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Part 7 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - kids playing on council estate grounds, derelict King's Theatre, the BBC building, playground
Clip 7 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Part 2 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - new high rise buildings, commuters crossing bridge, street scenes
Clip 2 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 9 - boys playing in living room, mother puts them in the bath, gets ready for bed
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
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Stylish, sporty, attractive women in Oslo. Sunbathing, turning heads, attracting men, riding motorbikes, skiing, waterskiing, in uniform.
Women of Oslo, Norway in the 1960s
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Part 8 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - senior citizens reacting to new council blocks and in care home.
Clip 8 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Barbican 1969, clip 9 - a wedding in the St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church
Clip 9 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. The Church of St Giles Cripplegate and a wedding. Guests and choirboys sing. The focus of the film is to explain how the new...
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The Lord Mayor, 1960, part 1 - The Lord Mayor's Show and street procession
Clip 1 from the 1960 film 'The Lord Mayor', commissioned by the City of London Corporation to give an overview of its services, including schools, markets, housing welfare and health. In this clip, a procession for the Lord Mayor's Show...
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The Lord Mayor, 1960, part 3 - Views of London, and its Square Mile. Commuters during the day, and scenes at night
Clip 3 from the 1960 film 'The Lord Mayor', commissioned by the City of London Corporation to give an overview of its services, including schools, markets, housing welfare and health. In this clip, scenes of London by day, including...
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 7 - woman at home, council block, mother and child
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 8 - family at home, demolition site, council housing
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
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Barbican 1969, clip 6 - military band, city workers in alleyways, Beefeater, women in mini skirts
Clip 6 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. Shots include pleasant garden square, military band playing near St Paul's Cathedral, city workers in alleyways and courtyards,...
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Part 4 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - modern architecture and plans for future London
Clip 4 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Part 9 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - Piccadilly Circus and futuristic plan for it, workers building new London.
Clip 9 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
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Tower Bridge: Looking at London, 1968, part 7 - Unloading and transportation of bacon cargo around London
Part 7 of the 1968 film Tower Bridge: Looking At London, which explores the history and development of the Tower Bridge along the River Thames. Presented by Ann Dickinson. In this clip, bacon cargo is lifted by cranes and unloaded onto...
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1970s, Man biker, rider in trees
1970S: UNITED STATES: CLOSE UP OF RIDER'S FACE AND HELMET. MAN RIDES BACK ALONG RURAL TRACK. TREES AND SUNLIGHT AS MAN RIDES BIKE
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MAN RIDES MOTORBIKE ALONG FOREST TRACK, 1970s
1970S: UNITED STATES: MAN RIDES MOTORBIKE ALONG FOREST TRACK. RIDER DOES WHEELIE ON BIKE.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 1 - cityscape GVs of London, woman looking for property
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at the work of the Greater London Council in tackling London's housing shortage in the late 60s.
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Barbican 1969, clip 10 - A Barbican Tower block under construction, shot of London skyline with sun setting.
Clip 10 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. A Barbican Tower block under construction, shot of London skyline with sun setting. The focus of the film is to explain how...
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Underground nuclear explosive detonated at Urta-Bulak gas field, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1966
In 1966, a nuclear explosive was detonated at Urta-bulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan in order to extinguish a gas well fire that had been burning for almost three years and had resisted numerous attempts at control. The gas...
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China's first nuclear weapons test (596), detonated on October 16th 1964, Lop Nur test site.
The People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test (called 596, and originally named by the US intelligence agencies Chic-1), detonated on October 16, 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device...
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 2 - mother and children at home in terrible living conditions
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council in slum clearance and building and its plans in the...
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60s, Motorcycles
LONG SHOT, MOTORCYCLE DRIVES DOWN ROAD. MOTORCYCLE GOES AROUND CURVE. TRACKING SHOT, GROUP OF MOTORCYCLES ON ROAD.
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Tower Bridge: Looking at London, 1968, part 6 - Dockers, wharfmen, lighters and the transportation of cargo
Part 6 of the 1968 film Tower Bridge: Looking At London, which explores the history and development of the Tower Bridge along the River Thames. Presented by Ann Dickinson. In this clip, dockers, wharfmen and lighters work with the...
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Tower Bridge: Looking at London, 1968, part 4 - Baltic Sun's journey from Poland to England, and Mark Brown's Wharf
Part 4 of the 1968 film Tower Bridge: Looking At London, which explores the history and development of the Tower Bridge along the River Thames. Presented by Ann Dickinson. In this clip, the journey of a cargo ship (Baltic Sun) is seen as...