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WATER WORLD
France launches her first Nuclear Submarine. In Australia, a new light weight sailcloth contributes to the challenge for the America's Cup. At Staines, on the Thames, a new British Mooring device attracts the interest of pleasure...
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GIVE YOURSELF A ROCKET
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FORGET-ME-NOT
Scottish Computer Company and famous English artist inventor, Rowland Emett, have combined to build a crazy computer. Mr Emett's off-beat flair for the extraordinary creates an electronic extravaganza! Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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NEW TO YOU?
An inflatable nylon balloon, pumped up from the exhaust, replaces the more usual jack for commercial vehicles. ® Plug in for a new car painting technique! It uses the principle of electro-plating, covering the body with an even coat of...
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SAFETY'S IN THE BAG
Girl spends three hours in river to help Leeds University lecturer demonstrate his safety invention - a survival bag for injured pot-holers. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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WINGLESS PLANE
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""ARTOMATION""
These pictures show an artomatic machine, the brain-child of a French genius: the potable model in action. There's a model for painting Chinese abstracts, too. No end to the possibilities of this invention. And here is the inventor,...
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HEAVYWEIGHT SPACE LIFT
Standing a hundred and sixty four feet high, - just short of Nelson's Column. It weighs five hundred and sixty tons - as much as a small cargo ship. It's the Saturn One rocket that's just put an eighteen ton satellite into orbit. The...
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BOY, ARE YOU LIVING
Bruce Lacey is holding an art exhibition in London. He is an artist who suffers with a deep love-hate relationship with life and has made many weird machines to illustrate his point. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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THE SNOW MAKERS
It's like inviting someone to dinner - and then discovering there's nothing in the larder. Embarrassment is an under statement when you invite over thirty countries to compete in the Winter Olympics - then find there's not enough snow....
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RIDING ON AIR
At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption. Although it weighs three tons, air pressure raises it half an inch off the ground,...
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ROCK AROUND THE POOL
At Essen, in West Germany, a wave-making machine has been installed in one of the swimming pools there. The wave-maker sends the swell rolling down the pool - to break on the paddlers at the shallow end. A boon to the local folk, who...
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MAN SNATCH!
An American Hercules Transport plane has been specially modified for a search and recovery role. It's equipped with special survival gear which is dropped to a marooned man. It consists basically of a flight suit and a balloon. The idea...
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BOYS AND GIRLS OWN SHOW
At the Schoolboys and Girls Exhibition held in Olympia, there were many points of interest including the Daleks and Coco the Clown. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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JET CAR RECORD
At Bonneville Salt Flats, Art Arfons, a garage owner from Akron, Ohio, prepares to set a new world record for free wheeling jet cars. But he can't diminish Donald Campbell's achievement. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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KEEP THE WHEELS TURNING
The main reason for Mr Marples' visit to the new M6 motorway was to see a road laying train which can lay a mile and a half of motorway a week. This train was specially imported from the States at a cost of nearly four hundred thousand....
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BRITISH VICTORY IN MOTOR-CYCLES CROSS-COUNTRY
Edmund Ogden of Wales wins the French Cross Country Motor Cycle race in which only 3 competitors finished out 14. At Paris cycle inventions exhibition we see some of the latest ideas in bikes, while in Britain we see a bicycle-made-for...
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FOCUS ON FARMING
Mr Harvey Fisher and Major Christopher Perkins started their mobile secretarial service to give the farmer more time away from his desk. Based at Wylye in Wiltshire the service employs seven fully trained secretaries, who visit an...
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BY ROCKET TO SAFETY
From the flight deck of the Ark Royal - a new rescue technique is demonstrated. Rocket assisted ejector seats, to save the lives of pilots whose planes plunge into the sea on take off. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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HOVER SCOOTER
Aviation pioneer Lord Brabazon of Tara is still pioneering, at 76, and he's obviously interested in the Hover Scooter. It's based on the principle of the Hovercraft, and, like that remarkable British invention, it floats on a cushion of...
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FLYA PINTA COPTA!
It comes in a box twelve feet long. A box that unpacks into a launching pad for a pint-sized helicopter. Developed in West Germany it was being demonstrated at an American Air Base in Florida. It only takes five minutes to assemble and...
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""BAXTROL"" - THE NEW FUEL
Movietone interviews the Managing Director of the firm selling the new motor fuel which has recently hit the headlines. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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""SCREWY"" - BUT IT MAKES SENSE
The new Swamp Buggy issued to the American Navy is less than fourteen feet long, it can carry ten hundred weight of supplies or six people, and it can carry them anywhere, land, water and every muddy mixture in between. Disclaimer:...
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MECHANICAL ARM FOR POSTMAN
A new sorting office in London's West End, has cost the GPO four and a half million pounds. It's claimed to be the most up to date and most highly mechanised sorting office in the country. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...