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SYND 15-10-72 LETTER BOMB BLOWS UP NEW YORK OFFICE
A bomb concealed in a letter mailed to a member of a Jewish organization exploded in the hands of a New York Post Office worker, maiming him severely
1 exterior post office in the bronx
2 police with dog
3 police cars
4 ambulance
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Suspect package returned to delivery service, bomb disposal unit at work
1. Wide of cordoned off area near courier company where suspicious package was returned
2. Various of bomb squad sealing off area and placing controlled explosion devices
3. Wide of area UPSOUND: controlled explosion
4. Wide of bomb...
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CAN772 STOCKSHOTS OF LONDON TAKEN FROM POST OFFICE TOWER OF LONDON
Footage of London taken from the top of the new Post Office Tower in London
1. has London, zoom in to pond with sailboats
2. has pan right London, Thames River, pull back and pan right
3. various has London
Film: Neg - Sound: Mute -...
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CAN288 POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE IN GREAT BRITAIN
Mail piles up as postal strike is threatened. Postmaster General Reginald Bevins is refusing to offer more than a 4 percent pay rise to postal workers. Workers at the Mount Pleasant sorting office have been on strike for several days....
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CAN772 SCENES OF NEW POST OFFICE TOWER IN LONDON WITH ROTATING RESTAURANT UP TOP
Footage of the newly opened Post Office Tower in London.
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1. mcu couple seated at cafe
2. cs magazine cover 'The Post Office Tower' of London with image, man opens magazine, lays it on table, pan right to...
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CAN477 SCENES IN VIENNA AS AUSTRIAN POSTAL, AIR TRAFFIC AND RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY
Scenes in Vienna as Austrian postal, railway and air traffic workers strike for higher pay.
1. gv exterior building, pan to entrance
2. cu strike notice, pan to empty railway platform
3. gv empty railway station, pan across platforms
4....
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SP AA-0015 JORDAN UNIVERSITY (BOB ROOTES PRODUCTIONS)
Footage of shops that are part of the University of Jordan in Amman. These shops include a bank, a book shop and a post office. There is also footage of students buying food and eating in the cafeteria.
1. vs mcu students filling out...
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CAN686 SCENES OF WINTER IN HELL, NORWAY
In Norway, Hell has a cold climate.
1. ms young postman with sled beside busy road approaches camera, tilt up to road sign point to 'Hell'
2. ws pan right landscape
3. ms tracking approaching town
4. cs sign for 'Hell' post office
5. ms...
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CAN627 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON OPENS POST OFFICE TOWER IN LONDON
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson opens GPO (general post office) tower in London.
1. ws GPO tower, zoom in to top of tower
2. ms Wilson finishing opening speech, sits at table, officials applaud, Wilson and officials talk on...
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CAN762 NEW SET OF STAMPS FOR 1966 WORLD CUP
Royal Mail's set of stamps for the 1966 World Cup are exhibited at the General Post Office. These stamps were banned by the British Government.
1. ws exterior of General Post Office
2. ws exhibition
3. ms two men exhibit stamps
4. cu...
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CAN700 DEALERS FLOCK TO BUY INDEPENDENCE STAMPS
Dealers flock to Salisbury to buy "Independence" stamp issue.
1. ws exterior post office building
2. ms line of people outside
3. ws interior people queuing inside post office
4. cu notice of issue on counter
5. vs people buying stamps...
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CAN264 STRIKES AND WORK-TO-RULE CAUSE UK MAIL CHAOS
Unofficial postal strike followed by work-to-rule causing major mail delays in London and several other urban centres.
1. ws St Paul's Cathedral, pan to Mount Pleasant post office
2. cu sign above door 'Mount Pleasant Post Office'
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CAN627 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON OPENS POST OFFICE TOWER
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson opens GPO (General Post Office) tower in London. The tower is now more commonly known as the BT Tower (British Telecom). The chief architects were Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats. Building commenced in...
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CAN270 VOTE TAKEN ON CONTINUING STRIKE BY POST WORKERS UNION
Postal wage deadlock threatens Britain's telephone and telegraph facilities.
1. ms Mount Pleasant Post Office with pickets
2. cu sign with name 'Mount Pleasant Post Office'
3. ms two pickets
4. cu notice 'Withdraw Stupid Threats...'...
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CAN383 FIRST QUNITUPLETS BORN ALIVE IN FRANCE TO POST OFFICE WORKER'S WIFE
Quinuplets have been born to 27-year-old Monique Sambor, wife of a post office clerk. The birth took place at Clinique Bourguignons, in Paris.
1. ws people waiting (dark shot)
2. mcu sign 'Asnieres Bourguinons'
3. cu sign Clinique...
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CAN602 HELP FOR VIETNAM STAMPS ON SALE IN EAST BERLIN
A special collectors' 20 Mark (Mark der Deutschen Notenbank) stamp is issued in East Germany. The stamp is worth 10 Marks, with the other 10 Marks going to aid Vietnam. The stamps are called 'Hilfe fur Vietnam', or 'Help for Vietnam'...
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CAN512 REMAINS OF DELGADO FOUND ON BORDER BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Scenes near Villanueva del Fresno and of Badajoz where bodies, believed to be that of Humberto Delgado and his Brazilian secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos, were found.
1. ms sign of town on wall
2. ws empty road tilt down and left to...
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CAN709 IAN SMITH BUYS INDEPENDENCE BONDS AT POST OFFICE IN SALISBURY (HARARE)
Independence Bonds go on sale at the central post office in Salisbury (Rhodesia). Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the post office and is among first to buy.
1. high angle mcu newspaper with headline: 'Buy Rhodesian Independence Bonds;...
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CAN670 SANTA CLAUS COLLECTS CHILDRENS' LETTERS FROM POST OFFICE, SAILS AWAY IN HOT AIR BALLOON
Santa Claus collects his mail in Austria and flies off in a balloon.
1. cu sign 'Aschach Christkindl' [GERMAN]
2. bs two children walk to post office
3. ms Christmas tree tilt down to mcu child posting letters
4. mcu two letter sorters,...
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CAN269 POSTAL SERVICES DISRUPTED BY UNION STRIKE
The British Post office has been hit by a strike called by the postal workers union.
1. various cu newspaper headlines on crisis
2. mcu letter put into postbox
3. ws exterior post office sporting office
4. cu sign Post Office and...
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SYND 24 9 76 START OF POSTAL STRIKE IN MADRID
Madrid was gripped by another postal strike. The strike began on Wednesday (Sept 22) and by Friday had spread to Bilbao and Malaga. 3,600 postal workers walked off the job to press for an 18 per cent wage increase. The strikers said the...
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News Item (5b9ea2fb-3bc3-6b12-7906-6f0b83a1e034)
03/20/70 c0009425 / color
new york: incoming foreign mail piles up at jfk:
nx 43001 & nxc 1854 "air mail" shows: plane taxis in on runway: 3s pickets: pan mail sacks: mail piled up: ...
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Pipe bomb investigation moves to FL mail facility
A law enforcement source tells The Associated Press that Miami-Dade police have gone to the mail-sorting facility in Opa-Iocka, Florida, at the request of the FBI in connection with the suspicious package investigation.