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Fastline Films 1: Mechanical Signalling (1951)

Subject

Transport

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £24.95

This two-DVD set is the first of a series of films using historic instruction films made by British Transport Films in the 1950s. This is the material with which railwaymen were trained over fifty years...

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Story of the British Lorry, The

Producer

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Transport

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

ntroduced by Lord Montague of Beaulieu, this video tells the story of the British lorry, using both archive and contemporary footage. The commercial vehicle is as old as the car itself. By the 1890s the...

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Molly Dineen Collection: Volume One (2011)

Director

Molly Dineen

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

This is the first of three volumes that brings all of Molly Dineen’s films to DVD. HOME FROM THE HILL (1987): Dineen’s debut follows charismatic Colonel Hilary Hook, an elderly retired soldier, as he...

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Yesterday’s Britain: Capital Transport (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

A compilation of four films that show changes in London transport from 1947 - 1983.

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British Transport Films Collection Volume Ten: London on the Move (2012)

Subject

Geography; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey, a founding...

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British Transport Films Collection Vol. 2: See Britain by Train (2005)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 249 minutes), £19.99

The second in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the post-war thirst for visual teaching and educational entertainment and the nationalisation...

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Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film (2006)

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £14.99

Since the 1950s, Geoffrey R. Llewellyn Jones has been making short films with an extraordinary marriage of images, music and rhythm that make him one of Britain’s true film artists. This DVD brings a...

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British Transport Films Collection Vol. 3: Running a Railway (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 237 minutes), £19.99

The third in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the post-war thirst for visual teaching and educational entertainment and the nationalisation of...

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Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1-3

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1595 minutes), £45.50

In this 11-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo swaps his treasured copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook for its stateside counterpart - an 1879 edition of Appleton’s General Guide to the United...

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Britain from the Air (2 Vols) (2001 Video)

aka: Flying Through History

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 168 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive) - boxed set

A series of six programmes, filmed entirely from helicopter, showing key sites and how the landscape of Britain has evolved over 2000 years. Each of the six units covers a key period.

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