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A Great Invention. Officers Training with a ‘Stokes’ Rapid Fire Gun

Date released

3 Jan 1918

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

708

NoS ID

076986

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

2 soldiers in tin helmet loading and firing ‘Stokes’ gun.

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IN CASE OF FIRE

Date released

24 Jun 1929

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1905

NoS ID

383951

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: The invention of Mr J. Hollis of Sutton Cold Field - demonstrated in Picadilly Circus, London, should save many lives. New automatic fire escape tried at Haymarket Hotel.

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Parachute Drops Plane to Safety in Test of New Invention - USA

Date released

18 Sep 1930

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

20

NoS ID

137244

Story no

1 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Screen Sharpshooters

Date released

20 Feb 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1394

NoS ID

020741

Story no

6 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pistol Shooting. DESCRIPTION: American Military Police in Munich are using a new pistol shooting range. A sixteen millimetre projector is used to show a moving picture for the marksman...

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To Blazes with Walkie Talkie

Date released

23 May 1946

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

46/41

NoS ID

101125

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Britain’s radio-equipped firemen employ Walkie Talkies on fires. A wartime invention, ultra short wave communication greatly aids control of big blazes.

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Machine Age Solves Baby Problem

Date released

30 May 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/43

NoS ID

102944

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

An American solves the problem of the crying baby by his invention of an automatic night-nurse, that rocks and sings baby to sleep.

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Invention

Date released

18 Feb 1929

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

568

NoS ID

348187

Story no

8 / 9

NoS synopsis: Nifty device for changing gramophone needles.

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Gyro-Boat on Test

Date released

29 Aug 1935

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

470

NoS ID

034067

Story no

3 / 7

Rotor blades instead of sails. Novel yacht is invention of pioneer-aviator, Lieutenant-Colonel Moore-Brabazon.

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Television

Date released

3 May 1926

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

1

NoS ID

047242

Story no

9 / 11

Slade catalogue entry: television. (we are pleased to announce that all future information of the Progress of the British invention - television - will reach the cinema screen exclusively through the medium...

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His Holiness the Pope

Date released

16 Feb 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/14

NoS ID

090445

Extras

1 film clip

Makes rare public appearance to inaugurate new micro-wave radio telephone service - Signor Marconi’s latest invention!

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