British Movietone
MARATHON ON MILK!
Pictures show the Milk Race - the International Tour of Britain. Riders from Spain, Poland, Sweden and France, as well as Britain took part - cycling from Brighton all round England and Wales. The tour finishes up in Blackpool....
British Movietone
HIS HOLIDAY AWHEEL
Since it looked promising on Good Friday, out from towns streamed the cyclists, seeking sun, air and exercise in the countryside. What a rest cure are those wide horizons. How ennobling to the mind the gracious expanses of rural...
British Movietone
EIGHT HOURS TO BALI HAI
It takes less than eight hours to Tahiti from Australia now that an air service has been inaugurated. Our pictures show the nearby island of Moorea which was used as Bali Hai in the Rodgers and Hammerstein spectacular, South Pacific....
British Movietone
ON YOUR WAY
The first National Highway to be built in Britain in the 20th Century is making good progress. Modern mechanical aids to road-making have gone into action, and the figures are impressive: over a thousand machines and some four thousand...
British Movietone
BIG TOP PREVIEW
It's circus time again, and we went along for a preview of this season's big top bill. The chimps are always finding new things to do and also the original India rubber elephant. George the boxing kangaroo and Jacko will be fighting for...
British Movietone
UNDER THE BIG TOP (COLOUR)
Movietone went to Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia. Among some of the acts - The Schumanns - acknowledged to be the world's greatest in the training of circus horses. The Four Francorxis - bareback riders - the incredible Rolando. In a...
British Movietone
FIFTY MILES ON ONE WHEEL
Monsieur Delsol a Frenchman out to set a new world-record for unicycles. To exceed the distance of forty six kilometres set by a German. He did exceed the forty six kilometres and went on, in spite of protests from his muscles, and...
British Movietone
BANK HOLIDAY ROUND UP
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British Movietone
LADY GODIVA RIDES AGAIN
Coventry Fair has been going for hundreds of years and this year a procession of old modes of transport was featured. Coventry’s most famous citizeness rode again through the streets. ® Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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FRANCE - BRITAIN'S TWO-WHEELED WONDER
The longest non-stop cycling event in the world - the Bordeaux - Paris Race. Tommy Simpson, the British rider now living in Belgium, has been trying for some time to establish himself among the top-line Continental cycling-stars....
British Movietone
PENNY FARTHING CYCLES - MUTE
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SIX DAY CYCLE RACE
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Bridgeman Arts
Ciclismo
Bicycle race in the mountains of Algeria. Images of a family on an Algerian beach.
Bridgeman Arts
Baumblütenfest, Werder 1924-1928
Baumblütenfest, Werder 1924-1928. People leaving the city for the festival, arriving at the event and enjoying the blossom.
Bridgeman Arts
Portugal, 1940-1950s
B&W. 1948. Street sign, Vilarandelo. Little girl poses for camera and with sister and mother in garden. Mother lets little girl aim with .22 rifle. Dad aims rifle. Little girl holding rifle. Girls picking flowers. Girls ride donkey, man...
Bridgeman Arts
Visiting The Old Fashioned Port Of Santa Margherita
Colour. 1970s. A pleasure ship carrying many passengers sets to sea. A row boat nearby by a harbour wall. Sign: Ortofino. People in busy narrow street. People on shoreline. Motor boat comes into dock at harbour watched by people....
Bridgeman Arts
Visiting Graves in France, 1970s
British car outside French cafe. Owner with broom smiles at camera. Sign: Entree De L'Hotel. POV from car driving through Paris, Notre Dame. Graveyard, grave stone of Private E J Burbridge aged 18. GVs of graveyard. Woman amongst stones....
Bridgeman Arts
USA Hometown 1940s Life COLOR
Two young girls play outside house. Family on porch, guests arrive bearing presents. Inside, the children smile at camera. Outside, the kids play on bikes. A children’s birthday party outside in garden. Children play with toys and join...
Bridgeman Arts
University Students Take Break, 1920s
A group of girl students relax outside. They ride bikes. Young children on bikes in front garden of a house.
Bridgeman Arts
Trip To France
Two children riding bicycle, cut to street scenes, cobbles, river, avenue, coach, school children, cars, street scenes, tourists, one legged man uses binoculars, coaches, tourists, mountain, possibly Mount Ventoux. Cut to border...
Bridgeman Arts
Families at a fairground, and uses for early photography, made in France, 1956
Clip 4 from the 1956 French documentary 'Images d'hier et D'aujourd'hui' (Images of Yesterday and Today) about the history of photography, featuring reenactments from the early 1900s. In this clip, families take photos at a fairground....
Press Association
Donate money instead of unwanted items, says Ukraine's ambassador to UK
Ukraine's ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko encourages Britons to donate money to help Ukrainians, instead of unwanted items like kids bicycles and prescribed medicines.
Bridgeman Arts
Leisure activities in Oslo, Norway. 1960s
Clip 4 from 'Oslo, The Viking Capital' (Oslo, Ville des Vikings) from the 1960s, an animated film about vikings in Oslo. Scenes of lakes, hills and fishing in the countryside of Oslo. Aerial shots of the city. Scenes of leisure...
Bridgeman Arts
Weaving and threading in Aubusson. Town sites. France 1930s
Clip 3 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. Holiday group visiting Aubusson. Weaving and threading / tapestry...