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MARCH OF THE PLANE MAKERS
Around ten thousand people representing hundreds of thousands whose jobs could be threatened if the TSR2 and similar projects are discontinued, march in protest to Hyde Park in a demonstration to save an industry. Disclaimer: British...
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BAN THE BOMB - TOKYO STYLE
Nearly six thousand Japanese took part in this Anti-American demonstration outside a US Air Base near Tokyo. ® Seven hundred riot police were alerted, but there was no real trouble and no sit down. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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THE SAFETY SEEKERS
Nineteen year old Susan Aveyard from the Isle of Man, plays guinea pig for Mr Mark Shaw of Morecambe, Lancashire. He has developed a new form of life jacket, which Susan is helping to test. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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OPERATION RESCUE
The sea shore at Hoylake in Cheshire, is just one of the many places where thousands of sea birds are poisoned each year, by the oil which is pumped out of the tankers while flushing their tanks at sea. The RSPCA has got a full scale...
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KHRUSHCHEV IN NEW YORK
Our pictures show the Russian liner ""Baltica"", steaming up river to New York, and accompanied by helicopters and coastguard vessels. The ship passed under Brooklyn Bridge on its way to ""Pier 73"", which had been allotted as her berth:...
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""CHUNNEL""
The Channel Tunnel has just hit the headlines again following the announcement that Britain and France have decided, in principle, to go ahead. Its reported that a double tunnel could handle around seven thousand cars an hour. Of course,...
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TREE-TOP DETERRENT
Blue Steel is the stand-off bomb now being carried by Britain's V Bombers, it's the mainstay of our defence network. Our pictures show a demonstration at RAF Wittering, in Northamptonshire. Mr Hugh Fraser Secretary of State for Air has...
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CONTRAST IN COVENTRY
The most obvious contrast in Coventry features the two cathedrals. The old one stands as a monument to courage under the blitz of Nazi bombs in World War Two. ® The present Supreme Allied Commander, General Norstad, visiting the...
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CONGO DISPATCH
The United Nations Security Council met again to deal with the difficult and dangerous Congo situation, and it was resolved to call upon Belgium to withdraw her troops from Katanga. And the Secretary General was authorised to send UN...
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GERMANS PROTEST AGAINST DEMOLITIONS
Destruction of war potential at the Hermann Goering Steel Works at Watenstedt-Salzgitter has necessitated the presence of British troops to support the German police. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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ANOTHER ST. ANDREW'S CELEBRATION - CHURCHILL'S BIRTHDAY
To Mr Churchill's London home came a stream of presents and congratulations on his 76th birthday. As you'd expect, indeed, gifts and good wishes arrived from all over the world. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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WORLD CITIZENS GET A LIFT
In Paris, followers of the American Garry Davis (who called himself 'World Citizen Number One') have been demonstrating outside the Chamber of Deputies. They refused to budge, so the police did the budging for them. Disclaimer: British...
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""REDS"" ""PEACE"" DEMONSTRATION
In New York, the Communists held a ""peace"" demonstration until the police carried out their orders to stop it. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of...
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""LATE DATE"" HOLIDAY
Pictures show some of the activities of August Bank Holiday at its new time - the end of August. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection...
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RIOTS AND BLOODSHED IN PUERTO RICO
Trouble on the American island of Puerto Rico; first a record prison break, then, revolution and the attempted assassination of Puerto Rico's Governor. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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STEAMED UP - COOLED OFF
Demonstrations in Israel on the arrival of Dr Rolf Pauls the new German ambassador. ® Also, demonstrations in Belgium where there is a row going on about whether Flemish or French should be used in the local church at Ostend....
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EXTREMISTS DEMONSTRATE
London recently had a Sunday of demonstrations by extremists; Sir Oswald Mosley held a meeting at Ridley Road without incident, but a communist demonstration in Trafalgar Square led to quite a bit of trouble in Whitehall. A number of...
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ARMY DAY
Marching from Wellington Barracks to Hyde Park, a parade of three thousand marked this year's Army Day. As last year, some women tried to demonstrate with ""peace"" placards. In Hyde Park, Field Marshal Sir William Slim took the salute....
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WORLD'S LARGEST ""NUTCRACKER""
Abandoned cars are a problem which a Midlands company has solved. A 40ft machine, hauled by a 6 wheeled truck, from town to town, squeezes car wrecks into little parcels of scrap for use in steel mills. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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PARIS POLICE BATTLE COMMUNISTS
In Paris, just before Easter, there were some pretty rough scenes in the Champs Elysees, as the police came to grips with about 1500 communists. It was said to be a demonstration against the right-wing newspaper ""Le Figaro""....
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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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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...