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Mohinder Dhillon (Founder and CEO of Africapix Media Ltd.) has been in photography since 1953 under the business name of Halle Studios and in 1961 formed Africapix, shooting both stills and TV pictures.
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This website covers the start of National TV Broadcasting in Australia on ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia Delete the scoop?
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On 23 May 1949, Lionel Gamlin, producer of the Light Programme’s Hello Children, wrote to Enid Blyton to ask whether she would be willing to be interviewed about the best holiday she could remember. ‘Dear Mr Gamlin,’ Blyton wrote the next day. Delete the scoop?
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British forces temporarily withdraw from Somaliland after coming under attack from the Italian forces in Southern Somalia. Filmed by Alec Tozer of Movietone in 1940. 
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Somaliland is missing the whole British Archive as the library of Somaliland has been burned by Siad Barre's regime. It is lovely to see these pictures and the history of British Somaliland archived for the world to share. Delete the scoop?
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During the heyday of cinema there were several twice weekly newsreels including Gaumont British, Universal and Paramount. By the 1960s only two remained. Delete the scoop?
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Film shot by colleague Ian Grant a week after D-Day. For more information on Ian Grant's career click here: http://terencegallacher.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/colleagues-ian-grant/ Delete the scoop?
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'Nostalgia for the newsreel' first printed in the 1st January 1960 issue of the Catholic Herald... Delete the scoop?
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Issues of the newsreel British News is now online and available for download from the British Council Film Collections website. This war-time newsreel was produced for the British Council by the Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Delete the scoop?
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From the glory days of the newsreel era to the rise of television, welcome to a century's worth of the lives and times of the men and women who chased the news. Delete the scoop?
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Episode of Rank Organisation's "Look at life" series from 1959. It's a look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London. Delete the scoop?
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"Fin Follows Fine Tradition"
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Article on 22 Soho Square celebrating its centenary, and Movietone House by its present occupiers Fin. Delete the scoop?
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The Movietone Years are a series of podcasts by Terry Gallacher about his time at British Movietone News from his first days in October 1945.
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17 podcast episodes, so far, telling the stories of the golden age of the newsreels from 1945 and the events of the day, The Funeral of King George VI, The Coronation, The Epsom Derby as well as the people who contributed to the British Movietone Newsreel. Delete the scoop?
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This web site is dedicated to the history of ABC Television and the reconnection of current and former staff. Delete the scoop?
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Page on former colleague, cameraman Keith Medley at the Liverpool John Moores University website. Delete the scoop?
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"Preparing Wembley for Olympics" - Movietone story on preparations for the 1948 Olympics games in London. Delete the scoop?
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Terry Gallacher was Assignments Manager for Movietone in 1962 and describes filming Coventry Cathedral’s consecration. Delete the scoop?
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John Grierson presents us with some interesting and unusual scenes captured on camera from around the globe. In this edition we see short films Candlelight D... Delete the scoop?
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1954 review of Movietone's CinemaScope documentary, "Flight of the White Heron" from the New York Times. Delete the scoop?
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Art of the Title honors the artists who design excellent title sequences. Delete the scoop?
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The first British sound newsreel was by British Movietone News, issued in June 1929, including footage of Trooping The Colour and the Epsom Derby. Delete the scoop?
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