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De Gaulle Beats the Sirens

Date released

28 Jun 1948

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

48/52

NoS ID

102429

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Communist opponents set off sirens during de Gaulle’s address to mass meeting at Verdun.

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Bestiary, The (1987 Video)

Subject

Art; Biology; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15.00 (+p&p)

The Bestiary is the standard medieval encyclopaedia of animals, laid out like a modern one with a picture of the creature accompanied by information on size, colouring, habitat, gestation periods, and other...

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Gulf War - reports from Baghdad to be censored (1991)

Genre

News report

Report from Baghdad on how they have been ordered to cease transmitting by the Iraqis and further transmissions will be censored. Male reporter not identified. Air raid sirens heard in background.

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Radio City Proms 1985 - Last Night (1985)

Walton - Coronation March, Orb and Sceptre; Elgar - Serenade for Strings; Lambert - The Rio Grande; Bliss - March, Things to Come; Elgar - Pomp and Circunstance March no.1; Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens;...

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Sirens for Bells

Date released

29 Sep 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1530

NoS ID

022626

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sirens for Bells. DESCRIPTION: In Leicester, they tried out sirens on fire-engines, in the belief that they will prove more effective than bells, in clearing a way through the traffic....

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Industrial ARP - At Radio Factory

Date released

9 Feb 1939

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

39/12

NoS ID

096840

Story no

3 / 16

Extras

1 film clip

Showing what will happen in the factories of Britain when the sirens sound the warning of an aerial attack.

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Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: Osaka - Mock Air Raid in Japan

Date released

27 Aug 1934

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

273

NoS ID

005030

Story no

8 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mock Air Raid on Japan. SHOTLIST: Look outs on roof tops. Sirens warning. Plane in air. Street scenes of smoke screens and casualties.

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Malta’s Air Defence

Date released

21 Apr 1941

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

16

NoS ID

156012

Story no

2 / 6

People go about normal work, unconcerned at the threat of air attack. Sirens sound; enemy planes are approaching; Maltese AA guns open up. The streets empty; people make for shelters; aircraft are driven...

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The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Paris During an Air Raid Warning

Date released

25 Sep 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

538

NoS ID

010276

Story no

3 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Air Raid Warning in Paris. SHOTLIST: Shots of sirens. People hurry to shelters and put on their gas masks. Cars are stopped in the streets and later after the all clear the processes...

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1825 - 1925 a Century of Progress in Locomotion

Date released

13 Apr 1925

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1180

NoS ID

084231

Story no

8 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

Look back a 100 years and see the first railway engine used on the Stockton-Darlington - the first railway line in the world. 12 to 15 miles an hour was the highest speed ... there were no sirens of steam...

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