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Fat Man Diving at Sydney

Date released

29 Apr 1935

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

139

NoS ID

052879

Extras

1 film clip

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Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

Director

Serge Viallet

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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Shakespeare with Tin Ears (1933 Film)

Director

Harry Sweet; Leslie Goodwins

RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...

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Roland Joffe on Shadow Makers (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Roland Joffe, director of the film Shadow Makers (known in the USA as Fat Man and Little Boy) on the importance of the film; casting and the real figures including Robert Oppenheimer and...

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Veterans Cross Country

Date released

7 Jan 1971

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2170A

NoS ID

028652

Story no

9 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Veterans Cross Country. DESCRIPTION: You’re only as old as you feel. That’s what they told these Frenchman aged between 55 and 85 before the start of the veterans cross country...

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Scottish Sport Bavarian Style

Date released

12 Jan 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1388A

NoS ID

020649

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ice Bowling in Bavaria. SHOTLIST: CU competitors in local costume. CU man throws his curl iron. CU iron sliding smoothly along ice. CU man with Meerschaum pipe and Tyrolean garb, very...

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Weighty Subjects

Date released

27 Feb 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1499A

NoS ID

022245

Story no

7 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pantagrulic Supper. DESCRIPTION: In Paris, a club which gathers people weighing more than fifteen stone. They meet for a big tuck-in! SHOTLIST: MS fat people arriving. CU serviettes...

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My Swiss Miss! (Filmed at Chiswick)

Date released

24 May 1927

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

312

NoS ID

331633

British Pathe synopsis: Chiswick baths in London. A group of girls stand around by the side of an open air swimming pool. A very fat man comes out of one of the changing rooms at the edge of the pool. A...

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Sporting Scene: Diving Maniacs

Date released

16 Aug 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1419A

NoS ID

021123

Story no

11 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Diving Maniacs. DESCRIPTION: At Seattle, Washington a demonstration given by Diving Maniacs. SHOTLIST: Various shots of men performing tricks on a diving board and diving into the...

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Snow Falls

Date released

4 Feb 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1444

NoS ID

021480

Story no

8 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Snow Falls. DESCRIPTION: Winter sports are in full swing on the continent. The social season above the snow-line is making its usual impression on another bunch of intrepid adventurers....

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