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Wash and Polish for Big Ben

Date released

21 Aug 1950

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1107

NoS ID

016611

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wash & Polish for Big Ben. DESCRIPTION: Big Ben has had a wash and polish, the job was done under the supervision of Mr Sidney Larkins - and a giddy kind of job it is. SHOTLIST: KS. CU...

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Inside the Commons (2015)

Director

Michael Cockerell

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL)

In this series, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell travels deep inside the corridors of the Palace of Westminster revealing what really went on behind the scenes in the run up to the 2015 General...

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Midsummer Night’s Rewrite, A (2006 Film, Multimedia)

Director

Barry Langer

Producer

Barry Langer; Cameron R. Penn; Alvarez Wortham

Comedy short. Imagines what writing Elizabethan comedy would have been like if Shakespeare was the head writer in a big television network producing sitcoms and dealing with demanding divas, pestering...

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Bells of Big Ben (1996)

Genre

Special

The bells of Big Ben (apparently striking quarter to the hour).

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Farewell to Victoryland: final programme - Part 2 (1986)

Farewell to Victoryland: final programme - Part 2. In this last part of the programme, the presenter makes a flash-back on the main news and events since 1975, makes some interviews with members of the staff...

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Big Ben adjustment (1982)

Genre

Interview; Special

Interview about the readjustment to the Big Ben clock with the addition of a second. Includes sound of the bells. Male speaker and female interviewer not identified.

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Uri Geller claims to have stopped Big Ben clock (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

James Bays reports on spoonbender Uri Geller’s claim that he stopped the clock of Big Ben for three hours. Geller was invited to visit the clock, but warned not to stop it again; however, he will seek...

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Big Ben chimes after 9 months (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on Big Ben chiming after nine months. Includes interview with Robert Cooke MP. Reporter not identified

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Greenpeace Big Ben demo - Climber interviewed (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a Greenpeace activist (poss. Ron Taylor) following his climb up the Big Ben clock tower in central London as part of a demonstration against nuclear testing. Reporter not identified.

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Greenpeace Big Ben demo - Renato Ruf interview (1984)

Genre

Interview

Greenpeace activist Renato Ruf following his climb up the Big Ben clock tower in central London as part of a demonstration against nuclear testing. Reporter not identified.

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