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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: RAF Captures U-Boat

Date released

18 Sep 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

641A

NoS ID

011922

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Squadron Leader Thompson. DESCRIPTION: Squadron-Leader James Thompson of Coastal Command, describes how he captured a German U-Boat. SHOTLIST: Squadron Leader Thompson who captained the...

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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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NATO Visit

Date released

5 Dec 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1800A

NoS ID

025349

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: NATO Visit. DESCRIPTION: A squadron of West German minesweepers paid a goodwill visit to Port Edgar in Scotland. It is their first visit for nearly 30 years, and the crew, under...

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London Carries On

Date released

19 Sep 1940

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

700

NoS ID

060902

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Including Canadian Air Force fighter squadron. Damage to the Royal chapel Buckingham Palace. Two German raiders shot down over London. Tribute to our civil defence workers. London’s ferry-boat service

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Sicily - Nearing the End

Date released

29 Jul 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/60

NoS ID

100041

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Spitfires taking off from Malta and patrolling the skies over the invasion fleet. In Sicily at Comiso airfield the RAF take-over after a German squadron had vacated it. Now switching from air forces to land...

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Hundred Million Pounds Worth - Straight Up

Date released

4 Oct 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1896

NoS ID

026170

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hundred Million Pounds Worth - Straight Up. DESCRIPTION: An order from Germany worth over a million pounds for Britain’s P1127 Vertical take off fighter, one of the most advanced...

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Leslie Mitchell Reviews the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: The King Presents RAF Medals

Date released

6 Nov 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

544

NoS ID

010385

Story no

8 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King With RAF. DESCRIPTION: The first RAF Medals of the war are presented by His Majesty. SHOTLIST: His Majesty pays a visit to the RAF and chats with Squadron-Leader Barwell and other...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Spirit of the Soviet

Date released

12 Mar 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

666A

NoS ID

012177

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Russia. the German Retreat. DESCRIPTION: Leningrad in the north of the Soviet has withstood a long siege by the army of von Leeb. The munitions factories worked like Trojans to keep up...

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A Review of Momentous Days in 1940

Date released

30 Dec 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/105

NoS ID

098483

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Compiled library reel, containing: Battle of the River Plate - Rescue of the "Altmark" prisoners - King and Queen on Clydeside - and the "Queen Elizabeth" [sic] dramatic voyage to New York - The Grand...

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Berlin Airlift Flight

Date released

20 Sep 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2311A

NoS ID

030053

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Berlin Airlift Flight. DESCRIPTION: A Hastings Aircraft carries coal to Germany in commemoration of the Berlin Airlift 1948 - from Movietone’s Film Library, scenes from that historic...

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