British Movietone
SWAZILAND CELEBRATES NEW YEAR FESTIVAL
Swaziland, which South Africa wishes to incorporate in the Union, is a small Protectorate between Transvaal and Natal. The people are mostly herdsmen and have recently been celebrating their great New Year Festival called Incwala....
British Movietone
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS AT MISS ATTLEE'S WEDDING
Miss Janet Attlee wed Mr Harold Shipton at Ellesborough Church near to Chequers. Many well known political figures attended the wedding. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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SYRIAN MANOEUVRES ON PALESTINE FRONTIER
Syria's troops carry out manoeuvres close to the border with Palestine, as a token gesture of Arab resolve to resist partition. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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PAKISTAN TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM FRONTIER
The Pakistan Garrison is being withdrawn from the remote fort of Waziristan. 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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HIS HOLIDAY AWHEEL
Since it looked promising on Good Friday, out from towns streamed the cyclists, seeking sun, air and exercise in the countryside. What a rest cure are those wide horizons. How ennobling to the mind the gracious expanses of rural...
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GALA DAY IN KASEMBE
School-children had a day off in Kasembe village (in the Kawambwa district of Northern Rhodesia); the occasion was the installation as new tribal chieftain of a ruler with the attractive name of Brown Ngombe. Disclaimer: British...
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MOUNT LAMINGTON'S TRAGIC ERUPTION
A Movietone 'plane took off at Popendetta to fly towards New Guinea's Mount Lamington; approaching the mountain, the vast scale of destruction caused by the recent eruptions becomes apparent - the country is scorched and lifeless....
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SERETSE KHAMA COMES TO ENGLAND ALONE
The story of Seretse Khama and the Bamangwatos of Bechuanaland has been well in the news again, he went to Francistown Airport en route to Southampton where he arrived by BOAC flying boat. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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OPERATION
A scene at one of the several villages in Cyprus involved in the recent hunt for arms and explosives during the operation known to the Army as ""Plum Duff"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
Bridgeman Arts
Norwegian Civilians Flee as Bombs Dropped on Towns
Norwegian Civilians Flee as Bombs Dropped on Towns
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Patrols and Armoured Vehicles Cross Norway
Patrols and Armoured Vehicles Cross Norway
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Cabo de Palos
Panoramic view of a Spanish fishermen village by the sea next to a cape. Mar Menor near Cartagena.
Bridgeman Arts
Greek Island Holiday, 1960s
Colour. 1960s. Children play in narrow streets. Washing hangs from railings above them. A local man watches as kids pass him. Kids at bottom of steps, by cars. Place Gaffory. Tightly packed house on steep mountain side. Boat in harbour....
Bridgeman Arts
Familiares
Rural scene in a Spanish village. An airplane taking off in an airport. A ferry at the harbour. Military Parade.
Bridgeman Arts
EXCURSION TO METSOVON, GREECE, 1974
The film opens with cars stuck in the snowy roads of Pindos mountains, Greece. Snowball fights and teasing between the filmmaker and his friends until they put the snow chains on to the cars’ tires to continue their journey. Views of the...
Bridgeman Arts
ON THE ROAD TO PANAGIA KERA, CRETE, GREECE, JUNE 1975
Views of the rural areas and villages of Crete, Greece, on the road to the Monastery of Panagia Kera. Road signs point towards Heraklion and Ierapetra-Sitia. We watch farmers in their fields using traditional tools. On the walls of some...
Bridgeman Arts
Norway 1972
Colour. Glacier in a valley. Melting water gushes into sea at estuary. A small town, store named Alf Jonnson, people walk past. Ship in cove. Seagulls. Mountainous regions seen from a ship. Another glacier. Ship sails through fjord....
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METSOVO, GREECE, JANUARY 1979
Metsovo is a traditional mountainous town in the prefecture of Ioannina at an altitude of 1,160m. A woman opens the window and the lens shows us the view of the whole village and the mountain. We see the village’s traditional...
Bridgeman Arts
Visiting Graves in France, 1970s
British car outside French cafe. Owner with broom smiles at camera. Sign: Entree De L'Hotel. POV from car driving through Paris, Notre Dame. Graveyard, grave stone of Private E J Burbridge aged 18. GVs of graveyard. Woman amongst stones....
Bridgeman Arts
Visit To Austria, 1940s
Shots of an Austrian mountain from a boat. Tourists mingle with the Austrian locals. Scenic views of the mountains. People leave their chalets and trek into the snowy mountains. Shot of person walking in an ice tunnel. Tourists visit...
Bridgeman Arts
VIEWS OF ITHACA ISLAND, GREECE, 1974
Moving by car towards the seaside village of Frikes in Ithaca, we see shots from the sharp turns of the road that reaches the edge of the cliff. Just before we enter the village Frikes, the two green hills rise in front of us and at the...
Bridgeman Arts
Trip to Spain
A trip by plane to Catalonia coast, in the northeast frontier of Spain with France.
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Train Trip Model Village, 1950s
Passengers ride a miniature railway. A train takes a family on a trip to a seaside resort in Cheshire. They attend a model village then cross Acton Bridge for their journey home. A steam train takes them home.
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TRADITIONAL DANCE IN CORFU, GREECE, 1960
Lakones is a traditional, semi-mountainous village, built on the slope of a green hill in northwestern Corfu. We are located in the village's square, where a party with music and dance has been set up. Locals, visitors and women dressed...