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35 results found for all records.

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    The Ramsden Collection

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    The story of a newly-discovered amateur archive that sheds new light on life in post-war Britain. For 20 years, husband and wife, Betty and Cyril Ramsden, recorded the world around them. They captured...

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    Flying With Cobham

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    5/6 in history documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history captured on film over the last 100 years. David JASON narrates the story of trail-blazing pilot Alan COBHAM’s mission to get Britons...

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    Package Holidays

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    Sir David Jason tells the story of how film was used to promote and record package-tour holidays in the 1960’s. As the package break was established, tour operators made promotional films to sell the sun,...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Selling Cars

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    The story of how film sold the car from sex to speed to safety from 1900’s till the very first television car advert using archive footage & interviews. Narrated by Sir David JASON.

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    Women’s Football

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    Sir David Jason tells the story of how the rise and fall of women’s football was captured on film. Professional and amatueur archive reveals how a group of World War 1 munitions workers from Preston became...

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    Kearton’s Wildlife

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    Sir David Jason tells the story of how a farmer’s son from Yorkshire became a pioneer of wildlife film-making and star of the silver screen. Cherry Kearton travelled the world from the 1920’s in order to...

  • Nation on Film

    Shooting the War: VE DAY SPECIAL

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    History documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history as captured on film over the last 100 years. Newly discovered amateur & professional archive footage shows Britain during the height of World...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Make Yourself at Home

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    The programme looks at how, between the 1950s to the 1970s, thousands of Asian immigrants came to Britain. They came from different countries, with different languages, cultures and religions. Cine cameras...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Selling Salvation

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    This episode in the archive series examines how the Christian church in this country used film to offer salvation to the permissive society of the 1950s and 60s. Using a cross-section of rarely seen films,...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Private Passions

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    Amateur film-making boomed in the 1930s and a rich legacy of celluloid gems resides in the film archives of the country. Against a backdrop of social upheaval, most aspiring film-makers of the time chose...