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News In A Flash: Leningrad Metro Extension

Date released

17 Jan 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2766

NoS ID

156999

Story no

3 / 12

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Political Extremes Demonstrate in London

Date released

6 May 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

987A

NoS ID

015087

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mosley Holds Meeting on May Day. DESCRIPTION: Crowds gathered at a May Day meeting which was addressed by Sir Oswald Mosley. SHOTLIST: KS MS crowds around Sir Oswald Mosley’s truck....

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Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929 Film)

Director

Charles Riesner

Feature film. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel host a musical revue of MGM acts, including Joan Crawford, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Includes a skit (c 6 mins) on Romeo and Juliet, where John Gilbert and...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)

aka: Huckleberry Finn

Director

Richard Thorpe (2)

Producer

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...

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Fame (1980 Film)

Director

Alan Parker

Producer

David de Silva; Alan Marshall

Musical drama. The fortunes of some of the students at Manhattan’s High School for the Performing Arts. During the auditions at the beginning of the film, several students recite Shakespeare; one delivers...

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Dispute over Jack Ruby pistol (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

Nick Peters reports from Washington DC on a legal case in the United States over the ownership of the Colt Cobra .38 revolver used to shoot John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by nightclub owner...

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Tyneside riots (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Sir Stanley Bailey on the recent riots in North Shields, and the causes of the violence. Female interviewer not identified. Originally on Metro Radio.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Story of Two Ships - Empire Lark

Date released

4 Aug 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

948

NoS ID

014575

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Empire Lark Scuttled. DESCRIPTION: The Empire Lark is loaded with tons of chemical weapons and towed into the Bay of Biscay, she is then scuttled. SHOTLIST: KS GV SS Empire Lark at...

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Radio Bugs (1944 Film)

Series

Our Gang

Director

Cy Endfield

US comedy short series. Inspired by the success of his favourite comedian Red Skelton, Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and an array of ‘funny’...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Sir Malcolm at Coniston

Date released

16 Jun 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

941

NoS ID

014486

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sir Malcolm at Lake Coniston. DESCRIPTION: Sir Malcolm Campbell has taken the Bluebird for test runs on Lake Coniston. SHOTLIST: KS CU Sir Malcolm in launch on his way out to Bluebird,...

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