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CALIFORNIA - DISASTER AREA
Some fifty deaths, some ten thousand homeless, in the terrible floods which caused the whole state of California to be declared a disaster area. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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MARINE WIZARD
Down in Florida, they've got a bathing beauty with a difference - a porpoise that's been trained to perform tricks. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
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MOST HAZARDOUS YET
Animated sequences and training films illustrate the complexity of the Apollo 9 space flight. Mission Commander James McDivitt had already declared his grave doubts about possible failure in this vital stage, the first manned-flight in...
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OIL EXPLOSION -
Exploding tanks and raging oil, fires at Newark, New Jersey, recently provided a terrifying spectacle of destruction that could be seen for fifty miles. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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LOGGING SLIP -
A narrow escape in a Logging contest at Albany, Oregon. 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 and...
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SS ""UNITED STATES"" CHRISTENED
American's biggest and fastest liner is christened by Senator Tom Connally's wife. Built almost entirely of steel and aluminium alloys, the 51,500 ton vessel cost about twenty-five million pounds. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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REDSKINS' BOAT RACE
A race in ancient war vessels. Canoes hollowed out of birch trees are the craft used by Redskins in their boat race at Gooseberry Point, Washington. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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CAMBRIDGE WIN AGAIN
On the Charles River at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University triumphed once again - this time over three American eights - the best of which was Harvard University who finished a length and a half behind the Light Blues....
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ANOTHER CAMBRIDGE VICTORY
Yale had the advantage of weight in their Boat Race with Cambridge on the Housatonic River in Connecticut. Over the 1.75 miles course, Cambridge won by four lengths. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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JAPAN SAYS
It was many years ago that the Japanese, marching into Manchuria and into China, began what they thought would be the conquest of Asia and then of the whole world. Then came the attack on Pearl Harbour and America's entry into the war....
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BRITISH AND JAPANESE NATIONAL LEAVE JAPAN -
Japan's policy has necessitated a big movement of people from and to Japan. 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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The Synod of Bishops in Rome underlines the crisis of conscience in the Catholic Church and puts Papal Authority to the question. ® Crisis of a more physical kind in Tunisia where the recent floods le
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HAIR CUT -
When a grown man has a hair-cut for the first time, that surely makes news. Robert Oats, a Red Indian from Montana, is an army recruit at Fort Lewis - so his hair-do must conform with regulations. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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THE AMERICAN SCENE - USS FORRESTAL
At Newport Mews, Virginia, the 60,000 ton American aircraft carrier ""Forrestal"" was launched. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection...
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THE LIGHTER SIDE - SALES TALK
Chicago's livestock show is something like Smithfields, but the sales talk is quite different. 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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CHINA NEWS
MADAM CHIANG KAI SHEK - Interviewed in New York, Madam Chiang Kai Shek spoke about the aid needed by the Nationalists to defend China. ® MR DEAN ACHESON - Also speaking on the same subject Dean Acheson voices America's opinion about her...
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NAZIS BEHIND THE WIRE -
In the north of the United States German prisoners of war are well cared for under the terms of the Geneva Convention. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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MARILYN
Marilyn Monroe, the girl who overcame an unhappy childhood to become a legend, is dead. She was born in Los Angeles, in the shadow of the Dream City which was to make her one of the immortals of the screen. ® Here are a few...
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AVIATION - PRICE OF PROGRESS
POGO PLANE - There's a happier story attached to the revolutionary Convair XFY-1 the ""Pogo Plane"", which can take off vertically. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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AVIATION - PRICE OF PROGRESS
SEA DART - Pictures of a test flight of the United States Navy experimental sea-plane called the ""Sea Dart"", which ended in disaster. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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MR CHURCHILL ADDRESSES CONGRESS
The final highlight of Mr Churchill's visit to America was his address to a joint session of Congress in Washington. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
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MODELS' PROTEST -
Some New York mannequins are on strike, in protest against the sale of Russian furs in a New York store. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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AVIATION - THEY MADE HISTORY
Movietone visited the National Aeronautical Collection which has re-opened in a splendid new gallery at the Science Museum. Planes dating back to the beginning of the 20th Century to those up-to-date are displayed. Disclaimer: British...
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AMERICAN FLOODS -
Ranging over a thousand miles the flood waters of the Missouri and Mississippi provide a grim picture of disastrous magnitude. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...