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  1. Warship Eagle (2002)

    Subject
    HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (55 minutes), £12.95

    A candid portrait of life aboard HMS Eagle sailing from Mombassa to Singapore in 1966, under the command of Captain John Roxburgh. Creates an impressionistic picture of life aboard HMS Eagle, using...

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  2. Building London’s Victoria Line (2002)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £12.95

    In 1962 London’s first new tube line since before the war authorised. It took five years to build the Victoria Line (between Walthamstow and Victoria) and British Transport Films covered all the aspects of...

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  3. Sapper Tasks (2002)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (55 minutes), £16.95

    This 1947 film reviews work of the Royal Engineers from port to front line with many examples from World War II featuring British and Commonwealth engineers. Units shown include post and airport...

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  4. Gentle Highway/Barging on (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 26 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    The waterways of England played a quite, but not totally unnoticed, part in the national war effort between 1939 and 1945. A cinema short BARGING ON (1944) was commissioned by the North West Regional Canal...

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  5. Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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  6. Frigate (1983 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

    Two official films of the Royal Navy, featuring two generations of ships. FRIGATE (1972) is about life for young officers on board F40 ‘HMS Sirius’, a Leander class frigate. BOXER - FOREWARNED IS...

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  7. Destroyer (1982 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Two official films of the Royal Navy, featuring two type 42 destroyers lost in the Falklands in May 1982. ‘HMS SHEFFIELD’ (1975) contrasts life aboard D80 ‘HMS Sheffield’ with Gibraltar shore...

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  8. Fearless Navy (1978 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 66 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

    Three films recalling some lesser known aspects of the Royal Navy. BROAD FOURTEENS (1945) was shot in Weymouth and features the work of the men on the motor torpedo boats. DRAGON SQUADRON (1973) follows the...

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  9. Organ, The: Simon Preston at the Organ of Westminster Abbey (1965 Video)

    Director
    Muir Mathieson
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

    WE MAKE MUSIC is a series of films made in the 1960s for the study of music. Devoted to the study of a single instruments and its family, each film is presented by an artist chosen for excellence as a...

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  10. Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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