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Bomb Destroyer

Date released

3 Feb 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/10

NoS ID

098562

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Demonstration of a bomb shield or reflector, which would reflect bombs from their targets by means of the cables fixed to the shields. The spinning cables would collect the missile and explode it before it...

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Cambridge Radio Telescope, The (1976 Film)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses the principles of aerial synthesis. Shows the setting up of the Cavendish Laboratory’s radio telescope: the making of the cables, aerial erection, connecting up of the radio frequency and control...

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Otello (1965 Television)

Director

Otto Schenk

Verdi’s opera sung in German in a staging by Otto Schenk. Wolfgang Windgassen is Otello and Norman Mittelmann is Iago. The South German Radio Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Opera are conducted by Argeo...

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First fibre optic cables in UK (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on use of first fibre optic telephone link in UK; phone conversation between Bob Cryer, Secretary of State for Industry and Sir William Ryland, Chairman of the Post Office; interview with Ralph...

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The Other Man’s Job. Making Copper Cables

Date released

1 Feb 1943

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/15; Paramount Issue No.: 1244

NoS ID

156607

Story no

2 / 3

Blister copper is refined in furnace; white hot copper is moulded into bars and cooled. At mills, bars are made into copper rods which in turn become copper wire. This is coiled and stranded and made into...

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Royal Engineers Try Out New Idea

Date released

21 Oct 1937

Series name

Universal Talking News

Issue no

760

NoS ID

143703

Story no

1 / 7

Army truck on cables.

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Second Time Around: Canal Cables

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

250

NoS ID

326018

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: A return to some tried and true methods from the past - but modified for modern living. 150 years ago, a new transport system was built - canals. They eventually fell into disuse, but now are...

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Photon Connection, The (1983 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

The 1982/83 Faraday Lecture presented on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Shows how Michael Faraday and his discovery of electromagnetic induction, with today’s understanding of the...

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Henley Cables In Bombay

Date released

Feb 1969

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

81

NoS ID

327897

Story no

1 / 5

COI synopsis: Manufacture of electric cables at a British factory in Poona for electrification of Bombay’s railways.

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Linking Kent And Essex

Date released

26 Sep 1932

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2245

NoS ID

385052

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Raising the cables connecting the two counties under the Electricity Board Scheme.

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