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Fighter Station’s 600th Victim

Date released

9 Dec 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/99

NoS ID

098442

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Pilots at a fighter station subscribed to a pool to be won by the man who brought down the station’s 600th enemy plane, and the two who share the sweepstake are Pilot Officer Stevens DFC and Flight...

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Policing London in the 70s (2008)

Subject

History; Law; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £14.99

Available for the first time on DVD, 4 films from the Metropolitan Police archive vividly capturing the work of police officers in London during the 1970s. Violent and uncompromising, these films reflect the...

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Martin As Hamlet (1914 Film)

Fiction comedy short. Martin, in costume, prepares to rehearse the part of Hamlet. The servants are convinced he is mad and have him taken to the police station. Addressing them in Elizabethan language he...

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Monty at large (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Monty At Large, presented by Monty Modlyn. This episode focuses on the London Fire Brigade. Monty (along with producer Bavin Cook) visits the Brigade’s recruitment centre and fire station in Southwark and...

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Car in river; 2 interviews (1982)

Police now believe the car which plunged into the ice-covered River Thames near Reading Bridge had pushed in empty. But when the emergency services arrived at the scene minutes after the car sank beneath the...

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Le Blog Française

Date

11 Aug 2014, 16:52

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard, 6-10 October 2010 My first day at the 21st British film festival enabled me to catch a film part-funded by Film4 which won the special jury prize here two years...

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Meet Flying Officer Bush

Date released

1 Jun 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/44

NoS ID

100394

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

An alsatian dog called Flying Officer Bush which is the pet of an RAF station sees airmen off on a sortie and then awaits their return. When the planes land he goes out onto the air strip and greets the men.

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Funeral of fire officer Colin Townsley (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the journey of the cortege of fire fighter and Senior Officer Colin Townsley from Soho Fire Station, via Kings Cross Station and Clerkenwell Fire Station to St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, where...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Fighter Station Marks Its 600th Victim

Date released

9 Dec 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

601

NoS ID

011336

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: RAF Station Claims 600th Victim. DESCRIPTION: As two Spitfires land at a Fighter Station the pilots were able to claim that they had shot down six hundred enemy planes between them....

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Policeman shot near Paddington (1991)

Genre

Interview

Eyewitness account of the shooting of a male police officer near Paddington Station when he and another officer were searching a couple they had pulled over for questioning. Male interviewer not identified.

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