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Board-Room Jokes

Date released

8 Dec 1963

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

467

NoS ID

121460

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Lazing beside a babbling brook is a far cry from busy board meetings, unless you join us on a visit to the Ellidon joke factory in Buckinghamshire. Walking matches, trick cigars, rubber...

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Tobacco - Wills Factory

Date released

May 1963

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

13

NoS ID

327564

Story no

5 / 7

COI synopsis: Visits a factory where raw tobacco is made into cigars and cigarettes.

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World News Items: Jamaica Greets Its Guest

Date released

19 Jan 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1233

NoS ID

018318

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World News Items - Churchill in Jamaica. DESCRIPTION: Montego Bay Airport, outside Kingston Jamaica, was crowded with celebrities, there to meet Mr Churchill who was spending two weeks...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Rundstedt’s Push

Date released

1 Jan 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

813

NoS ID

013334

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rundstedt’s Push. DESCRIPTION: Film captured from a German cameraman shows the German counter-offensive on the Western Front. By the time these pictures were received in London the...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

5 Feb 1945

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

196

NoS ID

156372

Story no

1 / 1

US National Archive entry: 10 min, sd, B&W, 35 mm On the battle of the Ardennes. British tanks advance, infantry row across a small stream in Holland, machine guns are manned; tanks and infantry cross...

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Cuban Cigars and the Missile Crisis (2005 Radio)

Series

Seven Ages of Man, The

Producer

Cathryn Brennan

Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. In the second episode, Aidan Matthews’s take on ‘A Whining...

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Bookies Feel the Draught

Date released

17 Jan 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1754A

NoS ID

024956

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bookies Feel the Draught. DESCRIPTION: The sport of kings is, of-course, the livelihood of the bookies, and they are the common denominators between the horses and the public. Snow and...

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638 Ways to Kill Castro (2007)

Director

Dollan Cannell

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £17.99

Poison pens, lethal noxious gases, deadly model aircraft, toxic cigars, baseball grenades and exploding molluscs - just a sample of the hilariously outlandish 638 plots to kill the charismatic Cuban...

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History of Advertising General 1930 - 1950

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 120 minutes), £19.99

Looks at the days of advertising before television and the Internet and provides an insight into the marketing strategies implemented from the 1930s to 1950. Back before the days of high technology...

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