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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Captain Cook Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Captain Cook, an exhibition has been mounted at the Museum of Mankind in Bloomsbury. SHOTLIST:...
Tivaevae are the bright appliqué or pieced needlework bed covers made by the women of the Cook Islands, using skills probably introduced by 19th-century missionaries but also incorporating ideas about art...
Interview with Labour MP Robin Cook on the issue of whether some of the British vessels on active service in the Falklands war with Argentina were carrying nuclear weapons. Male interviewer not identified.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey are conducting the most comprehensive study ever attempted of a little-known group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic. These remote islands lie 2000km...
The unidentified sister of naval cook Neil Goodall, who was killed on board the HMS Sheffield (sunk by Argentine forces off the Falkland Islands), talks about the effect of his death on the family, and her...
Pathe synopsis: Come to the fiftieth state of the Union, the land of the sun, dazzling surf, cool blue water and nature’s own flower children. The Polynesians were here centuries before Captain Cook...
Notes that Sydney has transformed itself from an outpost of the British Empire to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world in just over 20 years. Using Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as a...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The 50th State. DESCRIPTION: The United States Congress has admitted Hawaii as the 50th State. The islands were discovered over 180 years ago by the famous British Navigator, Captain...
Granada Television The World in Action programme Britain’s Other Islanders (broadcast on Thames Television) on the Illois people of Diego Garcia who were exiled to the slums of Mauritius after Britain...
The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...
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