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News Flashes from Round the World: Locust Plague in Canaries

Date released

4 Nov 1954

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2174

NoS ID

071977

Story no

6 / 11

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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John Schlesinger on Shaw play (1975)

Genre

Interview

John Schlesinger, English film director, interviewed by Sarah Dickinson on the play and his production of Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, the contrast between working in film and theatre, dealing...

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Middle East Trouble Centre

Date released

2 Apr 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2321

NoS ID

073249

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Negev railway. Border tension. Israel officers. Jordan officers. Locust plague

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The Locust Battle

Date released

9 Jun 1930

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

30/3

NoS ID

088423

Story no

5 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

Government use trenches, pits, flame throwers and small army of soldiers, against invasion of plague of locusts a mile wide and 15 miles long to save cotton and orange trees.

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Butterflies Back Britain

Date released

19 Feb 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2020

NoS ID

027256

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Butterflies Back Britain. DESCRIPTION: A Butterfly farm in Dorset exports insects to more than fifty countries. SHOTLIST: CU pan butterflies in case. Pan Land Rover with butterfly...

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Anti Locust Research

Date released

8 Jun 1967

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

650

NoS ID

121886

Story no

2 / 2

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: London, too, is the only place on earth where the war against locusts is fought by laboratory scientists. A million of the grass-hopping creatures that still ravage two-thirds of the globe...

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Flying Tanks and Tiffies

Date released

1 Jan 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/1

NoS ID

100592

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Hamilcar glider, the largest wooden aircraft ever constructed, needs 4-engined bomber to tow it. Weighing over 16 tons nearly half its weight can consist of a cargo of heavy armoured vehicles or guns. As the...

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Locusts

Date released

Jul 1965

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

38

NoS ID

327691

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: The work of the Anti-Locust Research Centre in London.

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The Holy Land Today

Date released

2 Apr 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1400

NoS ID

020844

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Holy Land Today. DESCRIPTION: The Holy Land is much the same as in Biblical times, pictures taken near the Easter season, tell the story of Israel today. SHOTLIST: Shots of men on...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Described by Leslie Mitchell: Dieppe

Date released

27 Aug 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

690A

NoS ID

012411

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dieppe Raid (By Commandos) (Reconnaissance in Force). DESCRIPTION: In presenting this dramatic record of a memorable raid, let us pay tribute to the gallant men who laid down their...

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