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Clearing the South Bank Festival Site

Date released

19 May 1952

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1917

NoS ID

069926

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1 / 9

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High Wire Ace Crosses Thames

Date released

27 Sep 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2147

NoS ID

043292

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1 / 5

Forty year old Frenchman walks tightrope across river to South Bank Festival site.

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Oil Drum Band

Date released

2 Aug 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1156A

NoS ID

017284

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trinidad All Steel Band (Oil Drums). DESCRIPTION: At the South Bank Site, the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra give a performance on Oil Drums. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. MS Band...

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Smith off Again

Date released

17 May 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1145A

NoS ID

017133

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival Farewell to Atlantic Adventurers. DESCRIPTION: The Nova Espero is to cross the Atlantic again. She was built by the Smith brothers, and now Stanley Smith has Charles Violet as...

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Wirewalker Conquers the Thames

Date released

27 Sep 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1164A

NoS ID

017392

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wire-Walker Conquers the Thames. DESCRIPTION: Charles Elleano, 40-year-old French wire-walker, crossed the Thames on a wire - a distance of over a thousand feet in twenty-five minutes....

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Festival News

Date released

3 May 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1143A

NoS ID

017109

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival News. 1851 Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, a centenary display shows the Crystal Palace as originally set up in Hyde Park. At Southampton,...

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FESTIVAL MINER

Date released

Jul 1951

Series name

Mining Review 4th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

345710

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: Miner Winfield takes his wife to the Festival pleasure gardens. Bob Winfield demonstrates the Meco Moore cutter at the festival then takes his wife on a short river trip to the Festival...

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