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COOPER RETAINS TITLES
Old friends met again for the eighth time: Henry Cooper defending his British and Empire heavyweight titles against Joe Erskine. The contest was presented by Reg King at Nottingham. It was in round five that the champion began to do the...
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SPRING INTO FASHION
Spring and Summer hats from Britain's milliners and creations from the Christian Dior Boutique in London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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PAY-AS-YOU-WORKSHOP
Where could you find, a workshop, fully equipped for mending machinery of making furniture, for instance; a workshop where you could use all the facilities for just 2 shillings a session? The answer is in Welwyn Garden City, where the...
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MEET THE SHAKESPEARES
1964 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare, the great poet. Few men can feel so closely concerned with this anniversary as Harold George Shakespeare Hart, an engineer of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire: Mr Hart is the...
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ANCIENT AND MODERN
First - combining old and new - a replica of Elizabeth Taylor's 'Cleopatra' necklace, at an exhibition of French jewellery in London. ® In contrast - an antique fair in Chelsea, which features lovely things from all over the globe....
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SKIING ON SKIN!
No place for tender feet at the Australian Barefoot Water Ski Championships in Sydney! We joined Geoff Nicholls, a recognised expert. And something never attempted before, a barefoot ski jump. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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WHITE CITY WINNERS
England V the Russian Federal Republic at the White City, in a meeting sponsored by the News of the World. The men's hundred metres was won by David Jones in ten point five. A high jump win by Russia's Valery Brumel was a certainty. He...
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BIG SIT-DOWN
The big sit-down was organised by the ""Committee of 100"", and many thousands took part. Canon Collins (Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) was there as an observer, and over 1,300 are said to have been arrested. It all...
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BLACKPOOL - FASHION ON TOP
Blackpool is in the news again. The Hair Fair drew many spectators, and many champions of the art of hair-do's were among competitors at the show, which lasted 4 days. The so-called ""Spectaculars"" were perhaps the best part of the...
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A WIG DOES WONDERS
There's magic in a modern wig. Our pictures show how a busy woman executive, who has no time to spend hours over a hair-do, can look her very best with a wig. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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ALL LIT UP
The famous resort of Blackpool has been putting on its great show of illuminations for years. This year, it's the 29th annual display, and it runs for 52 nights. 350,000 lamps, and over 75 miles of wiring. That's the scale of it....
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SOUND OF THE FUTURE
This converted oast-house in Kent is really a kind of studio where Miss Daphne Oram is engaged in scientific research into electronic music. Thanks to a Gulbenkian Foundation grant, she's surrounded by very expensive equipment. With it,...
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WHITE CITY ATHLETICS
The meeting at the White City was organised by the London Clubs. The hundred yards, one of the contests between London and Rhineland Cities was won by David Jones in nine point seven. The women's eighty metres hurdles was another London...
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SAHARA BURN-UP
Natural gas caught fire last November in French gasfields in the Sahara, the biggest blazing gas main you're ever likely to see! They had to clear nearby installations before attempting to quell the monster. The Adair Company from the...
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HULL - POLIO CITY
Almost over night, the people of Kingston upon Hull found themselves facing one of the worst polio outbreaks ever known in Britain. But for a great step forward in anti-polio research, they'd be in a grave situation. This step forward is...
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FLATS FOR CATS
Every cat its own flat. That's the idea at this home for strays near Cambridge. Must be a surprise for a homeless cat to get such a splendid welcome, and in no time at all, every inmate is quite at home on this newly developed estate....
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BERLIN - THE PRISON WALL
This was the scene at night on the East-West Berlin frontier, East Germans building up and strengthening the notorious prison wall, designed to keep the people in. And next morning, where the wall curves in a semi-circle in front of the...
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KARIBA DAM OPENED
The great dam which is higher than St. Paul's Cathedral, and nearly two thousand feet long, has triumphed over all difficulties. Several thousand people had assembled for the very big event: the official opening. This was performed by...
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ATHLETICS
The AAA Championships provided many thrills particularly in the six miles, one mile and three mile events. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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KEW GARDENS CELEBRATE
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, now celebrating their two hundredth birthday, are one of the most delightful of London attractions. Developed over the years from a private garden, they now cover over 300 acres, and include a number of...
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GLASTONBURY PILGRIMAGE
A service was held for those taking part in the pilgrimage to Glastonbury, the most ancient seat of Catholic devotion in England. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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PILGRIMAGE
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus are seen on their way to the Ganges festival. They come by bus, aircraft or boat. A six-hour river-steamer trip ends the long journey. Their destination is a place where the Ganges meets the sea. The most...
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ROYAL VISIT TO DOCKS
So great is the Port of London's Dock system, that it took the Queen and the Prince the best part of a day to take a good look at it. A number of warehouses came in for royal inspection and London's cellars. Then, the Queen and her...
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ZOO NEWS
Our cameraman called on the elephants at the Berlin Zoo, who were cooling themselves during the warm weather. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...