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ROYAL INTEREST IN CURRENT PROBLEMS -
The King and Queen recently visited an Agricultural Camp in the Home Counties where they talked to the volunteers and enjoyed tea with them. Their Majesties also visited an Ack-ack site and saw them tackling flying bombs. They have also...
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CAEN LIBERATED -
Recent heavy rains in Normandy meant another battle, that with the mud. The battle for Caen was preceded by a real Montgomery barrage. Everywhere prisoners were taken making the total taken in Normandy by the 5th July over fifty...
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NEWS ITEMS: ITALY, INDIA, AMERICA -
In Italy the weather has been holding up the advance, but General Montgomery has announced his intention of hitting the enemy a ""colossal crack"". In India Lord Wavell visits Calcutta to deal with the sub-continent's serious food...
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Sydney - Skyscraper in NSW.
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Nr. Khartoum - Building a new dam.
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LAST CHAPTER IN STORY OF CRYSTAL PALACE -
The famous North Tower of the Crystal Palace is demolished. 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...
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Britain builds bridge for Denmark.
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Locomotion:
Change of Address is a simple matter in United States. As recommended by Carl Bernard 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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DUKE SEES LYNMOUTH EMERGING
During his tour of the West Country, the Duke of Edinburgh visited Lynmouth to see the progress being made in rebuilding the devastated village. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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SHELL-FIRE CORNER LIBERATED -
The big guns at Cap Gris Nez have surrendered which is welcome news for the people of Dover, Folkestone, Deal and Ramsgate. The Kentish coast has suffered shelling since August 1940 and towns like Dover have sustained a lot of damage. In...
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NEW HIGHWAY -
La Guaira, chief port of Venezuela, is now joined to Caracas (the capital) by a fine new highway - an engineering masterpiece officially opened by Colonel Jimenez, the President. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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MINISTERS SEE NEW HOUSES -
Mr David Eccles and Mr Ernest Marples recently inspected new houses on show at Basingstoke. 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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EXPORT HOUSES -
Mr Eccles (Minister of Works) was on hand at Lincoln to see a demonstration of the speedy construction of pre-fabricated houses, to be exported to Canada and America. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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UNDER THE MERSEY
Breakthrough between Liverpool and Wallasey under the River Mersey. The pilot tunnel of the new underwater link has been completed in just over a year. ® The Second Mersey Tunnel is due to be in service by 1970. Disclaimer: British...
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BUILDING BRITAIN
A private enterprise Research Centre in Surrey is testing building components, simulating the effects of fire upon brick walls. In Reading, an unusual ""Topping Out"" ceremony features Milk and Pinta Girls. In Trafalgar Square, Nelson's...
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THE BIG BUILDERS
Britain's largest and most spectacular exhibition - on a forty acre site at Crystal Palace - presents the giants of the Construction Engineers. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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UNDER THE THAMES
The new Blackwall Tunnel, costing eight and a half million pounds, is opened by the Chairman of the GLC. At a hospital near Maidstone, students are building a road to make life easier for the wheel-chair patients. Disclaimer: British...
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SUPPLYING THE ARMY
Exercises with new equipment have been carried out at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. Laying a pipe-line of aluminium alloy, for example, and they've got an automatic pipe-welding machine to help them in the job. This was...
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MAC MEETS THE PEOPLE
One way of meeting the Very Important People in Ghana could be seen, when Mr Macmillan came with Dr Nkrumah to attend a reception in Accra. It was a formal occasion, but one, nevertheless, at which Britain and Ghana could really get...
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THE SEAWAY READY
While the Queen flew to Newfoundland, ships were ploughing the well-known route across the North Atlantic to the St. Lawrence. For them, the ocean voyage may, nowadays, by only half their journey. The St. Lawrence leads to an inland...
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BREWERY BITES THE DUST
It was goodbye to a famous brewery at Victoria. Most of it had gone already. The chimneys were the last to bite the dust. One cameraman thought it such a shame, he tried to slow down the process of demolition! Disclaimer: British...
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WATER WORLD:
The Mangla Dam - in West Pakistan - the second largest in the World, has just been officially opened. ® In Sussex, a demonstration of an under-water research vehicle that can descend to a depth of a thousand feet. ® In the Bristol...
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""I'LL BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN""
Bucks County Council order a new Half-a-million pound College to be pulled down, alleging it was built without planning permission. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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NEW HIGHWAY
A section of the Ross Motorway was inspected by Mr Marples. With it's 41 bridges, the motorway is described as the ""new faster and safer route between Wales and the Midlands"". Mr Marples himself drove along the 21 miles from Tewkesbury...