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An American Side Show

Date released

12 Mar 1917

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

623

NoS ID

076629

Story no

3 / 6

Onlookers put handcuffs on performer and noose over his head. He is hauled into air on pulley. Once suspended he releases his arms from handcuffs.

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Fax Machine, The / The Lift (1992 Video)

Director

Frank Prendergast

Producer

Elizabeth Queenan

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £14.99 (+VAT +p&p)

Tim Hunkin humorously explains the workings of some familiar machines. His technique is to present the scientific principles and show how the machines evolved by using demonstrations and animated cartoon...

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Cargo, Baby Elephant. USA New York

Date released

13 Jul 1922

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1180

NoS ID

078985

Story no

4 / 5

Baby elephant hauled up by ropes and pulley.

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Work and Energy (1990 Video)

Producer

Andrew Millington

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Energy can be stored in a flywheel or a spring and used for a variety of practical purposes. Shows a flywheel used in an experimental train to store and release energy, and of dampers and springs in action....

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Tinstone - How it is obtained in a Cornish Mine

Date released

28 Sep 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

643

NoS ID

333290

Story no

4 / 5

NoS Summary - processes involved in tin mining - an idea of the hard physical work involved British Pathe synopsis: Cornwall. "Tinstone (or "black tin" as the Cornish miners call it) is just plain tin ore...

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Art of Myths, The (Vol 1) (2007)

aka: Arts du Mythe, Les

Director

Philippe Truffault

Subject

Anthropology; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 234 minutes), £24.99

The stories behind some of the great artworks and artefacts from cultures of the world. Initially derided as curios of ‘primitive’ art, and even though they served as inspirations for some of the great...

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Stepping High!

Date released

21 Jan 1932

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

555

NoS ID

332905

Story no

5 / 5

British Pathe synopsis: "Painting (not painted) ladies, and not afraid of any man’s job." M/S of two women wearing overalls at the bottom of a metal chimney. One woman sits on a piece of wood suspended by...

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Water Power - a Novel Machine

Date released

9 Nov 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

649

NoS ID

333320

Story no

5 / 5

NoS Summary - new invention for harnessing water power and a hydrofoil British Pathe synopsis: "Power! Power in the rushing waves - the flowing rivers - the dashing falls -" Low angle of waves crashing...

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That Trouser Complex

Date released

5 Mar 1931

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

509

NoS ID

332668

Story no

6 / 6

NoS Summary - women wearing trousers as mechanics, walking, horse riding and running. NoS synopsis: "Strictly between ourselves, all the trouble over the emancipation of women began when Eve adopted...

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Miners visiting Ruhr

Date released

Feb 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

334739

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: A tour of the Ruhr by British mining engineers. COI Commentary - In July, I was one of thirty miners chosen by Colliery Consultative Committees to go to the Ruhr and see for ourselves what the...

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