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NEW SPRING FOR SPRINGBOARDS
There's always something fascinating about watching high-diving, but these pictures of Jack Barnett's professional team in Sydney have that something extra, they're using a trampoline, made specially for them. Disclaimer: British...
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- OR A CORAL ISLAND?
In some far-away places, they celebrate the festive season differently, the Great Barrier Reef, for example, off Queensland, Australia. (Hayman Island, to be precise!) Here, you can relax in the sunshine amid the most attractive scenery....
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AFLOAT WITH THE OCEAN RACERS
Our pictures show contestants getting ready for the 285 mile race to St. Nazaire. 39 yachts took part, and there were 3 classes. Plymouth's Lord Mayor saw them off. Let's follow them out into the channel as they set course on the first...
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WATER SKI WINNERS
Our pictures show ski-jumping for the Austrian championships, with hair-raising jumps over the hump. A rather more gentle sport is the graceful art of kite-skiing. Like so many things that look easy, there's more skill in it than meets...
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NEW WAY TO WATER-SKI
Here's the answer for water skiers who want to go it alone, a 6-foot tow-craft, controlled by the skier himself, and capable of towing him at any speed up to 28 miles an hour. It was demonstrated for us at a water ski club in...
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WILD, WET WATER
Six Nations, including Britain, took part in the ""Wild Water"" race at Manschau, near the Belgian border in Germany. This year's going was particularly rough; heavy rain had sent the river running really wild. Disclaimer: British...
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OUTBOARDS FULL OUT
A field of 15 from Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and Germany competed in the International outboard race on a lake near Essen in Germany. ® Erich Wiertz of Germany won comfortably from another German and a Swiss. Disclaimer: British...
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SHARKS IN THE SWIM
Every year they hold this 4-mile swimming race off the New South Wales coast, and competitors are always inside a cage, just in case of sharks. 18-year-old Ted Love won the event in just under one hour 53. Disclaimer: British Movietone...
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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Pictures show the floods caused by heavy Winter snow falls which have overflowed the Red River. Also, on the River Seine at Rouen the twenty four hours Endurance Race, held every year. A British entered boat finished third but France...
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""BIG FISH"" AMONG THE TRAWLERS
Thirty contestants entered the handicap race for powered trawlers, around Tor Bay. It is only the second event of its kind since the war, and there were many prizes, including £100 for the winner and £50 for second place. Disclaimer:...
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HOW TO STOP A SHARK
Through the lense of Movietone's underwater camera, we can have a look at a new technique in shark hunting. The diver loads up this new American invention - a speargun tipped with a 12 bore shotgun cartridge. The device kills the shark...
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SUNSHINE AND SHOW JUMPERS
Plenty of sunshine and plenty of spectators to enjoy the Royal Windsor Horse Show. And, to see the British Olympic Trials, a preliminary pointer to the choice of our show jumping team for Tokyo, Her Majesty the Queen. David Broome on...
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WOMEN IN THE NEWS
From Victoria, Australia a black-board lesson on golf for pupils at a school for deaf children. This sort of lesson helps to enlarge the children's vocabulary. ® A Beauty Contest at Heron Island, off Queensland, to find Miss Underwater....
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SIDEWALK SURFERS
1964 World Surfboard Champion Australian Midget Farrelly has his own team of Sidewalk Surfers - a group of youngsters who use skate boards, which are miniature dry land surf boards fitted with four plastic rollers to take the place of...
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SPORTING ROUNDABOUT
Ireland kick off at Cardiff against Wales in the battle for the Triple Crown. The final score was fourteen to eight and Wales now have the Triple Crown and the championship. ® The Ladies Varsity Boat Race. Cambridge win by four lengths....
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SIX HOURS OF PARIS
Pictures show the International Six Hour Endurance Race on the Seine in Paris. The winner was number 62, French entry driven by Monsieur Guyard. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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AUSTRALIAN TOURIST
After seeing a flower display in Adelaide's, Victoria Square, Her Majesty the Queen Mother visited a festival of the arts, during her tour of South Australia. After Adelaide, she was bound for Perth and Canberra before leaving Australia...
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THE NEW LEADERS
Movietone takes a look at the changing scene of Commonwealth leaders. Mrs Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Pandit Nehru, now becomes, after the death of Mr Shastri, leader of the Indian people. ® In a military uprising, the rumoured...
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CANOE SOCCER
At the Maidenhead Waterman's Regatta, Ted Drake, former Arsenal centre-forward refereed a game of football played in canoes. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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STARS SHINE AT VARIETY GALA
Britain's biggest outdoor star event of the year at the Festival Gardens at Battersea. Some five thousand pounds were raised, which went to the Variety Club Children's Charities. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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LARKS WITH SHARKS
Most people are inclined to give sharks a pretty wide berth. But not these two young Australians: they deliberately seek them out, and take down a camera to prove it. Of-course, they're armed in case of trouble, and it's quite easy to...
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ON TOP OF THEIR SPORT
Norman von Nida takes twenty year old, Clive Clark for a training session of golf at Sydney. Also, pictures show Bernard Dowd on the new hydrofoil skis. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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""BLUEBIRD"" AT SPEED
On Ullswater Lake, Mr Donald Campbell continues his trials in ""Bluebird"", which reached speeds of about 140 miles an hour. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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THE NEW BLUEBIRD
Before attempting to break the world water speed record, Donald Campbell is making thorough tests at Ullswater in his £25,000 craft. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...