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HOLD - UP!
Cleveland, Ohio, where the police rushed a bank. The manager and 14 others were held as hostages by a gunman. Smoke-bombs were hurled into the building and, presently, the gunman panicked and freed the hostages. Then, cornered by the...
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COTTON-PICKING IS REVOLUTIONISED -
Mechanical cotton picking in America. 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 do not represent...
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MEDICAL PROGRESS GIVES HOPE TO SUFFERERS
From Laboratories in Michigan comes the promise of relief from rheumatism, arthritis and all that. For here, they're carrying out a new process for making unlimited quantities of the new drug Cortisone. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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""BRITISH INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION"" HANDED OVER
At Washington, Sir Oliver Franks, the British Ambassador hands over to Mr Webb, the Assistant Secretary of State, the British Instrument of Ratification of the North Atlantic Pact. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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ENDURANCE FLIGHT
At Fullerton, California, two Americans smash the World's endurance flight record. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
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NEW YORK UNDERGROUND WRECK
Under a New York street, two subway trains recently crashed in the Central Railroad tunnel near fashionable Park Avenue. Twenty-seven passengers were injured. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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VIRGINIA GREETS CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill had a great reception in Virginia when he visited Williamsburg with General and Mrs Eisenhower. He had previously been to the Virginian capital, Richmond, where his speech followed closely that made at Fulton....
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AMERICA MOURNS
""We want Bobby"" - the shouts of adulation in Los Angeles, soon to become cries of anger and disbelief. The assassination of Robert Kennedy - so soon after the murder of Martin Luther King - underlines the undercurrent of violence that...
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MOTOR CYCLISTS CRASH
Racing motor-cyclists at Guildford, New Hampshire have been trying out special steel shoes designed to help with cornering. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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FEMININE INTEREST
Beauty is the feature of a water-lily farm in Melbourne, however beautiful the blooms, it's the farm workers who steal the picture. From Florida, a new invention - submersible lorry with female hitch-hikers under water. Disclaimer:...
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EMPIRE LEADERS ON THE WAR PATH - LORD BEAVERBROOK -
Talks to the Press in America. 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 do not represent the...
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Prohibition Enforced
Movietone on Canadian Border film an actual capture of a bootlegger. 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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EISENHOWER IS NOMINATED
The end came suddenly at the Republican Party Convention in Chicago. Eisenhower was in the lead but did not look like having his majority on the first ballot, till Minnesota State asked to change its vote. That settled it. Other...
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SUN STUDIES
Harvard University's Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been making special photographic studies of the sun. They are called ""corona-graphs"" and are taken by a specially designed telescopic camera. Disclaimer: British...
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FRENCH PLANES FOR USA -
Douglas bombers intended for France are under construction in the USA. 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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NEW YORK GREETS TURPIN
Randolph Turpin got a foretaste of New York's welcome aboard the Queen Mary, when he was met by Newsreel and Press photographers. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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TOP DOGS
Rye in New York State is the scene of the Westchester Kennel Club Show and the final choice for top dog was a Scots Terrier. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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New York Provides The Dizziest Job
Far above milling crowds window cleaners give the Empire State Building winter shampoo. 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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Americans Honour English Author
GK Chesterton receives welcome from US students. 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 do not...
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High Life on New York's Latest Skyscraper
Skyscraper city still reaching out towards the heavens. 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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MAN ON THE MOON - A SPECIAL COLOUR PRESENTATION
It's estimated that about a fifth of the world's population shared the fantastic achievement of Apollo 11, following, through the immediacy of electronics, Man's first landfall in Space. ® Movietone is proud to present, through...
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King Edward VIII
An appreciation by Sir Malcolm Campbell 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 do not...
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ANIMAL NEWS - OF DOGS, CATS AND GORILLAS
The Kennel Club Show at Madison, New Jersey, cat and pigeon squabble over kittens and weighing the gorillas at the Bronx Zoo. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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UNDER-WATER INVESTITURE
A Mermaid Beauty Contest was held underwater at Wakulla Springs, and the winner insists on being crowned underwater too. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...