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  1. Oil Discovered in Pyrenean Valley

    Date released
    8 May 1950
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1092
    NoS ID
    016384

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: French Oil Field - Crude Oil (Mute). SHOTLIST: GV of derrick. VG view from top to the bottom. Looking up shaft, of drill. Scenes at oil-field etc. Pipeline over countryside. Men fill...

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  2. That Channel Tunnel

    Date released
    11 May 1936
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    320
    NoS ID
    123498
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    For over 130 years it’s been the dream of engineers to link both sides of the ... Straits. These cartoons show their efforts, from the crude early tunnellers to a ... feasible proposition.

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  3. Fire at Sea

    Date released
    5 May 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/36
    NoS ID
    098750
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Passenger ship "Orungal" runs ashore off Victoria, Australia, and while awaiting high tides to float her off, fire breaks out on board and quickly spreads from stem to stern. With her cargo of crude oil this...

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  4. Weird Hindu Fete at Singapore

    Date released
    10 Apr 1930
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    44A
    NoS ID
    002438
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weird Hindu Fete at Singapore. DESCRIPTION: Penitence and joy mingle strangely as Tamil God of Prosperity is honoured. SHOTLIST: Shots of the strange procession. A GREAT DAY FOR THE...

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  5. Flying Revolutionised

    Date released
    11 May 1931
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    31/38
    NoS ID
    089100
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    First heavier-than-air plane, diesel engined, burning crude oil, eliminating fire danger, reducing flying costs by one fourth - startles aviation world. [Source: UFA 34. 44 ft] And aeroplanes for all...

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  6. World-wide Survey: Germany - Oil Menace

    Date released
    7 Feb 1955
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1340
    NoS ID
    019838
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Plague. DESCRIPTION: Six thousand tons of crude oil, jettisoned by a Danish tanker, has contaminated the North Sea coastline over a wide area. SHOTLIST: KS CU of oil being scooped...

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  7. News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Fishermen Make Sure

    Date released
    10 Apr 1939
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    514
    NoS ID
    009873
    Story no
    7 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chinese Fishing. DESCRIPTION: The Chinese employ novel fishing methods. SHOTLIST: Chinese people fish in a primitive way. They remove the water from a lake by a crude form of...

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  8. Road Bowling

    Date released
    9 Sep 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    141
    NoS ID
    120443
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis -The ancient Irish game of road bowling continues - in spite of a two-centuries-old British law prohibiting it as "a dangerous and revolutionary game". Heavy bets are placed on the individual...

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  9. News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Oil Fire Lights Up New Jersey

    Date released
    24 Oct 1938
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    490
    NoS ID
    009348
    Story no
    10 / 13

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire at Linden. SHOTLIST: At Linden in New Jersey, millions of gallons of crude oil blaze furiously. The firemen squirt water on the blaze to try and localise it and cars in the...

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  10. Largest Oil Tanker

    Date released
    3 Nov 1968
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    68/89
    NoS ID
    113321
    Story no
    6 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The world’s biggest ship, the huge Universe Ireland, arrived from Kuwait at the end of her maiden voyage with 312,000 tons of crude oil on board. The tanker has set a new pattern in oil shipping by making...

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