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"The Quiet Game" - A Harlequin-London Scottish Peep

Date released

7 May 1923

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

266

NoS ID

347444

NoS synopsis: Rugby match - probably Harlequins team in training. Some slow motion footage.

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Mechanical Miniatures

Date released

25 Dec 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

499

NoS ID

332610

Story no

2 / 6

NoS synopsis: "Just puppets, but with all the skill of controlled fingers". Two puppets on strings are made to fence - one wears a skirt or kilt, the other a suit of armour. They are framed within a little...

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Harlequin Puppet Theatre

Date released

26 May 1963

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

439

NoS ID

121382

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Chu Chin Chow is the play we see at Britain’s one and only puppet theatre at Rhos-on-Sea in Denbighshire. And the circus strong man. And the disjointed character who has had so much to...

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Collection of a Lifetime

Date released

16 Apr 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1715

NoS ID

024590

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Collection of a Lifetime. DESCRIPTION: 35 paintings, collected by Somerset Maugham over half a century, sold at Sotheby’s in less than an hour. They included a Renoir river scene,...

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Puppets

Date released

Jun 1973

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

133

NoS ID

328154

Story no

5 / 5

COI synopsis: The Harlequin Puppet Theatre, with puppet master Eric Bramall.

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Fashion - Pretty Panties for Centre Court

Date released

13 Jul 1950

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1101A

NoS ID

016532

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fashions - for Tennis. DESCRIPTION: Tennis is one thing, but what to wear when playing is quite another subject. Tinling fashions introduce some rather attractive styles - harlequin...

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Puppets

Date released

1976

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

905

NoS ID

329146

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Puppets are part of an ancient theatre tradition stretching back more than 1,000 years. Gail Spiro meets a unique collection of puppets from London’s Puppet Centre Trust, and looks at the...

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Moscow Circus

Date released

30 Dec 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

575

NoS ID

121715

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Moscow - with its harlequin-coloured cathedrals and the Kremlin domes, pin-point this as a capital city of the entertainment world, politics quite apart. To learn this we go to school - to...

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The Picasso Show

Date released

11 Jul 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1623

NoS ID

023680

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Picasso Show. DESCRIPTION: Prince Philip, visiting the Picasso exhibition at the Tate Gallery, was accompanied by its organiser, Mr Penrose, a friend of the artist. His Royal Highness...

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