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Czechoslovakia 1968 - Warsaw Pact armies invade Czechoslovakia, and crowds protest peacefully
Clip 2 from the 1968 film "Seven Days to Remember", a chronology of the events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968 by troops from the Warsaw Pact. In this clip, Wednesday August 21, 1968, the armies of five...
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Nixon in Berlin and at NATO in Brussels, 1969
Clip 4 from the 'The First Step: President Nixon's European Visit', a film produced by the United States Information Agency in 1969, covering Richard Nixon's European visits and meetings. In this clip, Nixon arrives in Berlin and is...
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City sites and people in Europe, 1969
Clip 1 from the 'The First Step: President Nixon's European Visit', a film produced by the United States Information Agency in 1969, covering Richard Nixon's European visits and meetings. In this clip, a narrator talks over a shot of the...
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Stockholm Olympic Stadium ceremony. Sweden, 1960s
Clip 5 from the 1960s documentary 'Vikings D'hier et D'Aujourd'hui' (Vikings Yesterday and Today) from Sweden. Scenes from a ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, including an appearance from King Gustav Adolf.
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Village life, church services and dancing. Sweden, 1960s
Clip 10 from the 1960s documentary 'Vikings D'hier et D'Aujourd'hui' (Vikings Yesterday and Today) from Sweden. Scenes of rural village life in the countryside. A woman plays a long trumpet-like instrument. People in traditional costumes...
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Bahrain 1960s - Archeologists excavating at the site of the Barbar Temple. An ancient seal is discovered, cleaned and printed.
Clip 6 from French language film about Bahrain in the 1960s. Archeologists working at the site of the Barbar Temple. An ancient seal is discovered, cleaned and printed.
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Moraccan village people preparing couscous and eating, a class of boys read the Quran, c.1960
Women preparing the couscous with manual tools. Close up of a small girl eating something. Pan of Moroccan / North African village. Moroccan / North African people sitting on the ground in shadow. Close ups of faces. People reading...
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Presenter Daniel Dorian outside the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, USA, 1965
Presenter Daniel Dorian outside the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, USA, 1965 - features zoom out shot of Rodin's The Thinker.
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1970s, Man biker, rider in trees
1970S: UNITED STATES: CLOSE UP OF RIDER'S FACE AND HELMET. MAN RIDES BACK ALONG RURAL TRACK. TREES AND SUNLIGHT AS MAN RIDES BIKE
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MAN RIDES MOTORBIKE ALONG FOREST TRACK, 1970s
1970S: UNITED STATES: MAN RIDES MOTORBIKE ALONG FOREST TRACK. RIDER DOES WHEELIE ON BIKE.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 1 - cityscape GVs of London, woman looking for property
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at the work of the Greater London Council in tackling London's housing shortage in the late 60s.
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Tuesday, August 27, and Wednesday, August 28, 1968 People against the Moscow Protocol. Public meeting at night. Remembrance service for those killed.
Part six of Seven Days to Remember Part 2, documenting events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Made by valiant Czech filmmakers, who risked their lives to film the defiance in the streets and to get their...
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Monday, August 26, 1968 Prague citizens watch tanks go by and mourn the dead.
Part four of Seven Days to Remember Part 2, documenting events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Made by valiant Czech filmmakers, who risked their lives to film the defiance in the streets and to get their...
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Barbican 1969, clip 10 - A Barbican Tower block under construction, shot of London skyline with sun setting.
Clip 10 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. A Barbican Tower block under construction, shot of London skyline with sun setting. The focus of the film is to explain how...
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Underground nuclear explosive detonated at Urta-Bulak gas field, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1966
In 1966, a nuclear explosive was detonated at Urta-bulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan in order to extinguish a gas well fire that had been burning for almost three years and had resisted numerous attempts at control. The gas...
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China's first nuclear weapons test (596), detonated on October 16th 1964, Lop Nur test site.
The People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test (called 596, and originally named by the US intelligence agencies Chic-1), detonated on October 16, 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device...
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US soldiers and military equipment arrive in West Berlin, 1961 - crowds cheer and wave
Sunday 20th August. 1500 soldiers and military equipment arrive to join the American troops already in place in West Germany. Soldiers and military cars and tanks arrive in West Berlin, welcomed by crowds and presidents. Soldiers on top...
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FLM PS0659 9 Bahrain 1960s - Boys going to school and playing basketball.
Clip 9 from French language film about Bahrain in the 1960s. Archeologists at Ras Al Qala'a archaeological site. Ruins. Boys going to school and playing basketball.
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Israelite women in Kibboutz working the fields, sharing meals and voting while the children are in creche. c.1960
Israelite women in Kibboutz working the fields, sharing meals and voting while the children are in creche. c.1960
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Young lady writes diary with French VO, c.1960
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Track from a diary to a young woman in bed. She picks the diary up and starts writing.
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Fast Reactor Development, part one, 1964
Still of first fast reactor at Los Alamos in 1946 with engineers at work. Followed by images of the experimental breeder reactor One in Idaho. EBR I in 1951. EBR II and Enrico Fermi Plant. Diagrams / Animation of mechanisms and procedures.
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Police in Britain part 2 - women modelling dresses on a London street. Policemen and men watch them. 1960s.
Clip from a film about the work of bobbies (British police) in Great Britain in the 60s, and their everyday tasks and duties.
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City scenes in Stockholm. Sweden, 1960s
A clip from the 1960s documentary 'Vikings D'hier et D'Aujourd'hui' (Vikings Yesterday and Today) from Sweden. Shots of building and cathedral exteriors on the streets of Stockholm. Cars travelling down the road system. Boats in the...
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Insane people in small Moroccan vilage are put into an underground bunker, religious leaders exorcise people by hitting them with a shoe, c.1960
Marabout hits people with a leather slipper / shoe. Mad people lead to a shed / prison / underground shelter by others. Medium shot : Moroccan man making gestures to the camera, saying something (we don't hear his voice). Close up of...