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  1. Narrow Gauge Railway

    Date released
    19 Sep 1955
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    038
    NoS ID
    120084
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: In this streamlined, atomic age, we take a sentimental journey into the past. All you need is one renovated steam engine, a few open-top carriages and some of the loveliest Welsh mountain...

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  2. Miniature Fairground

    Date released
    19 Sep 1955
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    038
    NoS ID
    120085
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The smallest fairground in the world - authentic to the last detail on a scale of 1 inch to a foot, it has taken Mr Sidney Cooper of Norwich 30 years to make.

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  3. Water Skier

    Date released
    19 Sep 1955
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    038
    NoS ID
    120086
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Meet Aleks Wozniak who’s prepared to risk his neck by crossing the Channel on water skis - without a towing boat. Aleks intended to float across on finely shaped ski floats of his own...

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  4. Ostend

    Date released
    19 Sep 1955
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    038
    NoS ID
    120087
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The winning couples of a nation-wide competition organised by a Sunday newspaper, make the most of their prize - one week’s second honeymoon in Ostend as guests of the Casino authorities!

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  5. Italian Puppies

    Date released
    5 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    062
    NoS ID
    120163
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: All puppies are appealing but at Benson, in Oxfordshire, we find a litter of six that would put even the famous "doggie in the window" in the shade. The pups - five weeks old - are probably...

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  6. Cemented Stained Glass

    Date released
    5 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    062
    NoS ID
    120164
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Leaving the pups without a stain on their character, we move to a factory at Wealdstone where the manufacture of stained glass windows illustrates the character of a great tradition in glass...

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  7. Schoolboy Mural Artists

    Date released
    5 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    062
    NoS ID
    120165
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A process just as traditional is used by youngsters at Queen’s County Secondary School, Wimbledon, to paint large-size murals in their spare time. The mammoth paintings - effected by the...

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  8. Israel

    Date released
    5 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    062
    NoS ID
    120166
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Youth is the theme of the Israel story, too - the story of a young people’s fight to reclaim the neglected land and make the fruit groves flourish where once there was only desert and...

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  9. Oriental Air Hostesses

    Date released
    12 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    063
    NoS ID
    120167
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At BOAC’s school for air hostesses at Heston, Chinese and Japanese girls are trained for their work as assistant stewardesses on Far East routes - and introduced to the new split skirt...

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  10. Flu Research

    Date released
    12 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    063
    NoS ID
    120168
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Also with world-wide problems, but in a totally different field, are the doctors and scientists at the World Influenza Centre, Mill Hill. Using fertile eggs, samples of the flu virus from all...

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