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  1. French Outposts of Empire

    Date released
    2 May 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/36
    NoS ID
    097921
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    On the mountains of Syria ski troops patrol in thick snow even though it’s summer - and by contrast in the Sahara Desert natives commanded by French officers also patrol - two aspects of France on guard.

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  2. Governor Visits Tribesmen

    Date released
    26 Jan 1953
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2286
    NoS ID
    044205
    Story no
    3 / 5
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Governor of Algeria flies to Fort Tamanrasset, southernmost French outpost.

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  3. Oil from the Sahara

    Date released
    20 Jan 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1494
    NoS ID
    022156
    Story no
    5 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...

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  4. Sahara Rocket Range

    Date released
    14 Apr 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1506
    NoS ID
    022327
    Story no
    6 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Rocket Trials. DESCRIPTION: Wide open spaces: that’s the place for a rocket range. Few places could be wider than the Sahara Desert. The French have had a range at...

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  5. The French Crisis

    Date released
    19 May 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1511
    NoS ID
    022392
    Story no
    7 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The French Crisis. DESCRIPTION: France has witnessed many a political crisis, in the post-war years, this was a crisis with a difference; that confronted Monsieur Gaillard’s eventual...

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  6. French Enter Rocket Field - Sahara

    Date released
    16 Mar 1959
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    59/22
    NoS ID
    108541
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Tests in desert are big success.

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  7. Riches from the Desert

    Date released
    14 Dec 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1593
    NoS ID
    023367
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riches From the Desert. DESCRIPTION: Early last Spring, France was hard at work, laying a 400-mile pipe-line from the central Sahara to the Mediterranean. Enormous reserves of oil had...

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  8. France Now Atom Power

    Date released
    18 Feb 1960
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    60/15
    NoS ID
    109050
    Story no
    5 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Vivid pictures of De Gaulle’s atom bomb.

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  9. 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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  10. Desert Inferno

    Date released
    8 Feb 1962
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    62/12
    NoS ID
    110048
    Story no
    5 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    French near end of preparations for putting out natural gas blaze, raging since November.

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