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French Enter Rocket Field - Sahara

Date released

16 Mar 1959

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

59/22

NoS ID

108541

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Tests in desert are big success.

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Women of the Toubou (1975 Film)

Producer

Anne Balfour-Fraser

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the way of life of the Toubou, a nomadic tribe living in the Sahara desert. Looks in particular at the role of women in the tribe.

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Arafat survives PLO plane crash landing in desert (1992)

Genre

Interview

Stephanie West interviews Afif Safieh, the PLO’s London representative, on the crash landing of PLO leader, Yasser Arafat’s plane in the Sahara Desert in Libya. Three crew members were killed but Arafat...

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Village Life: Great Shefford (1987)

Mike Matthews this week visits the village of Great Shefford. It lies 7 miles Northwest of Newbury on the A338, in Berkshire. The programme has 3 tracks. On Track 1, Mike makes 2 interviews: 1- To a village...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

French Outposts of Empire

Date released

2 May 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/36

NoS ID

097921

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

On the mountains of Syria ski troops patrol in thick snow even though it’s summer - and by contrast in the Sahara Desert natives commanded by French officers also patrol - two aspects of France on guard.

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Desert Inferno

Date released

8 Feb 1962

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

62/12

NoS ID

110048

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

French near end of preparations for putting out natural gas blaze, raging since November.

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Oil from the Sahara

Date released

20 Jan 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1494

NoS ID

022156

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...

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Desert Strikes Water

Date released

17 Sep 1964

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

64/76

NoS ID

111310

Story no

4 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Discovery of abundant water supply 3,000 below may bring life back to vast area.

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Your Gas from Sahara

Date released

22 Apr 1965

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

65/33

NoS ID

111576

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip

Dramatic film of natural gas source deep in Sahara Desert. Reading: Typical household using gas for all purposes is probably unaware of its origin. Arzew: New port on African coast from which gas is supplied...

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France Explodes the Bomb

Date released

18 Feb 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1602A

NoS ID

023472

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Atom Test. DESCRIPTION: The Sahara desert, near Reggan, about 700 miles South West of Algiers, was the site chosen for France’s first A-bomb test. Military equipment, including...

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