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French Enter Rocket Field - Sahara

Date released

16 Mar 1959

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

59/22

NoS ID

108541

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

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

Tests in desert are big success.

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Africa

Director

Felicity Egerton

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £24.99

David Attenborough takes a journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa, looking at its wildlife and landscapes. The episodes are as folllows: Kalahari; Savannah; Congo; Cape; Sahara; The Future.

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Arafat survives PLO plane crash landing in desert (1992)

Genre

Interview

Stephanie West interviews Afif Safieh, the PLO’s London representative, on the crash landing of PLO leader, Yasser Arafat’s plane in the Sahara Desert in Libya. Three crew members were killed but Arafat...

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Village Life: Great Shefford (1987)

Mike Matthews this week visits the village of Great Shefford. It lies 7 miles Northwest of Newbury on the A338, in Berkshire. The programme has 3 tracks. On Track 1, Mike makes 2 interviews: 1- To a village...

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Oil from the Sahara

Date released

20 Jan 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1494

NoS ID

022156

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...

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French Outposts of Empire

Date released

2 May 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/36

NoS ID

097921

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

On the mountains of Syria ski troops patrol in thick snow even though it’s summer - and by contrast in the Sahara Desert natives commanded by French officers also patrol - two aspects of France on guard.

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Your Gas from Sahara

Date released

22 Apr 1965

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

65/33

NoS ID

111576

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip

Dramatic film of natural gas source deep in Sahara Desert. Reading: Typical household using gas for all purposes is probably unaware of its origin. Arzew: New port on African coast from which gas is supplied...

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Sahara Burn-Up

Date released

8 Feb 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1705A

NoS ID

024496

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Burn-Up - Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: Natural gas caught fire last November in French gasfields in the Sahara, the biggest blazing gas main you’re ever likely to see! They had to...

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Visitors to Britain - Sahara Survivors

Date released

20 Jun 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1359

NoS ID

020143

Story no

9 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Desert Survivors. DESCRIPTION: Also arriving at London Airport were Miss Barbara Duthy and Mr Peter Barnes, survivors of a party of four who tried to cross the Sahara Desert by...

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News Headlines: Sahara: French Rocket Experiments

Date released

14 Apr 1958

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2533

NoS ID

074944

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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