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  1. American Miner

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345641
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI Summary - new machinery at Donisthorpe. BFI synopsis: The Joy Continuous miner from America; the press (television and newspaper) attending the demonstration. A detailed view of the machine.

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  2. Light Fantastic (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Champness; Ken Patton
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    How do pictures get on to a television screen? Starts with John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system and moves up to the latest digital special effects, including an explanation of CEEFAX, and the...

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  3. Film Focus: 21st Century Bard - The Making of Twelfth Night (2004 Multimedia, Television)

    Series
    English Programme, The
    Director
    Tim Supple
    Producer
    Rachel Gesua

    Four short documentaries about the making of 4Learning’s contemporary production of Twelfth Night which was specially made for broadcast on school’s television. The programmes offer extended interviews...

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  4. CFP: Strange New World - New Frontiers in Cinema & TV

    Date
    24 Mar 2015, 11:42
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    The Cinema and Television History Research Centre presents: Strange New World: New Frontiers in Cinema and Television Thursday 18 June 2015 De Montfort University Issues of technology and film have...

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  5. WEATHERWISE

    Date released
    Mar 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346163
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a visit to the headquarters of the Meteorological Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, where weather reports are prepared for radio, television, the press and all big users of the forecasts,...

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  6. ON THE SCREEN

    Date released
    Nov 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346264
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: automated mining through the use of closed circuit televisions at Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire. NCB Commentary - At Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire they’re mining coal without a man on the...

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  7. SUPPORTING PROGRAMME

    Date released
    Jan 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346196
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The Institution of Mining Engineers meet in Manchester. From nearby Bradford Colliery a demonstration of the NCB’s remotely controlled self-advancing roof support system is piped by close...

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  8. Insat: Implications for a Nation (1986 Video)

    Producer
    John Stratford
    Subject
    Information technology; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the wider implications of satellite technology for India, focusing ib the tensions between the needs of the private television owners (mainly rich, educated and urban) and the needs of the...

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  9. Images and Innovation (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Design; Media studies; Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Images of new technology are often gained from the mass media, especially television. Examines how the Horizon programme NOW THE CHIPS ARE DOWN, made in 1978, about the impending changes to society caused by...

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  10. Television Camera Tube, The (1972 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Film & television production; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The vidicon type camera tube; the principles of operation of the various electrodes; the photo-sensitive layer; magnetic focusing and deflections.

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