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Sanders of the River (1935 Film)

Director

Zoltan Korda

Producer

Alexander Korda

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. Presents a selectively constructed but positive view of British colonial administration in Africa and of the nature and capabilities of the African. The tone and theme of the film are set by...

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Old Hands: British Labour Camps 1929-1939 (1999)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 35 minutes), £25.00

Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the...

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Butterfly Boats

Date released

Jun 1965

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

37

NoS ID

327684

Story no

2 / 5

COI synopsis: A New Zealand sailing race, in which the competitors were all children who had made their own craft.

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Dunkirk Repaid

Date released

13 May 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/38

NoS ID

099962

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

In one fell swoop Tunis and Bizerta were taken, the end of the Axis in Africa it had been. Tanks and bren carriers are seen advancing across the desert, squadrons of planes flying over the North African...

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German terrorists commit suicide in prison (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Phil Kelly, leader of British protesters who claim the Baader-Meinhof guerillas who committed suicide in prison were actually murdered by the West German government. Interviewer not identified.

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UNO Take Over

Date released

6 Dec 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1435A

NoS ID

021352

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: UNO Take Over the Canal. DESCRIPTION: Port Said is still the focus of world attention. But now it’s the United Nation’s Emergency Force that’s coming more and more into the...

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Royal Polo at Cowdray Park

Date released

Jul 1963

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

1

NoS ID

324581

Story no

2 / 6

COI synopsis- Over to England for a polo match at Cowdray Park, where Prince Philip often plays. On this occasion a Brazilian/Argentine team - the Sao Silvestre - challenged a British team and the British,...

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Sutton Hoo Helmet, The (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about the Sutton Hoo helmet and the other treasures which were found when the Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated near Woodbridge in Suffolk on the eve of World War II. The film includes...

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Cave Women

Date released

29 Aug 1929

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

430

NoS ID

332246

Story no

5 / 6

British Pathe synopsis: Four glamour girls walk towards a man who holds some tilly lamps. They take a lamp each. The girls walk into a tunnel accompanied by the man. "The history of the caves is lost in...

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From the Italian Front

Date released

5 Jun 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/45

NoS ID

100398

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Polish and British troops advancing through towns of Piedmonte and Aquino. Many prisoners are taken and some who had been in the Pontine Marshes when they were flooded by the Germans as a defence measure are...

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