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BERLIN - SPANDAU GUARD CHANGING
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Reventlow Baby Focal Point Of Rumours
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CAPTIVE PILOTS HOME
Captains David Taylor and Trevor Copleston, pilots of the Tshombe Hi-jack plane return to London after three-months captivity in Algeria. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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THE AMERICAN DILEMMA
Flashpoint Detroit, sparking off the blaze of race riots across the United States. In New York, Negroes leave Harlem to loot Fifth Avenue. In the words of President Johnson, whose Commission on Civil Disorder is to seek a solution, ""the...
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NONE FOR THE ROAD
Enjoying a fine wine - or a beer with boys - is part of the British way of life. But the new Road Safety Act suggests that, as a nation of drivers, it's time we seriously revised our attitudes to drink. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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MORE ROME RIOTS
A bloody battle between Left and Right Wing students at Rome University results in many injuries. Control is only regained after the somewhat tardy appearance of the Carabinieri and Police. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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COSH CALLS COPS
A shop-full of valuable goods is a natural magnet for the criminal, and, with crime on the increase, new methods to beat the burglar must be devised. These pictures show one: here is what appears to be an ordinary truncheon for...
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STRIKERS CLASH
There was a bit of a flare-up in London. It all started with an orderly demonstration against what the strikers said was black labour. When some of the demonstrators got into the office of the paper concerned, things began to happen....
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PRISON FIRE
At Nashville, Tennessee, convicts had set the prison on fire to demonstrate sympathy for 20 men on a hunger strike during solitary confinement. A guard fell to his death and a woman prisoner committed suicide, all the others escaped the...
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KATANGA BATTLE
Retaliation in Katanga after Congolese mutineers had opened fire on Belgian troops. The rebels were hiding out in Katanga which had announced its independence from the rest of the Congo. 4 days were spent trying to persuade the Congolese...
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U-2 TRIAL
It was the Hall of Columns in Moscow, where Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the American ""U2"" spy-plane, shot down over Russia, faced the judges with composure. Gary's wife and parents were in court for most of the time. The sentence: 10...
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JORDAN BOMB OUTRAGE
Our pictures show the Foreign Ministry building in Amman, wrecked by the time bombs that killed Jordan's Prime Minister, Hazza Majali. Many people attended the funeral of the Prime Minister, when the coffin was borne from the hospital in...
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THE SIEGE OF SYDNEY
After eight days in which his gunpoint siege made world headlines, Wally Mellish gives up. For the girl who spent that terrifying vigil with him - and who was forced to marry him on pain of death - safety at last. Disclaimer: British...
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TOWARDS THE 25th
The Joy Strings - the Salvation Army's Pop Group - mix a giant Christmas Pudding for the residents of their London Hostels. Up in Scotland, another ingredient of a Happy Christmas is being closely guarded at a distillery - by Geese! The...
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FRANCE ""FOULS THE BED""
De Gaulle says ""No to fouling the Bed"" - But that descriptive phrase sums up the chaotic situation in France, with millions on strike and the whole structure of the economy in danger of collapse. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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PARIS FIRE DRAMA
The Night-watchman at a vast fuel storage depot near Paris is charged with setting it alight. The blaze destroyed over forty storage tanks and threatened the lives of hundreds of firemen. Our cameramen recorded a dramatic sequence in the...
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INSIDE
Movietone visits three of Britain's Top Security Prisons - Durham, Parkhurst and Leicester - to bring you rare pictures from inside The Special Security Wings where some of our most dangerous criminals are held. Disclaimer: British...
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SAFE IN BRITAIN
Safe home after imprisonment in Yugoslavia, Philip Dobson, driver of the Student coach which crashed last year while he was at the wheel. ® Asylum in Britain could be the object of Danny the Red, the exiled French student leader. We...
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STUDENT FLARE-UP
Protesting at the attempted assassination of their leader, Rudi Dutschke, Left-wing students riot in West Germany's major cities. Violence is directed against the Publishing group of Axel Springer who claim this mob violence to be worst...
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WHAT FUTURE de GAULLE?
While rumours of President de Gaulle's retirement have been denied, it would be understandable if they were true. Movietone reviews the current critical situation - the reaction of the defiant workers who've rejected Union settlements...
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PREMIER OF PAKISTAN ASSASSINATED
News of the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan came as a great shock throughout the Commonwealth. At Pakistan's first Prime Minister, he was the trusted leader of his country in its early formative period. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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CANAL ZONE ROUND-UP
Following terrorist activities in the Canal Zone, British troops have been carrying out a number of searches in Egyptian villages. Their task was to look for weapons and for any so-called Egyptian ""Commandos"" who might be hiding there....
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SOUTH AFRICA UNION LEADER ARRESTED
Outside Johannesburg City Hall, many thousands of supporters had come to protest against government action concerning the General Secretary of the Garment-Worker's Union. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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Kidnappers In US Get Life Sentence
""Machine-gun Kelly"" and confederates take part in dramatic court scene in Oklahoma City. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...