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Men of the Lightship (1940 Video)

Director

David MacDonald

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

'Year in, year out, all round our coasts, the beam of the lightship shines through the night and its siren pierces the fog banks. Light and fog signals reach vessels of all nations equally, and for three...

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Firemen’s Dispute; 60 Minutes 210 News - nd [1975-1986]

60 Minutes 210 news. Phil Coope reports about the Berkshire 24 hour industrial action protest tonight of the Firemen. And they will join a big demonstration tomorrow in Reading against the government...

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Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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Tonight and Every Night (1945 Film)

Director

Victor Saville

Producer

Victor Saville

Feature film musical about the efforts of London’s Windmill Theatre to stay open during the Blitz. In one scene in an officers’ mess a notice-board announces ‘By permission of Group Captain G. Homesby,...

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Thanks to Mr. Shakespeare (1938 Radio)

Series

First Nighter Program, The

Director

Joe Ainley

Radio comedy anthology series. This episode is about a bridegroom who makes the mistake of using The Taming of the Shrew as a guidebook for a happy marriage.

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TRAMP’S BALL

Date released

Jul 1953

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

345795

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: festivity at a colliery village pub, the Winning Post Hotel, at Thorne, Yorkshire. Miners dress up as tramps to win prize. NCB Commentary - The Winning Post Hotel, in the mining village of...

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Love They Neighbor (1940 Radio)

aka: Love Thy Neighbour

Series

Hollywood on the Air

Radio programme. A celebration of LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1940) which includes some of the film’s stars - Jack Benny, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson and Fred Allen. Announcer Ken Carpenter and Benny ask...

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Northamptonshire - Steel Town

Date released

Feb 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346320

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: Corby, a steel town which uses coal in many ways. NCB Commentary - Coal for industry. Coal for the home. Coal on the move. Nearly a million and a half tons a year for this one steel plan in...

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To Be or Not to Be (1964 Radio)

Series

There is a Play Tonight: Plays of Shakespeare in Performances

Producer

John Powell (2)

Last programme in a 3-part radio series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and...

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FREE FOR ALL

Date released

Dec 1952

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

345769

Story no

4 / 4

NoS Summary - all-in wrestling at Fryston institute. BFI synopsis: Miners at Fryston (Yorkshire) celebrate the first anniversary of the building of the Miners" Welfare Hall includes wrestling matches -...

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