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  1. Why Not More Gas?

    Date released
    10 Jan 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1551
    NoS ID
    039851
    Story no
    1 / 4

    Recent cold snap reveals serious gas shortage in London and other main cities. Companies point to blitzed gasometers and labour shortage as cause.

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  2. The City’s For Living In

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    481
    NoS ID
    350683
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The problems and solutions of increasing traffic in many of Britain’s cities. Many cities in Britain today face remorseless erosion of their streets and byways by the ever-increasing weight...

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  3. Motoring Ideas Meet Post War Conditions

    Date released
    25 Feb 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1564
    NoS ID
    039910
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Midland inventor designs car park on escalator principle, to save space in cities. Petrol famine compels French to make baby cars.

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  4. Living With Cars

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    294
    NoS ID
    350311
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The Buchanan Report on the problems of traffic congestion in towns suggested building cities on two or three levels. Some practical steps are being taken near Glasgow and in Liverpool towards...

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  5. Sense Of Taste

    Date released
    1950
    Series name
    This Is Britain
    Issue no
    48
    NoS ID
    328238
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The traditional delicacies of Britain’s table and cellar are often forgotten but in fact, as the film shows in a gastronomic tour of the British Isles, her specialities have reached the ends...

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  6. Digging Up The Past

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    247
    NoS ID
    350168
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Visits to professional and amateur archaeological digs of Roman cities and villas in Britain and the Anglo-Saxon excavations at Winchester and the reconstruction of ancient Rome outside Madrid....

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  7. Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    349968
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - one of the oldest steam engines in the world at work Shell synopsis: The first feature is entitled ‘Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine’.  In 1705 Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger,...

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  8. Rural Industries

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    935
    NoS ID
    329176
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Big cities and big companies are, by no means, all there are to industry in Britain - as Maggie Palmer discovers on a visit to the Isle of Wight, off England’s south coast. Nearly 70% of...

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  9. New Towns in Britain

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    25
    NoS ID
    326124
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Overcrowded cities - urban sprawl - the twentieth century dilemma. Britain shares this dilemma with every other advanced nation where industrial growth erodes green countryside. London Line...

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