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International Scout Jamboree

Date released

7 Aug 1977

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2514

NoS ID

031017

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Scout Jamboree - Irish Reel. DESCRIPTION: Scouts and Girl Scouts from various countries made Camp at Mount Melleray, County Waterford for an International Jamboree. In the...

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Halley the Beautiful (198 Multimedia)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, 20 slides. col.

Halley’s comet returned to the inner parts of the solar system during late 1985 and early 1986. Giotto and four other spacecraft took pictures of the orbit; there are also pictures from earth-based...

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Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1958 Television)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Ludwig Berger

A production, for German television, of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Ludwig Berger with Heinz Giese as Oberon and Ina Halley as Titania.

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European space probe Giotto to pass Halley’s Comet in 1986 (1984)

Genre

News report; Interview

The European Space Agency is getting ready to launch its Giotto space probe for the arrival of Halley’s Comet. Dave Dale, project manager at the Agency, says other countries will lend their help to study...

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Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews: Patrick Moore; Clare Francis. Living in the 17th Century Exhibition - nd [1985]

Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACKS 1-3 PATRICK MOORE. Describes Saturn as seen through...

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Halley’s Comet: The Apparition (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Deals with the imminent return of Halley’s comet which was due (during winter 1985-6) to make its closest approach to earth since 1910. Describes how Edmund Halley discovered the comet in 1682 and looks at...

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Once in a lifetime (1985)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Special documentary on Halley’s Comet, due to return this winter after 77 years. With accounts of seeing the comet in 1910 by Evelyn Hall(?) and Mrs Leonard Stein(?); Brian Harpur of Halley’s Comet...

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Euro spacecraft Giotto launch (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Paul Maurice reports on the European Space Agency spacecraft the Giotto as it is launched to fly by and study Halley’s Comet. Includes actuality of take-off in French and English. Speaking are Sales...

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Alan Johnstone on Giotto space satellite (1986)

Genre

Interview

Scientist Dr Alan Johnstone on the European satellite, Giotto, damage to which has affected its mission to Halley’s Comet. Johnstone describes the damage, after which only three of ten experiments were...

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From Hastings to Halley (1981 Video)

Producer

John Jaworski

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Halley’s Comet reappears in the Earth’s part of the solar system about every 75 years. ‘About every 75 years’ is an observation. Can the return date be predicted? Looks at Kepler’s and Newton’s...

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