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  1. People of Porgera (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

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  2. Witwatersrand Basin, The (1982 Film, Video)

    Director
    Gerald Weinbren
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A detailed geological history of the development of the lower Proterozoic basin and deposition of the famous gold- and uranium-bearing quartz-pebble conglomerates. Modern examples of sedimentary environments...

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  3. World Film News: Uranium Rush

    Date released
    18 Aug 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1211
    NoS ID
    017992
    Story no
    8 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Film News - Uranium Rush. DESCRIPTION: In the northern wilds of Saskatchewan, it looks like Klondike and the gold rush all over again, but in fact the atomic-age prospectors are...

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  4. MINING HONOURS

    Date released
    Mar 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345994
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: faceworker George Windsor is awarded a gold medal by a national newspaper in recognition of service to humanity and good workmanship. Also, Sneyd Colliery honours veterans NCB Commentary -...

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  5. The Queen in the Yukon

    Date released
    23 Jul 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1573
    NoS ID
    023138
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen in the Yukon. DESCRIPTION: From British Colombia, the royal travellers flew to the Yukon. It is a bitter land of winters eight months long, and rugged territory, with...

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  6. Canadian Uranium Rush

    Date released
    26 Feb 1953
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1238A
    NoS ID
    018395
    Story no
    2 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canadian Uranium Rush. DESCRIPTION: In place of the pick and shovel of gold rush days - the Geiger counter; for at North Bay, Ontario, to the locating of what is believed to be the...

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  7. FESTIVAL OF LABOUR

    Date released
    Dec 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346191
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: At this festival held in Battersea Park there was a working model of a coal mine, the Cresswell Colliery Band and on the athletics side Dorothy Hyman and Arthur Rowe. NCB Commentary - This...

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  8. Rhodesian Highlights

    Date released
    28 Jan 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1599A
    NoS ID
    023434
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rhodesian Highlights. DESCRIPTION: Another highlight of Mr Macmillan’s African tour was his visit to the copper-belt in Northern Rhodesia. Copper is to Rhodesia as gold is to South...

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  9. Tar Sands Trilogy

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99

    These films address the huge environmental impact of the Tar Sands developments in Alberta Canada. DIRTY OIL (2010): Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and...

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  10. The Investiture of Prince Charles

    Date released
    3 Jul 1969
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2091A
    NoS ID
    027919
    Story no
    1 / 1

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Colour Investiture of Prince Charles. DESCRIPTION: I Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship, and faith and truth I will bear unto you...

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