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  1. Fire and Gale in Australia

    Date released
    2 Jan 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/1
    NoS ID
    096709
    Story no
    3 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Sydney’s worst two days in its history. Brush fires sweep through the blue mountain valley and then fire breaks out in the heart of the industrial city, after which a hurricane overtakes the city. All this...

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  2. Millions Face Famine

    Date released
    8 Oct 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    64
    NoS ID
    031662
    Story no
    2 / 6

    China’s flood victims, 30,000,000 homeless souls. Crops gone, they cling to high ground awaiting help. 1. City of misery. Hankow, China’s chief industrial centre is paralysed as flood waters fail to recede.

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  3. Floods Sweep China

    Date released
    21 Sep 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    59
    NoS ID
    031630
    Story no
    2 / 6

    More than 350,000 die in worst disaster in Chinese history. Thirty million face starvation as floods continue. 1. In Hankow, industrial metropolis of Central China, starving refugees crowd flooded streets,...

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  4. Fire in Havana

    Date released
    6 Feb 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1496A
    NoS ID
    022198
    Story no
    6 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: An oil fire, in the middle of 14 storage tanks holding petrol and high octane gas, in Havana’s biggest refinery. In the balance were 30 million dollars worth of...

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  5. After the Earthquake

    Date released
    25 Jun 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1829A
    NoS ID
    025587
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: After the Earthquake. DESCRIPTION: The industrial seaport of Niigata, in North Western Japan, suffered a disastrous earthquake. It caused a river to run backwards and sent tidal waves...

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  6. THE KEY TO POWER

    Date released
    Sep 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345714
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Festival of Britain exhibition of Industrial Power at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow; focuses on the coal exhibition that takes up to one half of the total exhibition. NCB Commentary - Glasgow, the...

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  7. Conservation Year

    Date released
    5 Nov 1970
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2161A
    NoS ID
    028559
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Conservation Year. DESCRIPTION: An attempt to restore the delicate balance of nature which is constantly threatened by man. That’s the aim of European Conservation Year. Movietone...

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