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  1. Oil Hazard

    Date released
    23 Mar 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1972A
    NoS ID
    026821
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Hazard. DESCRIPTION: The Giant Tanker, Torrey Canyon, aground on the Seven Stones, sixteen miles off Lands End, pouring a blanket of crude oil towards the holiday beaches of the...

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  2. 20th Century Disasters (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Geology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...

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  3. Oil Menace Hits French Beaches

    Date released
    20 Apr 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/32
    NoS ID
    112549
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The black filth spewed from the tanker ‘Torrey Canyon’ invades the beaches of Brittany. Dramatic pictures of the fight to save the sands and wild life from the oil menace.

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  4. Rhodesian Rag Day

    Date released
    17 Apr 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/31
    NoS ID
    112543
    Story no
    1 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Rhodesian students stage their annual Rag Day. Petrol-driven floats are out, fuel is rationed. But the ‘Torrey Canyon’ and our oiled-up beaches are given prominence in the parade.

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  5. Seafood Buffet

    Date released
    28 Sep 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/78
    NoS ID
    112782
    Story no
    6 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    When Torrey Canyon spewed her oil cargo into the sea, France as well as Britain suffered. French beaches were engulfed and fishing was hit. To prove to the fish-loving French nation that all was well with...

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  6. Oil Tanker Aground

    Date released
    23 Mar 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/24
    NoS ID
    112511
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Torrey Canyon, the 61,000 ton tanker goes aground off the Scilly Isles. Much of her 100,000 ton cargo of crude oil seeps away as the crippled vessel is battered by heavy seas. Britain’s cost is threatened...

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  7. On the Beach

    Date released
    30 Mar 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1973A
    NoS ID
    026830
    Story no
    3 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: On the Beach. DESCRIPTION: The drama of the Torrey Canyon reaches nightmare proportions as the Giant Tanker breaks up, flooding the sea with even more oil. Movietone records the Battle...

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  8. Oil Tanker Disaster

    Date released
    30 Mar 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/26
    NoS ID
    112523
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Her back broken and oil gushing out, the Torrey Canyon’s death throes have put into operation one of Britain’s biggest battles of the beaches since the war. Servicemen, civilian youngsters and the aged...

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  9. Future for Oil Victims

    Date released
    31 Jul 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1991
    NoS ID
    026985
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Future for Oil Victims. DESCRIPTION: What future for birds rescued from the Torrey-Canyon Oil disaster? Some of the survivors, now being returned from the rescue centres, are finding it...

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  10. Movietone Presents - Review ‘67

    Date released
    28 Dec 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2012A
    NoS ID
    027184
    Story no
    1 / 1

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Movietone Presents - Review ‘67. DESCRIPTION: All the highlights of the year in a special King-size release. Twelve months in twelve minutes - An Action Package, recording the Dramas,...

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