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Opener for Tin

Date released

4 Jan 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2013A

NoS ID

027191

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Opener for Tin. DESCRIPTION: By re-opening the Tin Mines of Cornwall, there’s hope on an increased supply of this valuable metal and a source of new prosperity in the West. SHOTLIST:...

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Blood in the Mobile (2010)

Director

Frank Piasecki Poulsen

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £5.99

Documentary about the connection between mobile phones and the civil war in the Congo. Conflict between the various armed groups is financed by the sale of minerals needed for the manufacture of cell phones....

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The Queen Mother at 85 (1985)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Music; Speech

Biography of the Queen Mother on her 85th birthday based on an ITV programme. Covers her life including the war, her husband’s death, Scotland, farming, gardening, horse racing and her royal duties....

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Cornish Tin Mine Tragedy

Date released

27 Oct 1919

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

610

NoS ID

081161

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

SHOTLIST: 1. LS pithead. [11 ft] 2. CU damaged mine shaft. [7 ft] 3. CU miners. [9 ft]

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The Happy Family: Duke Visits Dairy - and Tin Mine

Date released

18 Nov 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2853

NoS ID

158258

Story no

4 / 6

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Gold Mine Fire

Date released

23 May 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1042

NoS ID

015742

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gold Mine on Fire. DESCRIPTION: Near Johannesburg in South Africa, the Robinson Deep Gold Mine catches fire, because of the intense heat it cannot be put out, but efforts are being made...

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TIN MINE

Date released

Nov 1957

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

345978

Story no

1 / 4

NoS synopsis: a modern tin mine in Cornwall. Underground workings and ore-dressing plant NCB Commentary - This is Land’s End. Near here the Phoenicians are supposed to have landed. Over two thousand years...

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The Happy Family

Date released

18 Nov 1957

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2491

NoS ID

074583

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

The Duke visits a dairy and a tin mine.

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News in Brief: The Duke on Tour

Date released

15 Nov 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1432A

NoS ID

021310

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Duke of Edinburgh in Kuala Lumpur. DESCRIPTION: During his stay in the Federation of Malaya, the Duke of Edinburgh went over a rubber estate. Tin is the other big product there and...

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Tinstone - How it is obtained in a Cornish Mine

Date released

28 Sep 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

643

NoS ID

333290

Story no

4 / 5

NoS Summary - processes involved in tin mining - an idea of the hard physical work involved British Pathe synopsis: Cornwall. "Tinstone (or "black tin" as the Cornish miners call it) is just plain tin ore...

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