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  1. Riding on Air

    Date released
    30 Jan 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1808A
    NoS ID
    025411
    Story no
    3 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riding on Air. DESCRIPTION: At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption....

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  2. Electrically Powered Model Planes

    Date released
    16 Jun 1958
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    181
    NoS ID
    120568
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A glimpse of future aeronautical development is displayed by a model ‘plane, powered only by electricity stored in silver-zinc batteries. Believed to be the first of its kind, the...

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  3. Towards the Vertical

    Date released
    11 Mar 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1762
    NoS ID
    025017
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Towards the Vertical. DESCRIPTION: The day of the vertical take-off airliner is one stage nearer with the development of a new jet transport-aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley AW 681. On...

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  4. SHEARER LOADER

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345864
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Anderton shearer loader at Cronton colliery NCB Commentary - On a bleak winter’s morning footprints in the snow point the way to Lancashire’s Cronton Colliery. In the Colliery Workshops a...

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  5. SHAFT STUDY

    Date released
    May 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346045
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: work study survey of shaft operations. Method Study Department sets out to make the safest and most effective use of the industry’s resources. NCB Commentary - The stop-watch comes into its...

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  6. Kirkstall Forge

    Date released
    2 Nov 1970
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2161
    NoS ID
    028553
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Kirkstall Forge Colour. DESCRIPTION: Cistercian monks founded Kirkstall Abbey in the twelfth century. Their primitive mining and smelting of Iron from the rich Yorkshire deposits was...

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  7. National Story - NCB - TV

    Date released
    Aug 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346300
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Mobile television studio in action in South Wales. NCB Commentary - Up into daylight at the end of the shift - and what on earth is a television screen doing at pit bank? The story starts in...

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