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CIGARETTES
Sir Alexander Maxwell talks to Movietone about them. 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 do...
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US DOCK STRIKE ENDS
The longshoremen return to work, so ending the three week dock strike. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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LAUNCH OF THE
The Cargo liner ""Ceramic"" is launched at Birkenhead. 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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SIR MALCOLM'S NEW WATER-SPEED BID
Sir Malcolm Campbell sees a scale model of the new Bluebird with which he will attempt the water speed record. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of...
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JET POWER FOR CAMPBELL'S SPEED BID
Sir Malcolm Campbell sees a test of the Goblin Jet Unit which is to be used in the re-designed 'Blue Bird'. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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LOOKING DOWN ON BRITAIN'S HARVEST
Flying over farm land in Somerset and Dorset we can look down on the success of Britain's harvest. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection...
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SHIP LAUNCHED BY RADIO
The ""Pretoria Castle"" went down the slipway in Belfast, launched via the radio by Mrs Smuts thousands of miles away in South Africa. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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A WOMAN OF SPIRIT
Islay, the Queen of the Hebrides and their Southern-most island, is the place where they make whisky. And here is the Laphroaig Distillery, run by a woman, Mrs Wishart Campbell. She started here as a secretary in 1933, and now is the...
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AIR LIFT FOR INDUSTRY
One base for the new power line between Lydd in Kent to Ninfield in Sussex is a supply dump in East Sussex with all the material needed for building the pylons. But instead of a fleet of lorries and dumpers, they're using helicopters to...
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NEW RIG FOR OLD SHIP
HMS ""Victory"", memorial to Nelson's great victory off Cape Trafalgar (nearly 160 years ago) is today one of the sights at Portsmouth. This magnificent old warship is in the process of being re-rigged. Not for the first time, of course,...
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ON WITH THE QUEST
Sea Quest, successor to ill fated Sea Gem which sank on Boxing Day launched in Belfast to continue search for under sea gas. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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WHAT FUTURE FOR THE SHIPBUILDERS?
Movietone takes a look at one of our biggest industries, shipbuilding. Involving its quarter of a million employees and its importance to all of us. The dilemma of Fairfields shipyard in Glasgow, which is to be rescued from bankruptcy by...
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MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE WORLD?
Pictures show the new Sydney Opera House, which although not yet completed is going to cost around 30 million pounds. It's been decided to open the building before it is finished and opera star Joan Sutherland was at the ceremony....
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LONDON'S NEW TUBE
It's more than 50 years since building the last underground railway across London. In that time, population has increased by millions, and the capital's business centre has moved further West. The new Victoria Line, now well under way,...
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TREE CREEPER
A radio controlled, mechanical tree-creeper which slices off all the branches of the trees, without effort, has been invented in Germany. It will be a boon for foresters and lumberjacks. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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BOND CAR FOR ANDREW
The Queen and Prince Philip visited the Aston Martin Lagonda factory at Newport Pagnall in Buckinghamshire. At the factory, they are making a scaled-down version of the James Bond car for Prince Andrew. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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THE ADMIRAL TAKES TO THE SEA
At a hundred thousand tons, ""British Admiral's"" the largest oil tanker ever built in Europe. The Queen launched the tanker from Vickers Armstrong's yard at Barrow. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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BUILDING IN A BALLOON
At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon, inflated by an electric fan heats the perennial problem of British builders - the weather....
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BUNKERED AT BIRKENHEAD
Workers at an engineering firm, alongside the docks at Birkenhead, have been playing it for the past six months. Lunch hour golf among the railway lines and sleepers near the quay. Even if the ship's coming in - you can always be...
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HIGH TEA!
London's newest landmark the GPO Tower is now opened to the public. The Queen had an entirely new view of her Capital City from the observation platform at the top. Diners in the restaurant there, will get an ever changing panorama of...
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BEATING THE BULGE
Bradford has a problem - a bulge in the number of children starting school. A prefabricated factory - finished classroom section is to be erected on previously built piers. They can be assembled in minutes by four men and a crane. Ten...
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PIPPIN PACKIN' MONSTER
In Kent a scheme has been introduced by the farmers through which all the apples produced by over sixty growers pass through one central packing station. As well as apples, the plant handles pears, tomatoes, and oranges are among the...
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""MAN AND HIS WORLD""
St. Helen's Island in Montreal is the site of the vast International Exhibition which will open next year, with the theme ""Man and His World"". It is known as ""Expo '67"", and is claimed to be the first of its kind ever held in the New...
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SHEFFIELD - MOST MODERN IN THE PROVINCES
A new hotel opened in Sheffield, said to be one of the most modern in Europe, welcomes it's first guests. This four hundred thousand pound hotel with 102 bedrooms and penthouse suites, has a highly automated internal communications...