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A One Woman Job!

Date released

23 Feb 1928

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

350

NoS ID

331795

NoS Summary - A woman who runs a railway station in Shrewsbury. British Pathe synopsis: "Here’s a novelty in jobs for Eve. A lady "Stationmaster-Porter-Clerk-Collector - " all in one - on a quaint little...

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Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (2006)

Director

Charles Musser

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), £15.99

A detailed documentary on the genesis of early cinema, focusing on one of the craft’s most ingenious pioneers, Edwin S Porter. The film is based on the research of the leading scholar of early American...

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Stanley Baxter Playhouse, The (2010 Radio)

Radio programme. Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. This edition is a comic re-telling of events at Dunsinane Castle when Macbeth’s porter took charge. Stanley Baxter plays the porter who...

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Female VAT collector explains job (1991)

Genre

Interview

Mark Phillips interviews Britain’s only female VAT collector, Faith Boardman (Collector of Customs and Excise for London Central Region), on her job and her department’s role.

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Talk To The Top: Michael Porter from the Manpower Services Commission (1980)

Talk To The Top: Michael Porter from the Manpower Services Commission. Track 1- Studio test. Track 2- Programme. [Box 5]

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Short story (1986)

aka: The Stockbrokers Clerk

Serialised Sherlock Holmes stories. Drama for radio, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Hamish Wilson

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Media Screen Roundup - September 2014

Date

21 Oct 2014, 15:27

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. The journal History and Technology has a...

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Gold for Porter

Date released

9 Sep 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2049

NoS ID

027536

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gold for Porter. DESCRIPTION: Hugh Porter of Wolverhampton becomes the first Briton to win the World Professional Pursuit 5000 Metres Cycling Title. SHOTLIST: MS pan as Porter races...

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Essex - It’s Her Station

Date released

26 Oct 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1690A

NoS ID

024333

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Essex - Its Her Station. DESCRIPTION: Miss Dolly Palmer runs a railway station single-handed. Attending to the signal lamps is just one of her chores. Who issues the tickets to the...

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TV Bank

Date released

30 Jun 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2091

NoS ID

027915

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: TV Bank. DESCRIPTION: A new bank in Glasgow uses automation and closed-circuit television to give the customers privacy and guard against bank robbers. SHOTLIST: CU woman bank clerk. MS...

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