British Movietone
NO SMOKE WITHOUT....
Ten scientists in America - the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health - have brought the whole question of smoking into the headlines once again. After fourteen months of sifting the evidence, their report is unanimous. Smoking does...
British Movietone
WATER SPEED NEWS
Making an attempt on his own water speed record of 76 miles an hour, Christoph von Mayenburg, set up a new world record of 82 miles an hour. The boat which he built himself, is fitted with a Jaguar engine. Disclaimer: British Movietone...
British Movietone
ROCK ROUND THE CLOCK
It all began with President Kennedy. Now, the rocking chair cult is sweeping Europe. Kurt Kulmey of Dusseldorf started rocking at 9 o'clock on Monday and kept going until midday on Wednesday. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
British Movietone
JET-PROOF HOTEL
Gillian Taylor last years Miss Great Britain took us round the newly built hotel at London Airport. It has two hundred and eighty bedrooms, eighteen studio rooms, and six suites. A feature common to every room is an electronic control...
British Movietone
KENT - ""FAMILY"" LIFEBOAT
Dungeness is the place, and the story concerns the Royal National Lifeboat there. They call it ""the family boat"" because two families, the Tart family and the Oiller family (wives as well as husbands) play a principal part in operating...
British Movietone
DUBLIN - NELSON'S PILLAR TUMBLED
Pictures show the monument to Lord Nelson, in O'Connell Street, Dublin after being shattered by a bomb, which exploded early on Tuesday morning. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
British Movietone
AGE AND ELEGANCE
Some of the finest examples of craftsmanship in antiques shown at the Antique Dealers' Fair in London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
British Movietone
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
A new hobby that's a sport, ""Slot"" car racing. Model cars that are powered by electric motors and guided by slots in the track. ® Motor cycle racing on ice, at the Moscow ""Dynamo"" Stadium in which the Russians won. ® At Cortina,...
British Movietone
NATIONAL PREVIEW - GALLOPING GRANDFATHER
Tim Durant, a sixty-six year old grandfather, is to ride King Pin in the Grand National this year. Tim, who has spent a lifetime in the saddle, stealing every spare moment to ride and hunt rides in the early morning on a training mount...
British Movietone
IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
From Earls Court, pictures of the International Gift and Fancy Goods Exhibition. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
British Movietone
LONDON
This year's British Industries Fair received an official opening for the first time when Lord Mountbatten, First Sea Lord, performed the ceremony. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
Bridgeman Arts
Cadets escaping from work camp, France, 1944
Clip 6 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. Cadets prepare for escape. They eventually...
Bridgeman Arts
Visiting Heathfield Eastbourne College
Exterior shot of clock on old building, cut to students playing croquet on lawn. Graduation ceremony. Close-up of architecture, statutes. Lady filming, using old movie camera. Cut to three ladies on outing visiting gardens, possibly Kew...
Sky News
Contents of Heathrow Terminal 1 Auctioned Off
VOICED:For most people, the less time you can spend in an airport terminal the better. But, if you happen to have a sentimental attachment to Heathrow Terminal One, then you have a treat in store.After fifty years of service, the entire...
Bridgeman Arts
City of Treasures part 6 - boy looks at strange objects and antique clocks. Paris flea market, 1951
boy looks at strange objects and antique clocks. Paris flea market, 1951
Curated Video
Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the area so they could dismantle it, authorities said Sunday.
HEADLINE: Times Square cleared as bomb found in parked SUV
CAPTION: Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling...
Curated Video
Surgeons perform rare surgery on baby with second head
1. Parents Franklin Martinez and Maria Gisela Hiciano with baby Rebeca Martinez and surgical team getting out of elevator with nurses
2. Various of Rebeca in bed being moved into surgery theatre; parents praying
3. Doctors entering...
Bridgeman Arts
Czechoslovakia 1968 - Czech civilians sing and hold flags. Protests in the streets
Clip 5 from the 1968 film "Seven Days to Remember", a chronology of the events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968 by troops from the Warsaw Pact. In this clip, Czech people, some of them wounded,...
Bridgeman Arts
A typical start to the day at a school for young women. France, 1942
Clip 3 from the 1942 French film 'Francaises De Demain' about the women's school Ecole Nationale Professionnelle de Jeunes Filles, established in 1934 in Vizille, Vercors / French Alps. One full day in the school. 7 AM: bell rings ;...
Bridgeman Arts
Tower Bridge: Looking at London, 1968, part 4 - Baltic Sun's journey from Poland to England, and Mark Brown's Wharf
Part 4 of the 1968 film Tower Bridge: Looking At London, which explores the history and development of the Tower Bridge along the River Thames. Presented by Ann Dickinson. In this clip, the journey of a cargo ship (Baltic Sun) is seen as...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Tell Time
Third graders learn to read an analog clock to the minute by going through this interactive presentation. They view animated slides, try it themselves, and review vocabulary, all within the same website.
PBS
The Leap Second Explained
Everyone's heard of leap years ... but what about leap seconds? Young scientists get acquainted with one of humankind's most awkward standard measurements with a short video from a PBS playlist covering space and time...
PBS
When Time Breaks Down
Some define time by motion, but how exactly does this work? Space Time added a video as part of its The Origin of Matter and Time playlist to explore just this question. It breaks down the relationships between matter, motion, and time....