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Operation Pluto - The Oil Pipe-Line from Britain to Europe

Date released

1944

Series name

Worker and Warfront

Issue no

17

NoS ID

156860

Story no

2 / 3

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Pluto. How Fuel Reached Our Armies in Europe

Date released

24 May 1945

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1188

NoS ID

064577

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

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Cosmic Clips: Animations from Astronomers (1993 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 30 min., 1995 sale: US$34.95 (+p&p)

Thirteen video clips developed by astronomers as part of their research, employing supercomputer models to explore topics such as galaxy collisions, the Crab nebula pulsar, the X-ray sun, Pluto and its moon...

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Operation Pluto

Date released

24 May 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/42

NoS ID

100710

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The construction and laying of submarine petrol pipeline under the English Channel which fed fuel through from England to Germany.

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Pluto Gives Up Channel Squatting

Date released

19 Sep 1946

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1623

NoS ID

040221

Story no

3 / 7

Pipeline Under The Ocean, through which was pumped fuel for the invasion armies, is recovered by cable ship to provide lead for house building.

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: P.ipe L.ine U.nder T.he O.cean

Date released

24 May 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

833A

NoS ID

013459

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pipe Line Under the Ocean ('PLUTO’). DESCRIPTION: Operation Pluto is another of those "top secrets" which can only now be revealed. The pipe line was laid under the Channel to carry...

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Planets, The. Part 1: Children of the Sun (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Begins with an historical look at our knowledge of the solar system, from the ancient stone circles to the Greek view that the sun and planets rotated around the earth. Galileo and his opposing view is...

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Date released

2 Jul 1945

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

217

NoS ID

156422

Story no

1 / 3

US National Archive entry: 10 min, sd, B&W, 35mm Pipe, to be laid across the English Channel for the transportation of petroleum, is prepared in England. The British ship Conundrum starts "Operation Pluto"...

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Recent Developments in War Technology

Date released

1945

Series name

The Gen

Issue no

16

NoS ID

080928

Story no

4 / 6

Film of Bofors gun, flame throwers, V1 flying bomb, and "scatter bombs". Not all recent developments are offensive, however - film illustrates Mulberry harbour, PLUTO oil supplies, FIDO runway illumination...

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Operation ‘Pluto’: The Development and Production of the Hamel Pipelines (1944 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 36 min., Free loan

Looks at the Hamel piplines, the purpose of which was to delivering petrol wherever required, without harbours or ships, on the invasion coast of France during World War 2. The success of this top-secret...

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