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  1. The Tidemiller

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    19
    NoS ID
    349514
    Story no
    4 / 4

    synopsis: an 800 years old mill at Woodbridge that is worked by the tides in the Deben.

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  2. MPs At Hydraulics Institute

    Date released
    Jun 1970
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    79
    NoS ID
    352685
    Story no
    5 / 7

    COI synopsis: Hydraulic models, which help civil engineers to judge the action of river currents and tides.

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  3. Fire at Sea

    Date released
    5 May 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/36
    NoS ID
    098750
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Passenger ship "Orungal" runs ashore off Victoria, Australia, and while awaiting high tides to float her off, fire breaks out on board and quickly spreads from stem to stern. With her cargo of crude oil this...

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  4. River Runs Uphill

    Date released
    3 Aug 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1678A
    NoS ID
    024213
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: River Runs Uphill. DESCRIPTION: The tides along the Bay of Fundy, on Canada’s Eastern seaboard, are the world’s highest, rising and falling 55 feet every 6 hours. This tidal-bore on...

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  5. Hydraulics Research Station

    Date released
    22 Mar 1964
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    483
    NoS ID
    121498
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ... don’t toy around with the idea that research has dampened schoolboy enthusiasm. At the Hydraulics Research Station, they build scale models of ships and harbours and can even simulate...

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  6. Weather affecting salvage of Christos Bitas (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male salvage worker on how the adverse weather has temporarily halted the salvage operation of the grounded Greek oil tanker, Christos Bitas. Male interviewer not identified.

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  7. Robin Knox-Johnston on Round the World yacht race (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Robin Knox-Johnston is interviewed following his return from the Round the World yacht race. He answers questions on the overtaking of competitor Eric Camberley and the effect of the mast breaking in the...

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  8. Zimbabwe Countdown (2010)

    Director
    Michael Raeburn
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary filmmaker Michael Raeburn was a supporter of the man once hailed as the ‘saviour of Zimbabwe’, Robert Mugabe. This film examines how the self-stylised liberator became a dictator and how the...

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  9. Thames Barrier explained (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with project director John Grice about the function of the Thames Barrier. Low pressures in the North Sea, melting polar ice caps and the settlement of London has increased flooding risks in the...

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  10. Oil Tanker Aground

    Date released
    23 Mar 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/24
    NoS ID
    112511
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Torrey Canyon, the 61,000 ton tanker goes aground off the Scilly Isles. Much of her 100,000 ton cargo of crude oil seeps away as the crippled vessel is battered by heavy seas. Britain’s cost is threatened...

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