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by Media ArchiveOctober 18, 2023
🎬British Pathé – Model cars that can race at 60 mph. Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. C/U 2 men, Alban Adams and Christopher Crockett, who make their own model racing cars. C/U model tyre home-made in special moulds. The cars are perfect replicas of various Formula 3 cars built to a scale of one sixteenth. They run on an eggcup full of diesel oil. C/U Alban Adams putting finishing touches to one of the racing cars. Some of the cars are put on racing track with a simple fitting which keeps them on single track lines. (Looks like an early Scalextrix). Top shot of 4 cars racing round the track
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by New Forest GatewayOctober 11, 2023
🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode2 John Arlott's Avington. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.
Episode 2 John Arlott's Avington. The earliest surviving recording of BBC South is from 1962 and includes a feature by the illustrious sports broadcaster John Arlott, who produced a series of reports called ABC of the South, visiting places around the region in alphabetical order. One of the first came from the village of Avington, nestling in the Itchen Valley just east of Winchester. Roger Johnson has been re-tracing his steps.
NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode 18 Presenters. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.
Episode 18 Presenters. A look at the people that have presented South at Six and South Today over the years.
NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - Britain's major tourist sites, all on 3½ acres of land in Bournemouth, that's the model world of 'Tucktonia'. Described as 'the best of Britain in miniature', the displays are not just static, for example, the River Thames flows through at 15ft a minute.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
998 Views
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by Media ArchiveOctober 14, 2023
🎬British Movietone - Beaulieu, Hampshire. Memories of the first agricultural and commercial vehicles were revived at a rally in Hampshire - the first of its kind.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
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by Media ArchiveOctober 18, 2023
🎬British Pathé – Speedboats race for the Beaverbrook Challenge Trophy. Full title reads: "Cowes-Torquay. Powerboat Race". Speedboats race for the Beaverbrook Challenge Trophy. GV and Aerials The Solent, Isle of Wight and Cowes. GV Start of the Power Boat Race. SV Pan No 68 pan to back view as No 68 joins up with other speed boats. GV Air, and nearer shot: Power boat race in progress. GV all boats in line racing at speed. Low air shot as camera passes No 1 four others in bg. Low air shot, passing No 16. GV Air view as the speed boats round the bend nr. Ventnor, Isle of Wight. GV showing three boats in the lead at speed. Low air shots of Nos. 16, 48, 79, 77 and 40. Low air shot as No 66 passes No 10 which has broken down. GV No 11 in the lead passing St Alban's head. Low air shot No 66 at speed. Low air shot No 11 in the lead. GV Various small yachts etc. in Torquay Harbour. CU Yachting type looking through binoculars. GV No 11 "Lucky Moppie" racing down the wrong side of the finishing line. GV Crowds watching. GV Pan as No 66 "Surfrider" crosses the finishing line to win. GV Crowds on the jetty. SV As No 66 comes into the berthing bay. GV Crowds round the speed boats. SV The winning crew of the Surfrider standing in the bow of their boat.
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🎬British Pathé – Model cars that can race at 60 mph. Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. C/U 2 men, Alban Adams and Christopher Crockett, who make their own model racing cars. C/U model tyre home-made in special moulds. The cars are perfect replicas of various Formula 3 cars built to a scale of one sixteenth. They run on an eggcup full of diesel oil. C/U Alban Adams putting finishing touches to one of the racing cars. Some of the cars are put on racing track with a simple fitting which keeps them on single track lines. (Looks like an early Scalextrix). Top shot of 4 cars racing round the track
🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode2 John Arlott's Avington. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.
Episode 2 John Arlott's Avington. The earliest surviving recording of BBC South is from 1962 and includes a feature by the illustrious sports broadcaster John Arlott, who produced a series of reports called ABC of the South, visiting places around the region in alphabetical order. One of the first came from the village of Avington, nestling in the Itchen Valley just east of Winchester. Roger Johnson has been re-tracing his steps.
NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.
🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode 18 Presenters. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.
Episode 18 Presenters. A look at the people that have presented South at Six and South Today over the years.
NFG are indebted to the BBC staff at Southampton for their help in sourcing items for the archive. See more episodes in the Category - BBC South.
🎬British Movietone - Britain's major tourist sites, all on 3½ acres of land in Bournemouth, that's the model world of 'Tucktonia'. Described as 'the best of Britain in miniature', the displays are not just static, for example, the River Thames flows through at 15ft a minute.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - Beaulieu, Hampshire. Memories of the first agricultural and commercial vehicles were revived at a rally in Hampshire - the first of its kind.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Pathé – Speedboats race for the Beaverbrook Challenge Trophy. Full title reads: "Cowes-Torquay. Powerboat Race". Speedboats race for the Beaverbrook Challenge Trophy. GV and Aerials The Solent, Isle of Wight and Cowes. GV Start of the Power Boat Race. SV Pan No 68 pan to back view as No 68 joins up with other speed boats. GV Air, and nearer shot: Power boat race in progress. GV all boats in line racing at speed. Low air shot as camera passes No 1 four others in bg. Low air shot, passing No 16. GV Air view as the speed boats round the bend nr. Ventnor, Isle of Wight. GV showing three boats in the lead at speed. Low air shots of Nos. 16, 48, 79, 77 and 40. Low air shot as No 66 passes No 10 which has broken down. GV No 11 in the lead passing St Alban's head. Low air shot No 66 at speed. Low air shot No 11 in the lead. GV Various small yachts etc. in Torquay Harbour. CU Yachting type looking through binoculars. GV No 11 "Lucky Moppie" racing down the wrong side of the finishing line. GV Crowds watching. GV Pan as No 66 "Surfrider" crosses the finishing line to win. GV Crowds on the jetty. SV As No 66 comes into the berthing bay. GV Crowds round the speed boats. SV The winning crew of the Surfrider standing in the bow of their boat.