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Date released

15 Oct 1936

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

36/83

NoS ID

093935

Story no

3 / 11

Extras

1 film clip

French Ambassador starts new Dover-Dunkirk train ferry.

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Hitler’s Dunkirk

Date released

7 Sep 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/72

NoS ID

100476

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Pontoon bridge over the River Seine hastily erected by Engineers enables vehicles, etc, to speed on in their advance. Once the Seine had been crossed the full scale German retreat began. Along the road to...

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Sieg im Westen (1941 Film)

aka: Victory in the West

Director

Fritz Brunsch; Svend Noldan

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the conquest of the Low Countries and France. After recalling the foreign pressures which forced Germany into war, it covers the strategy and action of the lightning advance, including scenes at...

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Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Mr Churchill Surveys Our Growing Defences

Date released

12 Aug 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

584

NoS ID

011057

Story no

9 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Winston Churchill Visits Coastal Defences. DESCRIPTION: The Premier visits various of the defences. SHOTLIST: The Premier arrives by plane and makes a tour after being greeted by Major...

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Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: 'This Was Their Finest Hour’

Date released

27 Jun 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

577A

NoS ID

010941

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Envoi. DESCRIPTION: Leslie Mitchell echoes the words of Mr Churchill. "Let us so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousands years men will say:...

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Put That Light out! (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...

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Blaze on Sally Star ferry off Kent (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Marc de Leuw reports on a fire on a cross-channel ferry, over 100 people were rescued off the Kent coast. The Sally Star was sailing from Dunkirk to Ramsgate. One crew member was injured and airlifted to RAF...

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Total War in Britain (1945 Video)

Director

Alexander Shaw

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

The story of the total mobilisation of Britain’s manpower and industrial resources for war, in the four years from Dunkirk to the invasion of western Europe. The film is based on an offical British...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Devil’s Tower Rescue

Date released

30 Oct 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

647A

NoS ID

011994

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Parachute From Devils Tower. DESCRIPTION: George Hopkins caused a sensation in America when he made a parachute leap onto the Devil’s Tower Rock in Wyoming. He then had to be rescued...

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Finest Hour (1999 Video)

Director

Nick Read

Producer

Phil Craig

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 2 x 100 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Ordinary British people recall the critical months starting in May 1940 when Britain faced the threat of Nazi Germany. In four parts: 1) up to the Dunkirk evacuation, showing Chruchill at work and Thora Hird...

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