British Movietone
LEADING THE WORLD UNDER WATER
The Navy holds the world record for diving - it was 600 feet in 1956 and by using the new compression chambers, it's possible to simulate the actual conditions at any depth. In the chambers the men carry out exercises to test their...
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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...
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INDUSTRIAL ADVANCE - LARGEST IN THE WORLD
Pictures show from Rotherham in Yorkshire, largest electric melting shop in the world. It can reduce any sort of scrap into a high quality steel faster and cheaper than anywhere else in Europe. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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CUTTING A BREAKTHROUGH
A breakthrough in cutting heavy gauge steel plates which will speed up working time and increase production. Only one operator is needed to supervise the simultaneous cutting operations. It was developed by a firm in Croydon. Disclaimer:...
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SORTING IT ALL OUT
The sorting system at Mount Pleasant in London seems rather antiquated compared with the electronic sorting system in Nuremberg, which deals with packing and dispatching toys. Mount Pleasant is one of the largest postal centres in the...
British Movietone
ROUND THE BEND
One of the latest advances in industry - a tiny snakelike television camera which is used to inspect the inside of pipelines. It's just over two inches in diameter and two feet long and is claimed to be the smallest of its type in the...
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MEALS BY RADIO
Developed in the United States is a completely new approach to preparing and cooking meals. After being prepared the meals are sent out to restaurants deep frozen. When a customer chooses his meal, it's taken from the deep-freeze and...
British Movietone
BUILDING IN A BALLOON
At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon, inflated by an electric fan heats the perennial problem of British builders - the weather....
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FRANCE BECOMES SPACE POWER
Pictures show France's first satellite, launched in the Sahara. It weighed 93 pounds and was to be used to get back weather information but the satellite fell silent after two days. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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ROLLING ROAD LEADS NOWHERE
At a big service station in Birmingham, a new device which simulates a road test without going out on the road. In this way a test, which usually takes an hour can be completed in five minutes. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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THE SOUND OF TOMORROW
The RAF give a demonstration of ""annoyance value"" to representatives of the government and of airlines at home and overseas. They demonstrated the noise of a Comet as it flies low. The sound of tomorrow is concerned with the Supersonic...
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BLAST OFF BY THE BOYS
The boys of Wednesfield Grammar School have built a solid fuel rocket, twenty four and a half inches long, weighing eleven and a quarter pounds. It reached a height of over two thousand feet, at a speed of 450 miles an hour. Disclaimer:...
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HEAVYWEIGHT SPACE LIFT
Standing a hundred and sixty four feet high, - just short of Nelson's Column. It weighs five hundred and sixty tons - as much as a small cargo ship. It's the Saturn One rocket that's just put an eighteen ton satellite into orbit. The...
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MECHANICAL ARM FOR POSTMAN
A new sorting office in London's West End, has cost the GPO four and a half million pounds. It's claimed to be the most up to date and most highly mechanised sorting office in the country. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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""PUSH-BUTTON"" MINE
The Bevercotes Mine near Retford in Nottinghamshire is a working experiment which will eventually lead to a completely automated pit, controlled by a computer. When it begins production later this year, it will be the world's first...
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ROYAL OPENING FOR AIRPORT
The new building at London Airport, has just been officially opened, by Her Majesty the Queen, who was received by Lord Latham and Mr John Boyd-Carpenter. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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A MISSILE'S MISTAKE
At the American proving ground, in New Mexico, the Navy puts a new research rocket to a test. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
Sky News
Ukraine Crisis: UK PM Boris Johnson Interview
CLEAN: Shows exterior shots interview with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on war in Ukraine. The UK Prime Minister has been holding talks in Downing Street about the Ukraine crisis with Canada's Justin Trudeau and the Dutch Prime...
Press Association
Boris Johnson meets students on a visit to Burnley College
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a carbon fibre forming workshop, rivets a toolbox, meets students and operates a robot arm on a visit to Burnley College.
Bloomberg
CDU Lawmaker Brok Says Merkel Will Survive Migration Standoff
Jun.18 -- Elmar Brok, a senior European lawmaker and board member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, discusses the CDU's standoff with its Bavarian sister party over migration. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Bloomberg
China Wants to Control Domestic Monetary Policy, Says Parry Global MD
Oct.09 -- Gavin Parry, managing director at Parry Global Group, discusses the selloff in the Asian markets and his outlook for Chinese markets. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."
Bloomberg
Gemini On Crypto Regulation Landscape In Asia
Andy Meehan, Chief Compliance Officer, APAC, at Gemini - a crypto exchange and custodian - discusses about the evolving crypto regulation landscape in Asia. He was speaking with David Ingles on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."
Bloomberg
Split Personality: How a Divided Congress May Hit Banks, Tech & Pharma
Nov.05 -- With a divided U.S. Congress, analysts think bank and pharmaceutical stocks could come out relatively unharmed, or even supported, if Democrats cause gridlock with Donald Trump's agenda. But the pain could continue for tech and...
Curated Video
RUSSIA: ANTIQUE ART BECOMING BIG BUSINESS
Russian/Eng/Nat
Antique art in Russia is becoming a big business with some artworks selling for tens of thousands of dollars.
Overseas art dealers are racing to the former communist nation in hopes of getting their hands on pricey hard...