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  1. Scots Have Struck Oil

    Date released
    11 Aug 1938
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    778
    NoS ID
    036111
    Story no
    6 / 8
    Extras
    1 shot list

    First 2,200 gallons of crude oil drawn from experimental boring is shipped to London to be refined.

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  2. Join The High Octane Diners Club

    Date released
    1967
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    326110
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Michael Smee samples the new animal foodstuffs produced from crude oil, and discusses the revolutionary potential of this man-made alternative to traditional fruits of the earth.

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  3. Sensamatic Looms

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    85
    NoS ID
    329465
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: When a shuttle went amok up at the mill a dagger was hastily plunged into the frog: a crude mechanical way of stopping a loom in a hurry, and a terrible strain on its components. An...

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  4. Sensamatic Looms

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    85
    NoS ID
    325413
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: When a shuttle went amok up at the mill a dagger was hastily plunged into the frog: a crude mechanical way of stopping a loom in a hurry, and a terrible strain on its components. An...

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  5. Flax

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    60
    NoS ID
    351087
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: A delicate little flowering plant that must surely be the major contender for the title of Miss Maximum Efficiency; not content with providing for cricket bats and chipboard, linen and...

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  6. With Eve down the Mekong. (Indo-China)

    Date released
    14 Aug 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    480
    NoS ID
    332506
    Story no
    5 / 5

    Pathe Intertitles - "The broad, swift river, sweepings its crude craft through jungle and swamp -" "Whilst the men wash, row and look after things generally. Eve, too, attends to her tasks -" "No jobs for...

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  7. Candle Power

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    349314
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NFA Summary - the making of household, church and decorative candles BP synopsis: The history and production of candles. Explaining how candles are made from crude oil and the purification process, and the...

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  8. 'Cat’ for the ‘Catcracker’

    Date released
    1953
    Series name
    Unilever Magazine
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    349873
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI Summary - chemical plant at Warrington making catalysts for breaking down crude oil NWFA synopsis: building of the oil refinery at Warrington - involvement of Joseph Crossfields in supplying the silicone...

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  9. Those Long Forgotten Days!

    Date released
    9 Jan 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    449
    NoS ID
    332325
    Story no
    4 / 6

    NoS Summary - fashions today and twenty-five years ago. British Pathe synopsis: "Twenty-five years ago, when flickering figures glided jerkily across our crude screens - " Shot of women in old-fashioned...

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  10. First Peeps of the Opening of Tut-Ankh Amen’s Tomb [Opening Title over Picture of Pyramids and Palm Trees]

    Date released
    22 Feb 1923
    Series name
    Daily Sketch Topical Budget
    Issue no
    600-1
    NoS ID
    128908
    Story no
    1 / 1

    [1ST SUBTITLE]: "No need to re-tell the story of the finding of the Tomb of the Great Pharaoh whose death sleep has been disturbed by Civilization - after 3,000 years. The story is on the lips of all men. No...

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