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The Other Man’s Job. Making Copper Cables

Date released

1 Feb 1943

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/15; Paramount Issue No.: 1244

NoS ID

156607

Story no

2 / 3

Blister copper is refined in furnace; white hot copper is moulded into bars and cooled. At mills, bars are made into copper rods which in turn become copper wire. This is coiled and stranded and made into...

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Copper Penny with Concentrated Nitric Acid

Director

Jerrold J. Jacobsen

Producer

James H. Maynard

Subject

Chemistry

The reaction of a copper penny and concentrated nitric acid (15 M) is shown. Red-brown nitrogen dioxide is generated and some of the copper dissolves to form a blue solution of copper(II) nitrate. [2 minutes]

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Broken Lance (1954 Film)

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Producer

Sol C. Siegel

Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...

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Train blown up in Rhodesia (1979)

Genre

Interview

Rhodesian CID officer Tim Mealey(?) or Healey(?) on black nationalist guerillas blowing up a train carrying copper from Zambia. Male interviewer not identified.

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Short story (1986)

aka: The Adventure of the copper beeches [Part 1 and 2]

Serialised Sherlock Holmes Adventures. Drama for radio, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Hamish Wilson

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Opencast Mine Boosts Copper Output

Date released

17 Apr 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1996

NoS ID

042309

Story no

6 / 7

World’s largest deposit of copper is opened up two miles high in Andes mountains.

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Refining Copper from the Sudbury Nickel Ores (1959 Film)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Detailed description of the refining of copper from the relatively crude 97% pure blister copper to the electrolytically refined copper of 99.97% purity.

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Copper Resources and Reserves (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the history of copper extraction from Roman times to the end of the 19th century, and then looks at copper demand in the 20th century and how new technologies such as froth flotation enable copper to...

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Copper Gold Mine

Date released

3 Jun 1940

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

531

NoS ID

124525

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

At Morenei, in Arizona, a copper mine has been opened up that’s a mile and a half wide, and along the mountain-like side the new town of Stargo houses the twelve hundred workers and their families.

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Rhodesian Highlights

Date released

28 Jan 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1599A

NoS ID

023434

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rhodesian Highlights. DESCRIPTION: Another highlight of Mr Macmillan’s African tour was his visit to the copper-belt in Northern Rhodesia. Copper is to Rhodesia as gold is to South...

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