The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (2000)

    Director
    Sylvia Sweeney
    Producer
    Peter Raymont; Lindalee Tracey; Maria Pimentel
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $248.00

    BREAKING THE ICE, THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD sheds new light on the remarkable, little known story of the abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd. Living in Windsor, Ontario, she fought...

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  6. President’s Guide to Science, The (2008)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    The decisions the president of the United States makes can shape the future of humanity for decades to come - decisions often based on science and technology. Yet, it is also potentially the greatest source...

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  7. Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

    Subject
    Economics; Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 4 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250.00

    Looks at the increasing amount of commercial sponsorship and in-school advertising in American schools brought on by dwindling federal, state, and local funding. As a result, commercialism has steadily...

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  8. The Out-of-Door Collegian

    Date released
    14 Oct 1926
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    280
    NoS ID
    331525
    Story no
    4 / 7

    NoS Summary - the athletic prowess of a big American girls’ university. Pathe Intertitles - "And now for a little of Miss America’s outdoor rouge in -". "The Out-of-door Collegian. A Pathecolor Study at...

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  9. Suburbia: The American Dream

    Subject
    Architecture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $14.99

    This collection of industrial films takes a trip back in time to the dawn of the American suburb. They were created to educate the public on the values of moving out of the dirty, grimy city and into newly...

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  10. Gobblers!

    Date released
    1 Dec 1932
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    600
    NoS ID
    333099
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS Summary - Turkey farm - the birds eat, strut, fight and run around. British Pathe synopsis: "Meet a few thousand prospective Clients for the Festive Season - Turkeys!" High angle L/S of hundreds of...

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