Results: Stories
8 results found for '"Aberfan"' in Location.
Aberfan Tragedy
- Date released
- 24 Oct 1966
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1951
- NoS ID
- 026638
- Story no
- 6 / 6
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aberfan Tragedy. DESCRIPTION: Disaster in the village of Aberfan. Nearly two hundred believed dead after a coal tip avalanched onto the village, engulfing an infants’ school killing...
This is Tragedy
- Date released
- 25 Oct 1966
- Series name
- Pathe News
- Issue no
- 66/86
- NoS ID
- 112276
- Story no
- 1 / 1
- Extras
- 1 film clip
To a nation that knows the true meaning of sorrow comes the worst tragedy it has ever known - an entire generation wiped out. Almost 200 children, sons and daughters of miners who themselves face death every...
After Aberfan?
- Date released
- 27 Oct 1966
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1951A
- NoS ID
- 026643
- Story no
- 5 / 5
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: After Aberfan?. DESCRIPTION: With the bodies of a hundred and eleven children and thirty-two adults already recovered, work continues at Aberfan to clear the remaining houses of black...
Valley of Sorrow
- Date released
- 30 Oct 1966
- Series name
- Pathe News
- Issue no
- 66/87
- NoS ID
- 112279
- Story no
- 3 / 3
- Extras
- 1 film clip
After the horror that thrust the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan into the world’s headlines came the day of the full realisation of the real tragedy. An entire generation was laid to rest in the...
Aberfan - The Final Tribute
- Date released
- 31 Oct 1966
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1952
- NoS ID
- 026647
- Story no
- 4 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Final Tribute. DESCRIPTION: The mass burial of many of the victims of the disaster at Aberfan. A week after the tip avalanched onto the village, at last streets are silenced - the...
Weekend to Remember
- Date released
- 3 Nov 1966
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1952A
- NoS ID
- 026648
- Story no
- 1 / 3
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weekend to Remember. DESCRIPTION: The Queen and Prince Philip visit East Sussex. We follow them to Battle Abbey, scene of the Norman Victory in 1066. On to Rye, Hastings and Eastbourne....
Aberfan Today
- Date released
- 23 Oct 1969
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 2107A
- NoS ID
- 028055
- Story no
- 2 / 5
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aberfan Today. DESCRIPTION: Exactly three years after the disaster in which 144 people lost their lives, we revisit this Welsh mining valley to see progress on the removal of the coal...
Queen’s Visit to Aberfan
- Date released
- 15 Mar 1973
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 2284A
- NoS ID
- 029807
- Story no
- 1 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen’s Visit to Aberfan. DESCRIPTION: Six and a half years after the Aberfan disaster, the Queen returns to open the new Memorial Centre. Movietone looks back to the tragic days of...