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  1. A Pinch of Salt

    Date released
    23 Feb 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1551
    NoS ID
    022885
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Pinch of Salt. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show Canada’s greatest salt mine at Ojibway, Ontario, a show place, covering over three square miles. They estimate a yield of a million...

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  2. Live at the Porpentine: A Comedy of Errors (2022 Film)

    Director
    David Melville

    Film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, made in the style of a 1960s musical comedy.

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  3. Feeling the Pinch

    Date released
    21 Apr 1921
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    765
    NoS ID
    081882
    Story no
    3 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Cold spell and coal shortage is being acutely felt in poorer districts. Lancashire miners "fed up" with being idle are sinking and profitably working their own little mines. And everywhere long queues have...

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  4. Salt of the Earth

    Date released
    24 Apr 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/33
    NoS ID
    100348
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    In the Malagash salt mines of Nova Scotia, Canadian miners work on extracting the salt. The work consists of conventional digging methods and another is running water down rock face and washing the salt down...

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  5. Snuff

    Date released
    2 Feb 1964
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    475
    NoS ID
    121479
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: If you’ve got a taste for something unusual then try a pinch of snuff. Certainly you’d be in fashion, for the habit which recalls an era of Regency elegance and courtesy is becoming the...

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  6. Beauty Hints

    Date released
    25 Mar 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    117
    NoS ID
    120358
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Take a handful of rice and grined to a fine powder, mix with the yolk of a 1,000-day-old Chinese egg and then add a pinch of magnesium. The result, according to the beauty experts, is a...

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  7. Rail Strike Threatens Industry

    Date released
    6 Jun 1955
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    55/45
    NoS ID
    106490
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Industry begins to feel the pinch as rail strike chaos grows. ASLEF President Baty explains his union’s attitude to Pathe News.

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  8. Scooter Wear

    Date released
    22 Sep 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1633A
    NoS ID
    023782
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scooter Wear. DESCRIPTION: How to be fashionable and safe on a scooter? Mr Teazy-Weazy suggests several answers to the question. And, by the way, a new male fashion in headgear has just...

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  9. Comedy of Errors, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

    Series
    Show Must Go Online, The
    Director
    Robert Myles
    Producer
    Sarah Peachey

    The eighth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform,...

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