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MISS BETTY NUTHALL’S FIRST SCREEN TEST

Date other

31 Oct 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

386134

Extras

1 film clip

NoS synopsis: English tennis player Betty Nuthall’s first screen test.

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A Screen Test

Date released

13 Nov 1944

Series name

New Pictorial

Issue no

9

NoS ID

117665

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

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Biggest Ape Turns Star

Date released

7 Sep 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

577

NoS ID

034697

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 shot list

Largest gorilla in captivity makes screen test. Outsize anthropoid reckons King Kong couldn’t take it.

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Test Match First Pictures

Date released

5 Dec 1946

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1645

NoS ID

040332

Story no

1 / 5

Pictures of opening day rushed to England and on screen before game is over show beginning of Australia’s record innings.

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These Novelities Make News

Date released

16 Dec 1935

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

501

NoS ID

034264

Story no

3 / 4

Wood ousts petrol. Cars and lorries run on burnt-wood gas at a fifth the normal fuel cost. Missouri New plane-for-the-million makes test-flight. London Mr Sydney Young, city clerk, types pictures for hobby....

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Flight On A Cushion

Date released

1959

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

21

NoS ID

349645

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Looks at the hovercraft. On-screen participants include Christopher Sydney Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, and Peter Lamb, test pilot for the hovercraft.

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The Amusement Trades Fair

Date released

11 Feb 1979

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2593

NoS ID

031251

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Amusement Trades Fair. DESCRIPTION: At the Amusement Trades Fair could be seen the latest ideas in Fairground and Amusement Hall entertainments. SHOTLIST: CU screen of ‘Star Fire’....

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England Win First Test at Sydney by 10 Wickets

Date released

29 Dec 1932

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

186A

NoS ID

003988

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: England Win First Test at Sydney. DESCRIPTION: Australia 360 and 164; MCC 524 and 1 for loss of no wickets. Fol. In presenting first pictures of the First Test Match at Sydney, British...

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England Win First Test at Sydney by 10 Wickets

Date released

26 Dec 1932

Series name

British Movietone Gazette

Issue no

152A

NoS ID

001104

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: England Win First Test at Sydney. DESCRIPTION: Australia 360 and 164; MCC 524 and 1 for loss of no wickets. Fol. In presenting first pictures of the First Test Match at Sydney, British...

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Steam goes Supersonic

Date released

1956

Series name

Home and Away

Issue no

8

NoS ID

352797

Story no

4 / 4

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item takes us to the works of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., where we see Britannia air liners under construction and test, and glimpse the development of jet aero engines by...

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