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Rhythm on the Rink

Date released

12 Dec 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/100

NoS ID

098452

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Ice Capades of 1941 staged at Pittsburgh to open the skating season, with star of the show Belita.

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Return to Everest 1 (1984 Video)

Producer

Theodore Strauss

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

More than 30 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to conquer Mount Everest they returned to celebrate their historic ascent. Includes footage from the 1953 expedition.

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Romeo and Juliet (1975 Video)

Prokofiev’s ballat with libretto by Leonid Lavrosky, choreographed by Nicolas Petrov and danced by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, seen in dress rehearsal on stage with sets.

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Jet crashes while landing near Pittsburgh killing all 131 on board (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports from the United States where teams are investigating an air crash. All 131 people on board US Air flight 427 died when the plane smashed into a wooded ravine...

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PITTSBURGH CALAMITY

Date released

24 Nov 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1740

NoS ID

386258

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Mighty gasometer explosion wrecks thoroughfares, shatters entire buildings and kills or injures hundreds of people. Scenes of the aftermath in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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News in a Flash: Pittsburgh Fire Damage

Date released

2 Jan 1958

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2866

NoS ID

158377

Story no

9 / 11

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Current Attraction

Date released

30 Mar 1942

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

42/26

NoS ID

099347

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Tests being made on new type of circuit breaker in Pittsburgh. Even when the installation is covered with ice at 20 below, the electric current can be seen jumping across.

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Man-Made Lightning

Date released

10 Jul 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/55

NoS ID

098885

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Experiments at a Pittsburgh laboratory are being made to render aeroplanes safe in an electrical storm. A model all-metal plane is shown undergoing tests, and an actual car with a motorist, also.

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Fire!

Date released

2 Jan 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1491A

NoS ID

022114

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pittsburgh Fire. DESCRIPTION: Familiar enough to war time pilots - a town on fire. But there was no conflict there, Pittsburgh in peacetime, and the only battle is the onslaught by...

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Laura Davis flies to US for double transplant (1992)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on 4-year-old Laura Davis flying to the USA today for a lifesaving liver and bowel transplant at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. British Airways have given the family free tickets to the US and the...

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