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  1. Autoball

    Date released
    5 Jun 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1670
    NoS ID
    024133
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Autoball. DESCRIPTION: Something you’ve probably never seen before, the new sport, called Autoball. It is played at high speed, and cars reach over 40 miles an hour. Our cameraman...

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  2. The Chute Shooters of the Woods

    Date released
    13 Jul 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    632
    NoS ID
    333235
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS Summary - Cameraman risks life and limb riding on a timber chute British Pathe synopsis: "But, before we shot the chute, our Cameraman "shot" this..." Landscape shot - forest. M/S of a very large tree...

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  3. Contempt of Conscience (2008)

    Director
    Joe Jenkins
    Subject
    Philosophy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £25.00

    At the beginning of the 20th century 80% of war casualties were combatants. At the beginning of the 21st century 80% of war casualties were civilians. Today, civilians pay for war like never before. As the...

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  4. Restrepo (2010)

    Director
    Sebastian Junger; Tim Hetherington
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

    Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan’s hostile Korengal Valley . Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of ‘The...

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  5. Harper Audio: Emily Dickinson

    Subject
    Literature

    A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. Julie Harris reads from the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) lived a reclusive...

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  6. Renaissance Man (1994 Film)

    Director
    Penny Marshall
    Producer
    Sara Colleton; Abbott. Elliot; Robert Greenhut

    Feature film. Bill Rago, an advertising executive, fails to win a multi-million dollar account. He registers as unemployed and is assigned a six-week job at the MacClane US Army Training Corps as a teacher...

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  7. Nureyev (2019)

    Director
    Jacqui Morris
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £10.00

    Documentary about life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented...

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  8. Through Life’s Windows: Series Three

    Date released
    16 Feb 1922
    Series name
    Around The Town
    Issue no
    116
    NoS ID
    330052
    Story no
    1 / 6

    Summary - Cartoon about the human eye NoS synopsis: Lead title: Cartoon of a turning globe with a sun and moon either side. Text written in stars "Beauty and Celebrity. Literature, Science and Art. Sole...

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  9. A SEAT ON A5

    Date released
    Dec 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345809
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: retired miners at Dordon, Staffordshire - how they spend their day. NCB Commentary - It’s a quiet autumn morning in the village of Dordon. Down on the corner, traffic on the busy A5 trunk...

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  10. Still the Enemy Within (2014)

    Director
    Owen Gower
    Producer
    Owen Gower
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

    The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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