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Jet Boosts Speed Mark

Date released

15 Apr 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1787

NoS ID

041006

Story no

2 / 4

Latest de Havilland experimental plane raises closed circuit speed record to 605 miles an hour, forty better than previous record.

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Glasgow by the Way (4 Parts) (1988 Video)

Director

Derek Tammes

Producer

Seona Roberts

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min.

Part 1: Shots of present-day Glasgow are intercut with stills and newsreels from the 1930s and 1940s. The first programme in the series deals with the slogan, ‘Glasgow’s Miles Better’, itself, the...

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Westminster Media Forum meets for first time (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

News 97.3’s Jeff Collins was at the first meeting of the Westminster Media Forum earlier today. The forum has been set up to discuss the future of television and in particular digital broadcasting....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.46: Programme 46 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

Ocean Sound This Week, No 46 Programme 46 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 6 September 1987. Presented by PAUL EASTON....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Mad, Bad and Dangerous

Date

23 Mar 2015, 11:10

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema by Christopher Frayling (Reaktion Books, 2005). ISBN: 978-1861892850 (hardback), 258 pages. Price: £19.95; ISBN: 978-1861892850 (paperback) £17;...

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A Six-Year Cruise

Date released

3 Sep 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1578A

NoS ID

023201

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Six-Year Cruise. DESCRIPTION: She’s called Solace, and she’s arriving at Plymouth, for ever famous as Drake’s base of operations. Commander Victor Clark and his companion on the...

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Better Luck Next Time!

Date released

6 Jan 1927

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1361; Super Issue No.: 27-Feb

NoS ID

085642

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Captain Campbell, after attaining 135 miles an hour in first try out of his Napier-Campbell 450 hp ‘Bluebird’, has to abandon attempt, owing to defect in gear box.

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Polaris on Target

Date released

28 Jul 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1625A

NoS ID

023707

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Polaris on Target. DESCRIPTION: The USS George Washington, America’s first nuclear powered missile launching submarine, made history: the first launching of a ballistic missile from a...

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Campbell Does It

Date released

13 Nov 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1536A

NoS ID

022699

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Campbell Does It. DESCRIPTION: Donald Campbell at Coniston. His jet-propelled Bluebird has been modified yet again, and no-one knows better than the fastest man on water, what trials...

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LANCASHIRE - FRED NORRIS

Date released

Jun 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

346048

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: Look at the life of miner Fred Norris who is a long-distance champion runner. Norris and family. Participating in a 10-mile race, 3A’s meeting at Hurlingham, with Derek Ibbotson and Basil...

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