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SLIP DISC!
At a factory in Birmingham, the World's first truly portable record players are being made. Operated by a battery, you just slip in a disc and the start button operates a tracking device. Weighing only eight pounds, the cost is sixteen...
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THE ELECTRIC EWE!
Tony Flowers has invented an electric feeding machine, that will take the place of any ewe that refuses to feed her young. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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SAFETY FAST!
Our pictures show skids at the BSM High Performance Course at Brands Hatch, a course for the keen average motorist, who finds himself at the wheel of a faster car. As cars get faster, it becomes more and more important to know how to...
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SAVING SPACE IN 'BRUM'
Birmingham Corporation has just begun a unique experiment in car parking. Consisting of 3 ramps or arches, it is built in such a way that they can be dismantled and re-erected elsewhere if future town planning demands it. The new car...
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THE OPEN ROAD
Many competitors from all parts of the world entered for the Tour of Britain, the greatest amateur cycle race in the world. The race itself covers about fourteen hundred miles. But how much longer will the roads be clear enough to hold...
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TREE CREEPER
A radio controlled, mechanical tree-creeper which slices off all the branches of the trees, without effort, has been invented in Germany. It will be a boon for foresters and lumberjacks. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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FATTENING FACTORY
There's a model farm not far from Montreal, where cattle are fattened before being sent for slaughter. The set-up is rather like a super-factory, no old-fashioned haylofts. Instead, air-tight silos are used for storing fodder. The whole...
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ROUND THE BEND
One of the latest advances in industry - a tiny snakelike television camera which is used to inspect the inside of pipelines. It's just over two inches in diameter and two feet long and is claimed to be the smallest of its type in the...
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MEALS BY RADIO
Developed in the United States is a completely new approach to preparing and cooking meals. After being prepared the meals are sent out to restaurants deep frozen. When a customer chooses his meal, it's taken from the deep-freeze and...
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PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
The latest idea from the building industry is to construct fibre-glass houses. These need little or no outside maintenance. They're built of glass-fibre panels which are particularly strong for their weight. A three bedroom house would...
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STICK WITH IT
An amusing new game for children, that is all the rage in the United States of America comes to Britain. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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LIGHT AS AIR
Experiments made at RAF Cardington, where they've been working on air and it's inflationary qualities since the days of the airship. Also the R101 which was Britain's last airship in 1930 leaving on her last flight before crashing....
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REVOLUTION FOR THE ROAD
Two surprises for the New York Motor Show, alongside the prototype (Jet I), made over 10 years ago, is Rover's latest gas-turbine car. When it's fully developed it might be on the market in 3 or 4 years time. The new Rover was...
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A WATCHDOG IN THE BOOT
In Great Britain, one car is broken into every seventy five seconds. In 1963, well over two hundred thousand cars were stolen in London alone. A new sensitive electronic device is fitted in the boot and switched on from outside the car....
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MORE MAGNIFICENT MEN!
George Pepplewell, a building contractor from Accrington, flies a machine he built himself. It's called the Pepplewell Gyrocopter. Also Robert Wilson, a cycle dealer from Preston who tries to win a prize of £5000 pounds for the first...
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AIR CUSHIONS FOR ALL
The Vickers ""VA3"" is shortly due to start the first hovercraft passenger service across the Dee estuary. It will be able, when fully fitted out, to carry 25 passengers in air-cushion comfort. Seen here is the inventor of the hovercraft...
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ON THE MOVE
Leaving from Ramsgate, in Kent, an SRN6 cargo-carrying Hovercraft, introducing the Cross-Channel Hovercargo Service. ® From Australia, pictures of a ""Cata deca cycle"", a ten seater pedal cycle developed by a group of engineering...
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TILT WING BREAKTHROUGH
A new Canadian Plane, using the Tilt-Wing principle can operate like a rescue helicopter and fly like a conventional plane at 400 mph. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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NUCLEAR BREAKTHROUGH WILL CUT COSTS
A new reactor has been devised which will help cut the cost of electricity. It's known as AGR - Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. Which means the final elements will be cooled by gas. This gas which absorbs the heat from the nuclear fuel,...
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LISTENING TO THE MOON MEN
A British Tracking Station soon to be erected on Ascension Island may well be the first vital link between Man and the Moon. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRD-SCARERS
A device for scaring off birds from the crops has been developed at an experimental vineyard in Sussex. A dummy hawk, made out of Turkey and Chicken feathers is suspended from a balloon filled with Hydrogen. As the hawk swoops and dives...
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SKI ON A HAIRBRUSH
Pictures show five hundred square yards of artificial ski-run - the first in Britain, installed by a local authority at the National Recreation Centre at Crystal Palace. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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MODERN FERRY TALE
Pictures show a new mini-landing craft that you can ferry yourself, which means you can take your car or caravan to the continent yourself. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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ROBOT SHOWS THE WAY
Students at Farnborough build a robot and walk him fifty miles to London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...