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  1. To Fly the Atlantic

    Date released
    8 Jun 1931
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    137902
    Story no
    1 / 8
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet

    Miss Ruth Nichols.

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  2. Ten Times Empty (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows life on Symi, a barren but beautiful Greek island in the Aegean Sea close to the coast of Turkey. The island has suffered a decline in prosperity and population over the past fifty or more years; the...

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  3. Tempest (1982 Film)

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky

    Feature film based on The Tempest. Phillip, a New York architect, abandons his wife (who is having an affair with tycoon, Alonzo) and career by fleeing to Greece with his teenage daughter, Miranda. In Athens...

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  4. Atlantic Flight - First Pictures

    Date released
    30 Apr 1928
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1498
    NoS ID
    086774
    Story no
    4 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The Lighthouse on Greenly Island, welcome sight that told fliers they had crossed the Atlantic. Greenly Island, a desolate barren and dangerous landing place. In these icy waters, icebergs are ever present,...

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  5. Jericho

    Date released
    30 Jun 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    601
    NoS ID
    121772
    Story no
    1 / 2
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Amongst the barren desert hills of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan lies the ancient oasis city of Jericho. This is a lush island in a sea of sand and rock. This is where Elisha made the...

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  6. Last Tasmanian, The (1978 Film)

    Director
    Tom Haydon
    Producer
    Ray Barnes; Roger Fauriat
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1803 when the British arrived to establish a penal colony there were some 4000 aborigines on the island of Tasmania. By 1876, after a few decades of systematic persecution and atrocity, they had been...

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  7. In Northern Isles

    Date released
    18 Aug 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1628A
    NoS ID
    023736
    Story no
    3 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Tour of Northern Isles. DESCRIPTION: Her Majesty continued her tour of the Northern Isles. After a short visit to the Island of Unst, the Out Skerries followed, four barren...

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  8. Prospero’s Books (1991 Film)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Kees Kasander

    Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...

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  9. The Mediterranean - A Background for War

    Date released
    1939
    Series name
    The March of Time 4th Year
    Issue no
    13
    NoS ID
    352214
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: The new issue of the March of Time ... is a dramatic pictorial story of events behind the French-Italian crisis over Tunisia. By swiftly tracing the happenings of the past few...

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  10. Tribe, Series 1-3 (2007)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £34.99

    Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings...

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