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Prince of Wales Visits Manchester
Lord Derby welcomes HRH at flying field on arrival to make ""wake up"" speech. 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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Big Cunarder Takes Shape on Clydeside
Movietone flies over huge hull of £6,000,000 liner built to retrieve our shipping honours. 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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Pall of Tragedy Hangs Over Nation - R101 Last Pictures
Last pictures of the R101 taken a few hours before the start of her fatal flight and shots of the wrecked airship. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
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Atlantic Flight - Costes and Bellonte
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Amy Johnson Returns to Her Home City
Enthusiastic crowds at Kingston upon Hull express their pride. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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Helicopter Almost Flies
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AIR ANNIVERSARY
The Fiftieth Anniversary of International Civil Aviation is celebrated by a sentimental journey to Paris. A party of pilots from those pioneering days of half a century ago, fly BEA over the route which Captain Bill Lawford blazed when...
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HOME AT LAST
The ordeal of Mrs Gerald Brooke is over - her husband is home again in London after over four years detention by the Russians. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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TARGET MOON:
Apollo Eleven lifts off towards the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins begin the most historic journey of all time, to make the first foot prints on another World. Awe-inspiring in themselves, these pictures are a...
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FLYING GIFT
Thanks to Bobby Butlin, the Air Training Corps have received a ""Beagle Husky"" Aircraft to help cadets get more flying experience. It was flown to Northolt for the presentation by Hughie Green. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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WORLD IN THE AIR
Star of the show at the Paris Air Salon was without doubt the Franco-British Concorde, in spite of strong competition from the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, a reconstruction of Bleriot's cross-channel aeroplane, and no less than three aerobatic...
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PARIS AIR SHOW
Concorde - making it's first public appearance at an Air Show - steals the limelight at Le Bouget where the world's aerospace industries show their latest products. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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BETWEEN THE TOWERS
It was probably one of the most inspired events ever devised - the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race between London's Post Office Tower and the Empire State Building in New York. ® This special Movietone edition features a survey of the...
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TRAVEL SPECTACULAR
The Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race recreates the courageous trail-blazing era of Alcock and Brown. Fifty years ago, they won the prize for the first non-stop Atlantic crossing, but today, twenty-one prizes are to be won, giving a...
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TRANSATLANTIC RACE
Over four hundred contestants are expected to compete for more than £60,000 in prize money in the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race. We meet some of them ""limbering up"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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BRITAIN'S CONCORDE MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT - at the hands of BAC's Chief Test Pilot Brian Trubshaw.
Less than six weeks after the French Prototype's first flight from Toulouse, ""Trubby"" Trubshaw takes 002 into her element and the Concorde project enters a new phase of development. ® First to have two Supersonic Airliners flying,...
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THE SHROPSHIRE DILEMMA
Days and nights of agonising indecision, during the siege of Gunman John James, his wife and their four children at Weston-under-Redcastle. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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EUROPEAN WATER SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS
Robin Beckett, Jack Fulton and Jeanette Stewart-Wood are featured in the Championships on a man-made lake in Middlesex - and Jeanette retains her Jumping Title, beating Sylvie Hulsemann, one of the world's ""Greats"". ® But, as well as...
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CALIFORNIA FIRE
Homes and ranches owned by Hollywood film stars threatened as the worst brush fires for ten years rage through the canyons north of Los Angeles. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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LIGHTHOUSE RELIEF
Helicopters are now in regular use by Trinity House to relieve the lonely lighthouse keepers on the Smalls and South Bishop Lights. We go with the 'copter to take supplies and new keepers to the wave-lashed lighthouses and are winched...
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AAR SKYJACKING
Eight and three quarter million pounds worth of Jumbo Jet, blown up by Guerillas at Cairo Airport starts the latest, most serious, wave of Skyjacking, in which hundreds of lives are held to ransom by a group of terrorists who threaten to...
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ULSTER REPORT
The Orangemen marched, the troops stood by, the Catholics stayed away. Britain's biggest security operation ever staged may have kept Ulster calm. But whatever the cause, the Orange Day parades commemorating the Protestant Victory over...
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MAN HUNT
The hunt for the killer of Police Inspector Barry Taylor goes on across the snow covered Yorkshire Moors. ® In the past five years eleven policemen have been murdered. The morale of Britain's policemen is lower than it has been for...
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Among three recent attempts to cross from Ireland to England by balloon, one ends in disaster even before take-off. The balloon of a German team is severely damaged during an overnight gale.
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