Results: Stories
40 results found for '"This Modern Age, Ltd."' in Credits.
Homes for All
- Date released
- Sep 1946
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 346924
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: BRITAIN’S HOUSING PROBLEMS, AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT’S HOUSING PROGRAMME explained. Stresses the present plight of Britain’s homeless, traces the causes, and points the way to solution....
Scotland Yard
- Date released
- Oct 1946
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 346930
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: The workings of London’s police headquarters, Scotland Yard, are explained through the example of a murder case.
Tomorrow by Air
- Date released
- 18 Nov 1946
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 346940
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: The history of British aviation, from the pioneers of flight to the jet- research Lancastrian; current developments and modern civil aircraft types, culminating in the State-owned airways,...
Fabrics of the Future
- Date released
- 7 Jan 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 346946
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: A history of the British woollen industry from the Middle Ages onwards. Modern problems are characterised as competition, labour shortages and factory conditions. Demand from the Commonwealth...
Thoroughbreds for the World
- Date released
- Feb 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 346956
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: Begins with Lord Derby at home with his horses, trainer and stud groom, then on to famous race horses, from the Godolphin Barb to Airborne, and from foalhood to maturity. The emphasis is on...
Palestine
- Date released
- Mar 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 346958
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: The political problems of modern Palestine illustrated. Focuses on the conflict of Jews and Arabs which the British encounter in the administration of the territory under League of Nations...
Coal Crisis
- Date released
- Apr 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 346964
- Story no
- 1 / 1
BFI synopsis: Opening industrial shots whilst the commentary emphasises how much industry depends on coal. Other uses of coal are given including its use as an export. Shots of coal being loaded onto a cargo...
Sudan Dispute
- Date released
- Apr 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 346970
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: An illustration of the facts of the problem facing Britain and Egypt in their joint adminstration of the Sudan in deciding whether it should now become an independent nation.
Development Areas
- Date released
- May 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 346976
- Story no
- 1 / 1
BFI synopsis: A survey of the depressed areas of the 1930s, concentrating on those in the N.E. of England. Rl.1 Industrial South Wales, N.E. England - the river Tyne, Durham and S.W. Scotland - the Clyde,...
The Rape of the Earth
- Date released
- 28 Jun 1947
- Series name
- This Modern Age
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 346982
- Story no
- 1 / 2
Enticknap synopsis: Soil erosion which threatens the food supplies of the increasing world population, and the work being done, both to preserve fertile land and to repair damage in already eroded areas.