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A Glass Wonderland

Date released

19 Aug 1940

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

542

NoS ID

124576

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

The curator of the New York Marine Museum is experimenting with a new method of copying the tiny living creatures found in a drop of pond water, and with the aid of a powerful microscope, and a skilled...

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Kryptonite Discovery Video (2007)

Subject

Chemistry; Geology

The Natural History Museum’s Mineral curator, Mike Rumsey, talks about the identification of the new mineral matching kryptonite’s unique chemistry, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, as described...

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Tales of the Bodleian’s First Folio (2016 Video)

Series

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Video podcast. Pip Wilcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2016 DHOXSS on Shakespeare’s First Folio, held by the Bodleian.

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Row over V and A museum restructure (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Kay Oliver reports on the fears for the future of our national heritage after restructuring at the V and A museum partly to make it more cost effective, with curators made redundant; and what could happen...

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Focus: Dr. Johnson [Samuel Johnson Profile] - nd [1975-1986]

Sean Street reads the profile of Samuel Johnson, born on the 18th of September of 1709 in Litchfield and famous for the compilation of the very first edition of the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755...

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Dr. Johnson of Gough Square (1986)

Sean Street goes on a journey of exploration into the life and times of one of this country’s greatest literary figures...Samuel Johnson...while on a visit to Johnson’s house in Gough Square with its...

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Friendly Encounter

Date released

27 Mar 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1190A

NoS ID

017694

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Friendly Encounter (Dog & Monkey). DESCRIPTION: The Curator of Vancouver Zoo has a Labrador dog who’s crazy about the monkey-house; he gets on very well with the inmates, too, because...

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Arthur the lion put down (1995)

Genre

Interview

Douglas Richardson, London zoo curator speaks about the lion Arthur who was put down. He was diagnosed with inoperable cancer at the age of 5. Interviewer not identified.

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Holland 1 submarine resurfaces (1982)

Genre

Interview

Richard Compton-Hall, curator of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport in Hampshire, on the resurfacing of Britain’s oldest submarine, Holland 1. Male interviewer not identified.

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Harewood House Bird Garden

Date released

20 Apr 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2133

NoS ID

028265

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Harewood Bird Garden. DESCRIPTION: One of Britain’s most comprehensive collections of birds from all parts of the world can now be seen at Harewood House - an added attraction for...

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