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SOMETHING TO SEE
Pilot a Vulcan Bomber - Meet a top-line Dee-Jay - Watch Fashion Shows - learn Speed Skating! It's all happening at the Daily Mail's New Year Show, where they even teach you chess. ® No room for novices at the Annual Chess Congress at...
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LONG VIEW
Movietone looks at telescopes, from the archaic devices built by Sir William Herschel in the 18th Century to the latest proposals in Radio Telescopes. The most powerful one in the world is soon to be built on a disused railway line at...
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COMMONWEALTH PREMIERS HONOURED -
At the Guildhall, The City of London, has honoured the Premiers of Australia and New Zealand by conferring the Freedom on them. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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DARE-DEVIL DRIVING
Jose Canga and Paul Martin - two of the world's top dare-devil drivers taking to the air in Holland. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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CHILDREN'S ART EXHIBITION
The Sunday Mirror National Exhibition of Children's Art at The Mall Galleries, London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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NORTH AFRICAN CO-OPERATION -
The French and American forces co-operate in Morocco. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical accuracy and...
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SAVINGS -
The Mayor of Westminster, accompanied by Lord Macintosh, arrives with due ceremony in Trafalgar Square to launch London's National Savings Week. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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SUN STUDIES
Harvard University's Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been making special photographic studies of the sun. They are called ""corona-graphs"" and are taken by a specially designed telescopic camera. Disclaimer: British...
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WINTER OLYMPICS OPEN
The opening ceremony of the Sixth Winter Olympic Games was performed by Princess Ragnhild, daughter of Crown Prince Olav. Thirty nations (a record) marched in the procession and the hoisting of the Olympic Flag was followed by the...
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""JOY BELLS AT THE ZOO""
An exceptionally interesting event has recently occurred at the London Zoo; never before, anywhere in the world, it's believed, has a baby polar bear been reared by its mother in captivity even to the age of a few weeks. Disclaimer:...
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PRINCESS ELIZABETH -
Princess Elizabeth is eighteen on the 21st April, when she will assume the dignities and responsibilities of Heir Presumptive to the Throne. In these delightful informal pictures the Princess and her sister ride their ponies 'Jock' and...
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MOTOR RACING - MOSS LOOKS ON
Stirling Moss, making his first public appearance at a race track since his crash last Easter, dropped in at Oulton Park. Among 27 drivers for the International Gold Cup were the present leader in the Driver's World Championship, Graham...
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SPACE RACE HOTS UP
The orbiting major Nikolayev and his partner Colonel Popovich have gone on creating record after record. Apparently, their mission is to test the reactions of the human body to weightlessness over a prolonged period of several days....
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PERSONALITIES -
Major-General Robert Laycock DSO, has succeeded Lord Louis Mountbatten as Chief of Combined Operations, at the age of 36. Former Prime Minister Lloyd George has married his private secretary Miss Frances Stevenson. Disclaimer: British...
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ROYAL FILM PERFORMANCE
The Empire Theatre naturally attracted a large crowd on the occasion of the Royal Film Performance. The Royal Party were received by Mr Reginald Bromhead, President and Chairman of the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund. Leading...
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14 YEAR OLD WINS BILLIARDS TITLE
The Boys' Billiards Championship, fought out in Soho, London, produced remarkable talent, it was won by Welsh born Marcus Owen, a fourteen year old schoolboy from Great Yarmouth. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE
Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, as host and Chairman of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference, welcomes distinguished representatives from 31 nations. Britain's proposal to sell arms to South Africa ran into fierce...
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Car Racing - International Light Car Race at Douglas
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TENSION OFF CHINESE COAST
Dr Wellington Koo, Chiang Kai Shek's ambassador to Washington has been touring Nationalist-held islands off the coast of Red China. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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SEPARATION ON KOJE
The latest pictures for Koje Island show the actual process of splitting up the unwieldy groups of communist prisoners into smaller units. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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VAAGSO RAID - NO SOUND
The Commandos set out before first light, the object to capture the small defended island of Vaagso, off the Norwegian coast. The German garrison are taken by surprise and quickly over come on the island of Maaloy. Barges then cross the...
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
The Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, reviewed by Mr Richard Burke, the Minister for Education. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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WASSAILING THE APPLE TREES
At Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset, they still continue the old custom of Wassailing the Apple Trees. The Pagan Rite was supposed to drive the evil spirits from the apple trees and thus ensure a good harvest. The Wassail Queen dips a piece...
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MATCHSTICK ART
Despite being physically handicapped Mr Ray Cooke of Pinner carves shapes on matchsticks, the work is painstaking and delicate. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...