Results: Stories
23 results found for '"Documentary Film News"' in Footage or Written Source.
Jamaica Problem
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 14
- NoS ID
- 347017
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS synopsis: Jamaica’s economic problems and her struggle for survival, especially her need for new industries and wider education.
Land Short of People
- Date released
- Nov 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 15
- NoS ID
- 347019
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: A survey of Australia’s growth and the problems still facing the new nation. Contains a plea for new immigrants to develop Australian resources.
The British - Are They Artistic?
- Date released
- Feb 1948
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 16
- NoS ID
- 347021
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: A discussion of the cultural life of Britain and the people’s reaction to drama and the arts. Features George Bernard Shaw, Myra Hess, Norman Collins, Charles B. Cochran, and Robert Donat.
Living in
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334741
- Story no
- 1 / 4
NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours...
New Look for Tanks
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334742
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines...
Keep it Moving
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334743
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: emergency measures for the transport of coal in winter weather; volunteers at Haslemere station help to move coal supplies.
Coal on Ice
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334744
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family...
Turn of the Tide
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334746
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Britain exports coal again, looking at the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff.
Miners with Gloves on
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334747
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...
Pithead Nurse
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334745
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.