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Meet the Dam Busters

Date released

18 Feb 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1759

NoS ID

024994

Story no

1 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meet the Dam Busters. DESCRIPTION: Seen here, a Vulcan Bomber of 617 Squadron, the Dam Busters, the first squadron to be equipped with the Blue Steel stand-off bomb. Powered by its...

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Weapons of War (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 60 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A documentary study of weapons developed by scientists and engineeers during World War 2. Using archival footage, looks at radar, Hobart’s funnies, the ‘bouncing bomb’, the V1 and V2 missiles, the...

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Dambusters 40th anniversary (1983)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Paul Maurice reports on the fortieth anniversary of the so-called Dambusters raid by the RAF 617 Squadron, on the industrial Ruhr region of Germany during the Second World War. Includes interviews with then...

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BUFVC Weekly Top Five TV & Radio Programme Requests

Date

10 May 2011, 10:15

Author

Markeda Cole

Post Type

Post

For the week ending 6 May 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include stories of Art, Youth, Old Age, War, Royals - and media manipulation. 1. WHEN TEENAGE MEETS OLD AGE...

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Dambusters (1994 Video)

aka: Dambusters’ Raid, The

Director

Alex Beetham

Producer

Chris Haws

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage and interviews with bomber crews to examining the attacks using the bouncing bomb invented by Sir Barnes Wallis on the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. Suggests that details of the bomb fell...

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Sir Barnes Wallis (1975 Film)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The life and work of Sir Barnes Wallis in the field of aviation. The film begins with his early air-ship days and then goes on to cover the R100, the Wellington Bomber and the bouncing bomb. The latter half...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Dams

Date released

24 May 1943

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

729

NoS ID

012709

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The "Dams" - Library Build Up Story. DESCRIPTION: With Still pictures and illustrative film Movietone reconstructs the attack which nineteen Lancasters made on Eder and the Mohne Dams....

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