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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: WAAFs

Date released

5 May 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

622

NoS ID

011652

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: With the WAAF - NO FILM. SHOTLIST: Shots in the map room, the teleprinter room, the typists room. The girls sing to bagpipes and fence. Then they go out with their boy friends.

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What Next: Man-Made Fur

Date released

22 Sep 1952

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2250

NoS ID

043939

Story no

2 / 8

At Dorchester Hotel mannequins display manufactured nylon fur which resembles ermine.

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Water Once a Day (1985)

aka: Water Once a Day: Town Women of Cape Verde

Director

Tamara Wyss

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £20.00

In a poor suburb on the outskirts of the capital of Cape Verde, where one standpipe serves 3,000 people, and then only for three hours a day, Balila, who is 53 and blind, sells water. She has had a hard...

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A New Job for Eve

Date released

5 Apr 1928

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

357

NoS ID

331832

Story no

1 / 7

NoS synopsis: a lady meteorologist.

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Radiolocation for ATS

Date released

21 Jul 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/58

NoS ID

098907

Story no

6 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Girls of the Auxiliary Training Service (ATS) and men of the anti-aircraft section of the Royal Artillery are being schooled in the use of Radar.

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Uranium Hex (1987 Film, Video)

Director

Sandra Lahire

Producer

Sandra Lahire

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Using a kaliedoscopic array of experimental techniques, the film explores uranium mining in Canada and its desctuctive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines. Images range from...

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Helen Sharman on Juno mission (1989)

Genre

Interview

Science correspondent John Allen interviews Helen Sharman, 26-year-old technology researcher, about being selected for the Juno mission and possibly getting to go to the Mir space station as the first Briton...

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Rites of Passage: Four Stories of Survival (1995 Video)

Director

Diane Best

Subject

Development studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

The stories of four teenage girls coming of age and the personal cost of this transition. A Nicaraguan girl is addicted to glue sniffing and is slipping into a life of prostitution; an Indian girl has been...

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Prefab Dinners Show Wives What’s Cookin’

Date released

6 Aug 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1506

NoS ID

039655

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Latest from America is cooked meals, kept in cold storage, sold over counter and hotted up for table. Science marches on!

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Clarke. Life of a Microbial Biochemist: Professor Patricia H. Clarke Frs in Conversation with Professor J. Gareth Morris Frs, 10 May 1994 (1994)

Subject

Biology

Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke’s main research was on bacterial enzymes: their evolution and properties, and producing and purifying them for industrial use. She was also involved in developments in...

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