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Lady of the Lamp

Date released

13 May 1916

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

246-2

NoS ID

125629

Story no

2 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Lady Cowdray receiving gifts for the ‘Lamp Day Fund’ at the specially decorated statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place." Lady Cowdray standing beside some servicemen collecting...

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Celestial Navigation

aka: Celestial Navigtion and Sextant Instruction for the Sun Noonshot

Subject

Physics; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 120 minutes), $29.95 (+p&p)

The tape consists of two one-hour lectures. In the first Gene Grossman (Magic Lamp’s Skipper) talks about the theory of celestial navigation and the how to use the Nautical Almanac. In the second, Paul...

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War Against Pornography, The (1972 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...

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Prince of Wales as Miner

Date released

27 Feb 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

340-1

NoS ID

126456

Story no

4 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "In overalls and lamp in hand HRH sets out to visit a coal mine, and afterwards inspects a dockyard." Continuation of above item. Medium long shot of Prince of Wales donning overalls and safety...

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Artificial Sun

Date released

1971

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

86

NoS ID

351216

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: A lamp that you can read by up to 20 kilometres away. This is a quartz lamp discharging an electric arc through mercury and iodine vapour creating 22 million candle power - with the same...

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Never Say Dye

Date released

9 Feb 1928

Series name

Ideal Cinemagazine

Issue no

100

NoS ID

334235

Story no

3 / 4

NoS synopsis: the art of dyeing cloths, lamp shades etc.

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Safety First

Date released

25 Jan 1917

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

610

NoS ID

076566

Story no

6 / 6

3 policemen putting on white coats. They unscrew spike from top of helmet and replace it with a small lamp.

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Fire Wrecks Dutch Palace

Date released

24 May 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1798

NoS ID

041058

Story no

1 / 7

Top floors of Queen Wilhelmina’s palace at the Hague are gutted in fire started by workman’s blow lamp.

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Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010)

Director

Jason Scott

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $40.00

The first games on home computers had limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power. They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most powerful graphics processor in...

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The Beacon!

Date released

20 Jul 1931

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

694

NoS ID

348764

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: Lizard Lighthouse in Cornwall - the keeper cleans and turns the lamp

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