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  1. Leaning Tower Still Leaning

    Date released
    8 Jul 1965
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1883A
    NoS ID
    026057
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Leaning Tower Still Leaning. DESCRIPTION: Professor Silvio Ballarin, has been measuring the degree of tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. To date, it’s fourteen feet four inches off...

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  2. Propping Up Pisa (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Cynthia Page
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examimes theories behind the tilt of the leaning tower of Pisa and its acceleration, leading to the prediction of the tower’s imminent collapse. One theory is that expansion caused by the heat of the sun...

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  3. Stopping the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing (1993)

    Genre
    Interview

    David Kermode interviews Professor John Burland from London’s Imperial College on the efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over, the dangers facing the tower, how they want to keep some...

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  4. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    3 Dec 1928
    Series name
    British Screen Tatler
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    330366
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: The Leaning Tower of Pisa being repaired.

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  5. News Flashes - Stop Press

    Date released
    18 Oct 1944
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1423
    NoS ID
    039331
    Story no
    6 / 9
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    General Clark visits world-famous Leaning Tower.

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  6. The World’s Greatest Leaner

    Date released
    18 Oct 1934
    Series name
    Pathe Sound Pictorial
    Issue no
    863
    NoS ID
    114879
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pisa, one of the oldest towns in Italy and, architectually, one of the finest. Yet it is the leaning tower that has made it world-famous.

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  7. Pylon Trouble

    Date released
    11 Mar 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1449
    NoS ID
    021550
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pylon Trouble at Staines. DESCRIPTION: Evidence of the trouble on Willow Farm, near Staines where a pylon lists over like the leaning Tower of Pisa. Movietone had a word with Mr Bryn...

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