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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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African Horizon

Date released

1956

Series name

Babcock Review

Issue no

3

NoS ID

352818

Story no

3 / 4

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This opens with the loading aboard ship on Clydeside of a Renfrew-built drum for one of the 580,000 lb./hr. Babcock boilers being installed in Taaibos power station, largest in...

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Science And Agriculture: Apples Galore

Date released

1977

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

210

NoS ID

325898

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Science and technology is constantly at work searching for ways to help the farmer and the horticulturist to speed things up and improve output. To develop new strains of apple tree roots:...

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African Horizon

Date released

1957

Series name

Home and Away

Issue no

9

NoS ID

352798

Story no

1 / 4

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This opens with the loading aboard ship on Clydeside of a Renfrew-built drum for one of the 580,000 lb./hr. Babcock boilers being installed in Taaibos power station, largest in...

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Denby Washery

Date released

Dec 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

334735

Story no

3 / 3

BFI Summary - The coal washeries at Denbigh. COI Commentary - To the Denby Hall Washery in Nottinghamshire, come trucks from three local collieries. Eventually, when drifts have been dug, the coal will...

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Decision: Steel (1976 Video)

Director

Roger Graef

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 96 min.

Follows the progress of a major investment decision inside the management of the British Steel Corporation, one of Britain’s large nationalised industries - whether or not to invest nearly 50 million in...

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ON THE SCREEN

Date released

Nov 1964

Series name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346264

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: automated mining through the use of closed circuit televisions at Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire. NCB Commentary - At Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire they’re mining coal without a man on the...

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Wheat Rust (2012)

Director

Maurice Constant

Producer

JV Duden

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 17 minutes), Canadian $ 19.95

Every year millions of acres of wheatland on the North American continent become a battlefield, with man competing for one of his chief sources of food against a microscopic organism. Stem rust of wheat, an...

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EAST MIDLANDS LOOKS WEST

Date released

Jul 1962

Series name

Mining Review 15th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346177

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: the reconstruction of Cadley Hill Colliery on the western fringe of the East Midlands coalfield to work reserves totalling some 60 million tons NCB Commentary - The old pit at Cadley Hill,...

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War and the Camera with a commentary delivered by Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC): Malta Today

Date released

30 Jul 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

686A

NoS ID

012378

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Malta Today. DESCRIPTION: After the arrival of the convoy the welcome supplies are unloaded and distributed. In the shadow of the battlements, men supplement their rations by means of...

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