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THE CURTAIN RISES

Date released

Apr 1962

Series name

Mining Review 15th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346169

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: a look at the new technical high school in the mining town of Castleford in Yorkshire with its unusual curtains in the school hall.

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Speeches on the Occasion of the Shakespeare Birthday Celebration (1933 Radio)

Radio broadcast of speeches held by John Dover Wilson on ‘The Immortal Memory’, Philip Ben Greet on ‘The Drama’, and responded to by Lilian Baylis during Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations....

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Viewfinder 101

Date

24 Nov 2015, 18:13

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Page

Viewfinder 101 was published in November 2015. Contents of this issue: BRITISH HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB In the UK there has been a major resurgence in the production of horror movies in the last few...

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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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BALLETOMINES

Date released

Aug 1954

Series name

Mining Review 7th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345840

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: miners dancing ballet. Miners from the West Riding Colliery give performance of Delibes’ "Coppelia" for charity at Normanton Central Town Club. NCB Commentary - Many times in the past have...

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Othello in Jonesville (1913 Film)

aka: Othello Au Village

Director

Charles Seay

Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...

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Bumptious As Romeo (1911 Film)

Comedy short. Part of the Bumptious series which featured the rotund and aptly named comedian John R. Cumpson. Bumptious organises an amateur production at the town hall of Romeo and Juliet in which he is to...

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Northamptonshire - Steel Town

Date released

Feb 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346320

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: Corby, a steel town which uses coal in many ways. NCB Commentary - Coal for industry. Coal for the home. Coal on the move. Nearly a million and a half tons a year for this one steel plan in...

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Shakespeare Birthday Festival, The (1928 Radio)

Radio broadcast of speeches made at the Town Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Shakespeare’s birthday. Alanson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, talks about ‘The Immortal Memory of William...

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MINERS’ FESTIVAL

Date released

Aug 1951

Series name

Mining Review 4th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345712

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Festival of Britain Show in Shotts, Lanarkshire. NCB Commentary - Here’s a mining township with a Festival all of its won. Shotts, in Lanarkshire, decided to run a 14-day festival covering...

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