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A Trip to the Moon

Date released

11 Apr 1932

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

107

NoS ID

122552

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

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Trip to the Moon, A (1902)

aka: Voyage Dans la Lune, Le

Director

Georges Méliès; Serge Bromberg; Eric Lange

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £15.99

The 1902 film La VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE [14 minutes] is the most famous of the many fantasy films made by Georges Méliès, using animation and special effects to tell the story of how the members of the...

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100 Science Fiction Films

Date

3 Dec 2013, 11:53

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant (Palgrave Macmillan / British Film Institute, 2013). 216 pages. ISBN 978-1844574575 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: James Chapman is Professor of Film...

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Maybe the Moon Next?

Date released

5 Jul 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

350

NoS ID

033339

Story no

5 / 6

Another trip to the heavens. US aeronauts prepare equipment for stratosphere ascent in biggest balloon ever built.

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A Bid to Reach the Moon

Date released

16 Oct 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1532A

NoS ID

022658

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Bid to Reach the Moon. DESCRIPTION: Night time at Cape Canaveral and a dramatic moment, when the American moon-rocket was put into orbit, round the moon. Everything seemed to be...

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Disneyland

Date released

13 Feb 1969

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

738

NoS ID

122071

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: See Disneyland, people say, and you’ve seen America. We visit Walt Disney’s hundred million dollar dream-in-action. We ride on a mine-train to the living desert of Arizona and the...

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History of Science Fiction Movies, A (1996)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

How the future was viewed in the first half of the twentieth century, using original archive film clips of many classic science fiction movies. Films like THE FIFTH ELEMENT were inspired by the dreams of...

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Playing Safe (1997 Video)

Producer

Patti Langton

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 or 30 min.

Looks at safe play for children, using Wales as a case study. Starting with a group of Rhondda Valley children on a supervised trip to a rollerblading rink in Barry Island, it explores the dangers of busy...

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What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity? (2008)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Particle physicist Dr. Brian Cox believes that the answer to the meaning of the universe lies in gravity. Both Einstein and Newton believed that gravity was powered by God. On a road trip across the USA,...

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Apollo 11 - A Night to Remember (2009)

Subject

Astronomy; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 133 minutes), £19.99

On July 20 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. Piloted by veteran astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Apollo 11 took its place in history, as one...

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