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  1. High Speed Floaters

    Date released
    1 May 1933
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    162
    NoS ID
    122754
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Dragged through the water at a speed up to a mile a minute, floats are tested by ... machine to ascertain the best shape to give least resistance.

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  2. Reverse and Go Faster

    Date released
    21 Dec 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    294
    NoS ID
    033007
    Story no
    3 / 6

    You’ll meet less wind resistance. Expert complicates traffic problem by driving backwards to make novel experiment.

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  3. Windy Corner

    Date released
    15 Oct 1934
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    238
    NoS ID
    123147
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    this is the windy corner of a laboratory for testing wind resistance and .... Smoke is blown at varying speeds and the effects of different shapes and streamlines.

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  4. Underground Movement in Poland

    Date released
    11 Sep 1944
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1477
    NoS ID
    147925
    Story no
    2 / 6

    First pictures of the Resistance Movement in Poland.

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  5. Setting the Streamliners

    Date released
    14 Feb 1935
    Series name
    Pathe Sound Pictorial
    Issue no
    880
    NoS ID
    114966
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Streamlining is a problem for ships as well as cars and aeroplanes, for they have to overcome the resistance of the elements like their land and air rivals. So models, perfect in shape and proportion are...

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  6. The Pity of It All!

    Date released
    4 Apr 1932
    Series name
    Pathe Super Gazette
    Issue no
    32/27
    NoS ID
    089796
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Chinese army retire from Shanghai, fighting zone after desperate resistance to Japanese attacks - then armistice! Who ever wins at war?

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  7. Mopping Up in Libya

    Date released
    1 Jan 1942
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    42/1
    NoS ID
    099214
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    British troops in the desert south of Tobruk clearing up the remaining enemy resistance around Sollum and Bardia.

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  8. Jets Pep Up Paddle-Boat on Novel Test

    Date released
    14 Aug 1950
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2030
    NoS ID
    042531
    Story no
    2 / 9

    Sixty-two year old "Lucy Ashton" is fitted with four jet engines in experiment to determine hull-resistance under jet propulsion.

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  9. New RAF Squadrons Reach North Africa

    Date released
    10 Dec 1942
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1229
    NoS ID
    038485
    Story no
    5 / 7

    Spitfire squadrons arrive to help First Army in struggle for Tunisia. Two vessels bombed off African coast show stiff enemy resistance put up at some points.

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  10. Battle in Normandy

    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/52
    NoS ID
    156720
    Story no
    1 / 2

    The great campaign for which we have toiled since Dunkirk. British move on Caen. Surprised, Nazis surrender. Shots of Caen in ruins. German snipers rounded up. French Resistance welcomes Allies.

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