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  1. Scots Have Struck Oil

    Date released
    11 Aug 1938
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    778
    NoS ID
    036111
    Story no
    6 / 8
    Extras
    1 shot list

    First 2,200 gallons of crude oil drawn from experimental boring is shipped to London to be refined.

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  2. Petroleum and Oil Refining

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 27 minutes), £39.00

    This DVD examines the properties and uses of crude oil. It introduces the chemical compounds that exist in crude oil and shows how it is refined into many of the fuels and products used in modern society....

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  3. Winter’s Tale, The (1966 Film)

    Director
    Frank Dunlop
    Producer
    Peter Snell

    Feature film. A recording of Fred Dunlop’s 1966 ‘Pop Theatre’ Edinburgh Festival production. Inadequately lit, poor colour, indifferent and over-emphatic performances, and a cinematic technique...

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  4. Join The High Octane Diners Club

    Date released
    1967
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    326110
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Michael Smee samples the new animal foodstuffs produced from crude oil, and discusses the revolutionary potential of this man-made alternative to traditional fruits of the earth.

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  5. Sensamatic Looms

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    85
    NoS ID
    329465
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: When a shuttle went amok up at the mill a dagger was hastily plunged into the frog: a crude mechanical way of stopping a loom in a hurry, and a terrible strain on its components. An...

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  6. Sensamatic Looms

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    85
    NoS ID
    325413
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: When a shuttle went amok up at the mill a dagger was hastily plunged into the frog: a crude mechanical way of stopping a loom in a hurry, and a terrible strain on its components. An...

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  7. Flax

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    60
    NoS ID
    351087
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: A delicate little flowering plant that must surely be the major contender for the title of Miss Maximum Efficiency; not content with providing for cricket bats and chipboard, linen and...

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  8. Crude Awakening, A (2008)

    Director
    Basil Gelpke; Ray McCormack
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £19.99

    Filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack’s film agues that the world’s oil resources are in dangerously short supply and that the price of oil is about to rise to previously unthinkable levels. The film...

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  9. Refining Copper from the Sudbury Nickel Ores (1959 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Detailed description of the refining of copper from the relatively crude 97% pure blister copper to the electrolytically refined copper of 99.97% purity.

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  10. With Eve down the Mekong. (Indo-China)

    Date released
    14 Aug 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    480
    NoS ID
    332506
    Story no
    5 / 5

    Pathe Intertitles - "The broad, swift river, sweepings its crude craft through jungle and swamp -" "Whilst the men wash, row and look after things generally. Eve, too, attends to her tasks -" "No jobs for...

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