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MOVIETONE PRESENTS - REVIEW 70 -
All the highlights of the year in a special King Size release heralding the splendid seventies. ® Twelve months in as many minutes - An Action Package, recording the dramas, the tragedies, the achievements of 1970. Disclaimer: British...
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PUNCH UP!
In Melbourne, Britain's Alan Rudkin just fails to take the World Bantamweight crown with Australia's Lionel Rose on a controversial split points decision. ® In Suez, Egyptian oil Refineries are ablaze during the latest conflict with...
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40 YEAR AFTER PROHIBITION
From Movietone Archives, sequences from the era of Prohibition. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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VIVE PARIS -
(First pictures of the liberated French Capital). French fighting forces raced to the relief of Paris, wiping out German strong points on the outskirts of the City. General Leclerc, leader of the liberating forces, drove in with his...
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Dartmoor In Grip of Emergency Degrees
Police stop night motorists and our air pictures show convicts being exercised only in small groups. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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ATROCITIES - THE EVIDENCE -
A British delegation of ten members of Parliament, including Mrs Mavis Tate, saw the indescribable horrors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Clare Booth Luce, American Congresswoman, describes what she has seen in the Camps. Typhus and...
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GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL RUINS -
RAF films show the damage that Allied bombing has done to such places as Hanover, Duisburg etc. The Krupps armament factory at Essen now lies in ruins. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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INTO WESTPHALIA -
After his crossing of the Rhine Winston Churchill received a great welcome from the troops. The fighting around Wesel, scene of paratroop landings, had been fierce, but objectives had been taken and the move forward continued. In towns...
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Illicit Still Gang Is Dealt With By American Police.
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Children Take Law Into Their Own Hands
Youthful delinquents face schoolmate judges in trial held with full ritual at Richmond. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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GERMAN NEWSREELS ON HITLER'S ESCAPE -
Pictures show the room in which the alleged attempt on Hitler's life was made. The bomb killed and wounded everybody except the Fuehrer. At Tannenberg Marshal Goering presided over the funeral of General Korten, Chief of Hitler's general...
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JUSTICE FOR CARUSO -
The ex-Police Chief of Rome, Pietro Caruso, stands trial for collaboration and is sentenced to be shot. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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ANTI FASCIST FURY IN ROME -
The scenes in the court at the trial of Pietro Caruso and Donato Caretta were those of a lynch mob. Caretta was beaten and trampled to death and his body was thrown in the Tiber. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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ROUEN - DIEPPE AND ONWARDS -
The Canadians received a magnificent welcome when they entered Rouen. Bridges over the Seine had been cut by allied bombing, but some Germans had managed to cross and continue to Dieppe. The Canadians then returned to liberate Dieppe and...
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GOOD NEWS IN THE WEST -
Good news of the Allied advance through France is being received every day. Monty is seen in conference with Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory, Air Marshals Broadhurst and Coningham and General Crerar (commanding the Canadian...
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SABOTAGE IN USA -
Six great buildings belonging to America's foremost rubber company were destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire was sabotage. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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THE RIDDLE OF THE KREMLIN
Recent news from Moscow reminds us of the Churchillian phase that ""Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."" But if we look back at Russian history, it may help us to guess the riddle of the Kremlin today. Disclaimer:...
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The Sandys Affair -
Political storm about official secrets. 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 do not...
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TWO ATLANTIC QUEENS IN THE NEWS
It was the Liner ""Queen Mary"" that brought Mr Churchill back from his visit to America and his holiday in Jamaica. The Prime Minister paused at our mike long enough to give a brief summing up. The ""Queen Elizabeth"" has had two fires...
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IDENTI-PIC
Variations of the Police Identi-kit, a slide projector helps a witness to identify a suspect. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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SCHOOL BLAZER
A State School a few miles away from Melbourne, went up in flames and smoke. Police said they believed the fire was started by 3 small boys, who decided it would be great fun to play with matches. ® Now, our pictures show the...
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A QUIET STROLL
Our pictures show a Ju-Jitsu master, demonstrating a few lessons. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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YUGOSLAVIA FREES ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC
The senior Roman Catholic Prelate in Yugoslavia has been conditionally released from prison. Long-suppressed pictures of Archbishop Stepinac's trial at Belgrade in 1946, underline the fortitude with which he faced his communist accusers....
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CYPRUS - LATEST NEWS
Cyprus, where, according to the first fruits of the agreement, over nine hundred detainees are to be released. The first of them are seen leaving detention camps near Nicosia and greeted by relatives. Movietone asked some of the Cypriots...