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Aerial shots, c.1960
Aerial shots of Mediterranean coast, Bosphorus, Turkey, Black Sea, Istanbul, c 1960
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Metal forging, construction industry, tanks, shipbuilding
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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London aerials, neo-natal care and technology
Featuring London street scenes in the 60s and neonatal care in hospital, this subclip is from an award-winning documentary, 'Centenary''. The film was sponsored by Vickers & chronicled the social and industrial history of the 20th...
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Vickers aircraft in construction, design and in flight. C20th scientific and industrial innovation.
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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Birth of a Giant part five - Queen Elizabeth II launches the British Admiral oil tanker at Barrow-in-Furness Shipyard, 17th March 1965
Clip from a 1965 documentary about the building and launch of The British Admiral, the first 100,000 ton tanker ever built in Europe. Made by John Edwards. This clip features Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Barrow-in-Furness Shipyard to...
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She Flies - A film about the Concorde
This iconic award-winning film documents the supersonic Mach 11 aircraft, the Concorde 001, and its first flight from Blagnac, Toulouse, France in March 1969. The end of the film features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from the UK,...
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Spread of communism throughout Europe and Asia, refugees fleeing, Khrushchev, North Korea, people crossing the Soviet border in Germany
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Refuges, walking barefoot on sand, "fleeing communist countries". Meeting relatives in refugees camp, kissing, embracing. Possibly staged. Communists in Asia, North Korea, mass grave, dead bodies....
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Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, Stockholm architecture and roads. Sweden, 1960s
Clip 4 from the 1960s documentary 'Vikings D'hier et D'Aujourd'hui' (Vikings Yesterday and Today) from Sweden. Scenes from a ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. Various shots of the city architecture and roads.
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Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Relatives wave at each other across the wall and barbed wire.
Anti-Communist propaganda film. August 1961, building of Berlin Wall. People waving to relatives from each side of the wall. Various columns of refugees, in post-war Europe and Asia.
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New York City and London. 1960s
Clip 3 from 'Oslo, The Viking Capital' (Oslo, Ville des Vikings) from the 1960s, an animated film about vikings in Oslo. City scene of a New York skycraper, and a shot of Piccadilly Circus in London.
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Ansel Adams taking photos on location, working with students and developing pictures in dark room, 1965
Ansel Adams taking photos on location, working with students and developing pictures in dark room, 1965
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North African desert wildlife, c.1960
Wildlife in North African desert. New born birds in the nest. Fennec fox, snake, lizard. Tracks of a snake on the sand. Snake fighting with a big lizard. Close up of some plants. Monitor lizard fighting and eaten by a skunk. Clip from...
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Hopi village and religious ceremony, dancing, children, dolls representing spirits.
Part 1 of a documentary (1950s?) about the Hopi Native American tribe in Arizona.
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Edward Hopper painting in his studio, his wife Josephine Hopper also paints, shots of New York City. 1965
Edward Hopper painting in his studio, his wife Josephine Hopper also paints, shots of New York City. 1965
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Part 3 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - restoring Wren's churches after WWII bomb damage, city workers on lunch-break, construction sites
Clip 3 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 8 - Interior shots of the Barbican flats, showing modern appliances and fashionable interior design.
Clip 8 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. Interior shots of the Barbican flats, showing modern appliances and fashionable interior design. People imagine themselves...
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The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Imagine an old 1960s diner. There's a long, L-shaped counter top and classic diner stools covered in vinyl dotting the counter space. Sounds like your typical diner, doesn't it? A piece of this diner now sits in The Smithsonian. Why?...
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Have Fun With History: New Horizons
Efficient farming, bubble cars riding on massive interstate highways, and more are a few of the visions of 1960s America as displayed in the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair. [23:00]