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Film Stars Choose Ballroom Queen

Date released

4 Apr 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/27

NoS ID

102852

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 shot list

A 22-year-old Liverpool girl - Dorothy Joliffe - is chosen Britain’s Queen of the Ballroom in a contest sponsored by "The People"

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Gamlet (1964 Film)

aka: Hamlet

Director

Grigori Kozintsev

Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...

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Recent Developments in War Technology

Date released

1945

Series name

The Gen

Issue no

16

NoS ID

080928

Story no

4 / 6

Film of Bofors gun, flame throwers, V1 flying bomb, and "scatter bombs". Not all recent developments are offensive, however - film illustrates Mulberry harbour, PLUTO oil supplies, FIDO runway illumination...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Cologne’s Fate

Date released

22 Mar 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

824A

NoS ID

013402

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cologne’s Fate. DESCRIPTION: Something like sixty per cent of Cologne has been destroyed by Allied bombing to eliminate it as a production centre. The RAF first used its new ten ton...

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Coastal Trader

Date released

1948

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

11

NoS ID

349962

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: Indian seamen in their primitive vessels

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The 10 Tonner

Date released

21 Jun 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

837A

NoS ID

013487

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grand Slam - Ten-Ton Bomb. DESCRIPTION: The RAF’s 22,000lb bomb is 25 feet long and perfectly stream-lined to give it maximum penetration power. The first time the ten tonners were...

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Progress at Kariba

Date released

1958

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

71

NoS ID

351342

Story no

5 / 5

BFI synopsis: 1959 dry season film.

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The Glassblower

Date released

1949

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

15

NoS ID

349546

Story no

1 / 3

Film User synopsis: How complicated glass chemical retorts are blown by craftsmen

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A Step Forward

Date released

1960

Series name

Federal Spotlight

Issue no

113

NoS ID

351479

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: Film processing comes to the Federation. This issue of Spotlight is the first to be produced in the Federation.

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Park Gallery

Date released

1949

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

12

NoS ID

349967

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: art show in Victoria Embankment Gardens

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