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Aerial Cyclists

Date released

8 Sep 1952

Series name

New Pictorial

Issue no

417

NoS ID

119431

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

SHOTLIST: (Battersea Park). LS cyclists doing his act. MS cyclist pedalling across tightrope, pan to acrobats hanging from wires on bike. MS acrobats hanging by legs from wires. MS acrobats, one hanging by...

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Hanging in the Balance: The Future of a Forest (2012)

Director

Michael Schwarz

Subject

Environmental science

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical forest on earth, and so it plays a critical role in regulating global climate: it stores huge amounts of carbon and emits 20 percent of the world’s life-giving...

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US journalist witnesses hanging of Westley Allan Dodd (1993)

Genre

News report

American journalist Eric Sponane witnessed the execution of triple child molester and murderer Westley Allan Dodd at the Washington State Prison by hanging and he recalls the last words as spoken by Dodd...

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Tricia Crocker talks about hanging, and about her husband’s murderer (1983)

An interview with Tricia Crocker talking about the capital punishment by hanging. She is in favour because what happened with her husband. The murderer should be hanged, she says, because these people do not...

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Albert Pierrepoint interview (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with former UK hangman Albert Pierrepoint, who carried out last British execution in 1964, on his life and hanging.

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Movietone News Paragraphs: Elberfeld - A hanging tramway

Date released

24 Dec 1934

Series name

British Movietone Gazette

Issue no

290

NoS ID

001896

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Hanging Tramway. Elberfeld. SHOTLIST: Shots of the tram. Interior. Shots as taken from the interior as the tram goes along.

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Movietone News Paragraphs: Elberfeld - A hanging tramway

Date released

24 Dec 1934

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

290

NoS ID

005269

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Hanging Tramway. Elberfeld. SHOTLIST: Shots of the tram. Interior. Shots as taken from the interior as the tram goes along.

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Bentley hanging anniversary and family’s campaign (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the 30th anniversary of 19-year-old Derek Bentley’s hanging in Wandsworth Prison for the murder of a policeman, and the family’s continuing campaign to get him a posthumous pardon. Includes...

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US murderer asks to be hanged (1993)

Genre

Interview

Triple child molester and killer Westley Allan Dodd on why he wishes to be lawfully killed by hanging as Washington State plans and not by the more painless lethal injection. Interviewer not heard.

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Troops to Bermuda (1977)

Genre

Interview

Labour MP Arthur Latham criticism of decision to send troops to Bermuda, following the hanging of Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn. British government were not able to intervene to stop the hangings. Male...

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