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  1. Brent Spar oil platform fate (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Paul Maurice reports on the possible fate of the Shell Brent Spar oil storage platform. Shell has received two hundred suggestions on how to dispose of the structure following the successful Greenpeace...

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  2. News in Brief: Philadelphia Explosion

    Date released
    5 Apr 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1400A
    NoS ID
    020854
    Story no
    6 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Explosion. DESCRIPTION: Another shambles, this time a smoking chaos in Philadelphia, after an explosion in a grain warehouse. The building was completely demolished and windows were...

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  3. Oil Blaze

    Date released
    1 May 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1508A
    NoS ID
    022354
    Story no
    2 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: An oil fire is about the worst kind of fire. Storage tanks ablazed at Newport News, Virginia. They spread havoc over a square mile of the port. No lives were lost...

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  4. German unification treaty (1990)

    Genre
    News report

    The German unification treaty has been signed in East Germany by East Germany’s State Secretary, Gunter Krause, and West Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schauble. In the absence of...

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  5. Fire in Havana

    Date released
    6 Feb 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1496A
    NoS ID
    022198
    Story no
    6 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: An oil fire, in the middle of 14 storage tanks holding petrol and high octane gas, in Havana’s biggest refinery. In the balance were 30 million dollars worth of...

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  6. Oil from the Sahara

    Date released
    20 Jan 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1494
    NoS ID
    022156
    Story no
    5 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...

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  7. Victims of Brent Spar crash flown to Aberdeen (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the Sikorsky helicopter crash at the Brent Spar oil storage platform, from where the bodies of those who died have been flown back to Aberdeen. Offshore Industry Chaplain, Reverend Andrew Wylie...

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  8. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Port Darwin

    Date released
    27 Jul 1942
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    686
    NoS ID
    012371
    Story no
    6 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Japs Raid Port Darwin. DESCRIPTION: Twenty-seven Japanese bombers raid the North Australian port of Darwin. SHOTLIST: Enemy planes, 27 in all fling a rain of high explosives. Oil...

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  9. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Spider-Webs Cover Surplus Guns

    Date released
    28 Mar 1946
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    877A
    NoS ID
    013794
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spiders Webs Cover Surplus Guns. DESCRIPTION: In America they are covering surplus guns with a spray plastic to protect them from the elements. SHOTLIST: KS Spraying plastic onto gun....

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  10. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lancasters Plaster V1 Platforms

    Date released
    17 Aug 1944
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    793A
    NoS ID
    013191
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Lancasters Plaster V1 Platforms. DESCRIPTION: Big fleets of Lancasters and Halifaxes have been attacking the V1 sites, helping to reduce the number of ‘flying bomb’ attacks....

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