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  1. Handicap Overcome

    Date released
    2 Aug 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1730A
    NoS ID
    024730
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Handicap Overcome. DESCRIPTION: 22 countries were represented at this year’s international Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville. It’s 10 years since the games were started here,...

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  2. Paddling Pussies

    Date released
    24 Sep 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1738
    NoS ID
    024805
    Story no
    4 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Paddling Pussies. DESCRIPTION: Buckinghamshire where a family of pretty unusual cats live. They’re a rare breed from Turkey called Van cats. A Van cat loves to swim, and when fully...

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  3. Tropical Birds

    Date released
    24 Sep 1962
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    404
    NoS ID
    121275
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NoS Summary - Captain John Lee-Hudson has assembled a collection of some 2000 tropical birds for his aviary at Great Birckhill, Buckinghamshire.

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  4. Motorised Roller Skates

    Date released
    26 Nov 1962
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    413
    NoS ID
    121306
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Jobbing contractor Tom Hancocks of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, invented a pair of motorised roller skates during the last war as a mode of transport for foot-weary soldiers. Like the army,...

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  5. Possum Helps the Paralysed

    Date released
    10 Jan 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1753A
    NoS ID
    024950
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Possum Helps the Paralysed. DESCRIPTION: At the Spinal Injuries Centre Stoke Mandeville, they’ve devised Possum: a system for people paralysed (except for the neck and head). The...

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  6. Get a Move On

    Date released
    4 Mar 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1761
    NoS ID
    025008
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Get a Move On!. DESCRIPTION: Youngsters taking part in the annual Barrel Ski Race in the Black Forest. The skis, made by the children themselves are fashioned out of old barrel-staves....

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  7. Bridge Those Gaps

    Date released
    1 Apr 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1765
    NoS ID
    025041
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bridge Those Gaps. DESCRIPTION: No one better for bridging gaps than the Sappers. They’d already bridged the Trent and the Crouch, so they’d had plenty of practice. In this case the...

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  8. Historic Film

    Date released
    21 Apr 1963
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    434
    NoS ID
    121366
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ... the 1896 Derby horses we see running in one of the cinema’s earliest newsreels. Pathe Pictorial shows how the British Film Institute’s National Film Archive collects and preserves...

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  9. Skyscraper London

    Date released
    28 Jul 1963
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    448
    NoS ID
    121408
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: For every new towering block that goes up mountains of sand must be dug from nearby quarries. We visit the sand - and - gravel pits at Gerrard’s Cross which, with their conveyor belts, have...

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  10. Mobility at Work

    Date released
    16 Sep 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1789
    NoS ID
    025252
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mobility at Work. DESCRIPTION: At a Buckinghamshire textile factory, the top men of the firm whizz round the place where all the work is done, on these neat little machines. It all...

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