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Boy Gunman Caught In New York City
Spectacular siege ends in capture of 20-years-old Shorty Crowley, 2-gun slayer of policemen. 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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TALK BETTER THAN TROUBLE
Some 2,000 people are thought to be homeless after the recent outburst of violence in Northern Ireland. And violence erupts at the Ulster Office in London between Civil Rights Marchers and the Police, with some 60 people injured....
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HOME AT LAST
The ordeal of Mrs Gerald Brooke is over - her husband is home again in London after over four years detention by the Russians. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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VIGIL AT WESTON
At last - the vigil is over. 28 year old John James throws his gun through the window and the Police move in. This was the climax to the siege of Weston-under-Redcastle, in which the lives of a wife and four children have been in...
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THE SHROPSHIRE DILEMMA
Days and nights of agonising indecision, during the siege of Gunman John James, his wife and their four children at Weston-under-Redcastle. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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AAR SKYJACKING
Eight and three quarter million pounds worth of Jumbo Jet, blown up by Guerillas at Cairo Airport starts the latest, most serious, wave of Skyjacking, in which hundreds of lives are held to ransom by a group of terrorists who threaten to...
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POP WEDDING
Popstar Barry Gibb marries Linda Grey at Caxton Hall. 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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MAN HUNT
The hunt for the killer of Police Inspector Barry Taylor goes on across the snow covered Yorkshire Moors. ® In the past five years eleven policemen have been murdered. The morale of Britain's policemen is lower than it has been for...
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MODERNISATION OF ITALIAN ROADS
A speedy drive down the modern Italian Autostradas. 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...
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FFI FIGHT FOR PARIS -
This is the inside story of the men and women who fought so fiercely for the liberations of Paris. Streets were torn up to make barricades and the Police were formed into a battle unit. They fought from windows and roof tops and the...
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FFI FIGHT FOR PARIS -
This is the inside story of the men and women who fought so fiercely for the liberations of Paris. Streets were torn up to make barricades and the Police were formed into a battle unit. They fought from windows and roof tops and the...
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FORWARD IN NORMANDY -
In Caen the inhabitants were quickly finding out the many advantages of British occupation, American biscuits, French cheese and butter were being distributed. In Cherbourg French girls who had collaborated with the Germans had their...
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FORWARD IN NORMANDY -
In Caen the inhabitants were quickly finding out the many advantages of British occupation, American biscuits, French cheese and butter were being distributed. In Cherbourg French girls who had collaborated with the Germans had their...
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FORWARD IN NORMANDY -
In Caen the inhabitants were quickly finding out the many advantages of British occupation, American biscuits, French cheese and butter were being distributed. In Cherbourg French girls who had collaborated with the Germans had their...
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FORWARD IN NORMANDY -
In Caen the inhabitants were quickly finding out the many advantages of British occupation, American biscuits, French cheese and butter were being distributed. In Cherbourg French girls who had collaborated with the Germans had their...
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WESTERN FRONT - LA ROCHE & ST. VITH -
British and American Units near and inside La Roche have been working in difficult conditions and freezing weather. Somewhere between Malmedy and St. Vith another German atrocity was reported, the killing of over a hundred American...
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FALL OF CATANIA (FIRST PICTURES) -
General Montgomery's big attack on Catania came to fruition on the fifth of August. The population of Catania were pleased to welcome our troops. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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FROM LYONS TO ANTWERP -
At Drancy, near Paris, a Concentration Camp previously used for Jews now houses French collaborators. The Maquis has been very active in the area around Grenoble and Lyons. General Patton's men have been involved in heavy fighting in the...
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FOURTEENTH ARMY'S TRIUMPH -
The Fourteenth Army's drive to Burma's second city, Mandalay, has been a magnificent feat of arms. They found Burmese villagers who had suffered greatly in the hands of the Japanese. Lord Louis Mountbatten recently broadcast to his...
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FOR THE FUEHRER -
When Leipzig was captured inside the City Hall was found the bodies of the Lord Mayor, Dr Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter. All three had committed suicide by taking poison. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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IN THE WAKE OF THE HUN -
General Eisenhower has been to certain concentration camps in Germany. At Ohrdorf, he collected first-hand information of the atrocities committed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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THE END OF MUSSO -
In Milan the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress were kicked and abused by Italians. After the mob had been dispersed by firemen their bodies were hung upside down outside a petrol station. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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QUISLING NO 1 -
In Oslo the trial begins of Vidkun Quisling whose name is now synonymous with treason. 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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PETAIN ON TRIAL
At the Palais de Justice Marshal Petain goes on trial charged with plotting against the internal security of his country and collaboration with the enemy. Among the chief witnesses for the prosecution were Albert Lebrun and Paul Reynaud....