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  1. Topping Out the Tallest

    Date released
    23 Dec 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1803
    NoS ID
    025367
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Topping Out the Tallest. DESCRIPTION: Mr Norman Prichard Chairman of the LCC Housing Committee was present at the Topping Out ceremony of a 25 storey block of flats. The tallest in...

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  2. Anxiety in High Places

    Date released
    20 May 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2033
    NoS ID
    027386
    Story no
    1 / 2

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Anxiety in High Places. DESCRIPTION: The collapse of the two-hundred foot Tower Block in Canning Town - with the miraculous escape of almost all its residents - raises widespread doubts...

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  3. Ronan Points Flats Changed To Electricity

    Date released
    22 Aug 1968
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    68/68
    NoS ID
    113217
    Story no
    1 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    A government tribunal investigating the collapse in May of Ronan Point, the multi-storey block of flats, in which five died, recommended to local councils that gas supplies to these types of dwellings should...

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  4. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Speed

    Date released
    4 Sep 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    952A
    NoS ID
    014632
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cobb Attempts Speed Record. DESCRIPTION: At Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah John Cobb practises for his attempt on the Land Speed Record. SHOTLIST: KS Railton Special speeding along salt...

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  5. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Bevan Gives Housing Figures

    Date released
    4 Oct 1948
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1009
    NoS ID
    015351
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bevan Opens Flats - Gives Housing Figures. DESCRIPTION: Aneurin Bevan gave the housing figures in his speech to open the new Council flats of Aspen Gardens in Hammersmith. SHOTLIST: KS...

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  6. Tower block demolished (1986)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Special

    Report as Highworth Point, a tower block of flats in Hackney, is demolished (sirens, explosions and cheering heard) and interview with Susan, the woman who pushed the button to demolish the block. Reporter...

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  7. Battersea tower block fire (1979)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Jim Dallmeyer reports from the Castlemaine Tower block of flats in Culvert Street, Battersea after the building was gutted by fire. Female studio reporter not identified. (75-year-old Florence Fyfe died in...

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  8. At Home & Abroad: Their Majesties in Shoreditch - Visit new flats in Hoxton

    Date released
    31 Mar 1938
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    460A
    NoS ID
    008663
    Story no
    7 / 14

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King & Queen Visit Hoxton. SHOTLIST: Shots of the King & Queen coming down the steps of a new block of flats. Shots of children waving flags. King & Queen alight from the flats. Shots...

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  9. Sound Tests in Flats

    Date released
    20 Feb 1950
    Series name
    New Pictorial
    Issue no
    284
    NoS ID
    118831
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

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  10. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Laing News Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    348846
    Story no
    5 / 10

    BFI synopsis: Then over to Fulham, where the eighteenth multi-storey block of flats to be constructed at Sulivan Court since 1950 is nearing completion, and at the Star Road, Fulham, flats and maisonettes...

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