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King’s Stamp, The (1935 Video)

Director

William Coldstream

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 20 min.

Shows the designing, lithographing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp. A short history of postage stamps is dramatised with scenes about Rowland Hill and the reactions of the general...

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Tom Jackson on vote against cheap Christmas post (1978)

Genre

Interview

Tom Jackson, General Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers (UPOW), on a vote against introducing a cheaper Christmas stamp, costing 5p. Delegates also rejected proposals to reintroduce Sunday...

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You Can’t Lick ‘Em

Date released

10 Feb 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1810

NoS ID

025425

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: You Can’t Lick ‘Em. DESCRIPTION: It’s been called the most dramatic innovation since the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840. A postage stamp for Sierra Leone shaped like a map...

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Hong Kong Stamps

Date released

Oct 1963

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

17

NoS ID

327583

Story no

2 / 6

NoS synopsis: Visits a postage stamp exhibition held in Hong Kong’s City Hall. The exhibition, which was opened by government administrator, Mr C.B. Burgess, marked the 100 years that the country’s...

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News in Colour: Toy Exhibition and Royal Stamp Collection

Date released

8 Nov 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1901

NoS ID

026214

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News in Colour (Toy Exhibition and Royal Stamp Collection). DESCRIPTION: A preview of some of the toys - of various kinds and for all age groups - on show at the Toy Exhibition in...

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Most Beautiful Stamp

Date released

2 Feb 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1652A

NoS ID

023970

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Most Beautiful Stamp. DESCRIPTION: There was plenty to set philatelists a-flutter among designs awarded prizes by the International Philatelic Art Society. The awards were presented in...

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Stanley Gibbons

Date released

1975

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

858

NoS ID

329099

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: In 1840, Britain invented the world’s first postage stamp - and she’s still the only country not to put her name on her stamps. So perhaps it’s only natural that London is still the...

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Aviation History Films (2011)

Subject

Aviation

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 300 minutes), $18.49

A 3-DVD set containing a compilation of 18 films made between 1917 and 1966 illustrating the history of flight. Contents: THE EPIC OF FLIGHT (1966, 48 MIN.) A Wolper production documenting the history of...

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