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  1. Blackfly Foam

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    215
    NoS ID
    325911
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: In the African tropics, men toil on the fertile banks of rivers in the hope of feeding their families. The price they pay is blindness. They are bitten by blackflies - a disease-carrying insect...

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  2. Cabbage Root Fly Bites The Dust

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    350760
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: As insects develop immunity - insecticides have to be made more and more powerful threatening all forms of wildlife. Now experiments with a sterilising agent in food successfully used on the...

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  3. Smaller And Better: Leaf Cutting Ants

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    159
    NoS ID
    325675
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: It isn’t always a case of the bigger the better; sometimes it’s an advantage to be small. In this issue we look at the benefits of being smaller rather than larger, of using less instead of...

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  4. Bees

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    533A
    NoS ID
    350616
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: For thousands of years one of the most valuable insects has been the honeybee, farmed throughout the world for its yields of honey and wax. Today, it has an increasingly important role to play...

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  5. Extending Our Control: Monitoring The Mosquitos

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    144
    NoS ID
    325601
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: In spite of the complex controls of technology there are still areas where our control is lost - thousands of people die every year from disease, fire, accidents on the road. This issue...

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  6. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Australian Farmers Fight Insect Plague

    Date released
    27 Nov 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    964A
    NoS ID
    014793
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grasshopper Plague. DESCRIPTION: A plague of grasshoppers has been causing incalculable damage in New South Wales, Australia. SHOTLIST: KS GV cornfield. SCU grasshoppers, thousands on...

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  7. Trees: Insect Virus

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    212
    NoS ID
    325904
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: To satisfy the increasing demand for timber in a world where timber resources are decreasing, scientists in Britain are making a concerted effort to understand more about a little known subject...

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  8. The Virus

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    337
    NoS ID
    350439
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: An interview with Dr. Tinsley, head of a unit at Oxford University concerned with virus research about the benefits of using virus control in keeping down insect populations.

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  9. Disaster Aid

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    282
    NoS ID
    326515
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Machines to control insect pests such as mosquitoes are manufactured just outside London.

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  10. The Silk Moth - the story of an insect that lives and dies for the Ladies.

    Date released
    11 Sep 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    484
    NoS ID
    332524
    Story no
    2 / 6

    NoS Summary - The beginning of silk stockings is investigated - silk moths. NoS synopsis: "It’s a far cry from the sheen of silk stockings." Extreme C/U of a woman’s ankles. Camera tilts up to show her...

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