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New Mexico c.1950. Georgia O'Keeffe at home and in her studio.
Clip 1 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Scenes in a small town in New Mexico, home to artist Georgia O'Keeffe seen driving in her car and working in her studio.
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Afghanistan 1945 - Herat Citadel, traditional spinning dance (Attan) similar to whirling dervishes.
Great walls, fortress, Herat Citadel around the city of Herat. Traditional warlike dances (similar to whirling dervishes), drums, dancers with traditional costumes. Gate, inscription, Persian border, Turkmen horsemen.
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A typical start to the day at a school for young women. France, 1942
Clip 3 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. One full day in the school. 7 AM: bell rings ;...
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Chilli and corn production. New Mexico c.1950.
Clip 7 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Farmers and locals harvest chilli peppers and corn.
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Sheikh in Biskra. Farmers and children with animals. Algeria, 1947
Clip 2 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. A sheikh, and pictures of sheikhs on the wall. A man climbs up a tree and gathers its branches. Farmers plough the land. Children...
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Girls and cook's apprentices eating lunch. A teacher talks to a student. France, 1942
Clip 5 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. The cook's apprentices eat what they made,...
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A headmistress describes girls' school to new teacher. France, 1942
Clip 2 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. The headmistress describes the school to a new...
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Girls exercise, have gym lessons and practice military organisation. France, 1942
Clip 7 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. Gym rehearsal. Choreography, beams, horizontal...
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Scouts of France part 3 - boys put out fire in a barn, play in the forest, hold hands in a circle around a campfire, 1940s
Clip from short film promoting boy scouts in France, 1940s.
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Cabaret Montmartrois, Paris, part 1 - Paris scenes, cabaret performer in carriage, and introduction to the Hydropathes
Clip 1 from the 1940s French film 'Cabarets Montmartrois (Une Evocation Parisienne) with re-enactments of street scenes and cabarets in Paris in 1889, Montmartre. In this clip, a cover of notebook. Pictures of the Eiffel Tower during...
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Fairground attraction in France 1947: A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing and the other dances.
Clip 5 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing / fire-eating and the other...
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1940s, Pueblo Children
1940s: Parents and children wait by school bus. Teenage students sit in classroom, teacher stands at front of class, talks.
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Girl with dress, 1940s
1940s: Girl stands, holds up dress. Girl walks to mirror. Girl touches shoulders. Girl looking in mirror. Close up of instructions. Girl looks in mirror. Girl pinning dress with mirror. Girl enters.
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Farnborough Air show, 1956
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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Aircraft designers in the 1950s. Montage of fighter jets.
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Propellers to jets (in part, audio sync issue)
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Flight Fighters of the Fifties - intro to NADGE defence system
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. NADGE.
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They Made News, Part 1 - body piercer, Mirin Dajo, 1947
Interview with Cedric Baynes who filmed a controversial performance by Dutch fakir, Mirin Dajo, who pierced his body with swords. From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the...
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Flight Fighters of the Fifties - Lockheed Starfighter
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Lockheed Starfighter. (audio sync issue)
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They Made News, Part 1 - The B-25 Empire State Building crash of 1945 and the sinking of the Flying Enterprise in 1952
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century. The film is in rough cut stage (cutting copy) and is intercut with footage illustrating the cameramen's stories.
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Textile production and the Industrial Revolution. 1942
Clip 2 from 'The Industrial Revolution', a 1942 black and white documentary exploring the evolution and transition of the manufacturing processes of human kind. Re-enactments of women workers using early machinery used for textile...
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Welding Helps The Farmer 1944
Information film for farmers - Tractor working and farmer making repair. Women at tractor engine. Broken parts taken to be welded. Close shots of farming equipment. Welder works on broken parts. Demonstration of welded metal strength....
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Atomic Age, Cold War, Warsaw Pact, birth of NATO, missile and airborne defence
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The Cold War. (in part, audio sync issue)
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Atomic bomb, Cold War, Warsaw Pact
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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They Made News Prog 3, part 3: Ken Hanshaw, filmed the Blitz in London in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.