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A Watchdog in the Boot

Date released

8 Mar 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1866

NoS ID

025902

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Watchdog in the Boot. DESCRIPTION: In Great Britain, one car is broken into every seventy five seconds. In 1963, well over two hundred thousand cars were stolen in London alone. A new...

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (2004)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes (films) + 210 minutes (commentary)), £20.00

A selection of 16 short films, including many unseen early works from some of Europe’s greatest directors. Made between 1957 and 2000. All the films are accompanied by commentaries, many given by the...

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Man in stolen car runs over pensioner (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the death of 83 year-old pensioner, Nancy Joyce on the Old Kent Road after she was crashed into, dragged along and run over by 25 year-old Lee Brown, who was driving (whilst disqualified and on...

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Car in river; 2 interviews (1982)

Police now believe the car which plunged into the ice-covered River Thames near Reading Bridge had pushed in empty. But when the emergency services arrived at the scene minutes after the car sank beneath the...

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Begum Aga Khan Identifies Her Recovered Jewels

Date released

23 Mar 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1989

NoS ID

042263

Story no

2 / 6

Jewels stolen in car holdup last August and now recovered are identified by wife of Aga Khan.

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Youngster in stolen car kills six (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

The grieving parents of a 14 year-old boy may face legal proceedings after their son took their car and crashed it, killing six people near Blackpool in a head-on collision. Selina Hanif(?)'s report includes...

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The Stolen Stone

Date released

1 Jan 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1126

NoS ID

016854

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Coronation Stone Stolen. DESCRIPTION: A Christmas Day sensation at Westminster Abbey - the Stone of Destiny (which had been there for some 600 years) was stolen from the Coronation...

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Riviera Fire

Date released

12 Oct 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2158

NoS ID

028528

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riviera Fire. DESCRIPTION: Eleven people die on one of the worst fires on the French Riviera in memory. Two teenage boys have admitted causing the inferno by setting fire to a stolen...

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Gartree Prison escape (1987)

Genre

News report; Interview

Sheffield taxi driver Javed Iqbal speaks to reporters on freeing a bound hostage from his car, which had been stolen in Leicestershire following escape from Gartree Prison of Sydney Draper and John Kendall.

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Footballer killed in joyriding incident (1989)

Genre

Interview

Eve Conway interviews Leeroy Lawrence, the brother of a promising young footballer, Alfred Lawrence, who was killed as a stolen car crashed into his vehicle. He appeals to youngsters to stop joyriding and...

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