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The Other Man’s Job: Plastics Give Eyes to the Forces

Date released

22 May 1944

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/48; Paramount Issue No.: 1380

NoS ID

156712

Story no

2 / 2

Plastic lenses are used for spectacles and binoculars - a quicker process than glass. Ex-servicemen learn to use the machines used in lense preparation. First comes the production of blanks, which are then...

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Plastic Repair Techniques (199 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £40.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

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Hamlet (2006 Video)

Director

Dov Weinstein

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Tiny Ninja Theatre’s Hamlet. The production uses video projections and visual gimmicks to dramatise the story: Ophelia drowns in a glass of water; the...

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Plastic Glass Gets Demobbed

Date released

1 Nov 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1531

NoS ID

039760

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Perspex, used in wartime for airplane turrets, is now available for domestic use.

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News Flashes - Stop Press: New Plastic Glue, US

Date released

31 Jul 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1713

NoS ID

040642

Story no

3 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Amazing new American plastic glue will stick anything apart from metal and glass.

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Lighthouse Lens

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

33

NoS ID

350230

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: To replace heavy and costly glass lenses for lighthouses. British scientists have come up with the featherweight all-plastic lighthouse lens - computer designed. Michael Smee keeps the light...

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Motorcycle Fairings Package (199 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 39 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Compilation video on motorcycle body repair techniques. 1 (21 min): shows three repair methods for plastics used on motorcycles: hot-air welding, adhesive bonding and glass-fibre repairs. Also shows how to...

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Plastic Bubble Greenhouse

Date released

1969

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

14

NoS ID

350799

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: The science fiction bubble rising in the vegetable patch is the new look in horticulture - cheaper than glass it can be moved from crop to crop and inflated in minutes.

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Plastic Bubble Greenhouse

Date released

1969

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

14

NoS ID

350802

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: The science fiction bubble rising in the vegetable patch is the new look in horticulture - cheaper than glass it can be moved from crop to crop and inflated in minutes.

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Ray of Hope (1984 Video)

Producer

John Cross

Subject

Information technology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the users of lasers in telecommunications and medicine and their possible use in America’s ‘Star Wars’ programme. In medicine lasers are used in delicate eye operations and in general surgery...

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