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Date released

29 Jan 1949

Series name

How, What and Why

Issue no

2

NoS ID

353218

Story no

1 / 3

NoS synopsis: why locks are needed on canals

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Forth and Clyde Canal, The (1977 Film)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the difficulties experienced in planning and cutting the Forth and Clyde Canal between 1768 and 1790. Discusses the canal today, dealing with the problems of preservation, restoration and use of...

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Othello (1907 Film)

A version of Othello. Ball (op cit, p. 306) notes that the naming of the director as Mario Caserini and the actor Ubaldo Del Colle as Othello is speculative. The Walturdaw Animated Pictures catalogue (the...

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Follow the Trent

Date released

Feb 1974

Series name

Review 27th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346633

Story no

1 / 1

NCB synopsis: Brewing, potteries, bell-founding all have their roots in Midland histrory, its canals and its coal.

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Lancashire & Denbigshire - THE NORTH WEST

Date released

Feb 1967

Series name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346363

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: Transport in the Lancashire coalfield. NCB Commentary - Lancashire’s industrial towns and villages lie mostly tuckes away in valleys between high hill ridges. It’s difficult country to get...

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Canal and Harbour Modelling (1983 Video)

Subject

Mathematics; Physics; Technology

Distribution

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

Explores the modelling approaches that might be used to solve a practical thermofluid problem - the point which allows maximum speed yet minimum wash damage on a canal.

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DEEP WATERS

Date released

Mar 1955

Series name

Mining Review 8th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

345866

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: Underground canals draining Lancashire pits. NCB Commentary - There’s no more coal coming out of Ellesmere Pit, near Manchester. To-day Ellesmere is a pumping station. 200 years ago the...

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What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: On the Move (2005)

Subject

History; Science; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...

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Bridgewater

Date released

Oct 1949

Series name

Mining Review 3rd Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

345627

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: canals in Manchester

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Planets, The. Part 4: The Angry Red Planet (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Mars, the red planet, is historically believed to contain life because of its straight canals, seen through earlier astronomers’ telescopes. Looks at the exploration of the planet by the Mariner and Viking...

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