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Motorway Collapse

Date released

17 Nov 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1954A

NoS ID

026668

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motorway Collapse. DESCRIPTION: In Belgium a bridge on the Antwerp-Liege Motorway collapses, hurling cars into a canal, killing two and injuring seventeen. SHOTLIST: GV collapsed...

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Devil’s Ditches, The (1974)

Subject

Archaeology; Media studies

A television pprogramme made in 1974 recording archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor’s 1973 excavation of a section of the Devil’s Dyke, near Newmarket in Cambridgeshire, which was due to be removed to...

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Motorway service areas (1979)

Genre

Interview

Hugh Cade, government representative, on appraising motorway service area food and provisions.

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M4 Police chase (1983)

Detectives from Bristol have arrived in Maidenhead to escort a man back to the West Country tonight after an armed bank robbery and a hundred-mile chase along the M4 to Berkshire. A policeman is in hospital...

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Spaghetti Junction on Motorway

Date released

29 May 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2243

NoS ID

029393

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spaghetti Junction on Motorway. DESCRIPTION: Costing £8 million, Europe’s most complex intersection. Called unofficially ‘Spaghetti Junction’ situated just outside Birmingham,...

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Motorway Madness

Date released

27 Mar 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2077A

NoS ID

027801

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motorway Madness. DESCRIPTION: The pattern of safety to come arrives on the M4. A computerised system of hazard warnings that should bring the lunatic fringe of Motorway maniacs to...

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Britain’s New Motorway

Date released

27 Mar 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/25

NoS ID

108112

Extras

1 film clip, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Work starts on the biggest single road project ever undertaken in Britain - the 70 mile double track London to Birmingham motorway to be completed in 19 months.

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Pennine Motorway

Date released

18 Oct 1971

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2211

NoS ID

029075

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pennine Motorway. DESCRIPTION: The Queen opens Britain’s newest motorway - the M62. SHOTLIST: Zoom out from valley to GV motorway. GV pan traffic along motorway. CU sign at junction...

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New Road, New Tunnel

Date released

18 Nov 1963

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

63/93

NoS ID

110935

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

33 mile section of motorway is opened.

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Motorway Machines

Date released

21 Jan 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

526

NoS ID

121604

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: ...of the M1 to see the weird, space-age machines that are extending it by the length of a cricket-pitch every two hours. The great, ever-lengthening ribbon of high-speed motorway devours...

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