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News Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Waterloo Bridge Progress

Date released

20 Oct 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

489A

NoS ID

009329

Story no

4 / 13

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Waterloo Bridge Under Construction. SHOTLIST: General views of work in progress on the new Waterloo Bridge over the Thames. About this date a symposium on the construction of the bridge...

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Cruachan Hollow Mountain, The (2009)

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 81 minutes), £19.56

The story of the construction of the Cruachan pumped storage Hydro-Electric Scheme, one of the most ambitious schemes of its time. All stages of the construction are detailed in this meticulously produced...

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History of Ronan Point tower block and safety worries (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the history of Ronan Point, a tower block in Newham, east London, which raised doubts about the safety of large panel system buildings after a section collapsed due to a gas explosion in 1968....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day Remembered: Documentary with reminiscences of wartime (1984)

D-DAY REMEMBERED [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A documentary, broadcast on Radio Victory, 6 June 1984, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War Two, using the...

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BFI InView - A New Source of History

Date

22 Aug 2013, 09:42

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

The InView resource is a collaboration between Jisc and the British Film Institute, delivering hundreds of hours of material from the BFI Film and TV Archives. Patrick Russell looks at the aims of the...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: On the Aero-Engine Factory Front

Date released

27 Nov 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

651A

NoS ID

012044

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aero Engine Construction. DESCRIPTION: At a factory in Northern England the "Bristol Hercules" aero engine is being turned out in large quantities. SHOTLIST: Shots of the various phases...

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News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Spitfire and Plenty of Them

Date released

12 Dec 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

497

NoS ID

009496

Story no

9 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spitfire Fighters Under Construction. SHOTLIST: At Vickers Eastleigh Works, Spitfire fighting planes are under construction in large quantities. General interior views of the assembling...

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Hydro Power Station

Date released

15 May 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2241

NoS ID

029374

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hydro Power Station. DESCRIPTION: In the Wicklow Mountains, site for Eire’s largest Civil Engineering Project - a pumped storage hydro electric station, to be completed in 1974....

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Australia - Olympic Preparations

Date released

20 Jun 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1359

NoS ID

020136

Story no

2 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Olympic Games Site. DESCRIPTION: In Melbourne, ticket offices are already open for the XVIth Olympiad to be held there in November 1956. Progress on the construction of the Pool and...

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Olympic Stadium

Date released

29 Jul 1971

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2199A

NoS ID

028952

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Olympic Stadium. DESCRIPTION: Taking final shape now, the giant Olympic Village at Munich for the 1972 Games - and west of Munich another important stage is reached with the opening of...

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