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CAN320 SOVIET PREMIER VISITS CZECHOSLOVAKIAN AIRCRAFT FACTORY
Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev visits an aircraft factory in Czechoslovakia: Telecined piece
1. Soviet Premier Khrushchev motorcade arriving at the factory
2. ms workers at factory
3. ms Khrushchev out of car
4. ms Khrushchev greeted...
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SYND 20-8-69 COMMUNIST CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING
Central Committee of Czech Communists meet in Prague, President Ludvik Svoboda and Party chief Gustav Husak address meeting.
1 gv exterior people waiting to enter meeting
2 ms people entering hall
3 gv people in meeting hall
4 ms...
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SYND 28/10/71 EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER BETWEEN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND WALES
European Football Championship qualifier match between Czechoslovakia and Wales in Prague.
1. ms Czech attack, Wales take possession and play down field
2. ms Wales in possession, attempt at goal, play returns to midfield
3. ms Czech...
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CAN230 FOOTAGE OF DAILY BERLIN LIFE
Berlin Footage: People shopping, Berlin wall, customs launch on river, vehicles at border checkpoint
1. various ls market stalls outside the Rathaus Schoneberg (West Berlin City Hall)
2. various and extensive shots, people buying fruit...
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Young British brain tumour patient arrives at hospital for treatment in Prague
A five-year-old British boy who was taken from a hospital in the UK without doctors' consent arrived at a Prague hospital with his parents on Monday for treatment for a brain tumour.
Ashya King left the Spanish city of Malaga, where he...
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SYND 28 08 68 SOVIET TANKS HAVE LEFT PRAGUE
Soviet tanks have now left the centre of Prague.
1. ws Wenceslas Square, almost empty
2. tracking shot through streets of Prague
3. ws light traffic over bridge
Film: Neg - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: a0051944 - LN Number:...
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SYND 28-1-72 COMMUNIST CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING IN PRAGUE
Kosygin and Brezhnev attend Czechoslovakia Communist Central Committee meeting in Prague
1) gv Prague skyline and river Vlatava
2) ms exterior of Central Committee building
3) sign above door
4) flags flying
5) soviet delegation arrive...
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LIB 24-2-73 25TH COMMUNIST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED
The 25th anniversary of communism in Czechoslovakia is celebrated in Prague.
1. ws of VIP rostrum with soldiers lined up below
2. vs of the audience gathered
3. vs of an address by President Gustav Husak who is flanked by Leonid...
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SYND 31 3 68 ELECTION SCENES IN PRAGUE
Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia in succession to Antonin Novotny.
1. ws and tilt down exterior of St Vitus cathedral to waiting people
2. ms boy scouts waiting
3. vs of people with placards
4. ms and pan Bishop...
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East Germans Crowded In Embassy
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Digibeta in the archive
6.11.89 BORDER. The first expressions of West German unease at the
unending influx of East Germans were expressed on 5 November
after more than 23,000 fled the...
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SYND 27-1-73 POLISH LEADERS ARRIVE
Polish leaders including General Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party Edward Gierek arrive in Prague and meet Czechoslovakian President Gustav Husak.
1. ws of the exterior of a government building
2. vs of Gierek meeting Husak
3....
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SYND 4 3 68 CZECH TROOPS GO ON MANOEUVRES AHEAD OF THE WARSAW PACT MEETING
Warsaw Pact countries are to meet on Wednesday (6th march) at Sofia in Bulgaria amid growing speculation that Romania might withdraw. Meanwhile, troops in Czechoslovakia are on manoeuvres and parade their military might.
1. ws...
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UPITN 29 4 76 NATIONAL GALLERY EXHIBITION OF RELIGIOUS ART IN PRAGUE
A n exhibition of religious paintings, statues and icons at the National Gallery in Prague.
1. ms exhibits in the Prague Museum, painting and statue
2. cu head of statue, pan to other head
3. ms dark oil painting, family group, Dutch...
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SYND 25-10-73 PHAM VAN DONG VISITS PRAGUE
The North Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong pays a visit to Prague.
1. ms Dong being greeted2. vs of the North Vietnamese and Czech delegations sitting at a conference tableFilm: Rev - Sound: Mute - Colour - NYFilm: No - LN...
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LIB 19-11-73 AN ICE HOCKEY MATCH
Czechoslovakia play Sweden at ice hockey in Prague.
1. vs of the match in progress; the footage includes some slo-mo
Film: Pos - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: No - LN Number: LN48139 - Available in HD
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SYND 8 9 68 TANKS AND ARTILLERY STILL IN PRAGUE
Soviet heavy armour is still in Prague, Czechoslovakia is uneasy under "normalisation" after the Soviet takeover
1. various tracking shots artillery
2. various tracking shots tanks
Film: Neg - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm:...
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SYND 17 10 68 RUSSIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA SIGN TREATY LEGALISING SOVIET INTERVENTION
Soviet Premier, Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrive in prague where he signs the trearty leagalizing the Soviet invasion and Soviet troops presence in Czechoslovakia
1. ms clock at Prague airport
2. cu ground crew...
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US President Obama departs enroute to Prague
1. Helicopter with US President Barack Obama preparing to land
2. Helicopter taxiing
3. Pull out of helicopter
4. Obama emerging from helicopter
5. Obama running up steps of US Air Force One, turns and waves
6. Wide of Air Force One
7....
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SYND 16/09/71 PLENARY SESSION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE IN PRAGUE
Plenary session of Czechoslovakian Communist Party Central Committee in Prague.
1. gv conference hall in Prague Castle
2. mcu President of Czechoslovakia Ludvik Svoboda and Josef Kempny
3. mcu Czech Communist Party Leader Gustav Husak...
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LIB 2-5-74 : THOUSANDS CELEBRATE MAYDAY IN PRAGUE
Prague, Czechoslovakia - 01/05/1974.Tens of thousands of people celebrated the May Day holiday in the Czech capital, Prague. May day celebrations in Prague centred on the Letna area, where members of the Oganisation of Youth and Pioneers...
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LIB 9-10-73 PRAGUE STEEPLECHASE
Steeplechase race held in Prague.
1. various of racing course in Prague where Steeplechase horse race is about to start
2. ms sign reading "Velka Pardubicka Steeple Chase"
3. gv twelve horse carriage parading towards and past camera
4....
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UPITN 17 10 74 HONECKER ARRIVES FOR VISIT
The leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, arrives in Prague for a visit and is greeted by Gustav Husak, General Secretary of the Czech Communist party.
1. vs of Husak and Honecker walking and waving to the crowd
2. vs of the crowd
3....
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SYND 22-10-70 EAST GERMAN LEADER ARRIVAL
Walter Ulbricht First Secretary of State for Socialist Party in East Germany arrives in Prague for talks with Czechoslovak leaders on relations between East bloc countries and West Germany
1 ms East Germany leader Walter Ulbright off...