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  1. Re-Building Destroyed Bridge

    Date released
    19 Sep 1949
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1059
    NoS ID
    015956
    Story no
    6 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rebuilding the Freak Bridge. DESCRIPTION: The Tacoma Bridge in Washington State is to be rebuilt. It was originally built nine years ago, but high winds revealed a structural fault,...

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  2. Structural Engineering in Action (2008)

    Subject
    Engineering

    Short film which demonstrates how earthquakes can make buildings resonate. The film also includes a demonstration of how structural engineers try to prevent earthquake damage to buildings. [3 minutes]

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  3. De Havilland Comets accident (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report looking at the de Havilland Comet, the first commercial jet liner, crashing in 1954 and the investigation on the structural problems following the accident and subsequent changes to aeroplane design....

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  4. Building the New Tacoma Narrows Bridge (2007)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building

    The Puget Sound Region is famed for its floating bridges and infamous for Galloping Gertie’s collapse. Now itboasts the USA’s fifth-longest suspension bridge. What did it take to span a mile-wide,...

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  5. Green Timber Buildings (Historic English Carpentry) (1996)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £65.00

    The UK has a fine inheritance of timber architecture. For thousands of years timber was the predominant structural material for building. Human communities exploited their knowledge of woodland management to...

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  6. The Future of the Piers

    Date released
    23 Feb 1975
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2386
    NoS ID
    030635
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Future of the Piers. DESCRIPTION: For many years the English Holiday scene has meant a day out at the seaside, a walk along the "prom" and a saunter to the end of the pier. But time...

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  7. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Collapse of the Bridge

    Date released
    26 Mar 1945
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    825
    NoS ID
    013405
    Story no
    1 / 2

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Collapse of the Bridge. DESCRIPTION: The bridge at Remagen, so useful in the crossing of the Rhine, has collapsed. Despite the repair work carried out by the Americans enemy shelling is...

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  8. Gothic Cathedral (1998)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

    Discusses the construction and design of Gothic Medieval Cathedrals. Most of our Cathedrals and Abbey Churches were built during the Middle Ages. In the years following the Norman Conquest a huge rebuilding...

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  9. An 8.3 in business hours (1980)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview; Phone-in; Special; Vox pop

    An 8.3 in Business Hours. A programme in the Network series, produced by Piccadilly Radio in Manchester. Examines official preparations and measures undertaken by the authorities in San Francisco,...

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