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  1. Weapons of War

    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/1
    NoS ID
    156578
    Story no
    2 / 2

    Breakdown of organization and function of Minister of Supply. A complete picture of the weapons and equipment produced by the people to be used by armed forces against the enemy. Shots of men returning from...

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  2. Christmas Fare

    Date released
    20 Dec 1951
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2171
    NoS ID
    043432
    Story no
    5 / 5

    Christmas toy fair, revived after absence since 1939, thrills youngsters. Muster Three baby leopards arrive just in time for Christmas. London Mills’ Circus elephants walk from Victoria to Olympia. Standon...

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  3. Cotton Goes to War

    Date released
    16 Nov 1943
    Series name
    War Pictorial News
    Issue no
    135
    NoS ID
    156250
    Story no
    2 / 5

    One of Lancashire’s giant cotton mills; the combing and cleaning of cotton, process of spinning (new emphasis on machines), weaving. Some uses of cotton are shown: life-saving suits for airmen, fire hoses,...

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  4. Luxurious in 1901 - And Still Is

    Date released
    1960
    Series name
    Federal Spotlight
    Issue no
    99
    NoS ID
    351423
    Story no
    3 / 5

    BFI synopsis: The Zambezi saw mills buy an old rail coach for their private railway.

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  5. The Other Man’s Job. Making Copper Cables

    Date released
    1 Feb 1943
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/15; Paramount Issue No.: 1244
    NoS ID
    156607
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Blister copper is refined in furnace; white hot copper is moulded into bars and cooled. At mills, bars are made into copper rods which in turn become copper wire. This is coiled and stranded and made into...

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  6. Catrine Wheels

    Date released
    1947
    Series name
    This Is Britain
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    328207
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: For a hundred and twenty years the mills in the village of Catrine have been supplied with five hundred horsepower for next to nothing.

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  7. Cotton Goes to War: The Other Man’s Job

    Date released
    11 Oct 1943
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/33; Paramount Issue No.: 1316
    NoS ID
    156669
    Story no
    1 / 2

    Exhibition of cotton uses in Manchester. The need for cotton goods in war-time calls girls back to their jobs in the mills of Lancashire. Some processes in the preparation of raw cotton: combing and...

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  8. Trees for Timber

    Date released
    1958
    Series name
    Rhodesian Spotlight
    Issue no
    67
    NoS ID
    351251
    Story no
    3 / 5

    BFI synopsis: Forestry Commission trial forest and saw mills.

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  9. News from England

    Date released
    30 Apr 1945
    Series name
    War Pictorial News
    Issue no
    208
    NoS ID
    156394
    Story no
    1 / 3

    The King and Queen visit Lancashire where they visit wounded soldiers at Preston and visit the textile mills and iron works, at Wigan an aircraft factory and at Accrington and the factory nursery. [sic]

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  10. Nigerian Cotton

    Date released
    Sep 1969
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    70
    NoS ID
    327320
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Magnificently dressed Muslims assembling in Kano for the final day of Ramadan. Harvesting, cleaning and grading Nigerian cotton to be spun and woven in English mills.

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