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Young lady sleeps on a plane, wakes up and looks out window, c.1960
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Air to air shot of small plane in flight. Passengers sleeping in plane. Clouds from the plane.
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Supersonic Preview part 2 - Mexican dancers welcome the arrival of a Concorde plane. Crowds gather to admire the Concorde in various international airports. c.1976
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
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Monuments and statues in Crimea, coastal towns, and the village of Schastie in Ukraine, 1970s
Clip 8 from the film 'Mon Ukraine' (My Ukraine) from the 1970s, exploring landscapes, sites and everyday life in Ukraine. Close up of monument of running horses. Various statues of (probably) communist heroes and workers. Pan of coastal...
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Cross-country skiing on the Jotenheimen Mountains. Skiers reach the Galdhopiggen and rest. Norway 1970s
From a promotional film about skiing in Norway in the 1970s.
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Exploding mine. France, 1952
Clip 6 from the 1952 short film 'Les hommes de la nuit', about the work of miners in coal mines in Lorraine, France. A mine is exploded and collapses. A miner hangs off a tree log and investigates the water,
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Coasts and landscapes of Estonia, 1971
Clip 1 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Opening titles in front of a static shot of a stone building. Shots of the sea, coastline, rocks and cliffs.
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City of Treasures part 5 - looking round a market Paris 1951
WS of market with new things. MS of stand with openwork gloves. MS of woman trying on the dress next to a stand. MS of stand with baskets, bags and footballs. WS of market. WS of stand with food. Stand with strange objects. WS tried boy...
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Fairground attraction in France 1947: A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing and the other dances.
Clip 5 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing / fire-eating and the other...
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CLEAN : Daft Punk split: reactions from the streets of Paris
In Paris, passersby react to news that Daft Punk, the world-famous French electro duo, have decided to split. For some they left "a colossal legacy" and for others happy memories of the time when one could "dance with friends (Footage by...
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Outbreak of WW1. German troops are given equipment and leave on trains. 1914.
Outbreak of WW1. German troops are given equipment and leave on trains. 1914.
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First Battle of Ypres, Ottoman Empire, WW1, 1914
First Battle of Ypres, Ottoman Empire, WW1, 1914
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American aircraft and demolition in Arizona, USA
American aircraft and demolition in Arizona, USA
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Farnborough Air show, 1956
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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Early Flight Prototypes
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Aircraft designers in the 1950s. Montage of fighter jets.
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Propellers to jets (in part, audio sync issue)
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Early aircraft model in hangar, the Wright Brothers, 1900s
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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First Flight from London to Australia in 1919
B&W archive footage of Ross & Keith Smith who piloted, in 1919, the first flight from London to Australia in under 30 days
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First trans-Atlantic flight, 1919
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight, 14th June 1919. Clip from a film about the achievements of Vickers Aviation, made in 1957.
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First Flight from London to Australia, 1919
Ross and Keith Smith man the first flight from London to Australia, 1919
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First squadron of Supermarine Swift join RAF, March 4th 1954
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine film chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design from the Supermarine in 1925, through the Supermarine 4 monoplane, the S5, S6, S6B, Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful, Attacker, 508, 510, 535, to the...
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Germans use toxic gas in combat. Death in trenches. Italy enters war. Fighting in the Dolomites. 1915.
Germans use toxic gas in combat. Death in trenches. Italy enters war. Fighting in the Dolomites. 1915.
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French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
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One of Our Own Kind part six - shots of Otley and Leeds, printing factory, cityscapes. 1970
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. Street scenes in Otley, men in the pub drinking beer, GVs of Leeds with town hall and civic hall, cityscapes of Leeds, interior shots of...