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CAN237 THE TOUR DE FRANCE STARTS IN RENNES
The six-country 4,504 kilometre Tour de France cycle race starts from Rennes.
1. ms of police motorcycles lined up
2. ws of start banners on a building
3. mcu Tom Simpson smiling and looking around
4. vs of Simpson taking bottles and...
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SYND 25-11-72 REPORT ON GOVERNING OF TINY ISLANDS UNDER AUSTRALIAN PROTECTORSHIP
A report on daily life in the Cocos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1. vs of the exterior and interior of an empty house
2. vs of local women carrying baskets on their head
3. vs of family homes and a beach
4. ws of women and children...
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CAN336 TOKYO OLYMPICS PREPARATIONS
Preparations are made and the buildings shown off for the Tokyo Olympics.
*Date is approximate*
1. vs of a National Full Automatic Electronic Judging Device for timing swimmers
2. ms of a timing pad being touched on the poolside
3. vs of...
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SYND 9-11-70 MISS WORLD COMPETITORS ARRIVE AT LONDON AIRPORT
The competitors in the Miss World pageant arrive in London.
1. VS of Miss Portugal Anna Maria Lucas on the tarmac
2. VS of Miss Ecuador Sofia Monteverde on the tarmac
3. VS of Miss Holland Patricia Hollman on the tarmac
4. VS of Miss...
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UPI CUTS 6 3 80 TURKISH IMMIGRANTS HUNGER STRIKE
Eleven illegal Turkish immigrants are continuing their twenty five day old hunger strike in Paris in an effort to press the French government into giving them legal residence permits.
1. vs of political posters and fabric shops run by...
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CAN177 ELIABETH TAYLOR ATTENDS BURTON HAMLET OPENING
Actress Elizabeth Taylor at the opening of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Hamlet in New York.
1. vs of Taylor in car and out and into building
2. vs of the police, including mounted police, controlling crowds
3. ms of the marquee with...
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CUTS 16 2 81 BULAWAYO RIOT AFTERMATH
The aftermath of rioting in Bulawayo.
1. vs of an army camp of tents
2. vs of spent ammunition and boxes
3. vs of the abandoned interiors of tents with food cans left
4. vs of people on an armoured car
5. vs of African people on the...
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NASA animation of black holes in space
1. Clip from animation showing matter spinning around black hole
2. Wide overhead view of spiralling black hole
The U-S space agency NASA says astronomers now have evidence that at least some black holes spin like whirlpools.
Black...
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UPITN 7 12 78 ETHIOPIAN MILITARY LEADER MENGISTU VISIT
Ethiopian leader General Mengistu Haile Mariam visits Hungary.
1. vs of Mengistu laying a wreath at a memorial+++BLACK HOLE+++2. vs interior of the group entering a room and then seated around table+++BLACK HOLE+++3. ms of plane...
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CUTS 30 5 80 CHINESE PREMIER HUA MEETS EMPEROR HIROHITO
Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng and Foreign Minister Huang Hua meet Japanese Emporer Hirohito, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, Crown Prince Akihito and former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka at the Akasaka palace in Tokyo.
1. vs of the...
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CAN416 SINGAPORE RIOTS
Scenes of army patrols and deserted streets after rioting in Singapore.
*Date is Approx*
1. vs of men in groups on airport tarmac talking
2. vs of the empty streets of Singapore and the docks
3. vs of cars being checked through an army...
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CAN471 KOSYGIN VISITS TRADE FAIR
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits the Leipzig industrial fair.
1. vs of people on the city streets and bunting and streamers hanging from buildings
2. vs of a traffic policeman directing busy traffic
3. vs of the exterior of buildings...
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NuSTAR X-ray observatory to study black holes
/ animation of NuSTAR X-ray telescope orbiting around Earth's equator / telescope lengthy arm unfolds in space, allowing it to see high-energy objects like feeding black holes. NuSTAR X-ray observatory to study black holes on March 16,...
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A black hole sucks skyscrapers and eventually the planet into its event horizon.
A black hole sucks skyscrapers and eventually the planet into its event horizon.
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USA: NASA: IMAGES TAKEN BY HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE UNVEILED
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NASA scientists in the United States have unveiled a new series of images taken by the Hubble space telescope - that have offered tantalising glimpses of quasars.
As the scientists have discovered, the new images raise more...
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Webb Telescope Is More Powerful Than Hubble, Says NASA
Gregory Robinson, James Webb telescope program director for NASA, discusses the completion, launch and mission of the new deep space telescope. Robinson says technological advancements have made it even more powerful than the Hubble...
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Scientists report massive gamma ray flare
1. Various of animation of flash of light in space
2. Wide shot of of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Salamon, NASA
"We observed the brightest flash of light ever seen in the heavens, at least in modern historical times....
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Scientists discover brightest supernova ever seen
1. Animation of 2006GY Supernova exploding ++mute++
2. Wide of panel of scientists
3. Set up Nathan Smith, Astrophysicist at the University of California/Berkeley
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nathan Smith, Astrophysicist at the University of...
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USA: NASA: SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND CLOUD OF ANTI-MATTER
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Scientists have found a cloud of anti-matter particles spewing from the centre of the Milky Way - the Galaxy which is also home to the Earth.
The discovery of the so-called stream of annihilation - changes scientists' view...
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USA/SPACE: EVIDENCE OF A NEW TYPE OF BLACK HOLE
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Scientists using the Chandra X-ray telescope in space have uncovered evidence of a new type of black hole.
In a relatively close galaxy, astronomically speaking, a mid-sized black hole's discovery has prompted renewed debate...
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Scientists at CERN downplay safety fears for powerful accelerator.
1. Exterior of CERN globe with museum
2. Model of magnet with writing "CERN" on it
3. Exterior of hall of ATLAS experiment at CERN, with huge poster reading "Experience Atlas experiment", one of the four major experiments when the Large...
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AP pix from CERN control room, scientist sots
1. Wide exterior CERN Control Centre
2. Close up CERN Control Centre sign
3. Various exteriors of CERN Control Centre (SHOTS 1 & 2 REPEATED)
4. Interior CERN Control Centre control room of Large Hadron Collider
5. Mid shot scientists...
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US: NASA - FIRST IMAGES FROM CHANDRA TELESCOPE
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The first images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope are impressing scientists with their clarity and detail.
On Thursday, the U-S space agency unveiled the images from the world's most powerful X-ray telescope.
Chandra's...
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USA: NASA ROCKET LAUNCH ABORTED AT THE LAST SECOND
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A rocket launch by the U-S space agency NASA was aborted at the last second Monday when the engines ignited and then shut down.
A NASA Spokesman said that a stuck oxygen valve apparently caused computers to halt the launch...