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Part 5 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - architects and planners at County Hall, designing modern buildings for the rebuilding of postwar London
Clip 5 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Girls learn to use typewriters, draw, paint, stitch and sew. Students perform ballet and dance. France, 1942
Clip 6 from the 1942 French film 'Francaises De Demain' about the women's school Ecole Nationale Professionnelle de Jeunes Filles, established in 1934 in Vizille, Vercors / French Alps. Girls learn to use typewriters and have art lessons...
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First Soviet Hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4 or RDS-6) August 12 1953, USSR.
HD colour footage of the cloud formation from the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) on August 12, 1953, that detonated with a force equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT. The device, which was nicknamed Joe 4...
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Factories and aqueducts. Paris, 1950s
Clip 4 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of factories and water mills. Aqueducts in La Vanne, on the outskirts of Paris. Sterilization plants.
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Cycling for London, 1983, part 6 - cyclist cycles through Paddington, Hyde Park and Chelsea Bridge
Clip 6 from info-film about cycling in London 1983. A Parallax Pictures Production for the GLC. This film explores the history of cycling in London and the GLC's plans to improve the experience of London's cyclists. Commissioned by the...
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New construction developments, burial grounds, new technological college, banking. UAE, 1974
Clip 5 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Footage of new construction developments, archaeologists working on burial grounds from 300 BC, new Gulf Technological College, women partaking in...
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Fairground in full swing - acrobatics, dogs doing tricks, belly dancer; clowns, etc. France 1947
Clip 4 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Tracking shot through the fairground. Performers include woman with snake, two girls dancing, two clowns performing for the camera, a girl...
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Holiday group walk and cycle through countryside. France 1930s
Clip 6 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. The holiday group wades through river water and walks through the...
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Czechoslovakia 1968 - Czech civilians protest the Soviet occupation and distribute newspapers
Clip 7 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, Czech civilians protest the Soviet occupation...
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Kazimir Severinovic Malevic - Dialectics No.6 Cross/Circle
Dialectics is a series of studies based on a very essential curatorial concept: one artist, two artworks and the ""dialogue"" between them. Differing in theme, composition, chromatic contrast, technique or aesthetic approach, the two...
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Village post office, 1908 - reenactment
Historical reenactment. 1908, carts and horses travel down a country path past a Post Office in a 1900s town. Filmed on 35mm in 1994.
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Hopi Native Americans perform the Butterfly Dance, Arizona, 1950s(?)
Part 3 of a documentary (1950s?) about the Hopi Native American tribe in Arizona.
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Water testing. Paris, 1950s
Clip 6 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). A man in a laboratory tests and tastes water from various running taps. Shots of the countryside and high angle views of Paris from the roof of a building....
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Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1959, part 3
Clip 4 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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Oslo city scenes and a viking puppet. Oslo, 1960s
Clip 2 from 'Oslo, The Viking Capital' (Oslo, Ville des Vikings) from the 1960s, an animated film about vikings in Oslo. City scenes of Oslo and a window display of a viking puppet. A man takes the puppet to an outdoor cafe and watches...
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Damaged buildings, US government agency offices. Clip from 1960s Cold War educational film.
Peace Education program of the American friends Service Committee, "The Language of Faces", c.1960. Cold War film. damaged and desolate buildings. Secret Services offices or other US government agency offices, men and women typing.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 4 - kids from council estates playing in streets, shots of council housing
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council since 1965 in slum clearance and building and its...
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Crozant's fortress ruins, picnic, and Eguzon Dam. France 1930s
Clip 5 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. The holiday group visit the Crozant's fortress ruins overlooking the...
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US citizens in streets, anti-war protest, people debating. Clip from 1960s Cold War educational film.
Peace Education program of the American friends Service Committee, "The Language of Faces", c.1960. Cold War film. General street scenes (New York?). Male and female anti-war demonstrators debate with each other in the streets during...
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Holiday group cycling through the countryside and visiting Aubusson. France, 1930s
Clip 2 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. Holiday group cycling along the Creuse and down country roads, playing...
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Sweden 1970s - Workers' rights, allowances and trade unions
Promotional film with American VO about Sweden, made in 1970s. Clip features scenes of workers in factories and offices as the voice-over explains the typical Swedish working week, holiday allowance and trade unions.
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Coast Guard cadets training on the Joseph Conrad ship. Rescue mission in rough sea. USA 1940s-1950s
Coast Guard cadets training on the Joseph Conrad ship. Rescue mission in rough sea. USA 1940s-1950s
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Rail construction in Ural. USSR, 1973
Clip 3 from the 1973 propaganda film The Soviet Army: The Railway Army. Young recruits work on the construction of a railway line in Ural. Operators control the process, and the line construction is timed by a stopwatch. Soldiers walk...
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Food preparation in a disaster. Canada, 1960s
Clip 1 from French Cold War film 'Alimentation de Secours en Period D'Urgence (Nourrir les Populations Affamees)', about how to feed a displaced population during a disaster or emergency. Footage of food halls and kitchens. Stills of...