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  1. News in Flashes

    Date released
    28 Nov 1935
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    496
    NoS ID
    034230
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 shot list

    Duke of Kent inaugurates laboratory where fire resistance of building materials will be tested.

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  2. Building Research

    Date released
    13 May 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    124
    NoS ID
    120384
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Out in the Hertfordshire countryside we visit a place where they put up brick walls for the satisfaction of knocking them down again, where they deliberately expose paintwork to all weathers,...

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  3. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    8 Aug 1927
    Series name
    Pathe Pictorial
    Issue no
    488
    NoS ID
    347796
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS synopsis: various methods of testing the strength of building materials and also of the cables

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  4. Hampshire. High Speed Bridge Building

    Date released
    30 Aug 1926
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    783-2
    NoS ID
    130742
    Story no
    2 / 6

    [SUBTITLE]: "Rivers spanned in record time by Royal Engineers." Long shot of rural scene. Men approach river with bridge-building materials. Man floats across on front portion of bridge. Pontoon-style bridge...

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  5. Concrete Boat

    Date released
    15 Jan 1962
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    368
    NoS ID
    121167
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: During the first World War British scientists overcame the serious lack of raw materials for boat building by constructing vessels made of a special type of concrete. Using a similar secret...

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  6. The Changing Face of London

    Date released
    22 Jan 1951
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1129
    NoS ID
    016899
    Story no
    6 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Changing Face of London. DESCRIPTION: Almost unnoticed by its citizens, London (like many other devastated cities in Britain) is being re-built. SHOTLIST: GV large crane. GV workmen...

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  7. Along the Stour

    Date released
    12 Sep 1929
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    432
    NoS ID
    332255
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS Summary - Trip along the river seeing weavers and timber buildings. British Pathe synopsis: L/S of part of the river Stour near Canterbury. In the distance there is a building built over the river, two...

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  8. Builders Beat the Clock

    Date released
    23 Jan 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1964
    NoS ID
    026740
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Builders Beat the Clock. DESCRIPTION: Using prefabrication techniques in the factory, British firm produces Instant Building. A two-storey office/school is erected in one day. SHOTLIST:...

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  9. Intermediate Technology: Rooftop Squelch

    Date released
    1981
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    268
    NoS ID
    326070
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: Our modern high tech society devours the landscape in an endless, thirsty quest for energy. The Intermediate Technology Group is determined that the developing world should not waste its...

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  10. Men Under Pressure

    Date released
    1963
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    242
    NoS ID
    350163
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Some of the jobs that men do under pressure include building tunnels underwater, examining petrol and oil storage tanks, decontaminating and cleaning instruments of radiated materials at...

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