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Riding on Air

Date released

30 Jan 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1808A

NoS ID

025411

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riding on Air. DESCRIPTION: At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption....

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Component Engineer, The (1989 Video)

Director

Ken Wrench

Producer

Ken Wrench

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min.

Bill O’Leary of the Ford Motor Company talks about the role of the component engineer in a major car firm and uses as examples two projects on the fuel supply in engines.

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Life of Marconi and the development of the wireless (1989)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Documentary on the development of sound broadcasting and the wireless and Marconi, the man and his company prominent in that field. Betty Hance, Marconi company historian tells of the early years. Keith...

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Portsea Island Discs: David Whiting, journalist, engineer and animal welfare worker (1984)

This week, Andy Ferriss talks to David Whiting. He is the driving force behind compassionate world farming and a journalist, an aero space and weapon development engineer, an animal spy, and the stepson of...

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New additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

Date

18 Sep 2013, 13:54

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or ...

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Electrically Powered Model Planes

Date released

16 Jun 1958

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

181

NoS ID

120568

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A glimpse of future aeronautical development is displayed by a model ‘plane, powered only by electricity stored in silver-zinc batteries. Believed to be the first of its kind, the...

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Towards the Vertical

Date released

11 Mar 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1762

NoS ID

025017

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Towards the Vertical. DESCRIPTION: The day of the vertical take-off airliner is one stage nearer with the development of a new jet transport-aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley AW 681. On...

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Music for Film (1985 Video)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24, 52, 30, 36 min.

1: Explores the process of recording a music score for film and profiles the people who make it happen. 2: Looks at the career of film music composer James Horner, covering the composer-director...

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Lucy Rowbotham: Optical Engineer (1986 Video)

Subject

Design; Engineering

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 min.

Looks at the work of a young engineer involved in an interdisciplinary approach to design. Lucy Rowbotham works as part of a team of designers with a contract design and development company and the video...

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Decision makers (1984)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Ethiopia is suffering from famine, due to no rainfall for 4 years. Decision Makers looks at Britain’s policies regarding the world’s hungry. The British public have raised money, but the Conservative...

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