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  1. Liverpool Cathedrals - The Protestant Cathedral

    Date released
    22 Feb 1940
    Series name
    New Series Pictorial
    Issue no
    203
    NoS ID
    116536
    Story no
    5 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    SHOTLIST: 1. Various shots of workmen at work carving the sandstone slabs, placing them in position and building the roof of the building. The cathedral has been under construction since 1904. 74 ft.

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  2. Energy Resources: Petroleum (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Focuses on reservoir rocks and the best ways of extracting oil from them, looking at sandstone reservoirs and at recovery methods for reef oil deposits, with demonstrations of how oil can be extracted by...

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  3. Cave Dwellers of Petra

    Date released
    12 May 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    594
    NoS ID
    121754
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ‘The rose red city half as old as time’ of Biblical days. Here lived civilisation’s most sophisticated cavemen who carved a whole dynasty of palaces, temples from the rich red sandstone...

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  4. Concrete Cliffs

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    215
    NoS ID
    325912
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: In the flat heartlands of Scotland, in the city of Stirling, there is a curious anomaly; a peak. And surmounting this peak, there’s a castle. But the peak is sandstone which is over the years...

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  5. Drilling to Sample and Monitor Groundwater (1997)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 21 minutes), £35.00

    This programme films two 60m boreholes being drilled into mixed measures and sandstone beds, using Rotary Percussion Drilling. An analysis of 1m interval samples shows how the actual geology differed from...

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  6. Mersey Tunnel Breakthrough

    Date released
    12 Mar 1970
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2127A
    NoS ID
    028222
    Story no
    3 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tunnel Breakthrough. DESCRIPTION: A giant drilling machine breaks through the last few feet of sandstone to complete the operation which has bored out the second Mersey Tunnel between...

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  7. The ‘Id’ Festival

    Date released
    7 Mar 1976
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2440
    NoS ID
    030787
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Id’ Festival. DESCRIPTION: Delhi’s Moslem Community gather at the ancient ‘Jama Masjid Mosque’ to celebrate the Festival of ‘ID’. SHOTLIST: GV the red sandstone mosque...

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  8. Soils of the Fell Sandstone (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

    Shows the range of soils found in one area of northern England and explains reasons for their formation. Shows upland soil types ranging from brown earths and podzols to gley and peat soils in their...

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  9. Adventures of Peggy: No.9 Four thousand miles across America with Miss Peggy Hyland

    Date released
    3 Jan 1924
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    135
    NoS ID
    334614
    Story no
    3 / 5

    Pathe Intertitles - "Then we went across country - where the going was anything but good ..." One shot "... into New Mexico, to Gallup, where we found the world’s greatest Autograph Album - Inscription...

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  10. Drakelow (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1998 sale: £9.87 (inclusive)

    In 1942 the Rover company built 5k of tunnels to house a hidden factory of over 26,000 square metres in the sandstone hill at Drakelow, near Kidderminster. Rover was building parts for radial aero engines...

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