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  1. TALKING OF TUNNELS...

    Date released
    31 Jan 1929
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1864
    NoS ID
    384383
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: At Scenic, Washington, America’s longest rail tunnel, the Cascade, is opened - it cost £6,000,000 and took 3 years to make!

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  2. Cost of rail privatisation (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Labour leader Tony Blair speaking at Prime Minster’s Question Time in the Commons on the rising cost of rail privatisation.

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  3. Britain’s Biggest Battleship

    Date other
    10 Jan 1920
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    NoS ID
    383578
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: H.M.S. "Hood" completes her steam trials. Passing down the Clyde for the open sea. Length 860 feet, tonnage 41,200 cost £6,025,000.

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  4. Thirteen Million Medals

    Date released
    18 Apr 1946
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    46/31
    NoS ID
    101060
    Story no
    1 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Production gets under way at the Royal Mint where war medals are being made. Awards for eight campaigns, they cost less than sixpence each and will be issued in twelve months time.

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  5. Repairing the Menai Bridge

    Date released
    30 Jan 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/9
    NoS ID
    096813
    Story no
    7 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Menai Bridge linking North Wales with the Isle of Anglesey under repair. The work would take nearly two years and cost quarter of a million pounds.

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  6. NEW ROAD TO AVONMOUTH

    Date other
    9 Sep 1927
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    NoS ID
    386067
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: The Minister of Transport opens the new Bristol to Avonmouth low level road, which cost a million to construct

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  7. America’s Austerity Plan by President Roosevelt

    Date released
    18 May 1942
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    42/40
    NoS ID
    099437
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    President Roosevelt introduces his seven-point economic policy to keep down the cost of living in America.

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  8. Thousands Homeless in Australian Floods

    Date released
    11 Jul 1949
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    49/55
    NoS ID
    103001
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Aftermath of the biggest Australian floods for generations shock the people of the Commonwealth. Only now that the terror has abated, can the full cost be reckoned up.

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  9. Lorry driver strikes (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Derek Jameson explains why the Sun newspaper has been substandard during the lorry driver strikes. Including the cost involved in printing a smaller paper and the cost effect to the company.

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  10. Counting the Cost

    Date released
    12 Dec 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2062A
    NoS ID
    027667
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Counting the Cost. DESCRIPTION: Survivors of the fearful bush fires in Australia take stock of the damage, which still can’t be estimated, and face a Christmas and New Year homeless...

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