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Scientists Probe Comet Mystery

Date released

25 Jan 1954

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2390

NoS ID

044805

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Bodies and belongings picked up on scene of Comet crash are brought ashore for examination. Farnborough Royal Aircraft Establishment puts a Comet through vibration tests. Hatfield Test Pilot Cunningham takes...

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Halley’s Comet: The Apparition (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Deals with the imminent return of Halley’s comet which was due (during winter 1985-6) to make its closest approach to earth since 1910. Describes how Edmund Halley discovered the comet in 1682 and looks at...

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Shakespeare and Kabuki (2023 Video)

Series

Comet Talk

Audiovidual presentation by Dr. Matthew J. Hernando that looks at the history of stage drama and focuses on deveolopments in 16th and 17 century Elizabethan England and Tokugawa Japan.

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European space probe Giotto to pass Halley’s Comet in 1986 (1984)

Genre

News report; Interview

The European Space Agency is getting ready to launch its Giotto space probe for the arrival of Halley’s Comet. Dave Dale, project manager at the Agency, says other countries will lend their help to study...

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Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews: Patrick Moore; Clare Francis. Living in the 17th Century Exhibition - nd [1985]

Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACKS 1-3 PATRICK MOORE. Describes Saturn as seen through...

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Sylvia

Date

8 Aug 2014, 09:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2007. Opus Arte. DVD (all regions). 117 minutes. £24.99 Also available to rent via Digital Theatre. About the reviewers: Dr Claire Brock is  Lecturer in English, University of Leicester. Dr Brock’s...

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News Briefs: Comet Crash

Date released

3 Nov 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1222

NoS ID

018166

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News Briefs - Comet Crash. DESCRIPTION: At Rome’s Ciampino Airfield, where the Comet, carrying 36 passengers and a crew of six, pancaked at its take-off. SHOTLIST: SCU of crashed...

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The Comet IV Flies

Date released

1 May 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1508A

NoS ID

022355

Story no

3 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Comet IV Flies. DESCRIPTION: The new ‘Comet IV’, with de Havilland’s chief test pilot, Group Captain John Cunningham, made its first flight, from Hatfield. This jet airliner is...

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The Comet Test

Date released

25 Oct 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1325

NoS ID

019617

Story no

5 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Comet Test. DESCRIPTION: The most intensive probes into the Comet disasters have been carried out at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. One of them involved the...

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Comet’s Triumphant Return

Date released

2 Jan 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2592

NoS ID

046289

Story no

6 / 6

Comet III completes 30,000 mile round-world proving flight. Hatfield Fifty-four pressmen take ninety minute flight in Comet over Southern England.

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