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If You’re Drowning - Call a Policeman

Date released

5 Feb 1923

Series name

Daily Sketch Topical Budget

Issue no

597-2

NoS ID

128886

Story no

4 / 6

Mounted [?] police in San Francisco.

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Drowning Life Saving Apparatus

Date released

24 Aug 1933

Series name

Gaumont Sound News

Issue no

386

NoS ID

381220

Story no

2 / 6

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Brave Audrey

Date released

15 Aug 1938

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

38/65

NoS ID

096281

Story no

8 / 12

Extras

1 film clip

Audrey Clark, aged 13, who saved two men from drowning, re-enacts the rescue.

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Tarzan Dustman Commended for Bravery

Date released

25 Oct 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2677

NoS ID

046936

Story no

2 / 8

Man who’s lived in tree-top home twenty-seven years receives Royal Humane Society’s scroll for attempted drowning rescue.

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Joy Turned into Sorrow

Date released

28 Jul 1930

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

30/17

NoS ID

088545

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Tragedy ended President Hindenburg’s triumphal tour when crowded pontoon bridge collapsed drowning over 50 people.

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Youthful Cinema Hero

Date released

2 Apr 1917

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

629

NoS ID

076660

Story no

5 / 5

Robert Channing, aged 5, holding his sister’s hand beside waterfall. Kisses her cheek. He had rescued her from drowning because he ‘saw it on the Pictures’.

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Keep Calm, and Live

Date released

5 Aug 1963

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

63/63

NoS ID

110784

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

New training teaches men of three services how to escape from drowning.

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Police Sergeant Hero of the Sea

Date released

13 Aug 1925

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1215; Super Issue No.: 25/56

NoS ID

084481

Story no

3 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Sergeant Morgan, who plunged into the sea fully clothed and saved girl from drowning, later wins 40 yards uniform race at Brighton Regatta.

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Enborne Valley Says Stop Dam Scheme

Date released

29 Jul 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1817

NoS ID

041168

Story no

2 / 7

Fertile seven thousand acres on Berkshire-Hampshire border, threatened with "drowning" for new London water scheme, is scene of many protests. Lord Teviot leads local opposition.

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Police Chief and Boy Hero. General Sir Nevil Macready Hands Awards to Fred Davis, Aged 11 for Saving a School Chum from Drowning

Date released

13 Oct 1919

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

893

NoS ID

077678

General Sir Nevil Macready presents award to boy. Fred Davis showing his award to boys.

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