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Pancake Race

Date released

19 Feb 1978

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2542

NoS ID

031105

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pancake Race. DESCRIPTION: Beauty Queens line up in Lincoln’s Inn Fields for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race. The winner was Miss Jamaica International, Dorothy Ottey. SHOTLIST: MS...

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Apartheid (4 Parts) (1986 Video)

Director

John Blake; Allan Segal

Producer

Mark Anderson; John Blake; Norma Percy; Allan Segal

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 55 min.

Documentary recounting the history of apartheid in South Africa.

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The London interview (1980)

Genre

Interview

The London Interview. Tricia Ingrams interviews Evening Standard journalist John Blake, who writes a celebrity column entitled Ad Lib. Blake discusses the wide range of things he writes about in his column...

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Miners strike - NUM frozen funds (1984)

Genre

Interview

National Union of Mineworkers solicitor Bruce St John Blake on getting the frozen NUM funds in Dublin released. Female interviewer not identified.

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First anniversary of death of John Lennon (1981)

Genre

News report; Obituary

Report on the first anniversary of the death of John Lennon. Includes interviews with Joe Flannery, an old friend of Lennon, who wrote a song for the anniversary; writer John Blake, who says Yoko Ono still...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Across the Tracks: The Vlach Gypsies of Hungary (1988 Video)

aka: Vlach Gypsies

Director

John Blake

Distribution

Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Granada)

Vlach gypsies are unassimilated descendents of gypsy slaves in Wallachia in Romania in the 19th century. Explores the gypsies’ position in socialist Hungary through the eyes of three related families,...

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Great Pyramid, The: Gateway to the Stars (1994 Video)

Producer

Chris Mann

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Writers Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert claim that the Great Pyramid was an instrument of worship in the stellar cult of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, and that the precision with which it was constructed was...

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Good Enough to Eat? 1 (1993 Video)

Producer

Angela Tilby

Subject

Psychiatry; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines Dr Jill Welbourne’s perception of anorexia and bulimia nervosa as a spiritual and moral issue - a quest for perfection, which is expressed through excessive fasting. Looks at the origins of these...

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Cult Breakers (1994 Video)

Producer

Emma Barker

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Church of Christ is one of the world’s fastest growing cults and is alleged to use techniques of mind control on its members. Mike and Gill West-Eacott enrolled the services of a ‘cult breaker’ - a...

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Whale Hunters of Lamalera, The (1988 Video)

Director

John Blake

Producer

John Blake

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Follows the daily life of the Lamaholot, whale hunters from the village of Lamalera on the Indonesian island of Lembata, a community of 1500 people. The villagers have to fish to survive - their preferred...

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