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AND SO TO BED!

Date released

15 Nov 1928

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1842

NoS ID

384306

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Some peeps at New Orleans’ flood-fighting notion - huge 300 ft mattresses of willow sunk in river.

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Cows in Bed!

Date released

9 Apr 1962

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

62/29

NoS ID

110128

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

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

Farmer experiments with foam mattresses for Jersey herd, securing larger milk yield.

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Bed Testers

Date released

25 Apr 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

278

NoS ID

120881

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Two rotating mechanical figures, nicknamed Tommy and Tess, are used for testing mattresses at a bed manufacturers in Northampton.

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Water Mattresses

Date released

28 Jan 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

527

NoS ID

121607

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A Dutch idea has been imported at King’s Lynn to improve the navigation channels on the River Ouse. Using Norfolk reed and willow, a gang of twenty men weave a huge Kon-Tiki raft on the...

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Slumberland

Date released

Jun 1968

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

73

NoS ID

327859

Story no

3 / 5

COI synopsis: Stringent manufacturing tests for mattresses.

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Disastrous Chicago Fire

Date released

29 Nov 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1173A

NoS ID

017483

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chicago Fire. DESCRIPTION: A fire, raging in a bedding company’s store, kept nearly a quarter of all Chicago’s firemen out of their beds right through the night. A million...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Haifa Police Station Outrage

Date released

6 Oct 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

957

NoS ID

014697

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Haifa Police Station Outrage. DESCRIPTION: British lives were lost when terrorists blew up the Police Station at Haifa. SHOTLIST: Troops clearing away ruins of blown up Police Station....

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A Soft Living

Date released

21 May 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1563A

NoS ID

023030

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Soft Living. DESCRIPTION: Mucking out the cowshed is just a matter of hosing the new plastic foam mattresses on Major Bramley’s farm at Kidlington. As for his cows, they simply...

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Talk Better Than Trouble

Date released

21 Aug 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2098A

NoS ID

027973

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Talk Better Than Trouble. DESCRIPTION: Some 2,000 people are thought to be homeless after the recent outburst of violence in Northern Ireland. And violence erupts at the Ulster Office...

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Army’s New Glasshouse

Date released

1 Nov 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1743A

NoS ID

024859

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fit for a Soldier. DESCRIPTION: The new 2 million pound Chelsea Barracks look more like a block of luxury flats, and, arriving for a tour of inspection was the Secretary for War, Mr...

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