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Gas-Bag Car

Date released

5 Oct 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

539A

NoS ID

010308

Story no

7 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gas-Bag Car. DESCRIPTION: A device to counter wartime petrol shortages, the gas bag contains the equivalent of one and two-thirds gallons. SHOTLIST: The balloon is filled with gas and...

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Where Does the Solar System End? (2013)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system’s gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it’s so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.45: Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 45 Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 30 August 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

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Calor Gas Taxis

Date released

30 Nov 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2165

NoS ID

028598

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Calor Gas Taxis. DESCRIPTION: If you run out of gas, you just switch over to petrol. It’s an advantage for some London Taxi-drivers whose cabs have been converted to run on Calor Gas....

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Sahara Burn-Up

Date released

8 Feb 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1705A

NoS ID

024496

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Burn-Up - Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: Natural gas caught fire last November in French gasfields in the Sahara, the biggest blazing gas main you’re ever likely to see! They had to...

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Washington Demonstration

Date released

6 May 1971

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2187A

NoS ID

028830

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Washington Riots - Vietnam. DESCRIPTION: One of the biggest anti-war protests in Washington. More than 20,000 wild demonstrators attempted to paralyse the city by crowding the streets...

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California’s Moving Mountain

Date released

13 Apr 1939

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

39/30

NoS ID

097036

Story no

4 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

Huge mass of sliding earth has broken away from the Dead Hills range and engineers are helpless to halt the march of the earth. They fear gas pockets may have formed beneath the loosened surface and stop all...

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Life Risked to Prove Theory!

Date released

22 Sep 1927

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1435; Super Issue No.: 27/76

NoS ID

086267

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Inventor of "aerial lifeboat" leaps from a blimp 2,000 ft up, with boat to be gas-inflated on way down. The experiment fails - and now the useless device has to be cast away. A wet but safe landing. "I shall...

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Bringing Home the Gas

Date released

29 Aug 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1943

NoS ID

026560

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bringing Home the Gas. DESCRIPTION: From a spot just North of the Humber, in Yorkshire, the world’s largest barge the Hugh W Gordon, is laying a pipe-line under the sea to bring...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Trailer - Burns & Scalds

Date released

24 Apr 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

933A

NoS ID

014404

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Burns and Scalds - Trailer. SHOTLIST: CU door opens and small boy carrying toy puts his head round. MS he walks away from door towards stove. CU boy peering at boiling saucepan. CU...

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