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Old Comrades

Date released

13 Nov 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/91

NoS ID

099127

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

South African farmers greet an old comrade, General Smuts. Many of them campaigned with the General in the Boer War.

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Boer War, The: The First Media War (1997 Video)

Producer

William Cran

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Boer War (1988-1902) saw correspondents - among them Winston Churhcill, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Wallace, photographers and newsreel cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time....

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Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 1 (1984)

Genre

Biography; Serial

Reading of first part (of 2) of the story of charismatic gardener Fred Bettesworth from 1892 to the turn of the century. Male reader not identified. Probably extracted from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, by...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.17: Programme 17 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 17 Programme 17 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 17th October 1986. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection

Date

28 May 2014, 12:18

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection by Vanessa Toulmin (BFI, 2006), 310 pages, ISBN: 1-84457-144-0 (hardback), £60; ISBN: 1-84457-145-9 (paperback), £17.99 About the...

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South African War, The: 1899-1902 (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...

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Ohm KrÜger (1941 Film)

Director

Hans Steinhoff

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A feature film about Britain’s part in the Boer War. Cecil Rhodes, Joseph Chamberlain and Dr Jameson are presented as prominent British villains. Krüger has an audience with a whisky-swilling Queen...

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Mafeking Greets His Royal Highness

Date released

12 Apr 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

326

NoS ID

033198

Story no

5 / 6

Prince George welcomed in town famous for Baden-Powell’s heroic defence in Boer War ... then proceeds to mysterious Zimbabwe Ruins.

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A Call to Arms - Field Marshal Smuts

Date released

9 Aug 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/63

NoS ID

100051

Story no

2 / 2

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Field Marshal Smuts reviews veterans of the Boer War who are on horseback, and other troops, in a "Call to Arms" drive. In a speech he calls for all young South Africans to come forward and unite for Victory.

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Back from the Boer War

Date released

29 Jan 1913

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

75-1

NoS ID

124845

[SUBTITLE]: "The 12th Lancers disembark from the transport ‘German’ in the East India Docks, the last of the regiments which fought in South Africa." Single shot of troops marching past camera (slight...

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