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  1. Capital Tea

    Date released
    Jun 1937
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    22
    NoS ID
    348947
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: the London Fire Brigade at work, showing how they fight fires and effect rescues with their efficient apparatus

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  2. With Babies and Banners: The Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Lorraine Grey
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Women’s participation in the key strike of the 1930s in the USA. Layoffs, poverty wages, hazardous working conditions and speed-ups were daily realities for auto workers. Women workers also suffered lower...

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  3. Hot Stuff

    Date released
    Jan 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345639
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: champion fire brigade at Brodsworth Colliery. The brigade (who are part-time firemen) is seen at practice.

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  4. London Fire Brigade

    Series name
    Letter From London
    Issue no
    273
    NoS ID
    325171

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  5. Great Sit Down, The (1978 Film)

    Producer
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of how auto workers seized plants at General Motors in 1937 - a single incident which represented a turning point in the American Labour movement. Uses contemporary footage showing pickets,...

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  6. WHITWICK

    Date released
    Nov 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346024
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Community of Whitwick join together to make their own ambulance contest a big event of the year. NCB Commentary - Whitwick, on the edge of the Leicestershire Coalfield is a small town with big...

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  7. TITO - NEW ALLY?

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    The March of Time 16th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352306
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: In March of Time’s latest release, attention is focussed on Yugoslavia, a nation which now stands politically alone and yet, by its own claim, is more Communist than Russia...

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