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TOP OF THE STAIRS
From top dog to top of the Tower. University students stage their annual race up the 814 steps of the Post Office Tower. For the benefit of Rag Week charities, the students make the tough climb. A girl from Hull breaks the womens record...
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MILLIONTH PASSENGER FLIES TO BENIDORM
One of Britain's biggest holiday tour operators give their millionth passenger the holiday of a lifetime in Spain. Mrs Jean Smith, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, with her husband and baby daughter are the toast of the coast around beautiful...
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The Amersham Angels v. Luton Ladies in a muddy battle.
The Football Association now allows womens' teams to use affiliated pitches. 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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FASHION ® Haute Couture
Royal dress designer Hardy Amies produces some surprises in his Spring collection, countering the mini with below-the-knee hemlines and introducing the ""peasant"" look with a romantic Romany flavour. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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FASHION ® Shoes
A chance to look at some of the trendiest new fashions in footwear for men and women. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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THE JUMBO ERA
Clipper Constellation, the first Transatlantic Jumbo Jet touches down at London Airport. Twice as heavy as a 707 the Jumbo presents many problems in passengers handling. ® ® We look at London Airport's new thirteen million pound...
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THE BOAT SHOW
Starting the seventies off with a tang of salt, the International Boat Show once again moors up at Earl's Court, the World's largest shop window of everything afloat. ® ® Built around a Riviera Marina, there is everything that has come...
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INFOFAIR
A London Exhibition, showing how good management relies on Information, features all the latest techniques in the storing and recovery of data and records. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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WORLD IN STAMPS
The Apollo programme - Human Rights - Robert Louis Stevenson. Just three of the many themes illustrated in the Commonwealth Stamp Exhibition in London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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WINDSOR SAFARI
Elephants and Dolphins are now among the Royal family's neighbours at Windsor. The recently opened Safari Park brings the jungles of the Tropics and the waters of the Caribbean to a hundred acres of former Royal Hunting Forest....
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JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY
Plumpton Racecourse becomes a Pop Experience during the Jazz, Blues and Pop Festival. ® Our film features ""Breakthru"", ""The Strawbs"" and the ""Bonzo Dog Band"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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SPORTABOUT
Movietone looks at the International sporting scene. ® The Fijian Rugby Tourists show tremendously enthusiastic form in Australia, while, at Wembley, the bulldozers tear up one of the greatest football pitches in the world. ® Through...
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BEATING THE HANDICAP
Athletes in wheelchairs meet the Queen when Her Majesty comes to open the Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium, specially built at this famous hospital for the paralysed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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SPRAY SAVER
A revolutionary technique is spraying could be an export winner, especially in countries where water is in short supply. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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INSTANT PARKING:
First tangible result of a major Motor Company's Scholarship Scheme is a City car that turns on a six-pence, designed by a Scottish post-graduate engineer. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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""BIDDING FOR YESTERDAY""
An 18th Century dress brought for three shilling in a Jumble Sale is auctioned for 95 guineas! Digging deeper into the past some of the treasures of the 'Association' sunk in 1707 are auctioned for over £12,300. Two bronze cannon fetch...
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FLYING SCHOOL PRESENTATION
The Queen goes to RAF Little Rissington, to present a colour to the Central Flying School, which was formed in 1912. This makes it the oldest military flying training school in the world. Two features of the ceremony were the new...
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FOUR ON ICE
The British Trans-Arctic Expedition return to Portsmouth after their epic, sixteen-month journey across the top of the world, from one side of the Arctic basin to the other. Also with them, two of their huskies, 'Apple Dog' and 'Eskimo...
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6 HOUR RACE
At Brands Hatch, the Six Hour Race for Saloon Cars, one of the key events in the European Saloon Car Championships, is won by Hubert Hahne and Dieter Quester in a BMW, only eight seconds ahead of Trevor Taylor and John Fitzpatrick in a...
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PLASTIC FANTASTIC
Intorplas, an International Exhibition for everything that's plastic. ® Plastic includes ""Tomboy"" a new moulded plastic boat, for everyone that wants to be out, about and afloat. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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TIME ON THEIR HANDS
Commuters and British Rail sometimes have slight differences about time, but its the job of these men at Reading to at least keep the hands of time turning even if the train is not there on time. ® But at sea, it's goodbye to the...
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TROOPING THE CONCORDE
The Queen's Official Birthday is always marked by the Trooping of the Colour - carried out this year by the First Battalion, the Scots Guards. But the show was stolen this year by Concorde, that made its first flight over London,...
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FAIRS OLD AND NEW
Two fairs in a London hotel contrast the old and the new; the old is embodied in the Antique Dealer's Fair, where the exhibits range in date from 1830 to 4,000 BC. ® On the other hand, children delighted in the London Toy Fair, and its...
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HIGH PLACES
In Paris, a job for cool heads as painters become ""aerial artists"" to clean up the Eiffel Tower. ® From Russia, equally high level employment for the teams erecting electricity cables across a valley a mile and a quarter wide -...