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Nine Miles a Minute

Date released

23 Aug 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1511

NoS ID

039674

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Shooting Star, claimed as world’s fastest aircraft, does 550 miles in one hour.

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Real Dads Army (2002)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £16.95

Four films depicting various aspects of recruiting and training the Home Guard (Dad’s Army) during World War 2.

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Lockerbie bombing-debris as far as Northumberland (1988)

Genre

News report

Duncan Wood reports on the aftermath of the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland (21/12/88). Debris from the explosion six miles up in the night sky has been raining down on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

50th Anniversary of Miles aircraft - 29 March [1975-1986]

Today marked the fiftieth anniversary of the maiden flight of the Miles Haw, a two-seater aeroplane designed by the late F. G. Miles. To celebrate, a group of former pilots and workers from the Miles...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

David Samuelson (1924-2015)

Date

2 Nov 2015, 13:32

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

David Samuelson, one of the few surviving British newsreel cameramen, passed away on 28th October at the age of 91. He joined British Movietone News as a projectionist in 1941 progressing through the cutting...

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RAF plane crash, Isle of Harris - Witness accounts (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Clayre Gribben reports on an RAF aircraft crash on a remote hillside on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. Witnesses David Miles and Kenny McKay are interviewed.

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Model Aircraft Fanatics

Date released

11 Apr 1968

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

694

NoS ID

121986

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: But men do fly - by proxy in the case of the Bromley Radio Controlled Model Aircraft Society out for a spin round a field in their high-powered, remote controlled, fast-flying aircraft. But...

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Getting It off the Ground

Date released

14 Feb 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1915

NoS ID

026328

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Getting It Off the Ground. DESCRIPTION: A demonstration flight of the BN2 Islander, built at Bembridge, Isle of Wight by John Britten and Desmond Norman. It’s a ten seater short haul...

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Britain’s Aerial Heroine!

Date released

8 May 1930

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1996

NoS ID

384623

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Miss Amy Johnson starts her lone flight from Croydon to Australia (22,00 miles).

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THROUGH SNOW AND HAIL

Date released

8 Mar 1928

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1770

NoS ID

386594

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: The U.S. airship ‘Los Angeles’ flies 2,265 miles from New Jersey to Panama (non-stop) and back.

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