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The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: C-In-C Lays His Wreath

Date released

20 Nov 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

546

NoS ID

010420

Story no

8 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: BEF Shipment Six C-In-C Lays a Wreath. DESCRIPTION: Lord Gort on Armistice Day. SHOTLIST: On Armistice Day, Lord Gort attends a ceremony and lays a wreath on a war memorial.

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Secrets of War (2011)

Director

Alan Beattie; Charles Proser

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1300 minutes), £18.00

This award-winning series explores lesser-known aspects of the twentieth century’s major conflicts, offering insights into the hidden world of covert operations. Based on information that had been only...

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Tug of War (Video)

aka: Pritzker Military Library Presents: Season 11, Episode 15

Series

Shakespeare and the Citizen Soldier

Director

Bradley Guidera

Producer

Bradley Guidera; Megan Williams; Aaron Pylinski

Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the creator of "Tug of War"; Barbara Gaines talks to Professor Stuart Sherman about the themes in this two-part series. Across "Tug of War: Foreign...

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Six-day war anniversary (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Gideon Rafael, former Israeli ambassador to the UK, on the anniversary of the Six-Day War between Israel and neighbouring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria (in 06/67). Male interviewer...

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Radio D-Day; Action Desk; Dave Luck Breakfast Show; Family Confidential; News Bulletin (1994)

A series of 9 tracks programmes, which starts with the Radio D-Day [Opening Day]. A special broadcast from BIC with Evening Echo in a flash-back of 50 years ago memories of the War time: 23 of May 1944 -...

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Media Screen Roundup - February 2013

Date

8 Mar 2013, 10:32

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. We’ve been compiling Media Screen...

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Yasser Arafat to return to Gaza (1994)

Genre

News report

Mark Weiss reports on the upcoming historic visit of PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Gaza and the West Bank after 27 years in exile after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war (Six Day War) and on the security measures...

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Football "Down Under"

Date released

21 Oct 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/85

NoS ID

098334

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Six football league matches are played in one day - five and a half hours of continuous football, on behalf of the Australian War Fund.

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: More "City of Benares" Survivors Back

Date released

3 Oct 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

591A

NoS ID

011177

Story no

3 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: More "City of Benares" Survivors. DESCRIPTION: Forty six people had survived eight days in an open boat, six of them boys. SHOTLIST: HMS Anthony (shhh!) comes into port and on the deck...

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The Mozzie and the Squirt

Date released

19 Jul 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/58

NoS ID

100754

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

A six-pounder gun fitted to Mosquito aircraft made it one of the war’s most effective U-boat killers. First operational use of the six-pounder carrying aircraft was in November 1943. Another British plane...

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