Results: Stories
113 results found for '"Francis Gysin"' in Credits.
Admiralty Concrete floating docks
- Date released
- 1945
- Series name
- Britain Can Make It
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 323858
- Story no
- 1 / 3
NoS synopsis: Two men roll out a strip of Crown paper on a flat surface and soak it well all over. Steel bars are laid over this, criss-cross fashion, and secured with wires. The whole is surrounded with...
Motion study
- Date released
- 1945
- Series name
- Britain Can Make It
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 352003
- Story no
- 2 / 3
COI synopsis: Here’s a simple problem - what’s the best way of putting these steel pegs into the holes in this board? Anybody can do it, but most of us would do it this way - pick up a handful of pegs,...
War Artists’ Exhibition, London
- Date released
- 1945
- Series name
- Britain Can Make It
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 352004
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI Summary - The Royal Academy of Arts. Inside the gallery, people view the paintings. Various close-ups of individual works e.g. Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain, John Armstrong’s September 1940 and John...
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...
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...
Pithead Bath
- Date released
- Sep 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345484
- Story no
- 3 / 3
Summary - a swimming pool at Dawdon colliery. BFI synopsis: An outline of the history of the pool - one of Britain’s finest open-air swimming pools - is followed by scenes at a swimming gala competition.
Current Progress
- Date released
- Feb 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 345502
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: new power stations need more coal. The new power station at Croydon.
Night Shift
- Date released
- Feb 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 345503
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: night shift underground at Mainsforth Colliery, Durham, coupled with railway night journey from Kings Cross to Newcastle.
New Props for Old
- Date released
- Mar 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 345506
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: The Dowty hydraulic pit props (shot at Williamthorpe Colliery, Derbyshire)