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Green Product Development: The Hoover ‘New Wave’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 1999 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A case study of the development, manufacture and marketing of the Hoover ‘New Wave’ range of energy-, water- and detergent-saving washing machines. It shows the role of commercial, technical and...

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Waking Up in the Universe (5 Parts) (1991 Video)

Director

Stuart McDonald

Producer

Richard Melman; William Woollard

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) (set)

The 162nd Royal Institution Christmas lectures, in which Dr Richard Dawkins updates Darwin’s theories. 1: Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection. 2: The complexity of natural...

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Chutes Drop Planes

Date released

18 Apr 1932

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

119

NoS ID

031994

Story no

5 / 6

Test aircraft "life-preserves". Inventor demonstrates latest parachute devices for landing disabled machines.

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War on "Fruit" Machine

Date released

15 Aug 1935

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

466

NoS ID

034046

Story no

7 / 7

Illegal gambling machines broken up. Police action protects public from mechanical swindle.

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Manchester "Sweep"

Date released

19 Nov 1931

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

76

NoS ID

031733

Story no

1 / 6

Colleens start new type machines to shuffle 6,000,000 world chances in gigantic draw for greatest sweepstake in history.

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Farm Machinery Film Records: Harvest (2007)

Subject

Agriculture; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), 9.99

This programme use extracts from a collection of films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the...

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Memories of Hoover (1990 Video)

aka: Hoover Employees - Wales

Director

Carolyn Jacobs

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 371 min.

The Hoover factory, which moved to the Merthry Valley in south Wales in 1948, faces closure. Interviews with some of the early workers recall memories of those early days. Scenes show the manufacture of...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

1 Jul 1929

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

587

NoS ID

348288

Story no

6 / 6

NoS synopsis: ingenious adaptations, putting machines to new uses

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America’s Star Air Warrior

Date released

27 Jun 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

357-1

NoS ID

126623

Story no

1 / 6

[SUBTITLE]: "Lieutenant Baylies who has brought down ten enemy machines. He is reported missing." Shown by his aeroplane talking with French officer.

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Planes "Drill" to Thrill Crowd

Date released

25 Jan 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

304

NoS ID

033063

Story no

1 / 6

Service machines star at Florida Air Show. US aces amaze big crowd with dare-devil stunt formation display.

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