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THE MOSQUITO -
The ""DH98"" or ""Mosquito"" has been one of the success stories of the war. Its construction of lightweight wood gives it the advantage of speed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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PLANES, AND YET MORE PLANES -
Production of the ""Wellington"" and ""Blenheim"" bombers continues a pace. 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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CANAL ZONE LATEST
Lieutenant-General Sir George Erskine, GOC, the Canal Zone, has been seeing for himself that the troops under his command had as good a time as possible during the festive season. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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STOKES HOME
Mr Richard Stokes arrived by air at London Airport from Persia to report to the Cabinet. When he spoke to Press and Newsreel men, he was optimistic. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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WE VOTE FOR WOMEN
1968 is the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Suffragette's victory, culminating their battle for Votes for Women. Movietone recalls the fight - and looks at the achievements Women have won since those early days of Mrs Pankhurst. Disclaimer:...
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GREECE IN THE BALANCE
After the first ""off the record"" pictures from Athens, the Worlds' press have had a tough job trying to keep pace with the confusing sequence of events - the negotiations to secure a possible return of the King in his country....
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FLYING CAR
Mr Taylor of Longview, Washington, takes a poor view of crowded highways, speed traps, traffic lights and all the rest of it - so he put wings on his car and rises above these earthly restrictions. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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WIVES REJOIN EXILED SULTAN
Strange news from Morocco, where twenty ladies of the harem belonging to the deposed Sultan have left to join him in exile at Ajaccio in Corsica. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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MALTA PETS
BEA transport from Malta a lot of cats, dogs and birds. 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 and...
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CARS BY COPTER
An Australian Motor Manufacturer getting sales off the ground for their range of cars with some spectacular 'copter formation flying. Each machine carrying one of the new vehicles in a sling. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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GRAIN FOR INDIAN FAMINE AREAS
Mrs Pandit, the Indian Ambassador, was in Philadelphia to see grain being shipped to India. Meanwhile, her brother Mr Nehru, India's Prime Minister, has been visiting Bihar to see how things are going in the famine areas. Help is on the...
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SHAH OF PERSIA
A tour over Iran by helicopter... with the Shah of Persia as host. The tomb of Cyrus, the deserts and the ancient city of Ispahan are contrasted to the city's rapid industrial development. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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US BASES IN SPAIN
The consolidation and extension of United States Airforce bases in Spain is typified by pictures of the work in progress. At present the most important bases are at Sarragosa, Moron, San Pablo and Terrejon, the largest of them all....
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BOMBSHELL AT BLACKPOOL
Conjecture and confusion followed the news on the eve of the Conservative Conference of the Prime Minister's operation. Then, from the London hospital, Lord Home brought the biggest bombshell of all: that Mr Harold Macmillan will be...
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GOLDEN PROBE IN ORBIT
The sixty ton four-stage ""Juno"" launching rocket on its site at Cape Canaveral was ready for the new attempt to probe Outer Space. A gold-plated fibre-glass cone, shielding the thirteen pound instrument capsule, was hoisted aloft for...
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THE SUEZ CANAL SEIZED BY NASSER
That 100 mile international short cut to the Far East, the Suez Canal, was run by a Company with Britain as its biggest shareholders. Britain guarded it in two World Wars, and its used by a vast tonnage of British shipping, now Egypt's...
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FAMOUS ATHLETES RETURN
Flying to London Airport, Australia's John Landy recently arrived in Britain. In Harrow, Roger Bannister with his parents and sister, gives his impression of the ""Miracle Mile"". Back home in Chadwell Heath, Jim Peters describes his own...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Sir Winston Churchill embarks from a BEA ""Viscount"" at Nice, accompanied by his wife it was the beginning of a holiday on the French Riviera. They were staying at Lord Beaverbrook's Villa at Cap d'Ail. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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PLANES, AND YET MORE PLANES -NO SOUND
Production of the ""Wellington"" and ""Blenheim"" bombers continues a pace. 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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VISIT OF HM THE QUEEN MOTHER- COLOUR
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Channel Islands, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother visits the Holiday Isles. ® ® The Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during the...
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STOKE'S MISSION
Hopes of breaking the oil dispute deadlock rose with the departure of the Lord Privy Seal from London Airport. Sir Francis Shepherd and Sir Donald Ferguson went with him. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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THE KENNEDY CAVALCADE
Movietone's pictures show highlights of President Kennedy's visit to West Germany including his trip to the Brandenburg Gate. Also highlights of his visit to Ireland. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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THE PLOUGH AT WAR - BY DONALD McCULLOUGH (OF THE BBC BRAINS TRUST) -
Big new tractors are making swift work of ploughing and after three years of war we are producing two thirds of the food we eat. The Women's Land Army is three times the size it was during the last war and many parks, common land, golf...
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NAMES IN THE NEWS
Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt has been making a tour of South East Asia. There he visited Bien Hoa, the principle base of operations for Australian troops in Vietnam. Arriving in London to defend his title against Henry...