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Reports: Cruiser news in US and Roosevelt sets sail for Pan American Conference

Date released

30 Nov 1936

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

391

NoS ID

007065

Story no

7 / 13

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cruiser News in US. SHOTLIST: Shot of the cruiser ‘Philadelphia’ being launched. Down slipway. Shot of President Roosevelt. CU leaving for the Argentine Pan American Conference....

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Quest (2017)

Director

Jonathan Olshefski

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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"We Shall Jointly Labor" (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 129

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Cambridge University’s Jason Scott-Warren and Dr. Claire M. L. Bourne, from Penn State University, to discuss their discovery that the annotations in the copy of Shakespeare’s...

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Perception and Proportion (1980 Multimedia)

Producer

Monica Pidgeon

Subject

Architecture; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 25 min; 24 slides. col.

Anne Tyng, long-time collaborator of Louis I Kahn in his Philadelphia office, is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She says: ‘We see as a result of...

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American Independence 1776 (1987 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Filmed on location in Philadelphia, looks at why the revolt of 1776 took place in what was an apparently a solid British community. Covers: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine; the ‘Declaration of...

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Edsac Film, The (1976 Film)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1951 a film was made in the Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge University illustrating the operation of the EDSAC computer which had been working since May 1949. The film was first shown at the First...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Personalities - President Truman (Electioneering)

Date released

29 Jul 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

999A

NoS ID

015235

Story no

3 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Personalities - Truman. DESCRIPTION: President Truman urges on his own followers to work for an election victory. SHOTLIST: KS GV crowds around rostrum listening to speaker. Truman...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Natural History News

Date released

29 Jul 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

895

NoS ID

013956

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Natural History News - Bees, Chimps, Bears & Greyhounds. DESCRIPTION: The convention has just been held at Cradell, New Jersey. The chimpanzees in a Paris zoo model for sculptor,...

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Maritime Affairs: USS Olympia

Date released

3 Oct 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1478A

NoS ID

021960

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dewey’s Flagship (SS Olympia). DESCRIPTION: An old-timer that helped to make history, the American cruiser Olympia was Admiral Dewey’s flagship at the battle of Manila Bay. She’s...

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Attempted Soviet coup collapses (1991)

Genre

News bulletin; Interview; Speech

IRN 06.00 news read by Douglas Cameron focusing on the collapse of the attempted Soviet coup. With Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speech on victory through an interpreter; comment from Soviet political...

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