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French Enter Rocket Field - Sahara

Date released

16 Mar 1959

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

59/22

NoS ID

108541

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

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

Tests in desert are big success.

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Born Survivor Bear Grylls: Sahara (2008)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

Survival expert Bear Grylls travels to the hostile wilderness of the Sahara. With his extreme survival skills, almost-superhuman endurance and a whole host of resourceful techniques he demonstrates how to...

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Arafat survives PLO plane crash landing in desert (1992)

Genre

Interview

Stephanie West interviews Afif Safieh, the PLO’s London representative, on the crash landing of PLO leader, Yasser Arafat’s plane in the Sahara Desert in Libya. Three crew members were killed but Arafat...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Village Life: Great Shefford (1987)

Mike Matthews this week visits the village of Great Shefford. It lies 7 miles Northwest of Newbury on the A338, in Berkshire. The programme has 3 tracks. On Track 1, Mike makes 2 interviews: 1- To a village...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Gopher Men of the Sahara

Date released

13 Jan 1930

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

615

NoS ID

348430

Story no

1 / 6

NoS synopsis: harem of a desert sheik at Malmata in the Sahara

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Oil from the Sahara

Date released

20 Jan 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1494

NoS ID

022156

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...

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French Outposts of Empire

Date released

2 May 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/36

NoS ID

097921

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

On the mountains of Syria ski troops patrol in thick snow even though it’s summer - and by contrast in the Sahara Desert natives commanded by French officers also patrol - two aspects of France on guard.

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Your Gas from Sahara

Date released

22 Apr 1965

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

65/33

NoS ID

111576

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip

Dramatic film of natural gas source deep in Sahara Desert. Reading: Typical household using gas for all purposes is probably unaware of its origin. Arzew: New port on African coast from which gas is supplied...

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Dunes, Rivers and Ice in the Sahara (1980 Film)

Director

B Beuf

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An account of how observations of sedimentary processes can be used to interpret ancient deposits. Concentrates on processes and rocks of the Sahara and deals with aeolian, fluvial, littoral and glacial...

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Women of the Toubou (1975 Film)

Producer

Anne Balfour-Fraser

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the way of life of the Toubou, a nomadic tribe living in the Sahara desert. Looks in particular at the role of women in the tribe.

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