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Napoleonic Reenactment
Colour. 1970s. A large reenactment of French soldiers and band marching in a large field. Children amongst the French soldiers on horse back. Soldiers line up and fire off muskets. Soldiers slow march forward. Soldiers amongst crowd of...
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JEWISH AGENCY BLOW UP & ARMS FOR PALESTINE
Twelve Jews are killed in the bombing of the Jewish agency Building in Jerusalem. ® French police discover a trunk of arms in Marseille and it is said to have been addresses to Tel Aviv. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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PALESTINE STRUGGLE - SCENES IN HAIFA
Jews ands Arabs clash over possession of the port of Haifa. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical accuracy...
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PAKISTAN TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM FRONTIER
The Pakistan Garrison is being withdrawn from the remote fort of Waziristan. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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THE ARMY GETS A NAVY!
As time goes on, the gap is closing between the three services. Each becomes more dependent on the other, and the Army's new landing ship, 'Sir Lancelot', underlines this inter dependence. Manned by a Merchant Navy crew, shes the Army's...
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THE QUEEN'S PRIZE
Tony Harris, a twenty two year old classics student from Oxford won the leading award for Marksmanship in the Commonwealth at Bisley. It's worth two hundred and fifty pounds - but in prestige it's beyond price. Disclaimer: British...
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MASSED TANKS SHOW FIREPOWER
At Petawawa, Ontario, the army staged a great show of tanks and their firepower. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
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ALLIED MANOEUVRES IN GERMANY
Once again British and American tanks rolled through the villages of Germany, this time, however, it was all part of the the big manoeuvres held at Paderborn recently. General de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander of the Western Union's Land...
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GERMANY - TROOPS PARADE BEFORE MANOEUVRES
The C-in-C, the High Commissioner, General de Lattre de Tassigny and Mr Shinwell watch the huge parade of the Allied Forces at Sennelager, in Germany. Many well-known regiments were represented including the Black Watch and the ""Desert...
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MARSHALL AID PARADE
To celebrate the 4th anniversary of the Italian Republic and at the same time, to display the weapons obtained by the nation through Marshall Aid, Rome recently staged an impressive parade. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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BAOR MANOEUVRES
Somewhere in Lower Saxony the armour of the British Army of the Rhine goes into action. It's a mock battle, in fact it's a glimpse of the exercise called ""Commonwealth Four"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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SCREEN SHARPSHOOTERS
American Military Police in Munich are using a new pistol shooting range. A sixteen millimetre projector is used to show a moving picture for the marksman to aim at. A direct hit is signalled by the projector stopping. The US Army are...
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CYPRUS TERRORISTS ON THE RUN
Over the Troodos Mountains in South West Cyprus, spotting was carried out by helicopters, during operation ""Lucky Alphonse"" in which some two thousand troops took part. It was later that the forest fire swept over this area, with...
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WAR SECRETARY WITH PARATROOPS
During his visit to Cyprus, Mr Anthony Head, the Secretary of State for War, paid a visit to the first Battalion, the Parachute Regiment. Latest development in Cyprus is the deportation of Archbishop Makarios. Disclaimer: British...
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INDO-CHINA
South Vietnam is in the grip of three so-called ""religious sects"", virtually at war with each other. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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ARMS FAIR
An exhibition of historic weapons was on display at The Arms Fair taking place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel. The object of the Fair is Strictly commercial with buyers coming from all over the World. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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OPERATION
A scene at one of the several villages in Cyprus involved in the recent hunt for arms and explosives during the operation known to the Army as ""Plum Duff"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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BEAUTIES ON PARADE
From girls on a beauty course - to girls on a duty course, the first women Police Inspectors to start their training in the Federation of Malaya. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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POLISH CRISIS
In Warsaw crowds gathered to read and discuss Poland's new move in her long struggle for freedom. Workers' delegations met to consider the return of a former leader, ousted and imprisoned under the Stalin regimes. Now, Gomulka had, in...
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Women in Crowd Watch as Men March Off in their Uniforms through Street
Women in Crowd Watch as Men March Off in their Uniforms through Street
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Allies Ships Under Fire from Nazi Planes in Norway
Allies Ships Under Fire from Nazi Planes in Norway