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Industrial Enterprises - Million Pound Order

Date released

10 May 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1405A

NoS ID

020922

Story no

3 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Million Pound Order. DESCRIPTION: An order valued at about a million pounds, is for the supply of installation of high voltage submarine cable for Vancouver. It was seen at Salford...

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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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Plane crash in Essex (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Jeff Collins reports on a plane crash in Essex which killed four people. It’s believed the Robin 210 aircraft hit a high voltage power cable at the village of Stapleford Tawney, near Ongar. Police are...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.51: Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 51 Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 11 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Building in a Balloon

Date released

8 Apr 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1870A

NoS ID

025942

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Building in a Balloon. DESCRIPTION: At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon,...

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For Peaceful Purposes

Date released

8 Jun 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1566

NoS ID

023055

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: For Peaceful Purposes. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show a model of a high voltage tandem accelerator, and it’s part of important new equipment at Aldermaston. The machine itself is...

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Live Wire

Date released

6 Oct 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2105

NoS ID

028032

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Live Wire. DESCRIPTION: Wearing a specially designed suit that conducts electricity, a linesman demonstrates the new technique that allows working on Power Lines without switching off...

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Severn Tunnel

Date released

22 Oct 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2159A

NoS ID

028538

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Severn Tunnel. DESCRIPTION: A progress report on the two and a quarter mile tunnel being driven under the Wye and Severn to carry high voltage cables linking the electrical grid systems...

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Industrial Advance - Largest in the World

Date released

22 Mar 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1868

NoS ID

025918

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Industrial Advance - Largest in the World. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show from Rotherham in Yorkshire, largest electric melting shop in the world. It can reduce any sort of scrap into a...

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Trouble in the Pipes

Date released

11 Feb 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1758

NoS ID

024985

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trouble in the Pipes. DESCRIPTION: Portable generators are bringing a very effective answer to frozen pipes. London’s Metropolitan Water Board claim that this particular method avoids...

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