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Electric Light Bulbs

Date released

7 Mar 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

271

NoS ID

120860

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the manufacture of tungsten-filament electric light bulbs at the Osram factory in Wembley, Middlesex.

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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Committee’s findings on the lighting industry (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male speaker (prob. an industry spokesman?) about the findings of a Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology on the lighting industry. It looks at how there was a...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.31: Programme 31 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 31 Programme 31 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 24 May 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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The News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Australians Invent Electric Light Cricket

Date released

12 Sep 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

484

NoS ID

009207

Story no

10 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Electric Light Cricket. SHOTLIST: In the hall at Caulfield, diggers play a game of indoor cricket.

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The New "Lights of London"

Date released

15 Jul 1926

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1311; Super Issue No.: 26/56

NoS ID

085202

Story no

4 / 13

Extras

1 film clip

First electric light traffic controls installed in Piccadilly.

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Australian Electric Hydro

Date released

24 Dec 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2168A

NoS ID

028636

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Australian Electric Hydro. DESCRIPTION: The final stages of a three and a half million pound Australian Hydro-Electric project which will light up large tracts of New Guinea. SHOTLIST:...

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The Electric Umpire

Date released

25 Feb 1935

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

257

NoS ID

123215

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

By this new invention, fencing can be judged without possiblity of error, ... two lights ar numbered with those of the fencers, and contact with the hilt of the foil puts out the loser’s light.

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The Human Ostrich

Date released

22 Jan 1940

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

512

NoS ID

124434

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

On the beach at Durban, the Human Ostrich comes into the news. He’ll eat anything but his favourite on the menu is old nails and razor blades - not to mention a few electric light bulbs.

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Light Bulb Manufacture In India

Date released

Nov 1963

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

18

NoS ID

327592

Story no

5 / 7

NoS synopsis: Visits a new factory in India which makes electric light bulbs.

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