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Tourists arrive by steam train to the Laurentian Mountain ski resort, 1930s
Clip from a 1930s promotional film about skiing in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec. Locomotive delivers visitors who then board horse-drawn sleds to take them across the mountains. Child on skis.
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Skiers on the Laurentian Mountains, husky dog sledding, 1930s
Clip from a 1930s promotional film about skiing in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec. large groups of people on the slopes, steam train, husky dogs pull people in sleds over the slopes.
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Earth is dug up for clay pottery, potters at work in studio, Vallauris, France 1952
Men digging up earth for clay, horse and cart transport it to the pottery studio, potters work away on potter's wheels. Filmed in the Golfe-Juan resort in Vallauris, France in 1952
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International Agriculture Show, Paris 1970s - cows, horses, sheep and pigs all in competition.
Clip from a 1970s tourism film promoting Paris.
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Early Flight Prototypes
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Farnborough Airshow 7
Various aircraft on display at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s. exact date unknown.
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First Battle of Ypres, Ottoman Empire, WW1, 1914
First Battle of Ypres, Ottoman Empire, WW1, 1914
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American aircraft and demolition in Arizona, USA
American aircraft and demolition in Arizona, USA
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Aerial shots of Berlin, 1920s
Aerial shots of Berlin. Berlin airport, Berlin Dom, museum island, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag building and Victory column. General street scenes with pedestrians and traffic, circa 1920.
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Farnborough Air show, 1956
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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Aircraft designers in the 1950s. Montage of fighter jets.
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Propellers to jets (in part, audio sync issue)
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Early aircraft model in hangar, the Wright Brothers, 1900s
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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First Flight from London to Australia in 1919
B&W archive footage of Ross & Keith Smith who piloted, in 1919, the first flight from London to Australia in under 30 days
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First trans-Atlantic flight, 1919
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight, 14th June 1919. Clip from a film about the achievements of Vickers Aviation, made in 1957.
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First Flight from London to Australia, 1919
Ross and Keith Smith man the first flight from London to Australia, 1919
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Germans use toxic gas in combat. Death in trenches. Italy enters war. Fighting in the Dolomites. 1915.
Germans use toxic gas in combat. Death in trenches. Italy enters war. Fighting in the Dolomites. 1915.
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French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
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One of the first German propaganda films, promoting war bonds, WWI
One of the first German propaganda films, promoting war bonds, WWI
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Pilots and designers experiment with very early aircraft prototypes, 1900s. One crashes.
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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German Revolution 1919, Wilhelm II in exile, Philipp Scheidemann proclaims German Republic, ceasefire in France, happy soldiers, end of WW1
German Revolution 1919, Wilhelm II in exile, Philipp Scheidemann proclaims German Republic, ceasefire in France, happy soldiers, end of WW1. (happy soldiers may be actors)
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Outbreak of WW1. German troops are given equipment and leave on trains. 1914.
Outbreak of WW1. German troops are given equipment and leave on trains. 1914.
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Refugees on the German Western Front, Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, artillery and tanks.
Refugees on the German Western Front, Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, artillery and tanks. German test a British Mark-1 tank by running over a lamppost.
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They Made News Prog 3, part 1: Billy Jordan films Desert Campaign and bombing of Monte Cassino in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.