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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: On the Beach. DESCRIPTION: The drama of the Torrey Canyon reaches nightmare proportions as the Giant Tanker breaks up, flooding the sea with even more oil. Movietone records the Battle...
A series of six outside broadcasts filmed at the Royal Institution in the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Nature of Things was presented by William Lawrence Bragg with the assistance of Bill Coates. OIL,...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Channel Collisions. DESCRIPTION: There’s to be a review of shipping routes in the English Channel following an extraordinary double collision. The Panamanian tanker Texaco Caribbean...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aftermath. DESCRIPTION: Three weeks after the oil disaster, work continues to save the Cornish holiday beaches. This pollution may be cleaned up in time for the holiday season, but for...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Hazard. DESCRIPTION: The Giant Tanker, Torrey Canyon, aground on the Seven Stones, sixteen miles off Lands End, pouring a blanket of crude oil towards the holiday beaches of the...
Torrey Canyon, the 61,000 ton tanker goes aground off the Scilly Isles. Much of her 100,000 ton cargo of crude oil seeps away as the crippled vessel is battered by heavy seas. Britain’s cost is threatened...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trouble on the Beach. DESCRIPTION: The trouble is oil, and every year thousands of birds are killed by the stuff, which is discharged by ships at sea and washed in-shore. They laid on...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Water Witch. DESCRIPTION: At Devonport, trials of the Navy’s Maid of all Work - a dockyard scavenger that sweeps up Flotsam, clears oil slicks and can also be used as a mobile paint...
A case study of the development, manufacture and marketing of the Hoover ‘New Wave’ range of energy-, water- and detergent-saving washing machines. It shows the role of commercial, technical and...
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