The A-Z of Work Experience
- Chorlton-cum-Hardy
- 2002
Working Hard - Nottingham Division
Coal, steel, mineral and rail: an East Midlands partnership as old as the railways themselves.
Coal, steel, minerals, Red Star Parcels - and don't forget passengers too! This British Rail promotional video sets out how BR's Nottingham Division works hard to cater for all in the Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire triangle. There's a sorry tale of present day need, but the division, we hear, has made significant improvement, and by 1989 much will be achieved. Out go the old semaphores and a complete rolling stock replacement programme is on the cards.
The greater ambition of the electrification of the Midland mainline and the advanced passenger train serving the Midlands didn't quite come off in the 80s, but much of the ambition in this corporate programme came to fruition just as predicted.
Film about the work of British Rails Nottingham Division from rail freight, parcel delivery and power station merry-go-round wagons to InterCity passenger services in the Midlands region. Also includes future plans to improve rail services, track and stations.
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How We Worked
Explore how yesterday's workplaces were recorded on video - and were infiltrated by it
From the late 19th century, the earliest film cameras captured thronging workers leaving their factories, their faces filling the frames of early films. Ever since, the moving image has had a close relationship with the workplaces where so many of us spend so much of our lives. As both screen technologies and the patterns of work evolved across the 20th century this relationship grew ever more varied and complex.
Film itself played every possible working role in relation to all parts of the economy, the public and the private sectors, the factory and the office - observing and documenting, dramatising and satirising, training and campaigning. In the videotape era it became ever easier for cameras to film in workplaces - and for moving images to be shown there, via players and monitors. This collection explores the working worlds of the recent past, marked by economic and technological change, a world so close to our own and yet so far away.
23 videos in this collection
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The A-Z of Work Experience
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Stationery Objects
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National Minimum Wage: Journey
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IT82: The Home
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Working Hard - Nottingham Division
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A Day in the Life of a Hospital Pharmacist
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Make Health Your Business
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The Goldsmiths' Company Lecture: Vivienne Becker
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Station Assistance Support on the London Underground
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Disability Discrimination Act: Act Now
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Two World Famous Things About Batley
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Work, Rest, and Play
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The Goldsmiths' Company: a Silversmithing Demonstration
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Firewoman
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One Man and a Van
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Employment Centres
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Your Career in the Hotel and Catering Industry
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Work in Progress
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Park, Co Derry
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Ballybay, Co Monaghan
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30 Years of UTV
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Farming Ulster
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