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  1. Slimming the Weigh Away!

    Date released
    9 Sep 1929
    Series name
    Pathe Pictorial
    Issue no
    597
    NoS ID
    348330
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: overweight policemen being vibrated in slimming belts! America

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  2. More Fries with That? (2010)

    aka: Fries with That? The Overweight Epidemic

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 27 minutes), £39

    The DVD investigates the issues behind the popularity of convenience food and the increasing concerns and links to weight and health problems - direct and indirect medical, social and economic. It...

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  3. Overweight woman refused into Australia (1993)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Alison Johns who has been told by Australian Immigration that she must lose weight before being able to immigrate to the country as she is deemed a health risk. Female interviewer not...

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  4. A Weighty Problem

    Date released
    12 Oct 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    645
    NoS ID
    333298
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS Summary - overweight men and women being weighed, exercising and running. British Pathe synopsis: "Eve’s weightiest problem today is how to get rid of it." M/S of a large woman standing on some scales...

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  5. Overweight

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    842
    NoS ID
    329083
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Classes to teach obese children to eat sensibly.

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  6. Eat to Live

    Date released
    Dec 1973
    Series name
    Review 27th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346629
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: why some people get too little of the foods necessary for good health while others are overweight through eating too much food of little nutritional value.

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  7. News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: McGrory Forfeits Featherweight Title

    Date released
    22 Aug 1938
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    481
    NoS ID
    009126
    Story no
    8 / 12

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Boxing - Caplan and McGrory. SHOTLIST: The interesting point about this fight was that for the second time recently the title holder forfeited his titles before entering the ring....

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  8. Fitness Fever

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1044
    NoS ID
    329285
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Jogging, gyms, dance centres - we’ve all gone fitness mad. In Britain, everyone from overweight businessmen to typists in their lunch hours has caught the disease. Vicki Luke visits some of...

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  9. Animal Crackers: Chickens In The Balance

    Date released
    1981
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    264
    NoS ID
    326057
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Some ingenious ideas, developed by both agricultural scientists and working farmers, to improve efficiency down on the farm. Chickens are nervous creatures - they lose weight at the drop of a...

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  10. Sugar Dollies (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. S-VHS. col. 100 min.

    A performance recorded at the Gate theatre in London, on 10 April 1996 as part of the Gate Biennale, a celebration of contemporary European theatre. The play, written in German in 1995 by Klaus Chatten,...

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