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LEICESTER - GALLANT CUP FINALISTS
The Second Division team training for the forthcoming final at Wembley. 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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CRIME DOESN'T PAY
At a bank in a busy New York district, a gunman was shot during an attempted hold up. 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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NEWS FROM USA - MORE QUADS
Mr and Mrs Collins are the proud parents of quads born in a New York hospital. 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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TRAGIC TRAIN CRASH
Help was quickly on the spot, when the York to Bristol Express was derailed in the closed Sutton Coldfield Station. The death roll was stated to be sixteen with over forty injured. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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YANGTZE OUTRAGE
The recent incident on the Yangtze River which the shelling of the British Naval vessels, is pictorially described by material extracted from our library. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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HOSPITAL BOMB DEBUNKED
Streets were closed, hospitals, houses and businesses were evacuated while the unexploded bomb was removed by the Royal Engineers in the vicinity of Tottenham Court Road. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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BOMB CAUSES HOSPITAL EVACUATION
University College Hospital had to evacuate their patients owing to the finding of an unexploded bomb in the vicinity. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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FLOODS RAVAGE AUSTRALIA
The most catastrophic floods in Australia's history have caused tragic loss of life, and untold hardship over an enormous area in New South Wales. Dramatic pictures from Maitland are typical of the scene over a wide area of the stricken...
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TROUBLE IN GOA
It's reported Goanese police opened fire, after repeated warnings. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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PRINCESS MARGARET'S TOUR - LATEST PICTURES
At the Governor's residence in Trinidad, Princess Margaret attended a garden party. At the Queen's Park Oval, Her Royal Highness attended a children's rally where she witnesses dancing performances by the boys and girls. Port of Spain...
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FAMOUS FILM DOG
As part of a road safety drive, canine film star Lassie visited a Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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PRESIDENT IN HOSPITAL - FIRST PICTURES
At Denver's Army Hospital photographers obtained permission to focus a telephoto lens on President Eisenhower. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of...
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KING OF THE CINDERS
Wembley, and preparations for the 1963 World Speedway Championship is in full swing. Peter Craven reigning World Champion crashes and is really hurt. But the Swede, Fundin wins. Fundin, competing in spite of a broken foot and collar...
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THE SINKING OF SS ANDREA DORIA
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ERRAND OF MERCY
Through the generosity of Pan American Airways and the American Consulate General, 3 month old Christine Tuegel of Munich who is suffering from a rare brain disease is being flown to the United States for a special operation. Disclaimer:...
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DISCOVERY BY CHANCE
A large electrical industries group in London, trying to develop a cheap luminous panel for motor cars, discovered instead an electronic photographic plate, sensitive to light and invisible radiation, which could revolutionise the whole...
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WEMBLEY - ENGLAND V SCOTLAND
A hundred thousand soccer fans - many of them Scotsmen with high hopes of victory. High spirits too, as Eric Caldow and Jimmy Armfield tossed up. Blue shirted Scotland kicked off, and very soon were demonstrating something of the real...
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WINGS OVER AFRICA
Flying in to a small airfield near London, a plane with a promise, the promise of medical care for many thousands of Africans who live in the scattered communities of Northern Nigeria. The African Flying Doctor Service is the first of...
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THIS WAS 1962
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RESCUE AND RELIEF
Horrific perhaps, but a vivid illustration of the aftermath of a nuclear attack. In fact it's exercise ""Leader 10"", first of several large-scale Civil Defence exercises designed to test Casualty Evacuation Plans. This one covered South...
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BLISTERS TO BRIGHTON
President Kennedy's challenge to Americans - to walk fifty miles in twenty hours - has been met by the ""New Frontiersmen"" of Britain. Some 800 of them left Big Ben, for Brighton. Geoffrey Munn of Crawley, Sussex, leading the three...
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HORSES IN HOSPITAL
Newmarket has recently become a centre of interest for veterinary surgeons from many parts of the world, with its Horse Hospital. Mr James Roberts is Chief Surgeon of the unit, which was opened just over a year ago. The breathing...
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KATANGA - CONFLICT AND CONFUSION
Our pictures show Ethiopian Troops of the UN Forces consolidating their positions in Elisabethville, capital of the would-be break-away state. Details of the fighting are far from clear, but the UN Forces, commanded by the Indian General...
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WELCOME - 1963
First a New Year trio born at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London. Two boys and a girl. Then the final curtain coming down on New Year's Eve on Collins, the last of the Music Hall's Pub. A host of show-biz stars were with the locals to...