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  1. The Glassblower

    Date released
    1949
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    349546
    Story no
    1 / 3

    Film User synopsis: How complicated glass chemical retorts are blown by craftsmen

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  2. Britain May Strike Oil

    Date released
    2 Apr 1934
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    323
    NoS ID
    033177
    Story no
    4 / 6

    Big petroleum industry here a near-future possibility. After experts’ prediction government aims to nationalise all oil produced.

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  3. The Big Dig

    Date released
    1950
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    16
    NoS ID
    349586
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Film User synopsis: a gigantic dragline excavator moving 40 tons of earth at each ‘bite’

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  4. Lost Wax Casting

    Date released
    1950
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    16
    NoS ID
    349585
    Story no
    1 / 3

    Film User synopsis: Casting gas-turbine blading by a method borrowed from the Ancient Egyptians

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  5. Queen and Duke Visit Kent Oil Refinery

    Date released
    11 Apr 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2516
    NoS ID
    045711
    Story no
    8 / 10

    British Petroleum Company’s latest refinery has royal visit.

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  6. The Other Man’s Job: Glass to Stop Bullets

    Date released
    22 Mar 1945
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/69; Paramount Issue No.: 1467
    NoS ID
    156766
    Story no
    1 / 2

    The production of bulletproof safety glass for wartime use. Strength shown under attack from Bren-gun. Sheets of cellulose-acetate are placed between sheets of glass and sealed with bitumen. Carriage screen...

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  7. Candles

    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    539A
    NoS ID
    350654
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: We investigated the faces behind the flame. And discovered in one London factory alone the whole history of candle making from the beginning: perfect candles hand made since the Middle Ages...

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  8. News from the Headlines: Oil from Iraq

    Date released
    8 May 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1196A
    NoS ID
    017775
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From Iraq. DESCRIPTION: The Iraq Petroleum Company’s new pipe-line from Kirkuk to Banias has been completed. It runs for 560 miles to the Syrian Coast and is expected to convey 14...

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  9. RESEARCH 2000

    Date released
    Mar 1979
    Series name
    Review 32nd Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346755
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: About the scientific provision being made by the mining industry towards the time when coal will have to replace petroleum and natural gas.

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  10. Made to Order

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    349292
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS Summary - glassblowers making a complex piece of laboratory glassware BP synopsis: New glass apparatus for the Research Station at Sunbury is made on the premises by Mr. Ritches. Here they test the oil...

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