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Ostrich Raises Head

Date released

30 May 1938

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

757

NoS ID

035970

Story no

6 / 8

Extras

1 shot list

West End brings ostrich feathers back into fashion; South African ostrich-farms do big business.

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Nature’s Technology (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Investigates the natural engineering solutions developed by creatures in the world of nature to deal with problems caused by their environments and at ways man copies nature’s technology. By observing...

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Royal Variety Performance 1979, The (1979 Television)

Director

David Millard; Norman Maen

Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...

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Sunday Supplement: interview and music programme - Ocean Sound - CD54 (1988)

The CDs from No. 54 to 74, are Sunday Supplements presented by Amanda Ware, single tracks. Either the tapes have been edited, or the programmes ran without commercial breaks. The transmission time is changed...

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Ostrich Race

Date released

22 Dec 1927

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

852-1

NoS ID

131717

Story no

3 / 6

An Ostrich Derby.

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The Ostrich Derby

Date released

5 Jan 1931

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

1010-2

NoS ID

133693

Story no

3 / 5

Men racing hooded ostriches. A rider falls off. The finish. An ostrich holds a ball in its beak, then swallows it.

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Thanks for the Buggy Ride (New Style)

Date released

28 Sep 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

643

NoS ID

333289

Story no

3 / 5

British Pathe synopsis: "What’s better than a new-fashioned buggy ride..." L/S of a city street (probably United States of America). Amongst the cars is a buggy drawn by an ostrich. The ostrich buggy...

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The Human Ostrich

Date released

22 Jan 1940

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

512

NoS ID

124434

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

On the beach at Durban, the Human Ostrich comes into the news. He’ll eat anything but his favourite on the menu is old nails and razor blades - not to mention a few electric light bulbs.

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Why Ostrich Feathers leave home

Date released

12 Nov 1931

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

545

NoS ID

332862

Story no

7 / 8

NoS Summary - How ostrich feathers are collected and sold in South Africa. British Pathe synopsis: South Africa. M/S of baby ostriches hatching from eggs. A man picks up an un-hatched egg. M/S of large group...

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Ostrich Farm

Date released

14 May 1962

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

385

NoS ID

121217

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Fashions come and go, but none went so rapidly as the ostrich feathers on ladies’ hats. But they are coming back into favour, and that means growing prosperity for the ostrich farms of...

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