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Tasmania, 1950s
Long shots of city. Ships in harbor. Cars. Tractor sprays crops. Farmers tend crops. River boat, women take in sights. Fisherman. Lumberjacks cut down trees loaded onto trucks. Tree falls and loaded onto truck. 00:03:39:00 - People visit...
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Snowdon Mountain Railway 1930s & 50s
LS Snowdon Rack Railway station. Two trains head off. Half-Way station, stationary train passed by moving train camera onboard. Shots from train going up mountain. At summit the passengers disembark. Shots of views. Passengers off...
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Skiing In Switzerland 1930s & 50s
Shots of skiers outside Kurhaus belle-Vue. Skiers sit outside lodge chatting. Skiers down small slopes outside hotel. man walks to camera without skies as does a woman amongst skiers. Young child poses on skies. People gather on fence...
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Cricketers practicing their bowling technique followed by Cricket match 1957
cricketers practicing their bowling technique followed by Cricket match 1957
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Hawaii, 1952: Mauna Loa Volcano, the biggest and most active volcano in the world, erupts with an outflow of lava which later turns into the black sands of Hawaii beaches
Hawaii, 1952: Mauna Loa Volcano, the biggest and most active volcano in the world, erupts with an outflow of lava which later turns into the black sands of Hawaii beaches.
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Atomic bomb test, (named RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion cloud. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also known...
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First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of a nuclear explosion in the air, from the first Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 18th October 1951. The device of RDS-3 (known by the US as Joe 3) was tested at the Semipalatinsk test...
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A is for Atom part 2 - 1952 Cold War-era cartoon about atomic energy
American animation about atomic energy - atom - nuclear. Dr Atom illustrates the way protons , neutrons and electrons function. Periodic table of elements - elements are represented by buildings - explanation of function of isotopes -...
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A is for Atom part 4 - 1952 Cold War-era cartoon about atomic energy
American animation about atomic energy - atom - nuclear. CU baseball - rotating globe - nuclear missile. Oak Ridge - site of construction of first atomic bomb. Nuclear reactor - atomic power plant - glowing electricity runs along pylons...
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A is for Atom part 3 - 1952 Cold War-era cartoon about atomic energy
American animation about atomic energy - atom - nuclear. Dr Atom illustrates the way protons , neutrons and electrons function. Scientists working with complex machinery in laboratory - explanation of nuclear fission. Explosion to reveal...
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Fruit picking and sugar production in Martinique, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 3 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, locals pick bananas, coconuts, pineapples, oranges, mangoes and other fruit. The crops are transported by truck....
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Native American dance. New Mexico c.1950.
Clip 8 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Native Americans perform a traditional tribal dance. Women cradle a baby inside their home. Scenes of the canyon and the desert.
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A female student visits a hospital laboratory and watches medical technologists at work, 1954
Part 3 of an educational film about a career in Medical Technologist, Canada 1954. A young lady gets shown around a hospital laboratory and sees a blood test taken and studied in the lab (acted).
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Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire. France, 1959
Clip 2 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. Control room of G2...
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UNGG nuclear power reactor in Marcoule. France, 1950s
Clip 1 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. SNCF electric...
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Gathering salt from evaporation ponds, Carnac, Brittany, France 1950s
Gathering salt from evaporation ponds, Carnac, Brittany, France 1950s
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Families at a fairground, and uses for early photography, made in France, 1956
Clip 4 from the 1956 French documentary 'Images d'hier et D'aujourd'hui' (Images of Yesterday and Today) about the history of photography, featuring reenactments from the early 1900s. In this clip, families take photos at a fairground....
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Wool factory. France, 1950
Clip 14 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of the local wool factory and workers operating the machines.
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Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1959, part 4
Clip 5 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. Construction of A1,...
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Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1959, part 2
Clip 3 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. Construction of A1,...
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Home life in a mining town, farming, and ships. France, 1950
Clip 1 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of home life in a mining town, factories, farming in the countryside, and ships at the harbour.
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A is for Atom part 1 - 1952 Cold War-era cartoon about atomic energy
American animation about atomic energy - atom - nuclear. Mushroom cloud appears on the horizon - it is transformed into the outline of a glowing - giant - man with arms crossed. CU pin cushion view through magnifying glass of pin head,...
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A trainee medical technologist takes blood and tests its type. 1954
Part 6 of an educational film about a career in Medical Technologist, Canada 1954. A trainee medical technologist takes blood and tests its type. (acted).
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Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1959, part 5
Clip 6 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. Construction of A1,...