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The King Opens Imperial War Museum at Crystal Palace

Date released

10 Jun 1920

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

459-1

NoS ID

127701

Story no

5 / 5

King George V opens the Imperial War Museum at the Crystal Palace.

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Demonstration against Channel Tunnel rail link (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

15,000 protesters from South East London and Kent stage the Rethink the Link – Bluebells not Decibels demonstration against the proposed Channel Tunnel rail link. In London they ended the march at the...

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Interview; Special

Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell hosts this episode (Old Soldiers Never Die?) in which 84 year-old World War I survivor Charlie Garrard(?) shares his recollections of the War. Rose Coombs, Special Collections...

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Burma Victory (1944 Video)

Director

Roy Boulting

Subject

History

Distribution

Special loan (film - IWM Dept of Film), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 63 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Official British war film depicting the Burma campaign, remembered bitterly by veterans and ‘the forgotten war’ - from 1942 to the capitulation of the Japanese in Rangoon. When the Japanese invasion of...

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I was There: The Great War Interviews (2014)

Director

Detlef Siebert

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

In the early 1960s, the BBC, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, conducted a series of interviews with First World War veterans, for the television series THE GREAT WAR. Most of these interviews...

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A New Method Of Carving

Date released

18 Jan 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

399

NoS ID

382715

Story no

4 / 7

NoS synopsis: French soldier hacking at a carcase with an axe

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Open-Air Concert for Wounded Soldiers (1917 Film)

Series

War Office Official Topical Budget

The second of four stories in the newsfilm. "WAR ENTERTAINMENTS: A large number of wounded soldiers were entertained by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park".

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ENSA musical launched (1990)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Simon Bowden reports on the Imperial War Museum launch of the musical Gasmasks and Greasepaint, celebrating the work of the Second World War entertainment corps, ENSA, with many stars from the time and from...

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Colditz Exhibition

Date released

21 Jan 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2329

NoS ID

030202

Story no

1 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Colditz Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: At the Imperial War Museum in London, The Colditz Exhibition - an exhibition displaying escape equipment and various articles made by the prisoners....

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