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When the Flag Drops
A John Edwards/Buff film, this documentary following the Rothmans sportscar racing champions’ fight to win the World Endurance Championships in 1984. Narrated by Sir Anthony Quayle. A 1000km race over six hours in several different...
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NATO air defence, control rooms, technology
Miscellaneous clip about NATO air defence
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Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet 1
Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet, 1950s
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Metal forging, construction industry, tanks, shipbuilding
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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London aerials, neo-natal care and technology
Featuring London street scenes in the 60s and neonatal care in hospital, this subclip is from an award-winning documentary, 'Centenary''. The film was sponsored by Vickers & chronicled the social and industrial history of the 20th...
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John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, first aviators to cross Atlantic. Smith brothers, first aviators to fly to Australia from USA.
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II has group photo with German generals. Their wives pose with their dogs. 1914
Kaiser Wilhelm II has group photo with German generals. Their wives pose with their dogs. 1914
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One of Our Own Kind part four - rural scenes and landmarks in Yorkshire, iron foundry, printing press. 1970
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. Yorkshire landscape, River Wharf, Arthington Viaduct, Bramhope Tunnel in Otley churchyard. Scenes in iron foundry. Close up shots of...
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Vickers aircraft in construction, design and in flight. C20th scientific and industrial innovation.
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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Vickers Aviation
A film about 50 years of achievement on road and in the air by Vickers Aviation, beginning at Brooklands in 1907. The film shows vintage racing cars, and the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1907, then follows the invention of early flying...
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One of Our Own Kind part eight - printing techniques c.1970
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. Featuring colour separation negatives, lithography, web offset printing, interior of large printing factory in England.
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One of Our Own Kind part eleven - vintage printing presses, newspaper printing, newspaper HQs, heavy printing machinery. 1970
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. vintage printing presses, newspaper printing, newspaper HQs, heavy printing machinery.
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One of Our Own Kind part five - printing press operators, close up shots of colour printing of postcards
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. Inside a printers, 1970. Operators at work, close up shots of colour printer printing postcards.
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One of Our Own Kind part nine - print media in 1970: ads, billboards, banknotes, stamps, maps, etc.
Clip from 1970 film 'One of Our Own Kind', directed by John Edwards and narrated by Anthony Quayle. Examples of printed items in everyday life in Yorkshire. Street scenes in Leeds with posters being mounted, printing of ads, banknotes,...
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Test flight of the record-breaking Supermarine Swift in the North African desert, 1953
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Record breaking Supermarine fighter, The Swift.
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Women in the factories of Germany during WWI
Women in the factories of Germany during WWI (subclipped from CMD834295)
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The English Electric Lightning supersonic fighter jet, 1954 -1
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The English Electric Lightning in action with scramble. (in part, audio sync issue)
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The Hawker Hunter jet; rare footage of the Black Arrows in the 1970s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The Hawker Hunter. (in part, audio sync issue). Very rare footage of the 22-jet aerobatic team, the Black Arrows, who...
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She Flies - A film about the Concorde
This iconic award-winning film documents the supersonic Mach 11 aircraft, the Concorde 001, and its first flight from Blagnac, Toulouse, France in March 1969. The end of the film features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from the UK,...
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The French Dassault Mirage supersonic fighter jet, 1955
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Dassault Mirage jets on runway. (audio sync issue)
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Supersonic jets at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Farnborough Airshow 1956. Jets take off (audio sync issue)
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Wings Over Europe (5)
Eight great warplanes examined in detail: Mustang, Stuka, Spitfire, Flying Fortress, P-38 Lightning, Messerschmitt BF-109, Messerschmitt ME-262, & Soviet Stormovik.
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Interior radar defence stations, military scramble
Miscellaneous clip about NATO radar defence stations. Scramble and enemy interception
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Centenary - 1914, Whitehall. The production and shipment of the BL 15 inch Mark I gun
Clip taken from original documentary 'Centenary'. Shows the BL 15 inch Mark I gun being shipped, put together and tested.