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  1. Why Not More Gas?

    Date released
    10 Jan 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1551
    NoS ID
    039851
    Story no
    1 / 4

    Recent cold snap reveals serious gas shortage in London and other main cities. Companies point to blitzed gasometers and labour shortage as cause.

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  2. Change of Heart, A: English Architecture Since the War (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

    Illustrates the unsuspected wealth and range of archtecture and design created in England’s cities, towns and countryside since World War 2.

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  3. The City’s For Living In

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    481
    NoS ID
    350683
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The problems and solutions of increasing traffic in many of Britain’s cities. Many cities in Britain today face remorseless erosion of their streets and byways by the ever-increasing weight...

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  4. Tale of Two Cities, A (1980)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 200 minutes), £350.00

    A television adaptation of the Dickens novel. Set against the turbulent background of the French Revolution and its echoes in england, the story follows the futurnes of Charles Darnay, his physical double...

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  5. Motoring Ideas Meet Post War Conditions

    Date released
    25 Feb 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1564
    NoS ID
    039910
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Midland inventor designs car park on escalator principle, to save space in cities. Petrol famine compels French to make baby cars.

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  6. Living With Cars

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    294
    NoS ID
    350311
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The Buchanan Report on the problems of traffic congestion in towns suggested building cities on two or three levels. Some practical steps are being taken near Glasgow and in Liverpool towards...

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  7. Sense Of Taste

    Date released
    1950
    Series name
    This Is Britain
    Issue no
    48
    NoS ID
    328238
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The traditional delicacies of Britain’s table and cellar are often forgotten but in fact, as the film shows in a gastronomic tour of the British Isles, her specialities have reached the ends...

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  8. Digging Up The Past

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    247
    NoS ID
    350168
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Visits to professional and amateur archaeological digs of Roman cities and villas in Britain and the Anglo-Saxon excavations at Winchester and the reconstruction of ancient Rome outside Madrid....

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  9. Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1-3

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1595 minutes), £45.50

    In this 11-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo swaps his treasured copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook for its stateside counterpart - an 1879 edition of Appleton’s General Guide to the United...

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  10. Charles Dickens’s England (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £17.99

    In CHARLES DICKENS’S ENGLAND , Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The DVD features...

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