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Overlord Tapestry

Date released

17 Aug 1975

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2411

NoS ID

030700

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Overlord Tapestry. DESCRIPTION: It has taken five years for twenty students of the Royal College of Needlework, to compete this tapestry record of Operation Overlord. The events of this...

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Big Picture, The (2008)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £19.99

The Cold War of the 1950s resulted in many US television programmes produced by government and industry to promote their own interests. The longest running and best received of these was the U.S. Army’s...

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D-Day 50th anniversary (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Chris Carnegy looks back at Operation Overlord as the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings is this year. Includes interview with Betty Hockey, of the Non Stops entertainment group, who sang for the...

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Operation Overlord - D-Day 1944 Remembered (1984)

A documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Interviewees recall the events of that dramatic day.

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D-Day 50th anniversary (1994)

Genre

News report; Special

Max Cotton looks back at Operation Overlord on the 50 year anniversary of the D-Day landings today. Includes BBC recordings from the time with John Snagge describing the operations as they happened; reporter...

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D-Day celebrations planned on 50th anniversary (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Andrew Bomford reports on Government plans for a series of nationwide tributes to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings (Operation Overlord) in Normandy in 1944. Thousands of veteran troops...

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D-Day 40 years on (1984)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the remembrance ceremony for the fallen on the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. Includes sermon by Archdeacon Johnstone(?)....

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D-Day 40 years on (1984)

Genre

News report; Speech; News bulletin; Special

A selection of D-Day news archives, including the first reports of the landings and reports from a bomber.

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D-Day landings archive recordings (1974)

Genre

News report; Speech

A selection of archival BBC radio clips on the D-Day landings. The first is the announcement of the D-Day landings, including a report from a bomber plane on a mission as they fly over the invasion. The next...

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D-Day commemorations (1994)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male talks about D-Day fiftieth birthday. He says it is not a celebration but a commemoration of the people who lost their lives and loved ones. Male interviewer not identified.

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