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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. Living with Climate Change (2007)

    Subject
    Environmental science

    Global warming is happening. Temperatures have already risen by 0.76 degrees since the industrial revolution and are projected to rise further by 1.8 - 4 degrees by the end of the century. The last time...

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  3. 1980s news clips - Bhopal disaster (1989)

    Genre
    News report

    Suresh Joshi reports on the Bhopal industrial disaster in India, in which a Union Carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas killing approximately 3,800 people instantly (03/12/84)....

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  4. Ten years since Union Carbide disaster (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Ten thousand protesters today converge on the former Union Carbide chemical plant in the Indian city of Bhopal to commemorate the 6500 people killed during a leak ten years ago. David Bergman, an...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Excerpt of interview with a male speaker (not identified) about safety following the capsizing of the Norwegian Alexander Kielland oil rig in the Ekofisk field (27/03/80). Interviewer not heard.

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  9. Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Telephone interview about the capsizing of the Norwegian Alexander Kielland oil rig in the Ekofisk field in the North Sea (27/03/80) including on survivors and possible causes. Male speaker and interviewer...

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  10. National Geographic - Seconds from Disaster - Series 4 (2012)

    Subject
    Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 288 minutes), £17.99

    The Seconds from Disaster series Blends advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to allow the viewer to experience first-hand the...

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