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BABY TOWER

Date released

Apr 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346042

Story no

4 / 4

NoS synopsis: A made-on-the-spot, do-it-yourself sea-boring tower helps in plotting the coal seams underwater in the Firth of Forth. NCB Commentary - The big Kinneal Colliery on the banks of the Firth of...

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Rise and Fall of King Cotton, The (6 Parts) (1984 Video)

Director

Michael Garrod

Producer

Michael Garrod

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min.

Series discussing the technical, scientific, economic and political issues in the rise and fall of the cotton industry. Great Britain, India and the United States of America are the three countries...

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The Prince in Borneo

Date released

12 Mar 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1553A

NoS ID

022910

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Prince in Borneo. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Yacht Britannia took Prince Philip to Borneo, where he visited British colonies and protectorates in the island. A Royal visit to this part...

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Colonial Theatre, A: The Royal Victoria (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Special loan to Consortium members only, Videocassette. VHS. col. 11, 12, 12, 9, 13, 24 min.

6: Attempts to simulate a segment of a performance as it might have apeared around the time of the theatre’s opening. Shows part of the last scene of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, which was the play first...

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Crisis in the Atlantic - 1941

Date released

Jul 1941

Series name

The March of Time 7th Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

352029

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: Since the first day of the Second World War, Britain has relied for ultimate victory upon the convoys linking her to the immense resources of the New World. And now as this war...

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Australia at War

Date released

Jun 1941

Series name

The March of Time 6th Year

Issue no

14

NoS ID

352028

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: Although the entire population of that Dominion numbers less than the population of Greater London. Australia has already created, for the second time in one generation, a...

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Zoo Quest for a Dragon (6 Parts) (2009)

Subject

Anthropology; Biology; Geography; Media studies

ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON, first broadcast in 1956, was the third in David Attenborough’s groundbreaking ZOO QUEST television natural history series. In these programmes he pioneered techniques in programme...

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John Pilger: Documentaries That Changed the World (2007)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 644 minutes), £12.00

DVD set brings together twelve of John Pilger’s most hard-hitting and inspirational films. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.51: Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 51 Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 11 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Visions of Change - The Evolution of the British TV Documentary

Date

31 Mar 2016, 16:28

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

The British Film Institute continues its re-evaluation of the British documentary tradition with Visions of Change, an extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s. Dr Ieuan...

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