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  1. Feather Wait and See

    Date released
    Sep 1937
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    35
    NoS ID
    349004
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: an interview with Patterson, an American cowboy from the foothills of the Rockies who gives some mountain music

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  2. Afghan Nomads: The Maldar (1975 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    At dawn the caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp and in commerce with the townspeople, the Maldar reveal the mixture of faith and distrust that has kept nomads...

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  3. Burma Acclaims Mountbatten

    Date released
    5 Apr 1948
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1784
    NoS ID
    040994
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Earl and Countess Mountbatten are feted in Rangoon. Flying to Assam, they are regaled with native dances by tribesmen of Tibet foothills.

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  4. Fire!

    Date released
    3 Jan 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1439A
    NoS ID
    021405
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire!. DESCRIPTION: In California a serious bush-fire through the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains, near Los Angeles, defied thousands of fire-fighters, destroying scores of...

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  5. Burning Bush

    Date released
    5 Dec 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2061A
    NoS ID
    027656
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Burning Bush. DESCRIPTION: Once again, the tinder-dry foothills around Sydney becomes a seething acreage of flame, leaving a trail of death and destruction. SHOTLIST: 5 shots bush...

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  6. New Highway

    Date released
    10 Jul 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1205A
    NoS ID
    017905
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Highway. DESCRIPTION: French engineers have been building a new highway from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to the sea at an estimated cost of sixty million dollars. SHOTLIST:...

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  7. Tibetan New Year, A (1987 Video)

    Director
    Jon Jerstad
    Producer
    Jon Jerstad
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Meridian Trust) 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...

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  8. The Matterhorn

    Date released
    16 Sep 1965
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    560
    NoS ID
    121687
    Story no
    1 / 1
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Today, quite simply, Pathe Pictorial climbs a treacherous mountain called the Matterhorn, just a hundred years after an Englishman named Edward Whymper first conquered this deathly pyramid of...

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  9. The Holy Ganges

    Date released
    26 Apr 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1716A
    NoS ID
    024606
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Holy Ganges. DESCRIPTION: While we were celebrating Easter, Hindus were assembling to celebrate their Kumbh festival. Coinciding with the conjunction of three planets, the festival...

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  10. Basques of Santazi, The (1987 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Video cassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. It focuses on continuity and change in...

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