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  1. Major Disasters (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Geology; History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

    Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...

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  2. Triumph of Flight (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

    Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows ‘Concorde’ on its inaugural flight from London to New York, the Red Arrows, the Graf Zeppelin. Also show the Vickers ‘Viscount’, de Havilland...

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  3. Industrial Strife (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Susan Boyd-Bowman
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Compares British and American newsreel coverage from the 1930s to examine the film evidence on the nature of industrial strikes. The nature of industrial action in the two countries is also discussed.

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  4. Emancipation of Women 1890-1930, The (2 Parts) (1971 Film)

    Producer
    Richard Dunn
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account, using archive newsreels, of the early years of women’s struggle for emancipation. Part 1 covers the years 1890-1914; part 2 1914-1930.

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  5. Ende der Osterreichischen-Ungarischen Monarchie, Das (1965 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Compilation of newsreels of the pre-1918 period with added commentary. Most sequences highlight special events - weddings, funerals, processions, state visits, and monarchy is very much to the fore. Social...

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  6. Images de la Grande Guerre (196 Film)

    Director
    Edouard Burley
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A brief evocation of the 1914-18 war, made up of original extracts of newsreels of the period. French commentary.

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  7. Defeat of the Germans Near Moscow (1942 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Compiled from material shot bu Soviet cameramen on the field of battle, the film gives a concentrated picture of the war in Russia, showing how men, women and children rallied to the defence of Moscow....

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