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  1. Question of Balance, A (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    For two days during the autumn of 1975, a partially collapsed tower crane threatened Queen Street mainline railway station in Glasgow. Stage by stage, the crane was delicately dismantled and made safe. The...

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  2. Road Bridge Collapse

    Date released
    30 Oct 1972
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2265
    NoS ID
    029621
    Story no
    1 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Road Bridge Collapse. DESCRIPTION: Three workmen killed and three injured when the bridge they were working on collapsed into the River Loddon, near Reading. SHOTLIST: GV crowds looking...

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  3. Manchester - A Job for Life

    Date released
    8 Oct 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1740
    NoS ID
    024825
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Job for Life. DESCRIPTION: The higher you build, the bigger the window cleaning problem, but at this new skyscraper in Manchester, they’ve solved it with a mobile rig. Moved to any...

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  4. Colourmen, The (1984 Video)

    Director
    Robin Crane
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Traces briefly the history of the development of artists’ paints, and the ‘colourmen’ who manufacture them. The role of Windsor & Newton within this tradition is explained, particularly their part in...

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  5. Building in a Balloon

    Date released
    8 Apr 1965
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1870A
    NoS ID
    025942
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Building in a Balloon. DESCRIPTION: At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon,...

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  6. Wicken Fen (1967 Film)

    Director
    Robin Crane
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, a wetland nature reserve belonging to the National Trust, is almost the last example of the once extensive fenlands. Shows the variety of wildlife to be found there in the...

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  7. Red Badge of Courage (1951)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL)

    A film adaptation, directed by John Huston, of the novel by Stephen Crane about a boy’s initiation into manhood as a Union soldier in American Civil War.

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  8. Car Crushing

    Date released
    15 Mar 1971
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2180
    NoS ID
    028748
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Car Crushing. DESCRIPTION: A giant Crusher in a French scrap yard is proving itself as an effective derelict car disposal unit. SHOTLIST: SV crane lifting smashed car. Travel shot along...

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  9. Desert Railway

    Date released
    19 Jan 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1546
    NoS ID
    022820
    Story no
    7 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Desert Railway. DESCRIPTION: They’re building a new railway in Israel: from the Gulf of Aqaba to Beersheba, and eventually on to the Mediterranean. Oil and other goods can be...

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  10. Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: Sydney - SS Cathay under repair

    Date released
    18 Jun 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    263A
    NoS ID
    001680
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: SS Cathay Under Repair. SHOTLIST: Shot of the crane at the docks. Pan down from top of the ship. The new crank shaft is lowered down the funnel. Shot of the new propeller on crane in...

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