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SYND 16/11/70 EXHIBITION IN MOSCOW, BY INTERNATIONAL FIRMS, OF LATEST POSTAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT
Exhibition by international firms of latest postal handling equipment
1) gv letter franking machine by Elliott (Britain)
2) cu Elliott logo
3) ms letters off conveyor belt
4) ms onlookers
5) ms automatic cash dispenser
6) various of...
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SYND 24 10 74 POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE IN FRANCE
French postal workers strike
1. pan along street to parked post vans
2. idle post vans on street
3. cu hand writen sign (French)
4. cu CGT union signs: (French)
5. 2 men out of gates
6. cu sign in post office, tilt down to basket full of...
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SYND 7 4 71 LIFE RETURNST TO NORMAL AFTER FIGHTING IN DACCA
Life and business returning to normal in Dacca (Dhaka) after recent fighting between insurgents and central government troops.
1. various of general activity in street
2. ms pan down post office
3. various of interior of post office...
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SYND 15-1-73 LETTERS SORTED IN TEL AVIV POST OFFICE
Letters being sorted in Tel Aviv Post Office, suspicious ones removed.
1. various of mail unloaded from vans
2. ms mail moved in trolleys
3. gv sorting office
4. mcu woman sorting mail
5. mcu man sorting mail and takes out suspect...
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Cars set alight in isolated incidents
Strasbourg
1. Post office sorting building
2. Sign on front of building
3. Firefighters outside gate to sorting office
4. Firefighter being pushed over fence
5. Various of vehicles on fire
6. Various of firefighters next to...
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UPITN 30 11 77 SCENES OF GENERAL STRIKE
Scenes of the General Strike's impact of the city of Paris.
1. ws and pan of railway station
2. vs of empty platform with no trains
3. ws traffic jam and pan of traffic
4. ws of empty railway station
5. ws of people waiting for bus
6. ws...
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SYND 29-11-73 PEOPLE QUEUING FOR PETROL COUPONS IN LONDON
British government took the first step towards petrol rationing with issuing of petrol coupons.
1. gv exterior of a post office
2. various of people queueing at the post office for ration coupons and getting coupons
3. cu petrol coupon...
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SYND 22 12 74 SANTA'S MAIL SENT TO TOWN OF NORTH POLE
Santa's mail is often sent to the actual town of North Pole, Alaska
1. ws house under snow, zoom in to smoking chimney
2. mcu sign for 'NORTH POLE ALASKA'
3. ms sign over shop 'Santa Claus House 511 Santa Claus Lane North Pole Alaska'
4....
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SYND 2-4-72 PRESIDENT DE VALERA REVIEWS TROOPS AT EASTER RALLY IN DUBLIN
Strict security precautions as Northern Ireland President, Eamon De Valera, reviews troops on Easter Sunday parade, in Dublin
1) low angle, Dublin post office building
2) people on parade
3) line up of troops
4) president out of car
5)...
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Airlines have scratched more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and the three major airports serving New York City as well as Boston's Logan Airport closed.
HEADLINE: Raw: Boston digs out from storm
CAPTION: Airlines have scratched more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and the three major airports serving New York City as well as Boston's Logan Airport closed. (Feb. 9)
Boston - Feb....
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More than 50 killed as bus collides with truck and car
1. STILL: Wide of wrecked bus with soldiers and rescuers looking through wreckage
2. STILL: Mid of wrecked bus with soldiers and rescuers looking through wreckage
A bus operated by Zambia's postal service carrying passengers toward its...
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SYND 10-12-73 POSTAL AUTHORITIES ISSUE PETROL COUPONS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Petrol coupons are distributed by the Dutch Postal Service in the Netherlands, prior to rationing, early next year
1. exterior post office
2. interior post office, peiople queuing
3. people at counter applying for coupons
4. various...
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Pakistan - Seven Die Protesting Security Force Rep
Seven die protesting security force repression
At least seven people were killed and 25 were wounded in Karachi on Monday (22/5) during a strike called to protest against alleged repression by the country's security forces. The...
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CAN 876 SANTA CLAUS VISITS BY BALLOON
Austrian Santa Claus picks up mail and flies off in balloon.
1. cu roadsign "Aschach Christkindl"
2. cu stamps being postmarked "Christkindl"
3. cu stamp
4. ms children handing their letters over the post office counter
5. ms children's...
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US: STAMP ROW: ATOMIC WEAPONS
Nat/Sound
Plans by the U.S. postal service to issue a stamp depicting America's use of atomic weapons against Japan has reopened old wounds.
The stamp which commemorates the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fifty years ago next August,...
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CAN 714 02-08-66 RHODESIAN REGIME ISSUES NEW STAMPS
People from around the world apply for first day covers as the Rhodesian regime puts out new stamp issue
1. gv exterior post office building, Salisbury
2. cu post office sign
3. interior post office, ms mail handed to man at desk
4. ...
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REDCAN SANTA CLAUS VISITS BY BALLOON (TEST QUALITY CONTROL)
Austrian Santa Claus picks up mail and flies off in balloon.
1. cu roadsign "Aschach Christkindl"
2. cu stamps being postmarked "Christkindl"
3. cu stamp
4. ms children handing their letters over the post office counter
5. ms children's...
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SYND 24/03/1970 MAIL STRIKE IN CHICAGO
Mail strike in Chicago
1) interstate freeway, runs under the Chicago Post Office building
2) traffic under tunnels of Post Office building, pan to mail trucks in car park
3) close mail truk, pan to trucks parked
4) postmen walk through...
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CAN971 FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE RHODESIA FRONT PARTY TAKEN TO COURT
Douglas Collard Lilford, a founder member of the Rhodesia Front Party, has been taken to court by a former employee. Enansio Johane claims that Lilford whipped him and set the dogs on him.
1. ws exterior magistrates building
2. mcu...
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CAN908 POLISH PREPARATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS
Cuts from various film pieces about preparations across Poland for Christmas. Background music throughout.
1. vs credits in Polish and church in background, image of Polish poet Julian Tuwim
2. vs people carrying model szopka...
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CAN 146 COPPER MINING BOOM IN SOUTH AFRICA
**date is approximate**
Copper mining boom brings affluence to town in Transvaale, South Africa
1. aerial of Phalaborwa and open cast mine area
2. aerial mining area and buildings
3. cu sign: Phalaborwa
4. cars drive along dirt road
5....
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WRAP Mortars, rockets are fired as rebels fight Gadhafi forces ADDS more
1. Explosion on rooftop from incoming mortar fired by Gadhafi forces, AUDIO gunfire, explosion
2. Dust and smoke rising from incoming mortar fired by Gadhafi forces, AUDIO gunfire
3. Black smoke rising in distance from what is believed...
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UPITN 5 3 79 POSTAL STRIKE SCENES IN PARIS
Scenes following postal strikes in Paris and the surrounding area. Work has come to a standstill in the centre for sorting letters in Trappes and the sorting office in Issy is completely paralysed. Notices of the trade union calling to...
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Aftermath of blast
++Night Shots++
1. Site of the blast in front of the post office in Athens' Syntagma square
2. Fire brigades and police at the site
3. Glass and debris on the road, policemen walking around
4. Damaged hallway in a building
5. Men...