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    Date released
    Feb 1932
    Series name
    Gaumont Sound Mirror
    Issue no
    73
    NoS ID
    349282
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: the lyre bird, its nest and song

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  2. The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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  3. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    Feb 1932
    Series name
    Gaumont Sound Mirror
    Issue no
    73
    NoS ID
    334130
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: the lyre bird, its nest and song

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  4. (Untitled record)

    Series name
    World Pictorial News
    Issue no
    273
    NoS ID
    156538
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The transfer of a museum of musical instruments from Oberhaching (?) [sic] to Munich. Instruments, which are some of the earliest made, include a very early piano, a musical lyre.

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  5. Hearing History

    Date released
    2 May 1968
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    697
    NoS ID
    121994
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Authenticity is something that Andrew Brown, a violinist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is continually striving for. He’s made a life-time study of rare and old instruments and, in...

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  6. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Our Club Magazine
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    353097
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS synopsis: shots of the rarely photographed lyre bird

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  7. The Dance of Spring

    Date released
    12 Jul 1928
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    371
    NoS ID
    331921
    Story no
    7 / 8

    NoS Summary - Helen May and Pupils dressed in Greek tunics dancing. British Pathe synopsis: Group of women dance in a country house garden setting. They are dressed in flowing dresses with headbands. They...

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  8. Going Decimal Down-Under

    Date released
    7 Sep 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1840
    NoS ID
    025668
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Going Decimal Down-Under. DESCRIPTION: Stuart Devlin has drawn inspiration for the design of Australia’s new decimal coinage from the country’s unique animal life. It is expected to...

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  9. Crete

    Date released
    26 Jan 1964
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    474
    NoS ID
    121476
    Story no
    1 / 1
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Crete. A simple land, once the seat of supreme civilisation. A land of such a past that the past is ever present. Submerged beneath the waters of Elounda are the ruins of a port that recalls...

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  10. Seven Ages

    Date released
    10 Nov 1932
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    597
    NoS ID
    333090
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS Summary - traces the change in women’s hairstyles through history. British Pathe synopsis: "Is the glory of woman her hair - or, like Adam’s beard, is it largely a myth? Possibly in Grecian times...

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