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Japan - Bountiful bamboo
As the world's forest resources become depleted, forest
industries are starting to recognise the value of bamboo. Bamboo
is known for its ability to propagate. It grows fast, becoming
fully grown in just three years, whereas a tree of...
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Indonesia - Out of control fires continue to rage
Hopes that fires raging across Indonesia are under control have been dashed by reports of a dramatic increase in the number of new forest blazes. The Indonesian government's National Coordination Centre for
Ground Fire Control announced...
British Movietone
THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS
The Forestry Commission supplies a hundred thousand pounds worth of fir trees for Christmas. The Commission has five hundred forests throughout the country. They take good care to see that none are stolen and have a round-the-clock watch...
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Farming butterflies for exhibits
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4061757LEAD IN:Forests around the world are under threat, as humans continue with deforestation, poaching and the pillage of natural resources.But in one corner of Africa, butterflies offer local...
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Sarawak: Forests, Brazil - Balbina
EF307A - Sarawak: Forests
Sarawak and Japan - 31 December 1990 and file
As much as 68 per cent of Japan is covered with forest, making it the most forest-rich nation in the world. And yet Japanese companies are importing vast quantities...
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AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA: EMERGENCY CREWS TRY TO CONTROL FOREST FIRES
English/Nat
Emergency crews in the Australian state of Victoria are racing against time.
They're trying to control a huge forest fire that has already destroyed thousands of hectares of bushland.
Crews are using aerial bombardment from...
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Weather, Floods, Drought, Forest Fires
USSR (Mamawk)
Flowers
Street scene
(NE Siberia)
Soviet Merchant Fleet trapped in ice
The Leonid Brezhnev Icebreaker at work
(Var) Trapped ships
Canoeists under icebergs
Microlights navigating for canoeists
Flood scenes (various...
British Movietone
GREAT FRENCH FOREST FIRE
In the Bordeaux area large fires have been raging, damaging hundreds of square miles and killing many people who have been trapped in the fast moving flames. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
British Movietone
WATCH ON THE FORESTS
That Christmas tree you buy from the shops - have you ever wondered where it was grown? Quite possibly it comes from one of the 500 forests maintained by the Forestry Commission. Their job is to take precautions against tree bandits at...
British Movietone
CYPRUS FIRE AFTERMATH
The forest fire was still burning long after the frantic three minute flare up which trapped British servicemen and caused the tragic loss of nineteen lives. Meanwhile the main operation continued. The funeral of the men who had lost...
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Sacred forest where man and monkey live in harmony
LEADIN:
There is a village in the heart of a forest in the Ivory Coast where monkeys are considered sacred.
Locals feed and protect the primates, and bury them in a shroud when they die.
...
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SYND 21-8-73 FOREST FIRES RAGING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Forest fires raging in Northern California
1. various aerial shots of smoke columns rising from forest
2. ls flames raging through trees
3. various shots forets burning
4. firefighters pull up in truck
5. water tanker pulls up
6. fire...
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SYND 28 4 78 NOTTINGHAM FOREST DRAW WITH COVENTRY, BECOME FIRST DIVISION CHAMPIONS
Nottingham Forest held Coventry to a goaless draw to win the English first division soccer championship for the first time in the clubs one-hundred-and-thirteen year history. When the match ended, the rival supporters from both clubs...
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SYND 9-8-72 FOREST FIRES IN ALASKA
Forest fires in Alaska
1) various aerials of smoke and flame from forest
2) various of flame & smoke
3) ms flames through trees
4) aerials of firefighters in forest, track to firefighters' camp, in clearing
5) fire fighters camp
6)...
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China - Forest fires raging out of control
A serious forest fire is raging out of control in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Sparked by lightning nearly one week ago and fanned by strong winds, the blaze has already destroyed over 13,000 square hectares (5,200...
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RR7049A BASQUE NATIONALISM CUTS
1. cu man in forest on walkie talkie, pan across forest
2. ms 2 men in forest by house, one drinks from traditional, leather hide bottle
3. ms man with walkie talkie
4. ls 2 men running to each other across field
5. gv man with walkie...
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SYND 21/08/1969 FIREFIGHTERS STRUGGLE WITH A THREE WEEK FOREST BLAZE
The army is brought in to help control a huge forest fire in the forests of Alaska.
1. VS aerials of smoke rising from the forests
2. VS of an armoured personnel carrier moving through the forest carrying soldiers
3. VS of soldiers using...
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CROATIA: FIRES DESTROY 2000 HECTARES OF PINE FOREST
Korcula and Lastovo, Croatia - August 9, 1998
Lastovo
1. Beach with fires on hillside behind
2. Fires on hillside
3. Tracking shot of fires in forest
4. Various of civilian fire fighters on road
5. Pan from firefighters to flames and...
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SYND 18/12/1970 THE FRENCH RIVIERA FOREST FIRES
The area around Saint Agnes on the French Riviera is choked by forest fires.
1. VS and pan of forest fires on a hillside
2. MS of a Canadair aircraft spraying water
3. WS of the fires
4. LS of Canadairs scoop up water from the sea
5. CU...
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Athens fires recede but officials still wary
1. Wide of flames scattered across hill
2. Various of trees and bushes on fire
3. Wide of trucks at roadside
4. Wide pan of hill in flames, tilt up
5. Various of bushes and trees on fire
6. Truck stopping on road
7. Men at roadside
8....
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SYND 20-8-73 SHOTS OF FOREST BLAZE
Shots of forest blaze
1 hillside and smoke
2 cu fire through forest
3 firefighters and officials
4 smoke through forest
5 wood chopped to put out flames
6 helicopter drops water
Film: Pos - Sound: Mute - Colour - NYFilm: No - LN...
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Fears for bisons with tighter borders
1. Tilt from trees to herd of European bison
2. Various, bison grazing
3. Various, forest
4. Wide shot, map of area on wall of office
5. Close shot, Bialowieza National Park on map
6. Various, fence running through forest on Belarus...
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Guests including actor Chris Tucker leave Michael Jackson's funeral
AP Entertainment
Glendale, Calif., 3 August 2009
1. Various of guests including Chris Tucker leaving funeral
A person who attended Michael Jackson's funeral says it was a simple and tasteful affair, and the singer's mother was overcome...
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Athens fires recede, burnt hillside shows extent of damage
Nea Makri - 24 August 2009
1. Wide of flames scattered across hill
2. Various of trees and bushes on fire
3. Wide of vehicle with flashing lights at roadside
4. Wide pan of hill in flames, tilt up
5. Various of bushes and trees on...