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Junior Maritime Museum

Date released

13 Jun 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2349A

NoS ID

030372

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Princess Anne Opens Youth Museum - Colour. DESCRIPTION: Princess Anne opens the new Junior Maritime Museum at Greenwich. The centre is for young people interested in Maritime History....

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Ropemakers of Chatham, The (1982 Video)

Director

Philip Sugg

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale Special loan only, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 15 min.

A technical and historical account of the process of making a rope at H M Dockyard, Chatham, told by the foreman of the Ropery.

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Pirates and Privateers (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 237

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week James Seth, author of Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages,...

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John Mundya on broadside warship weapons (1981)

Genre

Interview

John Munday of the National Maritime Museum on the history of broadside warship weapons. He says the biggest shot fired from a battleship weighed 42 pounds. Male interviewer not identified.

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The Flowering of the Rose, report on the finding of the wreck Mary Rose (1979)

TRACK 1 from AV1/VR2/S1. The Flowering of The Rose, report on the finding of the wreck Mary Rose. Programme of interviews in the Victory Report Series. Introduction:- The story of the search, the underwater...

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Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé

Date

2 Jun 2014, 07:57

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was one of the pioneers in the development of scientific cinema and was one of its great popularisers. Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland looks at the...

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HMS London fires last broadside (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the last firing of the broadside on HMS London. Includes interviews with naval historian John Munday of the National Maritime Museum, about the history of the broadside; former sailor John Riggs,...

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Yachting in the 1930s (1991 Video)

Producer

Philip Sugg

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Archive film from the National Maritime Museum’s collection showing yachting in the 1930s. Film of four great yachts - ‘Britannia’, ‘Velsheder’, ‘Astra’ and ‘Westward’ in action in the...

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Maritime Affairs: USS Olympia

Date released

3 Oct 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1478A

NoS ID

021960

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dewey’s Flagship (SS Olympia). DESCRIPTION: An old-timer that helped to make history, the American cruiser Olympia was Admiral Dewey’s flagship at the battle of Manila Bay. She’s...

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Dirty old river (1986)

Genre

Feature

Feature on the social and natural history of the Thames, its current uses and views on future uses. Includes interviews with Bob Aspinall, Archivist at Port of London Authority; Chris Bailey of Thames Water...

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