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Roving Camera Reports: Work Begins on Thames South Bank

Date released

20 Jan 1949

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1570

NoS ID

067295

Story no

4 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

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Tonic to the Nation - From Festival to Coronation (1951 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 68 min., 2001 sale £12.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

A compilation of four films, three of them commissioned for the Festival of Britain. BRIEF CITY (d. Richard Massingham. COI, b&w, 1951) and LONDON IN FESTIVAL YEAR (COI, col, 1951) cover the capital’s...

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Shakespeare’s Globe (1997 Television)

aka: Shakespeare’s Globe

Director

Cassie Braban

Producer

Cassie Braban

Television documentary. Charts the realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s ambition to build a theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once stood. Follows escalation of tensions...

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Beadlebum show (1980)

Genre

Competition; Interview; Special; Vox pop

Jeremy Beadle presents his Beadlebum show from the Thames Day events at the South Bank in London and asks quiz questions. Speaking are: male town crier; leader of the GLC, Sir Horace Cutler; former rugby...

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Learning on Screen members

Date

17 Nov 2016, 14:53

Author

Sarah Allen

Post Type

Page

Abbey School Aberystwyth University Anglia Ruskin University Arts University Bournemouth Aston University Ayrshire College Bangor University Bath Spa University College Birkbeck,...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: South Bank Site for 1951 Festival

Date released

21 Oct 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1011A

NoS ID

015382

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 1951 Exhibition Site. DESCRIPTION: A site on the South Bank of the Thames, in London, is being prepared for the proposed ‘Festival of Britain’ to be held in 1951. SHOTLIST: KS CU...

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Wirewalker Conquers the Thames

Date released

27 Sep 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1164A

NoS ID

017392

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wire-Walker Conquers the Thames. DESCRIPTION: Charles Elleano, 40-year-old French wire-walker, crossed the Thames on a wire - a distance of over a thousand feet in twenty-five minutes....

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Morrison Starts South Bank Scheme

Date released

20 Jan 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1024A

NoS ID

015526

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Morrison Drives Pile to Start South Bank Scheme. DESCRIPTION: Mr Morrison performs the ceremony of starting the pile driver which inserts the first steel pile into the the bed of the...

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High Wire Ace Crosses Thames

Date released

27 Sep 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2147

NoS ID

043292

Story no

1 / 5

Forty year old Frenchman walks tightrope across river to South Bank Festival site.

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South Bank Christmas Tree

Date released

14 Dec 1975

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2428

NoS ID

030749

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: South Bank Christmas Tree. DESCRIPTION: Thought to be the biggest Christmas Tree in Europe, this gift from the people of Norway has been erected on the South Bank. It is part of the...

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