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Duck Driver

Date released

17 Aug 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2150

NoS ID

028440

Story no

3 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Duck Herder. DESCRIPTION: An ingenious method of rounding up ducks - by radio controlled model boat. SHOTLIST: SV man puts remote controlled boat into lake as boat moves. SV man at...

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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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Shakespeare - Or Bust (1973 Television)

Series

Play for Today

Director

Brian Parker

Producer

David Rose

Specially written for the BBC, this radio play by Peter Terson is a working class take on Three Men In a Boat. It is set in Stratford-Upon-Avon, with the lads off on a barge to soak up some culture via the...

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Broadcaster John Snagge on boat race (1980)

Genre

Interview

Veteran BBC broadcaster John Snagge on his career and in particular his commentaries on the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race. The interview follows his retirement from broadcasting. Also includes...

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Tricia Crocker talks about the murder of her husband in the Caribbean nd [Feb 1982]

See also AV769/397/S1. An interview with Tricia Crocker, the widow of Mike Crocker murdered on their boat [yacht] when they were on holidays sailing in the Caribbean. [Nin [?] is the name of the boat where...

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Five, three, four: the born again Queen (1984)

A programme made to mark the anniversary of the launch of the Queen Mary on September, the 26, 1934. A documentary about the story of the building of the ‘big boat’. Drama inserts and voices with people...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: Aviation Progress in USA

Date released

24 Jul 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

946A

NoS ID

014550

Story no

2 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Us Air News. DESCRIPTION: The giant flying boat designed by Howard Hughes is seen in dry dock in Los Angeles. Off Florida the American Army carry out tests to see how crews of Flying...

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A Question of Detail

Date released

5 Oct 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1844

NoS ID

025699

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Question of Detail. DESCRIPTION: There’s something timeless and rather reassuring about the cult of model making. We all do it when we’re young, and some of us carry on the hobby...

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News Briefs: Model Engineering

Date released

27 Aug 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1264A

NoS ID

018711

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Model Engineering. DESCRIPTION: Highlights of the Model Engineering Exhibition as the New Horticultural Hall were a scale model roundabout, a radio controlled Motor Torpedo Boat and a...

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Model Boat Regatta - Eastbourne

Date released

15 Oct 1959

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

59/83

NoS ID

108855

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Ingenious radio-controlled model powered boats hold competition.

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