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  1. Coal-O!

    Date released
    18 Dec 1930
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    30/58
    NoS ID
    088834
    Story no
    1 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Parisian coal porters, each carrying a hundredweight of coal, contest in 2 mile uphill course for ‘Coalies Championship.'

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  2. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    10 Nov 1927
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    336
    NoS ID
    331730
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: An enormous watch, weighing two hundredweight, in comparison with one that can be mounted on a ring.

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  3. Feeling the Pinch

    Date released
    21 Apr 1921
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    765
    NoS ID
    081882
    Story no
    3 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Cold spell and coal shortage is being acutely felt in poorer districts. Lancashire miners "fed up" with being idle are sinking and profitably working their own little mines. And everywhere long queues have...

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  4. Swimming Tiger

    Date released
    2 Jun 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    597
    NoS ID
    121763
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Mary Chipperfield’s frolicsome friend in a striped swimsuit likes to take an open-air swim with her. Mary’s two-hundredweight bathing companion Suki eats eight pounds of steak a day -...

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  5. The Flying Mattress

    Date released
    22 Aug 1955
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1368
    NoS ID
    020302
    Story no
    8 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flying Mattress. DESCRIPTION: The Flying Mattress though its official name is M1 Utility after its designer Marcelle Lobelle. The whole affair only weighing five hundredweight....

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  6. Plasticine Sculptor

    Date released
    6 Oct 1958
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    197
    NoS ID
    120622
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Although generally associated with the nursery or playroom, plasticine is not necessarily for children only. To prove our point, we introduce sixty-four-year-old Mr Albert Blanchard, of...

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  7. A Weighty Problem

    Date released
    23 Mar 1922
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    42
    NoS ID
    330712
    Story no
    1 / 6

    NoS Summary - excercises for weight reduction. Pathe Intertitles - "Eve’s weightiest problem to-day is how to get rid of it." Two shots "Nothing to gain - about a hundredweight to lose!" One shot "Mind...

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  8. Sack Race

    Date released
    Oct 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345805
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The Stratford Rugby Football Club’s summer gala, with a mile race for coal-men carrying hundredweight sacks of coal. NCB Commentary - The Rugby football club at Stafford made their...

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  9. Fifty Years After

    Date released
    30 Jul 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1573A
    NoS ID
    023142
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fifty Years After. DESCRIPTION: Bleriot’s Memorial celebrations took place in the shadow of the Dover Castle, recalling a milestone in the conquest of the air. Fifty years ago Louis...

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  10. The Pie Gigantic!

    Date released
    25 Jun 1931
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    525
    NoS ID
    332750
    Story no
    3 / 6

    NoS synopsis: "This world is full of "Super" beings, and "Super" monsters - but Eve has unearthed the super pie! One ton of apples...!" M/S of a lorry discharging a large load of apples. Girls kneel on the...

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