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1000 Quakers stage a two-day anti-nuclear vigil outside the Pentagon, Washington D.C. 12-13 November 1960
Peace Education program of the American friends Service Committee, "The Language of Faces", c.1960. Cold War film. 1000 Quakers hold a two-day vigil outside the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on 12th and 13th November 1960. Marching while...
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Sunday, August 25, 1968 Prague citizens opposing the Soviet occupation rename their streets and put up posters and signs of protest.
Part three 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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Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s.
Part 8 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Interesting clip documenting the Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s. Known as 'the turning of the bones', Malagasy people bring...
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Coffee break at the hospital. Girl decides to study to be a medical technologist and goes to college with her friends, 1954
Part 5 of an educational film about a career in Medical Technologist, Canada 1954. A young lady decides she wants to enter a career as a medical technologist and goes to college with her friends. (acted).
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Supersonic Preview part 3 - British Airways Concorde takes off. Interior cockpit with pilots. Interior cabin with passengers being served food. c.1976
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
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Messengers, congressional meeting, and battle. USA, 1960s
Clip 5 from the 1960s black and white documentary. 'Towards Freedom' (French: Vers la liberte). Messengers distribute letters amongst the settlers. Military and strategic congressional meetings regarding the rule of the newly found...
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Locomotives in town. France, 1950
Clip 13 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of locomotives moving through the railways around town.
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Nixon in France, 1969
Clip 9 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 is seen getting off a plane...
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The Living City, 1970 part 1 - The Blitz, 1940
Shots include: first shots of London in the Blitz, the city on fire, firefighters on the streets of London tackling the blazes, the ruined cityscape
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Tibetan uprising in 1959 - refugees and combat. Tibetans flee to India and Nepal where they set up a new community.
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Tibet. Buddhist temples. Communists seize Tibet, fighting, Tibetan refugees, Tibetans in India and Nepal. Burning houses, fights in Asian countries.
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Belgians crossing the border to work. France, 1950
Clip 8 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of Belgians crossing the border to work.
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Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Part 1 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas : De Madagascar - Tombouctou / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
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Berlin divided, 1961 - Guards at the Berlin Wall, East Berliners look towards West Berlin, properties abandoned.
ECU of barbed-wire on the Berlin Wall. A guard in the background at the Brandenburg gate. A family with children talking to the guards on patrol in the space between East and West Berlin. People standing, waiting on a pavement. LS of the...
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Telecommunications operators in Muscat, Oman, and women crossing the road with children. UAE, 1974
Clip 16 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Telecommunications operators working in Muscat, Oman. Road traffic and women crossing the road with children.
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Journey For Survival part seven - Severely malnourished children in hospital in Bangladesh, c.1981
Clip from 'Journey For Survival' 1981 documentary about drought and famine in developing countries. Severely malnourished children in hospital in Bangladesh. Nurse talks to the camera.
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Water, agriculture and the vegetable market. UAE, 1974
Clip 3 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Footage of water and trees. Farmers with their crops. The vegetable market and traders.
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Richard Hunt, the sculptor, at work in his studio in Chicago. Neighbourhood boys watch. 1965
Richard hunts searches for car parts in a junk yard. Works with them in his studio with neighbourhood kids watching. Chicago 1965
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Photographer Ansel Adams working on location in California and at home, playing piano and dining with his family. 1965
Photographer Ansel Adams working on location in California and at home, playing piano and dining with his family. 1965
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Ski lift, lodge cross-country skiing, Norway 1970s
From a promotional film about skiing in Norway in the 1970s.
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City of Treasures part 6 - boy looks at strange objects and antique clocks. Paris flea market, 1951
boy looks at strange objects and antique clocks. Paris flea market, 1951
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Journey For Survival part four - fetching and digging for water in India. Worshipping water. People digging together in a community project in Tanzania.
Clip from 'Journey For Survival' 1981 documentary about drought and famine in developing countries. Indian village, women pumping water out of a well and carrying water pales on their heads. Digging for water under the sand in the...
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City of Treasures part 7 - girl and boy in market. Men repairing/restoring antiques. Paris 1951
Tracking shot of boy and girl walking through the flea market in Paris. MCU of wooden hors on bicycle wheels. MS of stand with stuffed animals like tiger, eagle, duck and animal's furs. MCU of wooden lion figure. CU of walking feet along...
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Supersonic Preview part 3 - shots of British Airways and Air France Concorde aircrafts taking off at various airports.
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
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Tuareg celebration in the Hoggar region, 1957 - playing drums, singing, camel racing
Clip 5 from 16mm 1957 film about the Tuareg Bedouin tribe in Algeria. Tuareg celebration in the Ahaggar / Hoggar region. People playing drums. Camel race. Camel riders circle around a group of people sitting (women? Ceremony of sorts?)...