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Power Needs No Passport

Date released

1964

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

276

NoS ID

350293

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: In the 1950s a number of countries formed a union to co-ordinate the production and transmission of electricity in Western Europe to meet the ever-increasing demand. Britain is an interested...

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TV Cigarette Commercials - The Classics (2005)

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 92 minutes), $14.99

A collection of 89 American television commercials made in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Volume 1 includes: 89 classic American television cigarette commercials from the 1950s-60s. For full details see the...

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Lear ‘87 Archive (2001 Film)

Director

Jill Godmilow

Producer

Jill Godmilow

In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...

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1950s nuclear tests cover-up (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Paul Maurice reports on Greenpeace claims the UK Government is performing a cover up of records into nuclear medical testing during the 1950s following claims of radiation causing illness in veterans and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fifty Years of Chart: review of pop music 1950s-1980s - nd [1975-1986]

Fifty Years of Chart: review of pop music 1950s-1980s [?part of programme], with comments on the life of times. No date. [Box 7]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

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Date

10 Dec 2013, 14:12

Author

Gabriel Hernandez

Post Type

Page

From the Motor Show brochures to Manchester University’s Rag magazine, newsreel cameramen would pick up souvenir programmes on assignments to provide contextual information for the editorial department....

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Twentieth Century Houses 3: 1950s to 1990s (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 80 slides. col., 2000 sale: £80.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Twelve houses built in Britain between the 1950s and 1990s by architects including Richard Rogers, John Miller, John Winter, Michael Hopkins, and Tom Jestico, together with a little-known house in Germany by...

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Eagle comic relaunch (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the relaunch of the 1950s comic The Eagle. Includes interview with editor Barry Tomlinson. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Liverpool: Echoes of the 1940s and 1950s

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £7.99

What was Liverpool like after the bombing? This video programme shows how a vibrant city suddenly suffers immense destruction after heavy bombing raids in the early 1940s. Large parts of the shopping centre...

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Modern Homes: The Domestic Interior in 1950s Britain (2003)

Subject

Architecture; Design; History

Distribution

Slide (Slide Set, 24), £30.00

This slide set outlines some of the key changes that took place in the nature of interior design and domestic furnishings in Britain in the 1950s, and the attempts made by the Council of Industrial Design...

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