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1915 to the present - Local films, TV programmes and features, wildlife documentaries and cinema shorts

  • Cowes - Freak Yacht Sets Sail Aka New Yacht Sets Sail (1954)

    A new, three-hulled, four-masted yacht, looking like helicopter, prepares for sail speed record. Cowes. GV Cowes, small yachts bobbing about. SV distinguished yachtsmen looking at Trion, pan along boat. SCU yachtsmen looking at booms. SV yacht with booms moving partly round. LV "Queen Elizabeth" steaming past in Solent. Small sailing craft in foreground. LV men carrying Trion to water's edge. SV & LV craft in water. SV man sitting in centre of Trion, messing about with one of the booms. Front view, yacht with man in position. SV & LV Trion on move, at same time sails are hauled up. SV traditional dinghy ploughing through rough water. GV Trion under way.
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  • BBC South 50 years: Episode 3 Environment

    50 years of BBC South. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

    Episode 3 Environment. For many years Roger Finn was BBC South's Environment Correspondent. We asked him to suggest his personal top three environmental success stories from BBC South's fifty years of broadcasting.

    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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  • BBC South 50 years: Episode 1 BBC South

    50 years of BBC South. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

    Episode 1 BBC South. Steve Humphrey tells the story of BBC South from the first broadcasts of South at Six. Introductory footage is from the British Pathé Archive.

    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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  • BBC South 50 years: Episode 2 John Arlott's Avington

    50 years of BBC South. 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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  • Man, Machine & the Mighty Oak

    A look at the work of the Forestry Commission. From the early days of forestry to the changing attitudes to wildlife, this film looks at modern day harvesting in the New Forest National Park.
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