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TRIBUTE TO A SPACEMAN
Russia pays tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. The funeral in Moscow, is attended by thousands of mourners including Government and Military Leaders. After the funeral procession, the ashes are laid to rest in the Kremlin...
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES
Through six dangerous years, John Foster Dulles was America's Secretary of State. As President Eisenhower's right-hand man, he formulated foreign policy, and was a firm believer in personal contacts. He flew from capital to capital, as...
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COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN BURIED AT SEA
After the long, last journey home from the Far East, where Lady Mountbatten died, her mortal remains were brought to Portsmouth. Family mourners, including Prince Philip's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece, watched as the coffin was...
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COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN
The deepest sympathy is expressed to Lord Mountbatten on the death of his wife at the age of fifty-eight. The Countess Mountbatten of Burma was the last Vicerene and the friendship she won in India was one of her greatest achievements....
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IN MEMORIAM
AE Matthews was ninety last year. Christened Alfred Edward, he was always just ""Matty"", as loveable and eccentric as so many of the characters he portrayed. Matty died peacefully in his sleep. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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JORDAN BOMB OUTRAGE
Our pictures show the Foreign Ministry building in Amman, wrecked by the time bombs that killed Jordan's Prime Minister, Hazza Majali. Many people attended the funeral of the Prime Minister, when the coffin was borne from the hospital in...
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ANEURIN BEVAN
A tribute to a great man who died on the 6th July, 1960. 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...
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OVER SIX SCORE YEARS
Peter Pringle, who has just died at Germiston, lived to celebrate his hundred and twenty-first birthday. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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PREMIER OF PAKISTAN ASSASSINATED
News of the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan came as a great shock throughout the Commonwealth. At Pakistan's first Prime Minister, he was the trusted leader of his country in its early formative period. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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LAST TRIBUTE TO MARSHAL DE LATTRE
After the religious service in Notre Dame, the State Funeral procession moved slowly through Paris to the Invalides. After his death, General de Lattre de Tassigny had been raised to the rank of Marshal of France. Disclaimer: British...
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TURKEY MOURNS KEMAL ATATURK
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Spain Pays Tribute To Great Patriot
Cruiser bearing remains of Blasco Ibanez is met by frenzied crowd on arrival at Valencia. 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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Blasco Ibanez Is To Be Interred In Spain
Coffin of famous novelist, exiled from own country, leaves France at start of last journey home. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection...
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Sauvigny - Funeral of Prince Sixtus.
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Movietone Reviews 1933
A retrospect in brief flashes of the world's major events during the old year. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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Herbert Chapman Is Buried At Hendon
Arsenal Club's manager is mourned by sorrowing friends at impressive funeral procession. 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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THE POPE LAID TO REST - The Funeral of Pope Puis XII
St. Peter's Rome, was the place where last tributes were paid to the great leader of the Church, His Holiness Pope Pius the Twelfth. In the hallowed beauty and splendour of the Basilica, where more than 140 earlier Popes lie buried, Pope...
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THE DEATH OF THE POPE
His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, dies at the age of 82 at his Summer Palace, Castel Gandolfo. Scenes typifying his public appearances. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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CYPRUS OUTRAGE
Scenes in Famagusta, where the shooting of the wives of two British servicemen took place. Mrs Cutliffe died at once and Mrs Robinson was gravely wounded. An intensive search for the murderers began at once. Later at Mrs Cutliffe's...
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LAST JOURNEY
After his death in 1957, the late Aga Khan was laid in a temporary tomb at Assouan on the Nile. Now, in the presence of his widow, the Begum, the funeral procession moved towards the last resting-place. The late Aga Khan's grandson and...
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OSLO - THE ROYAL FUNERAL
Over two hundred thousand people stood in silence along the streets of Oslo during the funeral procession of Crown Princess Martha of Norway. The Duke of Gloucester was there, representing Queen Elizabeth. Disclaimer: British Movietone...
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TRIBUTE TO THE DUKE OF KENT - NO SOUND
National sympathy for the Duchess of Kent and the Royal Family was expressed by Londoners at a Service in Westminster Abbey. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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DUCHESS AT VILLAGE MEMORIAL SERVICE - NO SOUND
As the Duke of Kent's body is borne to Windsor, the Duchess attends a memorial service in the church of St. Peter's, Iver. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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FARM TRAGEDY
Was there no better way to solve it than mounting a military operation? That's the question being asked, after Andre Fourquet is provoked into shooting his two children and himself after a fortnight's siege in a lonely house near...