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Gala Days

Date released

Aug 1950

Series name

Mining Review 3rd Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345667

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Rotherham miners’ gala; includes Sir Stafford Cripps and Sir Will Lawther, President of the NUM, attending (17th June 1950).

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Childbirth and Contraception: Choices and Changes (1990 Video)

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Traces the impact of science and technology on childbirth and contraception, and highlights how women’s choices and chances had altered by 1950. Women from Richmond, North Yorkshire, talk about their...

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Panorama: Macbeth (1950 Radio)

Series

Schools

Schools broadcast. Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play by Philippa Pearce. With Dereck Guyler, Carleton Hobbs, Selma Vas Dias in the cast.

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Archiving Tomorrow Conference

Date

26 Jul 2013, 11:48

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

Archiving Tomorrow 2013 20-22 November 2013 Salford, Media City UK www.archivingtomorrow.com The conference is designed to bring together Archivists, Academics and Film Makers, Editors, Producers,...

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It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow1 (1989 Video)

Producer

Neil Cameron

Subject

Media studies; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

1870-1950 is a period characterised by a succession of innovations with remarkable effects in everyday life from new sources of power, new modes of transport, new clinical techniques to a great leisure...

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March of Aluminium, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Neil Cameron

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

In the mid-19th century aluminium was a precious metal. By the 1930s it was a bulk material, used in aircraft manufacture, electrical cables, kitchenware and motor cars. By 1950 its applications were...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1950 Radio)

Series

World Theatre

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio version of the play produced by Peter Watts. With incidental music by Mendelssohn played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra. Gilbert Vinter conducts.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1950 Television)

aka: Transformation of Bottom, The

Producer

Joy Harington

First part of a televised adapation of a play for children. Robert Atkins, who wrote the script for the play and also stars as Bottom, introduces and explains the play. Part 2 was was televised a week later,...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

Road to Dunsinane, The (1950 Radio)

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Radio work written by Michael Innes that speculates in dramatic form the historical circumstances that might have induced Shakespeare to write Macbeth. The first part of the programme presents the historical...

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Much Better Start in Life, A (1952 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 64 min., 2004 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain was portrayed in the early 1950s: 1) The Wonder Jet (1950, 19 min): In 1926 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle (who appears in...

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