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The Magic Circle

Date released

12 Apr 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

485

NoS ID

121503

Story no

2 / 2

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: ... the famous conjurers and magicians who can fool you by brilliant sleight-of-hand before your very eyes. For the first time in their famous history, they invited experts to bring their...

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Five Numbers (2005)

Subject

Mathematics

A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - zero, Pi, the golden ratio, the imaginary number and infinity.

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The night is young (1988)

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Music; Advertisement; Trailer

Gill Pyrah interviews Julian Nott on The Night is Young show. He is to set out to circle the globe in 18 days in a hot air balloon. The balloon is the first of it’s kind with a pressurised cabin, needed...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.17: Programme 17 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 17 Programme 17 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 17th October 1986. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

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Radar

Date released

1 Mar 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/18

NoS ID

100645

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Radar being operated by South African service women who are working day and night spotting enemy submarines which may be prowling round their coasts. When the presence of an unknown vessel is located it is...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Submarine Prisoners, from Italy

Date released

25 Nov 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

599

NoS ID

011299

Story no

5 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Italian Submarine Prisoners. DESCRIPTION: Captured Italian submariners are brought ashore. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the men as they come ashore. They each wear the usual circle of...

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Too Many Cars?

Date released

15 Mar 1956

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

56/22

NoS ID

106988

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Cars pile up at the manufacturers, thousands of car workers are on short time, and dealers beg the public to buy. How to break the vicious circle?

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by John Snagge (Courtesy of BBC): Fleet Air Arm’s Patrol

Date released

20 Jan 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

607

NoS ID

011420

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Torpedo & Dive Bombing By FAA. DESCRIPTION: The "Swordfish" and "Fulmar" aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. SHOTLIST: Movietone Cameraman flies in the rear cockpit of a "Swordfish" of the...

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Breakfast Time

Date released

23 Jan 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1651

NoS ID

023956

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Breakfast Time. DESCRIPTION: The setting was a London hotel: there were blackamoors in attendance, pretty serving wenches in eighteenth century costume, and the sort of things people...

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The ‘Grapefruit’ in Orbit

Date released

24 Mar 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1503

NoS ID

022292

Story no

4 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Grapefruit in Orbit. DESCRIPTION: America’s second satellite, equipped with two radio transmitters, was the size of a grapefruit. A Test Vehicle was about to be launched farther...

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