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  1. A Crop from the Bog

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Fordson Newsreel
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    349928
    Story no
    1 / 2

    BFI synopsis: The Fordson Major tractor adapted for use in draining bog-land in Wareham Forest. The Forestry Commission is reclaiming the land for afforestation.

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  2. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Land Army Proves Fenland Productive

    Date released
    22 Jun 1942
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    681
    NoS ID
    012313
    Story no
    2 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King and Queen See Land Reclamation. DESCRIPTION: Their Majesties visit the Cambridgeshire Fenlands to see how land is being reclaimed and producing valuable crops. SHOTLIST: 1. King...

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  3. Captain Alcock’s Machine At Clifden

    Date released
    19 Jun 1919
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    860
    NoS ID
    388272
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: Alcock and Brown’s plane in the peat bog near the Irish town of Clifden in which it landed.

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  4. Over Miles of Ireland’s Moor and Bog

    Date released
    26 Feb 1931
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    31/17
    NoS ID
    088971
    Story no
    7 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Makes super test for men and machines in Leinster Motor Cycle Club Trials.

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  5. Scottish Headlines

    Date released
    9 May 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2524
    NoS ID
    045783

    Latest machines aid clearance of vast peat bog. Caithness Fifteenth century castle ruins and modern version nearby are bought by American. Hoy Queen Mother inaugurates big water scheme.

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  6. The Coal Girls

    Date released
    27 Nov 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    495
    NoS ID
    334506
    Story no
    1 / 6

    Pathe Intertitles - "In St. Lucia, West Indies, we found them, busy loading the bog ships". "Each girl carries 100 lbs of coal in her basket - and working through an eight-hour day, they don’t need any...

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  7. Hoverplatform

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    325427
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take some standard steel pontoons, two locomotive-type diesel engines, bolt them together and you have a flying carpet for very heavy duties. It will hover above the ground with up to 100 tons...

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  8. Hoverplatform

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    329480
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take some standard steel pontoons, two locomotive-type diesel engines, bolt them together and you have a flying carpet for very heavy duties. It will hover above the ground with up to 100 tons...

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  9. The Friendly Giants

    Date released
    17 May 1965
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1876
    NoS ID
    025989
    Story no
    2 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Friendly Giants. DESCRIPTION: On show at an International Exhibition of Construction Engineering, in London, were some of the latest machines for digging and delving. SHOTLIST: GV...

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  10. Colour: The Irish Derby

    Date released
    6 Jul 1972
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2248A
    NoS ID
    029457
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Irish Derby - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Another hardy perennial, The Irish Sweeps Derby. It was won by Steel Pulse ridden by Australian Bill Williamson. 2nd ‘Scottish Rifle’ and...

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