Firstly Sir Robert Cohen flies out to inaugurate the new Iraq pipe line. The second departure is that of the Duke and Duchess of Kent for Paris. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...

An Officer commanding an AA troop visits one of the Royal Ordnance factories. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...

Following the attack on Southern Korea by the Russian dominated North Koreans, Mr Tehi Chang Yun, the South Korean Minister in London, made an early comment on the situation. In a swift, bold decision, the United States sea and air...

A look back over the year which saw the war effort in the factories increase. The Atlantic Charter meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt, the loss of the ""Prince of Wales"" and the ""Repulse"". The Royal Navy claimed the ""Bismarck"" and...

Pictures of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference in Lagos where they decided to appoint a sanctions committee and to meet again in July if the Rhodesian crisis demands it. ® Also Mr Wilson and Mr Bottomley in Zambia where they...

Spitfires were amongst the aircraft taking part in the display at Leuchars Airfield. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...

Installed in a RAF Meteor 8 Interceptor Fighter are two of the new ""Sapphire"" jet engines - the most powerful ever designed. It was demonstrated by Squadron-Leader Jan Zurakowski. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...

Farnborough was the setting for the first RAF display since 1938. The King, Queen and Princess Margaret watched the aircraft displays. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...

Pictures show the open day of the Royal Artillery at Larkhill. Also the open day of the Fleet Air Arm at Lee-on-Solent. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...

A few hundred yards from Llandow Airfield (near Cardiff), where it was to have landed, the wrecked Tudor V airliner lies, the tragedy was the worst in the history of civil aviation anywhere in the world. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...

When Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip flew to Rome from Malta, they were received by the British Ambassador and Lady Mallet, with whom they were staying. It is Princess Elizabeth's first visit to Italy. Disclaimer: British Movietone...

A sign of the times at Forth Worth, Texas: B36 bombers now being produced in large numbers. Believed to be the world's largest military aircraft, the B36 will have an important role to play - should war come. Meanwhile, in Vancouver...

Arriving at dawn from Cowes, the 'Saunders Roe AI"" came down on the Thames in Woolwich Reach. She's believed to be the only jet flying-boat in the world and is the first jet aircraft to alight on London river. Disclaimer: British...

Baby carp, around ten million of them, are flown out from Hong Kong to other parts of Asia for stocking rivers and lakes. When only a couple of inches long they're put into plastic bags containing water. Oxygen is blown into the water to...

Princess Elizabeth recently paid her first visit to the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell - for the Graduation Parade. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...

The new defence position at El Alamein is being reinforced and General Auchinleck went up to the front to see for himself. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps works on disabled tanks to bring them back into service as seen as possible. Land...

Three Britons have died after a UK-registered light aircraft crashed in Dubai, authorities said. The four-seat plane plummeted to the ground around three miles south of Dubai International Airport, killing all four people on board,...

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, is at risk of collapse, according to a report. The airline operates more UK domestic flights than any other, and is reportedly in talks over potential emergency financing after suffering rising...

Europe's largest regional airline, Flybe, has finally collapsed into administration, threatening thousands of jobs and the future viability of a number of airports across the UK. Flybe's demise, announced early on Thursday and blamed in...

Nine million easyJet passengers have had their travel details accessed by hackers, the airline has announced. The Luton-based carrier said the figure includes 2,208 customers who had their credit card details exposed. It insisted there...

British Airways is to retire its fleet of Boeing 747s with immediate effect. The airline has used the craft since July 1989 and is currently the world’s biggest operator of the 747-400 model.

Aerial View of New York World Fair as Television is Introduced

Atlantic Ocean, 1952: A few weeks after his shipwreck, Captain Carlsen and his family are welcome upon landing in New York's Idlewild Airport.

Scenes from around the streets of Manhattan in 1980, highlighting the buildings, traffic, shops, signage, Rockefeller Plaza, parks and a helicopter ride.