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  1. HIGH ‘OVERHEAD CHARGES’

    Date released
    20 Sep 1928
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1826
    NoS ID
    387288
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: First Pylon of new national electricity grid erected by hand at Bonnybridge, Scotland.

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  2. Live Wire

    Date released
    6 Oct 1969
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2105
    NoS ID
    028032
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Live Wire. DESCRIPTION: Wearing a specially designed suit that conducts electricity, a linesman demonstrates the new technique that allows working on Power Lines without switching off...

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  3. Pylon Trouble

    Date released
    11 Mar 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1449
    NoS ID
    021550
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pylon Trouble at Staines. DESCRIPTION: Evidence of the trouble on Willow Farm, near Staines where a pylon lists over like the leaning Tower of Pisa. Movietone had a word with Mr Bryn...

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  4. Pylon Men

    Date released
    17 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    090
    NoS ID
    120267
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Introducing a group of men who go about with their heads literally "in the clouds"...the men whose job it is to construct and maintain the National Grid which carries electricity throughout...

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  5. Can a Pylon Trespass?

    Date released
    27 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    56/78
    NoS ID
    107325
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    A Surrey famer wages a one-man war with the British Electricity Authority

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  6. Miners Strike

    Date released
    14 Feb 1972
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2228
    NoS ID
    029250
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Miners Strike. DESCRIPTION: Pickets outside Clipstone Colliery in Nottinghamshire epitomise the other pickets throughout the country. Union leaders are believed to have rejected the...

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  7. REAPING THE WIND

    Date released
    Dec 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345727
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a windmill electricity generator at Costa Head in Orkney. NCB Commentary - The northernmost regular air service in Britain is the run between Aberdeen and the Orkney and Shetland islands....

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  8. Hinckley Point Power Station

    Date released
    3 Oct 1976
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2470
    NoS ID
    030876
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hinckley Point Power Station. DESCRIPTION: A recent Royal Commission of Nuclear Power urged a restraint in this field, especially to the Fast Breeder Reactor. Scenes at the Atomic Power...

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