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Biggest Ape Turns Star

Date released

7 Sep 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

577

NoS ID

034697

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 shot list

Largest gorilla in captivity makes screen test. Outsize anthropoid reckons King Kong couldn’t take it.

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Mathematics and Physics for Anaesthetists. Part 4: Statistics (Part 2) (1976 Video)

Producer

David R Clark

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 20 min.

Covers tests for means (in particular Student’s T test), tests for variances (in particular the F test), tests for frequencies (in particular the Chi squared test), the general layout of tests and type I...

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Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)

Director

Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones

John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...

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Test Match First Pictures

Date released

5 Dec 1946

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1645

NoS ID

040332

Story no

1 / 5

Pictures of opening day rushed to England and on screen before game is over show beginning of Australia’s record innings.

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These Novelities Make News

Date released

16 Dec 1935

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

501

NoS ID

034264

Story no

3 / 4

Wood ousts petrol. Cars and lorries run on burnt-wood gas at a fifth the normal fuel cost. Missouri New plane-for-the-million makes test-flight. London Mr Sydney Young, city clerk, types pictures for hobby....

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Larger Foraminifer ‘Heterostegina Depressa’, The: Organisation and Growth of the Megalospheric Generation (1981 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 11 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The foraminifer constructs a test and attaches it to the substrate with elastic threads. There are large numbers of symbionts (diatoms) in its protoplasm; ‘Heterostegina’ gets its nourishment from them....

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Flight On A Cushion

Date released

1959

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

21

NoS ID

349645

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Looks at the hovercraft. On-screen participants include Christopher Sydney Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, and Peter Lamb, test pilot for the hovercraft.

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Tests. Mrs Patrick Campbell Screen Test (1930 Film)

A compilation of screen tests given by Mrs Patrick Campbell. Includes the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, Palleas and Melisande (sound only), Yiddish dialect from The Matriach (sound only), and a scene from...

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Steam goes Supersonic

Date released

1956

Series name

Home and Away

Issue no

8

NoS ID

352797

Story no

4 / 4

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item takes us to the works of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., where we see Britannia air liners under construction and test, and glimpse the development of jet aero engines by...

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England’s Glorious Victory

Date released

19 Aug 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

782-1

NoS ID

130721

Story no

1 / 5

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Ashes regained at last. Oval 2nd day. Australia’s tail up. Collins and Gregory put them on level terms." Cricket. Continuation of Fifth Test between England and Australia at the Oval....

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