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  1. Better Forecasts

    Date released
    26 Sep 1955
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1373
    NoS ID
    020381
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weather Balloons. DESCRIPTION: American weather men now use bigger and better balloons to carry more and more meteorological gear to furnish faithful forecasts. SHOTLIST: SCU balloon...

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  2. Space Race Films 1957-1965 (2006)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), $9.99

    14 films, including advertisements, newsreels, depicting the struggle between the US and the USSR to achieve supremacy in space

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  3. Richard Branson on crossing the Atlantic by balloon (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Richard Branson on his latest record attempt - to take a hot air balloon across the Atlantic. He talks about the conditions of the challenge, how the weather will affect it, how difficult it will be to...

    LBC IRN LBC IRN Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio
  4. Ocean Sound This Year 1987: Programme 62 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

    OCEAN SOUND THIS YEAR 1987 Programme 62 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week. This particular programme was entitled: Ocean Sound This Year 1987, and was broadcast by independent...

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  5. Anticipated long distance balloon flight to Leningrad (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male, who is awaiting the necessary weather conditions to make a long distance balloon flight over an expected three days to Leningrad, Russia. Speaking of the anticipated relations with his...

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  6. Record Balloon Flight

    Date released
    21 Dec 1975
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2429
    NoS ID
    030751
    Story no
    1 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hot Air Balloon. DESCRIPTION: The world’s largest hot-air balloon, the ‘Gerard Heineken’, makes a record breaking flight of eighteen hours. SHOTLIST: CU man into balloon. SV...

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  7. News Scene: Among Three Recent Attempts to Cross from Ireland to England by Balloon, One Ends in Disaster Even Before Take-Off. The Balloon of a German Team is Severely Damaged During an Overnight Gale.

    Date released
    29 Jan 1970
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2121A
    NoS ID
    028166
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News Scene (Balloon). SHOTLIST: GV city of Cork. LAS Irish flag. GV pan across rooftops & down balloon preparations at Collins Barracks Square. TS balloon preparations. MCU George...

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  8. Building in a Balloon

    Date released
    8 Apr 1965
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1870A
    NoS ID
    025942
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Building in a Balloon. DESCRIPTION: At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon,...

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  9. Further Outlook

    Date released
    12 Oct 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1688A
    NoS ID
    024312
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Further Outlook. DESCRIPTION: Resolute, on Cornwallis Island in the far North of the Arctic, is a supply, radio and weather station, where beards are the fashion. The base is run...

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  10. Gordon Bennet Balloon Race

    Date released
    24 Sep 1921
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    809
    NoS ID
    082164
    Story no
    2 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    14 competitors face strong winds.

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