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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Air Cadets Study Bird Flight

Date released

14 Jul 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

632

NoS ID

011802

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ATC Study Bird Flight. DESCRIPTION: A squadron of the ATC visits London Zoo to study bird flight. SHOTLIST: The boys gather round and an instructor demonstrates how birds fly. Story...

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Bird Flight Iwf (1968 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 1996 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Gliding, sailing and beating flight are presented as the basic types of bird flight. In animated sequences, lift and propulsion are explained. Pecularities of hovering, take-off and landing are shown for...

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Rudolf Hess obituary (1987)

Genre

Feature; Obituary

Dave Loyn presents a feature on the death of Rudolf Hess. Includes Hess’s sentencing at the Nuremberg Trials; Wolf Rudiger Hess’s account of his father’s flight to Britain; Lord Douglas-Hamilton...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Reading from the air [Mayor’s helicopter trip] (1981)

Reading’s new Mayor, Basil Dunning, has been taking a bird’s eye look at the town. He recently expressed a wish to see Reading from the air, so with the help of Newbury firm Micro Consultants. Radio 210...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Bird Flight (1971 Video)

Director

Michael Steele

Producer

Hilary Fry

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 24 min.

A description of a dissection to show the use and structure of flight muscles, etc.

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Chlorostilbon Melanorhynchus ('Trochilidae’): Changes of Direction in Flight (1967 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the hummingbird ‘Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus’ hovering and changing direction in flight. The bird dives forwards, flies upwards forwards, flies upwards backwards and carries out turns. The feeding...

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Flight Of Fancy!

Date released

9 Dec 1929

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1953

NoS ID

386643

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: 80-year old German inventor/bird-fancier demonstrates his ornithopter (Bird-Plane).

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US Tries Wingless Flight

Date released

20 Dec 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

398

NoS ID

033607

Story no

3 / 6

An odd new bird dips in salute over Capitol. Latest autogyro amazes experts on first exhibition flight in America.

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In-Flight Movie (1987 Video)

Producer

John Downer

Subject

Biology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Looks at how and why birds fly. Using remarkable new film techniques the audience is given a ‘bird’s eye’ view of the world. Shows a goose’s perpective of flying among clouds and what a fast-flying...

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Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: First snapshot is inventor in Czechoslovakia trying out model of bird flight wing flapping plane

Date released

6 Sep 1934

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

274A

NoS ID

005050

Story no

2 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Czechoslovakia Try Out Model Plane. SHOTLIST: Shot of the model being prepared for flight and also in flight.

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