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MUNICH BEER FESTIVAL
For fifteen days Munich is alive with music, dancing and the clink of the beer steins, for this is the duration of the 'Oktoberfest'. As well as the consumption of beer, for the Bavarians and the many foreign visitors, there is 'all the...
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BLOODSTOCK SALES CENTRE
Just over a year ago, Ireland's Prime Minister, Liam Cosgrave, opened a New Bloodstock Sales Centre in County Kildare. In the intervening year the Centre has broken all sales records. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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NEW AIRPORT
The inauguration of Berlin's new airport Tegel-South after four years of building. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
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The Duke of Gloucester Speaks at Stanmore Hospital
The Duke opens the gates of the new Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for cripples at Stanmore. 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 AIRPORT HOTEL
They've finished building the new Excelsior luxury hotel at Glasgow Airport, and Under-Secretary of State for Scotland George Younger performs the ""topping out"" ceremony. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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PRINCESS ANNE WITH THE SIGNALS
Just after their centenary, the Royal Signals welcome Princess Anne for her first visit. Her Royal Highness inspects early signalling instruments in the Museum, and then drives a piece of their latest equipment - a Snocat. There too, the...
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BEATING THE HANDICAP
Athletes in wheelchairs meet the Queen when Her Majesty comes to open the Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium, specially built at this famous hospital for the paralysed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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SPECIAL COLOUR REPORT FROM KEW
Where we cross the threshold into the equatorial luxuriance of the famous Palm House, and see Her Majesty The Queen opening the new replica of a 17th Century garden that provides a delightful formal setting for a former Royal Palace. ®...
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HE BUILT HIS OWN BRIDGE
An enterprising Canadian ""Do-it-Yourself"" enthusiast overcomes official apathy and decides to buy his own bridge and erect it over the Fraser River. In doing so, he and his neighbours are saved a sixty mile drive to the nearest...
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QUEEN AT HARROW SCHOOL
The Queen visits the famous public school at Harrow to mark the 400th year of the granting of the school's charter by Elizabeth the First. Her Majesty unveils a plaque in the new Physics Laboratories - plants a tree and joins the boys at...
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India:
The Viceroy's Tour and the Aga Khan's Jubilee. 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 and do not...
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Fulham Is Honoured By Duchess of York
Mr Lansbury welcomes Her Royal Highness who opens Princess Beatrice Social Centre. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
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DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AT CAMBERLEY -
The Duke visits the Army Staff College. 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 and do not...
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QUEEN MARY AT LUTON -
Her Majesty visits the new Luton and Dunstable Hospital. 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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GRANITE CITY'S ROYAL VISITORS -
The Queen and Princess Elizabeth recently carried out a number of engagements in Aberdeen. While the Queen visited wounded soldiers, the Princess opened a Sailors Home. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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""Little Eva"" lights up Piccadilly.
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Ireland's Constitution Day
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Mr Mackenzie King opens Chelsea Bridge.
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PREMIER PERFORMS HOLIDAY TASK -
At Kingston, Jamaica, Mr Churchill unveiled a plaque on the hospital of the University of the West Indies. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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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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Installation Of New President Of Eire -
Dr Hyde is inaugurated. 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 and do not represent the opinions...
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HOTEL ROUNDABOUT
It is Britain's first circular hotel, the nine hundred thousand pound Ariel at London Airport. The doors opened automatically, as our cameraman entered to film the scene, when Mr Thorneycroft gave the hotel it's official send-off. A...
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HOUSING TARGET BULL'S-EYE
Mr Harold Macmillan was at Barnet to open what was expected to be the last new house completed in 1953. The Housing Minister himself invited the tenants to take possession of their new house. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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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....