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To mark the passing of Knut, the Berlin Zoo polar bear (2006-11), here’s a eulogy to one of his predecessors,
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now March 30, 2011
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum,Flixton, nr. BungayOn 1st April 2011 we go over to Summer opening times:Sunday to Thursday 10.00-5.00 Some information about us: – We have over 60 aircraft of every kind plus 25,000 artefacts to view in 3 hangars and 8 themed buildings. – Our 8-acre site is operated by volunteers and 1 paid […]
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This extract comes from Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister’s ‘Listen to Britain’. The film is available to buy on the BFI DVD ‘Land of Promise: British Documentary Movement (1930-1950)’. The 4-disc set with 13 hours of re-mastered footage, in deluxe presentation box with 96-page booklet, is available from the BFI at http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmstore A landmark BFI […]
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Who should pay our Debts? Individual newspapers and other sections of the media all have their different ways of presenting the predicament the country is in and how it got there. They do all agree that we have a massive debt that has to be addressed but strongly disagree on how we should go about […]
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This is not necessarily the most promising of titles, or, indeed, a very accurate one, either. There’s certainly a lot of shade, but the only light comes from the flames of the funeral pyre that consume a dead circus elephant shortly after its corpse has been unceremoniously dragged across a field by 50 carthorses. Augmented […]
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Bibs at the ready for this documentary showing the journey of the oyster from seabed to dinner plate. We see the oyster smacks (fishing vessels used for trawling) hauling in their plunder, the shellfish being packed for delivery to London and, inevitably, being shucked with gusto by a restaurant’s portly clientele. The film was shot […]
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Dear All – another treat – the latest film to be uploaded on the Dance Camp East website. Please see the news update section ‘Where We Came From’, and if you haven’t already watched it, there is the 1975 film, The Last Barsham Fair’ in the movie section. All jolly stuff. This latest film […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now March 15, 2011
MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line DIESEL GALA 18TH TO 20TH MARCH Please see the MNR Website for full details of the intensive TWO train operating timetable. Locomotives diagrammed to run are:- 20069 31438 37003 37219 47580 50019 73210 An hourly service is scheduled :- Starting………….. Friday 8.30am Dereham and 9.30am Wymondham […]
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Shot on the eve of WWII, this chilling film warns of the need to prepare for attack, featuring scenes shot in Nottingham depicting drill scenes and air raid scenarios, with archive footage demonstrating the grim realities of an air attack.
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As the year suggests, this is the wedding of King George VI and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth II’s future parents, as incarnated by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in ‘The King’s Speech’. But this is all with the benefit of hindsight: as far as the Topical Film Company was concerned, they were filming […]
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Business Editorials / Then & Now / Waveney Valley March 2, 2011
Your Region on Film DVDs Working the Land: Farm Life in East Anglia In rural East Anglia, many families’ livelihoods once came from the land. We will be featuring one DVD each week, which you will be able to purchase directly online from www.timereel.co.uk view our featured DVDs To find out more about the East […]
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This promotional film commissioned by wrought-iron chainmakers Noah Hingley and Sons (based in Netherton in the West Midlands) shows the labour-intensive work needed to make the heavy chains, hooks and anchors used in shipbuilding, and the equally arduous process of testing the end product’s soundness and rigidity. Although made in 1939, it’s a silent film, […]
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The coalmining industry was one of the biggest employers in the UK, and the cinemagazine ‘Mining Review’ was shown in half the cinemas in the country – and not just in mining areas. This edition is a window into working-class life in the 1950s. A young family moves into a new house in the Midlands, […]
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MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR :- INITIAL DETAILS OF THE MARCH SPRING GALA ANNOUNCED UP TO 3 CLASS 56 LOCOS AND 37003, PLUS THE HOME FLEET MAY BE IN TRAFFIC OVER 18TH TO 20TH MARCH. MNR would like to thank the Class 56 Group for their refurbishments […]
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Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith. Norwich, Thorpe Reach 1899
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Hundreds of feet above the streets of Paris, workmen make adjustments to the scaffolding surrounding huge new exhibition buildings – accompanied by a brave cameraman working for the Topical Film Company, who obtained some scarily vertiginous images of construction at a time long before modern health and safety regulations. The film was originally released on […]