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Atomic Energy

Date released

9 Apr 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1244A

NoS ID

018469

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Atomic Energy. DESCRIPTION: Though strict security guards the Atomic Energy Commission’s Laboratories in America, Newsreel cameras are permitted to report on how the deadly...

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News in Colour: India Fights Drought

Date released

2 Jul 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2300

NoS ID

029954

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: India Fights Drought - News in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Drought in India. Desilting Pushkar Lake, to collect water, when the rains come. SHOTLIST: GV dried up lake. SV dried up and cracked...

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BSE risk to humans (1990)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Clive Myrie reports on the risk of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) transferring to humans, Labour Party claims the Government’s compensation package to farmers for infected animals is not good...

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Movietone News Paragraphs: Avize - 1934 Champagne vintage

Date released

24 Sep 1934

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

277

NoS ID

005091

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 1934 Champagne at Avize. SHOTLIST: Scenic shot of the vineyards at Avize. Close shot of the workers in same. Close shot of woman picking grapes. CU hands picking grapes. Girls eating...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Rochdale Welcomes Homecoming Gracie

Date released

17 Jul 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

632A

NoS ID

011807

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gracie Fields Back. DESCRIPTION: A rousing welcome for Gracie Fields in her home town. SHOTLIST: Gracie gives show for canteen workers. The crowd sing and Gracie receives a bouquet....

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Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

Director

Tom Heinemann

Subject

Agriculture; Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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UN peacekeepers reach Baidoa in Somalia (1992)

Genre

News report

An American-led convoy of UN troops including US marines and French Foreign Legionnaires has arrived in the Somalian town of Baidoa after travelling from the capital Mogadishu to protect aid workers. Report...

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The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The Queen Has Lunch with Evacuees

Date released

11 Dec 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

549

NoS ID

010462

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen at Chichester. DESCRIPTION: Her Majesty visits a Reception Centre for evacuees in Chichester. SHOTLIST: The Queen arrives by car and is heartily cheered. In the assembly rooms she...

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Black Sugar (1988)

Director

Michel Régnier

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 59 minutes), on application

A shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural labourers in the Dominican Republic. Each year, some 20 000 workers cross the border to cut sugar cane, lured by promises of good...

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Stirring Occasion

Date released

12 Nov 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1849A

NoS ID

025750

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stirring Occasion. DESCRIPTION: Arthur Askey took some of the London Palladium Showgirls to help him mix the giant Australian Christmas pudding. Every year, Australian fruit growers...

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