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Chinese Plate Spinners

Date released

23 Feb 1959

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

217

NoS ID

120688

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A craze which is already sweeping the US has arrived at Murray’s Cabaret Club in London. The exponents are two pretty Chinese half-sisters and the "craze" is that of spinning plates on...

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19th Century Craze for Steresoscopic Photograhy, The (2018)

Subject

Film studies; History

Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience,...

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Elizabethan True Crime (2021 Audio)

Series

Lrb Podcast, The

Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...

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Film inspires dance craze (1978)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male dance teacher(?) on recent dancing craze possibly sparked by a film (presumably Saturday Night Fever). He talks about the types of people now coming through his doors, and how they gain in...

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Fleet Street ‘bingo’ (1984)

A documentary about the craze for ‘bingo’ competitions in the tabloid newspapers.

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CB radio craze made legal (1981)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report; Special

Report on the Citizen’s Band (CB) radio service and how the craze became legal on FM in the UK. Speaking are: Ian(?) Leslie(?), National Committee for the Legalisation of CB; Malcolm Miller, manager of...

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Craze for Speed Hits All Classes

Date released

20 Oct 1938

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

502

NoS ID

058306

Story no

3 / 11

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Paris waiters race.

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Music; Vox pop

Lawrence Spicer presents this week’s edition of Our Kind of Town about Deptford. Rector of St Paul’s Church, Father David Diamond, talks about the history of the area and recent efforts to improve...

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Keep Fit Craze

Date released

28 Jul 1966

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

605

NoS ID

121785

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: The keep-fit craze hits Kensington where they’ve started a health club where you can get rubbed down, shaken up, pummelled and pushed around - for a price, and they’ve got the most weird...

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Summer Ski-Craze

Date released

4 Nov 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

567

NoS ID

121701

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: In a Skegness factory they’re glueing together the latest fibre-glass gimmicks, which means summer fun for those who used to think skiing was a winter pastime. Easy-to-make trays give the...

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