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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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All Colour Reel: Mount Etna

Date released

29 Apr 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2343

NoS ID

030316

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mount Etna Eruption Colour. DESCRIPTION: Europe’s largest Volcano is still active and a team of British and Italian scientists are making observations on the lava. SHOTLIST: LV zoom...

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Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

Producer

Neil Cameron

Subject

Media studies; Psychology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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Norman Conquest, The (1982 Video)

Director

Colin Grimshaw

Producer

Kathleen Burk

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Professor H R Loyn looks at the European and English contexts of the Norman conquest, at the organisations and military strengths of the Normans, and at the personalities involved. He describes the battle of...

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The Big Rollers

Date released

10 Feb 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2071

NoS ID

027743

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Big Rollers. DESCRIPTION: The fashion in the Construction Industry is Nylon. In Birmingham, at a new tyre Laboratory, they test gigantic tyres for earth moving vehicles, including...

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Stairway to the Stars

Date released

4 Dec 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2009

NoS ID

027152

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stairway to the Stars. DESCRIPTION: The largest Telescope in Europe, at the Royal Observatory, Herstmonceux, will give Astronomers a closer look at the mysteries of space. SHOTLIST: CU...

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How They Built the Channel Tunnel (1992 Video)

Director

Sandy Balfour

Producer

Sandy Balfour

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

The Channel Tunnel was the largest single construction project in Europe and it took five years to build. This programme investigates the science and technology that made the project possible, and reflects...

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Pilots Under Pressure

Date released

4 Nov 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1796

NoS ID

025310

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pilots Under Pressure. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Air Force of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough is the largest laboratory of its kind in Western Europe and the Commonwealth. It’s task is...

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Lasers

Date released

1979

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

244

NoS ID

326002

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Twenty years ago, scientists invented a new sort of light - laser light. Now, as its breathtaking potential for visual entertainment is being realised, the laser is rapidly establishing itself...

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History of Water Power, The (1990 Video)

aka: Water Power and the Industrial Revolution

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Discusses the history of the use of energy in three areas: the energy source itself; the systems of power transmission; the application of this energy to various industrial purposes. Moving water was the...

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