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  1. Marvellous Mechanical Midgets

    Date released
    8 Sep 1930
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    993-2
    NoS ID
    133540
    Story no
    2 / 5

    Model engineering exhibition held at the Royal Horticultural Hall.

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  2. Army Test Mechanical Aids

    Date released
    12 Oct 1953
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1271
    NoS ID
    018812
    Story no
    2 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Army Test Mechanical Aids ('King Kong’). DESCRIPTION: A demonstration of mechanical handling of equipment and supplies in the field has just been staged by the Army on Salisbury...

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  3. Bulldozers Make Heavy Work Light

    Date released
    27 Jul 1942
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1190
    NoS ID
    038322
    Story no
    4 / 5

    Army road-making school teaches Royal Engineers to handle latest mechanical diggers.

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  4. Cinetops in Brief No 103

    Date released
    25 Mar 1940
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    521
    NoS ID
    124477
    Story no
    3 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Mechanical Shop Even today, there’s still a little engineering skill left over from armaments for the fashioning of clever toys, and this mechanical shop is a good example. Ducks The hard winter has...

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  5. CLEANING RAILWAY CARRIAGES

    Date other
    18 May 1928
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    NoS ID
    386990
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: Demonstration of a new mechanical way of cleaning railway carriages.

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  6. Two In One: Mechanical Mule

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    230
    NoS ID
    325958
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: There’s something captivating about getting two things for the price of one. It appeals to all of us. In science and technology too, minds are constantly stretched in the search for devices...

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  7. Backstage with Sooty

    Date released
    26 May 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    596
    NoS ID
    121759
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The engineering world of Bill Garrett is where Harry Corbett’s puppet friend Sooty gets all his marvellous mechanical aids. Backstage in his Leeds workshop is where ‘Enery the robot...

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  8. Cropping Currants

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    88
    NoS ID
    352495
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A big shake-up in the blackcurrant industry... a mechanical picker that relies on vibrations to harvest the valuable crop of natural vitamin C capsules.

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  9. Fenner’s Apprentice At GPO

    Date released
    Jun 1972
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    103
    NoS ID
    327371
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Mechanical engineering apprentice, Lenwood Smith, from Jamaica observes the conveyor belt system used at Britain’s Post Office HQ.

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  10. Reports: Making an Aerodrome at Ringway, Manchester

    Date released
    17 Feb 1936
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    350
    NoS ID
    006198
    Story no
    2 / 11

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Making an Aerodrome. SHOTLIST: Shots of mechanical road makers making the new aerodrome. Speeded up shots of the machinery.

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