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Tuesday, August 27, 1968 Soviet tanks have left Prague. Moscow Protocol is announced and people protest. Emil Zatopek and Alexander Dub_ek speak.
Part five of Seven Days to Remember Part 2, documenting events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Made by valiant Czech filmmakers, who risked their lives to film the defiance in the streets and to get their...
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Local Fisherman, Swat Valley
A boy fishes trouts, a local delicacy, on the Swat river, Pakistan. 4K available if ordered in advance.
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Czechoslovakia 1968 - Fires break out in the city. Fire engines and ambulances attend. Tanks occupy the city
Clip 4 from the 1968 film "Seven Days to Remember", a chronology of the events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968 by troops from the Warsaw Pact. In this clip, masses of people in Wenceslas Square. Tanks try...
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Busy West End London c.1960 - Tottenham Court Road tube station entrance, street scenes in Picadilly, view of Battersea Power Station.
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Street scenes in busy West End, Tottenham Court Road tube station entrance, Piccadilly, pedestrians, traffic, Thames, view of Battersea Power Station...
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Landmarks of London in the early hours; Tower Bridge, the Docklands, St. Paul's Cathedral. c.1960
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Early morning views of the Thames (Tower Bridge and Big Ben). The Docklands. A red traffic light on a street corner. St Paul's Cathedral.
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Scouts of France part 3 - boys put out fire in a barn, play in the forest, hold hands in a circle around a campfire, 1940s
Clip from short film promoting boy scouts in France, 1940s.
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Old man leads child to his house and they prepare dinner. France, 1960
Clip 3 from the 1960 French film 'Au Coeur de la Ville', about an old man who rescues a young girl from suicide. An old man and a child walk back to his house by the railway, and begin to prepare for dinner. The young girl makes friends...
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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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Cabaret Montmartrois, Paris, part 1 - Paris scenes, cabaret performer in carriage, and introduction to the Hydropathes
Clip 1 from the 1940s French film 'Cabarets Montmartrois (Une Evocation Parisienne) with re-enactments of street scenes and cabarets in Paris in 1889, Montmartre. In this clip, a cover of notebook. Pictures of the Eiffel Tower during...
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Sadequain Gallery at Frere Hall, Karachi
Details of masterpiece by Pakistani eminent calligrapher Sadequain Naqqash, titled "Arz-o-Samawat" (The Earth and the Sky), at Frere Hall, Karachi. Sometimes referred to as the 'Sistine Chapel' of Pakistan
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Chinese temple. France, 1955
Clip 6 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of a Chinese temple, women praying inside, and a monk in meditation.
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Cock-fighting. France, 1950
Clip 7 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of a cock-fight organised by the local men.
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City of Treasures part 8 - children buy cradle at market. Market closing Paris 1951
WS of empty, desolate street. WS of man singing surrounded with crowd. MS of children's meeting behind the crowd. MS group of children talking to an old man with white beard. Tracking shot of group of children walking through market with...
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Bullfighting and spectators. France, 1955
Clip 13 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of bullfighters, bulls, and spectators. A photographer takes photos and gets down from the roof of a building using a...
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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...
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Morning scenes in London c.1960 - milkman, bus station, commuters.
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Milkman delivers milk bottles to a town house - he has a horse drawn cart. Drivers set off in famous London buses from a bus station. Man waves goodbye...
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Young lady sleeps on a plane, wakes up and looks out window, c.1960
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Air to air shot of small plane in flight. Passengers sleeping in plane. Clouds from the plane.
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Food Stalls at Sunday Market, Karachi 1
Food vendors at the weekly open-air Sunday Market in Karachi. Colour corrected.
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Supersonic Preview part 2 - Mexican dancers welcome the arrival of a Concorde plane. Crowds gather to admire the Concorde in various international airports. c.1976
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
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Fairground attraction in France 1947: A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing and the other dances.
Clip 5 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing / fire-eating and the other...
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The Bateaux Mouches travels down the Seine with accordion band on board. Paris, 1970s.
Clip from a 1970s tourism film promoting Paris. River boat travels down the Seine with accordion band on board. Paris, 1970s.
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Monuments and statues in Crimea, coastal towns, and the village of Schastie in Ukraine, 1970s
Clip 8 from the film 'Mon Ukraine' (My Ukraine) from the 1970s, exploring landscapes, sites and everyday life in Ukraine. Close up of monument of running horses. Various statues of (probably) communist heroes and workers. Pan of coastal...
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Koranic School in Lahore, Wazir Khan 1
Young and adult students memorising verses from the Holy Quran, at the Wazir Khan mosque in Lahore. Colour corrected.
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Earth is dug up for clay pottery, potters at work in studio, Vallauris, France 1952
Men digging up earth for clay, horse and cart transport it to the pottery studio, potters work away on potter's wheels. Filmed in the Golfe-Juan resort in Vallauris, France in 1952