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Walking Wheelchair

Date released

29 Mar 1954

Series name

New Pictorial

Issue no

498

NoS ID

119795

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

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Inside Incredible Athletes (2010)

Subject

Sports science

Broadcasting two years to the day before the Paralympic 2012 Games begin, this programme examines the demanding training regimes and particular skills required for high performance at each sport. The...

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Wheelchair friendly taxis (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on plans by the GLC to finance a new taxi that can accommodate wheelchair users. With comment from Harry Bennett, committee member of the taxicab section of the TGWU union; wheelchair user Annalisa(?)...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.71: Programme 71 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 71 Programme 71 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 6 March 1988. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

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Ike Faces the Camera

Date released

31 Oct 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1378

NoS ID

020479

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ike First Close Up Pictures. DESCRIPTION: Filming was permitted on the sun terrace at the Army Hospital in Denver, it certainly indicates continued progress in President Eisenhower’s...

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Vehicle Race At Longchamps

Date other

9 Feb 1920

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

388771

Extras

1 film clip

NoS synopsis: Disabled persons in wheelchair race.

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Girl Photographer

Date released

26 Dec 1955

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

052

NoS ID

120132

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Showgirls from the Windmill Theatre have studio photos taken by photographer Delia Durgeon, who uses a wheelchair.

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Electric Wheelchair

Date released

20 Mar 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2233

NoS ID

029302

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Electric Wheelchair. DESCRIPTION: For under a hundred pounds, a new electrically driven platform designed by Lord Snowdon specifically for the disabled. This design could well be a...

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Paraplegic Olympics

Date released

28 Aug 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2256

NoS ID

029538

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Paraplegic Olympics. DESCRIPTION: Heidelberg was the setting for the Paraplegic Olympics. Here a handicap only gives a contestant a greater determination to succeed in their chosen...

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Christopher Reeve paralysed (1995)

Genre

Interview

Actor Christopher Reeve speaking after visiting a spinal injury unit to help him prepare for his role as a wheelchair bound detective in the film Above Suspicion. He said then that he couldn’t imagine...

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