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  1. News in Flashes: Stop Press

    Date released
    7 Sep 1950
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2037
    NoS ID
    042583
    Story no
    4 / 8

    Cooper’s apprenticeship ends with traditional ceremony.

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  2. Potter’s Art, The (1970 Film)

    Director
    Derek Fairhead
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot in Bernard Leach’s home and studio in St. Ives, Cornwall. The artist discusses the influence of his apprenticeship in Japan and his desire to bridge the differences between East and West. He...

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  3. Lean Years (1981-1985), The (2002 Television)

    Series
    Stratford Gold
    Producer
    Richard Ouzounian

    A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 7. After the public controversy surrounding the Festival, John...

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  4. He’s a Cooper Now! A Roll in the Barrel Ends Apprenticeship

    Date released
    8 Dec 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2585
    NoS ID
    046247
    Story no
    5 / 7

    Twenty-one year old Robert Leece became fully fledged cooper in age-old traditional style.

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  5. Doggett’s Coat and Badge

    Date released
    1948
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    349963
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the annual race in London for Doggett’s Coat and Badge, and £20, the race is rowed in light skiffs from London Bridge to Chelsea, by young Thames watermen just out of apprenticeship.

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  6. Duncan Douglas, Savile Row Tailor (1989 Video)

    Director
    J Melland
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 207 min.

    Interview with Duncan Douglas, a Savile Row tailor who came from Grenada and worked his apprenticeship for a number of tailors before setting up on his own. Shows the processes involved in making a suit.

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  7. Coastguards

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    372
    NoS ID
    326609
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: For the modern coastguards, who want to co-ordinate rescue operations involving ships, aircraft, and land communications, the old system of apprenticeship is no longer sufficient. We see the...

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  8. Hand Rolling of Steel (1982)

    Director
    W.K.V. Gale
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £12.00

    A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...

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  9. Face Values. Part 5: Moving Through Life (1978 Film)

    Director
    David Cordingley
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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  10. Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2006 Video)

    Director
    Guti Fraga

    Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Nos Do Morro’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Guti Fraga with Thiago Dos Santos Martins as Valentine and Renan Monteiro as Proteus.

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