British Movietone
Giant Girder Trails Through London
Steel mammoth is drawn by World's largest lorry from Marylebone Station to Marble Arch. 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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Big Canadian Power Scheme Takes Form
Beside the St. Lawrence waterway, engineers are building plant to generate 500,000 hp. 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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Largest Office Building In Europe Under Construction Beside The Thames
Movietone goes aloft to inspect the largest building under construction beside The Thames. 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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New York Is Joined To New Jersey
Mammoth bridge over the Hudson River is opened officially and named after Washington. 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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Half Ship is Now Whole Again
Engineer surgeons join up halves of SS Eurturaton which broke in half off Dungeness. 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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Lambeth Bridge Has Begun To Take Form
Steel girder-work now spans the grey Thames close to the Palace of Westminster. 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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English Canalways To Be Transformed
Take a look at our water thoroughfares where a million of State money changes their contours. 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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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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Sydney Harbour Bridge
Britain builds Big Australian Bridge. Great engineering work to span Sydney Harbour is in final stages. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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NEWMARKET - WIN FOR BUILDERS
In spite of appalling weather, builders complete the conversion of the famous Rowley Mile on time, transforming a bleak inhospitable course into one of the best appointed in the country. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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SAVED FOR TOMORROW
In India, millions bathe in the waters at a place revered by all Hindus - and pray for the safe deliverance of the Sun from the latest Solar eclipse. ® But prayers alone are not enough to save the Temple of Abu Simbel from the waters of...
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BY COACH FROM BASEL TO BERLIN
An old postal coach makes a sentimental journey through the European countryside. Instead of a post horn, a Swiss pop ground travels part of the way. And the route passes the new Olympia Stadium in Munich under construction for the 1972...
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ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL
Music lovers can now revisit the Maltings - focal point of the Aldeburgh Festival - so tragically burned down less than a year after its opening. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh attend the opening concert in the new building. Disclaimer:...
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CAN943 AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR KLAUS VISITS SOVIET UNION
Josef Klaus, Federal Chancellor of Austria, arrives on week-long official visit to the USSR.
1. ms exterior Moscow Unkovo airport building
2. ms flags
3. ls reception party at plane steps
4. ws Klaus and Alexei Kosygin past guard of...
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CAN937 U THANT VISITS LONDON
Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant calls at London on his way to visit the Middle East and Burma.
1. ws and pan U Thant and wife with party out of airport building
2. ms cameraman on profile
3. vs U Thant walks to plane and...
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UPITN 4 5 71 SYRIAN PLANE FORCED TO LAND AT ANKARA AIRPORT
Syrian Air Force plane was forced to land at Ankara's Esenboga airport.
1. gv Syrian plane on tarmac
2. gv plane on tarmac, people in front, yellow van drives past
3. ms people across tarmac, presumably the crew
4. various of the plane,...
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UPITN 30 3 76 NELSON ROCKERFELLER LEAVES KUALA LUMPUR
United States Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, leaves Kuala Lumpur
1. various shots, guard of honour
2. military band plays (no audio)
3. US Vice President, Nelson Rockerfeller, Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn and their...
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SYND 2 4 80 DEMONSTRATION AT NARITA AIRPORT IN JAPAN
More than 4,000 demonstrators rally and march peacefully to protest the planned expansion of Japan's new international airport at Narita, 40 miles east of Tokyo. Some 10,000 riot police take position around the airport, searching cars...
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CAN383 KING HUSSEIN STATE VISIT WITH GENERAL DE GAULLE
On his state visit to France King Hussein of Jordan ad his wife Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Avril Gardiner), were greeted at Orly Airport, Paris, by President Charles De Gaulle and French Prime Minister Geroges Pompidou. Cuts of...
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SYND 29 3 75 OIL PIPELINE BEING PREPARED IN ALASKA
Sections of the Alaska oil pipeline being built
1. ms pipe on forklift 2. ms pipe cleaned 3. cu flames 4. ms pipe rolled out 5. cu workers 6. ms welding machine 7. ms worker 8. ms welding 9. ms int pipe 10. ms pipe loaded onto...
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CAN642 OPENING CEREMONY FOR KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Kuala Lumpur international airport opens. Malaysian monarch Tuanku Syed Putra, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia performs opening ceremonial duties and takes a tour of the airport. Scenes of members of the public using airport...
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SYND 28 3 68 CYPRUS PRESIDENT MAKARIOS OPENS NEW AIRPORT
President Makarios opens million pound airport in Nicosia.
1. ws exterior Nicosia's new airport building
2. ms Makarios walks past guard of honour
3. ms crowd applauds
4. ms interior Makarios cuts tape in new building's foyer
5. ms...
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SYND 3 3 71PROTESTERS BATTLE POLICE IN BID TO PREVENT TOKYO'S SECOND AIRPORT'S CONSTRUCTION
Students and farmers battle police in bid to prevent Tokyo's second airport's construction.
1. ms police advance, pan to student barriers
2. various of police dismantling barricades
3. gv barriers and banners
4. ms students and...
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CAN803 POMPIDOU ARRIVES IN LONDON FOR TALKS WITH WILSON
The French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, his wife Claude Pompidou and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville arrive in London. Pompidou and Murville are there for talks with the British Prime Minister Harold...