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  1. Now for the New Year - Mr Movietone

    Date released
    30 Dec 1929
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    30
    NoS ID
    002313
    Story no
    6 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Now for the New Year - Mr Movietone. SHOTLIST: A raid by Chelsea Art Students practising for the New Year. Shots of the students in fancy dress rushing and boarding Movietone van. They...

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  2. Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

    Director
    Elizabeth Taylor Mead
    Producer
    Jonathan Lewis
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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  3. Will by Pablo Fetches a Thousand (1965 Film)

    Series
    British Movietone News

    British newsfilm. The auction of the Shakespeare Memorial Exhibition collection of over ninety items. A pen and ink sketch of Shakespeare by Pablo Picasso is auctioned and shown briefly. It fetched £1000....

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  4. First transatlantic jet service-Movietone report (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Special

    Movietone newsreel report presented by Geoffrey Sumner, on the inaugural transatlantic jet service (prob. 04/10/58).

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  5. UPITN - A Short History

    Date
    23 Jan 2014, 13:00
    Author
    Gabriel Hernandez
    Post Type
    Page

    United Press Movietone The agreement between United Press and Fox-Movietone to shoot newsfilm for television stations was announced on July 13, 1948. United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was pioneering in...

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  6. Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis (1980)

    Genre
    News report

    Archive Movietone newsreel on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, presented by Leslie Mitchell. He describes how Cuban exiles attempted a sabotage mission in Cuba in 1962 amid concern that Fidel Castro had...

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  7. History of Ronan Point tower block and safety worries (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the history of Ronan Point, a tower block in Newham, east London, which raised doubts about the safety of large panel system buildings after a section collapsed due to a gas explosion in 1968....

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  8. World Pays Tribute to William Shakespeare (1932 Film)

    Series
    British Movietone News

    British newsfilm. "The Prince of Wales opens Memorial Theatre before representatives of 40 nations at Stratford". The Prince begins his speech ‘Shakespeare was above all things an Englishman, he loved his...

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  9. Their Majesties in Shakespeare Country (1950 Film)

    Series
    British Movietone News

    Newsfilm item. A royal visit to Stratford-upon-Avon. King Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visit Stratford-on-Avon for the first time. The royal party is greeted by Lord Iliffe and shown...

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  10. British Train Disasters, 1914 - 1975 (2013)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), £14.99

    This is a compilation of newsreel reports from the British Movietone News archive. It is a comprehensive round up of items reporting on 76 disasters, mostly from the era of steam locomotion, with causes...

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