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MR CHAMBERLAIN PAYS TRIBUTE -
In Rome the Prime Minister lays wreath on Tomb of Unknown Warrior. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY -
It is three years since that memorable Saturday and Sunday of 1939 when peace was slipping away from us. There was an air of unreality about everything, the sandbags in the streets, the gas masks, the barrage balloons and that false...
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Cabinet meets at No 10 after summer holiday.
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PREMIER'S GRANDCHILD CHRISTENED
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PREMIER IN PARIS -
The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary visit Paris. 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...
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MR CHAMBERLAIN OFF TO FRANCE
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CRYPT WEDDING OF WOMAN MP -
Miss Thelma Cazalet becomes the first woman MP to be married in the Crypt. 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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MR CHAMBERLAIN LEAVES NO 10
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PARLIAMENT'S FATEFUL MEETING -
Parliament reassembles to consider the situation arising out of the German-Soviet Pact. 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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WAR! -
The fateful hour has struck, Britain and Germany are at war. Members gather at the House to hear the Premier's speech. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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NO 10, FOCAL POINT -
The Polish Ambassador and German Charge D'Affaires call at No 10 Downing Street. 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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PARLIAMENT -
Parliament is re-called to meet the emergency. 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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PEACE OR WAR?
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LONDON CARRIES ON -
Ministers and Service Chiefs carry their gas masks. The 'Nippies' have their own gas mask container. At the wedding of Miss Ann Bailey and Pearce Sinnott gas masks are much in evidence. Prince Monolulu as 'a gas mask'. Disclaimer:...
Hearst Metrotone News
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Nazi leader Hermann Goering gather together at the Munich Conference to sign a pact.
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Nazi leader Hermann Goering gather together at the Munich Conference to sign a pact.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
VIPs arrive for funeral of Neville Chamberlain at Westminster Abbey
Group stands near Westminster Abbey, where funeral for Neville Chamberlain is being held / British Foreign Secretary Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, walks with fellow funeral attendee / montage Leslie Hore-Belisha, Liberal member of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Meeting of Supreme War Council between British and French leaders in Paris at start of World War II
French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier on left and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain step out of entrance of building and stand at top of steps for photo opportunity / group of photographers and cameramen standing in street at...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain visits Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Rome
Title card: 'Rome, Italians Welcome Chamberlain Visit' / Mussolini standing on platform in train station as train carrying Chamberlain pulls in / Chamberlain steps down from train and is greeted by Mussolini / they walk out of station...
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Nazis show force as Chamberlain attempts peace talks
Nazi soldiers marching, display maneuvers / tanks and airplanes flying overhead / Neville Chamberlain exiting British Airways airplane, shaking hands / car driving away.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chamberlain and Halifax with Mussolini at Foro Mussolini program; wreath ceremony at monument
Car on wet street moves through building passage, guards on sides, other cars follow / cars moving to and past camera into passageway / Fontana dei Dioscuri / pan down to building passage, soldier and guards on sides / Fontana statues in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax with Benito Mussolini at Foro Mussolini program
Line of cars with motorcycle escorts entering Foro Mussolini, statues and maybe policeman in fg, cars drive behind crowd in stands with statues along back; pan across arena field with ordered groups / pan crowd in stands applauding and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Benito Mussolini greets Neville Chamberlain prior to wreath-laying ceremony in Rome
Military display in Piazza Venezia with soldiers at attention surrounded by buildings and view down street / Neville Chamberlain's car and others pull up to curb, maybe Bersaglieri soldiers in bg, Benito Mussolini and officials giving...
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, Part 1 - German and British camermen at the beginning of WW2
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century. The film is in rough cut stage (cutting copy) and is intercut with footage illustrating the cameramen's stories.