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  1. Heavy Sleepers

    Date released
    May 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    62
    NoS ID
    349144
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Barges unloading timber for the making of railway sleepers followed by the seasoning yard and sawmills. The sleepers are then creosoted and chaired.

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  2. Condensation in Domestic Pitched Roofs (1979 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 min.

    When condensation occurs in the interior of a house roof the timber or timber-based material absorbs water. In the long term the timber may lose strength and fail to support the roof. Shows the causes and...

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  3. Artists in Logic - Computers in Wood (1996 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Looks at computer-controlled technology in the timber industry, which is used to process each log most profitable. Shows how computers help to make minute adjustments to the lathe to peel the maximum amount...

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  4. TURN ROUND

    Date released
    Jul 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345749
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: co-operative stevedores at Grimsby docks unloading pit props for the mines. NCB Commentary - It’s a gray dawn at Immingham as a 4,000 ton Swedish freighter docks at the end of her Atlantic...

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  5. Ten YEARS ON: ROOF CONTROL

    Date released
    Jun 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345917
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: changes in the technique of roof support systems over the past ten years NCB Commentary - No branch of mining is more important than roof control underground. The pit is always slive with...

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  6. Making a Stretcher (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Gavin Nettleton
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 44 min.

    Shows how to make a strainer/stretcher - how to choose the timber, measure up, cut the mitred joints, how to glue and pin corner joints, how to lap the bracing centre pieces and how to cut the joints....

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  7. PAPER FROM COAL

    Date released
    Jul 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346009
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: coal’s part in the production of paper. NCB Commentary - Even your daily newspaper depends on - coal. Coal from the Midlands and the north comes down by sea to serve the key plants of the...

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  8. Fate of the Forests (1983)

    Director
    Alan Pendry
    Producer
    Douglas Gordon
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 27 min.

    Assesses the causes and effects of destroying tropical rainforests. Rural families of the Third World need firewood for fuel and timber is a valuable currency earner. Describes the efforts being made...

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  9. Data Modelling: The Wood from the Trees (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Forest Products Ltd, a small distribution company based at Liverpool Docks, has set up a database management system to help keep track of timber imports and distribution. Follows the way the external...

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  10. Brief History of Housing, A (1993 Video)

    Director
    Keith Jacques; Duncan Marshall
    Producer
    Keith Jacques; Duncan Marshall
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 2005 sale: £65.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    An introduction to the development of house types and construction materials over the last thousand years. Begins with the crude earth and timber structures of the early Middle Ages and traces the...

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