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High-speed Flight is Ready at Calshot

Date released

7 Sep 1931

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

118

NoS ID

003204

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: High-speed Flight Is Ready at Calshot. DESCRIPTION: Machines and men to fly for Britain stand by in hopes of France and Italy competing. SHOTLIST: Shots of the men seated in a hangar....

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High Speed Flight (Simplified Version) (1960)

Subject

Physics; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A compilation made from the three films in the HIGH SPEED FLIGHT series, illustrating the behaviour of airflow at speeds approaching, around, and beyond that of sound: the effects of airflow behaviour on...

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Macbeth (1962 Television)

Series

Festival (Canada)

Director

Paul Almond

Producer

Paul Almond

Canadian arts series. Macbeth directed by Paul Almond with Sean Connery as Macbeth and Zoe Caldwell as Lady Macbeth.

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Freddie Laker Skytrain inagural service (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

After the inaugural flight of Freddie Laker’s Skytrain service to New York he is interviewed on its success. The profits are high, and media coverage also. Initial media coverage was counter-productive as...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.84: Programme 84 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK No.84 Programme 84 of a weekly news and sports review called OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK broadcast by independent radio station OCEAN SOUND on 5th June 1988. Presented by PETE WARDMAN....

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Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race

Date

12 Dec 2011, 11:02

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

By Michael Allen (IB Tauris, 2009). 240 pages. ISBN: 978-1845111700 (Paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1845111694 (Hardback), £56 About the author: Dr Kate O’Riordan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of...

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Test Flights: Beyond the Limits (1998 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 3 x 47 min., 2000 sale: US$24.00 (+p&p)

Looks at flight testing and research using aerial footage of research aircraft and interviews with pilots and engineers. 1: Presents the leading edge of NASA flight research, from the X-15 to testing of the...

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Men of Speed

Date released

1956

Series name

Transatlantic Teleview

Issue no

24

NoS ID

329688

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Christoper Chataway interviews Peter Twiss and Donald Campbell. Campbell talks about his water speed records and why he undertakes such attempts. They discuss the application of the...

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Housefly Secrets May Aid Aviation

Date released

11 Dec 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1751

NoS ID

040835

Story no

3 / 5

Ultra high-speed camera takes first films ever made of a housefly in flight. Pictures will help airplane designers.

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Aladdin’s Garden (Hummingbirds) (1975 Film)

Producer

Colin Willock

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the garden of Peter Rapse, in the Aripo Valley, Trinidad. Looks at the flowers and the hummingbirds which use them as a source of food. Using high-speed photography, reveals the flexibility of the...

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