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Super Sharp Laser

Date released

1969

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

1

NoS ID

325323

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: The laser is the nearest thing to the death ray beloved of science fiction writers. Now a discovery that a jet of oxygen can be combined with the laser to make a super sharp cutting tool may...

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Metropolis (1926 Film, Video)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An expressionist science fiction feature film dealing with a city presided over by an elite ruling class, under a dictatorship and based on the slave labour of the workers toiling underground. Adapted from...

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Be Quiet!

Date released

29 Jul 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1782

NoS ID

025189

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Be Quiet!. DESCRIPTION: We visited the new Laboratories of the Building Research Station near London, to see how they’re helping to insulate buildings against noise. All experiments...

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Out of the Unknown (2014)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1323 mins), £69.99

A 7-disc box set of the classic anthology BBC science fiction series from 1965-1971. The series drew from writers of the calibre of Frederick Pohl, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and John Wyndham....

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H.G. Wells: The Spoken Word (2006)

Subject

Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £10.00

This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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Before I Forget (2006 Television)

Series

Eureka

Director

Michael Robison

US science fiction series filmed in British Columbia, Canada. Sheriff Carter shoots Henry at the diner, and doesn’t remember how he got there. A well-known scientist comes to town with possible clues to...

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Shakespeare’s Plan 12 from Outer Space (1991 Film)

aka: Shakespeare’s Plan 10 from Outer Space

Director

Charles Montogmery ‘Spike’ Stewart

Producer

Charles Montogmery ‘Spike’ Stewart

Cult fiction film blending Twelfth Night with a no-budget science fiction film to create a Shakespearean parody. "William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, re-imagined in a child’s vision of Hell....

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Tomorrow by Air

Date released

18 Nov 1946

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346940

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: The history of British aviation, from the pioneers of flight to the jet- research Lancastrian; current developments and modern civil aircraft types, culminating in the State-owned airways,...

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Sydney Showtime

Date released

6 Apr 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1818

NoS ID

025495

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sydney Showtime. DESCRIPTION: Sydney’s Royal Easter Show was in full swing, while Britain was still firmly in the grip of the wintry Spring. A Devon Bull took the title as Grand...

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War of the Worlds (2005) (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £24.99

A film adptation of the novel by H G Wells, directed by Steven Spielberg.

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