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  1. Thoroughbreds for the World

    Date released
    Feb 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346956
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: Begins with Lord Derby at home with his horses, trainer and stud groom, then on to famous race horses, from the Godolphin Barb to Airborne, and from foalhood to maturity. The emphasis is on...

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  2. Harlan County (1976)

    Director
    Barbara Kopple
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

    A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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  3. Toil: The Making of Macbeth, As Told to the Weird Sisters (Video)

    Director
    Tim Roane
    Producer
    Tim Roane

    A documentary record of the process of physical theatre training as employed by Brisbane-based theatre company, Zen Zen Zo. The video is shot in cinema verite style and features retrospective interviews with...

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  4. Documentary and (Dis)Ability Symposium

    Date
    3 Sep 2013, 17:00
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    Documentary and (Dis)Ability: A One Day Symposium University of Surrey Friday 20 September 2013 The fourth in the ‘Documentary and …’ series to be held at the University of Surrey seeks to...

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  5. BARN DANCE

    Date released
    May 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345915
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: barn dance in a Northumberland village with Jack Armstrong and his band. With a solo on the Northumberland bagpipe. NCB Commentary - It is the end of a Saturday shift at Dinnington Colliery,...

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  6. MIGHTY MARIETTA

    Date released
    Mar 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345779
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new American mining machine installed at Wellesley Colliery, Scotland. NCB Commentary - From the old to the new. On the surface at Wellesley Colliery, Fife, a 29 1/2 ton monster waits to be...

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  7. BOWHILL ON TOP

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345825
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bowhill Colliery’s reorganistion station. Continues the story of Bowhill Colliery, Fife, modernisation (as featured in Mining Review 7th Year No 3). Looks at the changes on the surface...

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  8. Automations

    Date released
    Aug 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346055
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A new type of conveyor belt using wire ropes as an alternative to rollers going through its paces. NCB Commentary - In several collieries now they’re using an improved method of running...

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  9. ADVANCE

    Date released
    Sep 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346016
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: new developments in self-advancing roof supports including the Dawtry Roofmaster. NCB Commentary - Five years ago only a few million tons of coal a year were produced by machines which both...

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  10. JAZZ

    Date released
    Jan 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345901
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the third annual Miner’s Jazz Band festival at Llandilo, South Wales NCB Commentary - The quiet of the little Carmarthenshire village of Llandilo is disturbed for one of its big afternoons of...

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