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MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE WORLD?
Pictures show the new Sydney Opera House, which although not yet completed is going to cost around 30 million pounds. It's been decided to open the building before it is finished and opera star Joan Sutherland was at the ceremony....
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LONDON'S NEW TUBE
It's more than 50 years since building the last underground railway across London. In that time, population has increased by millions, and the capital's business centre has moved further West. The new Victoria Line, now well under way,...
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BRITAIN TRACKS THE MOON MEN
Gemini Seven blasts off and two American astronauts are on man's longest ever flight in space. On Ascension Island, a small British possession, in the middle of the South Atlantic, one hundred million dollars worth of American tracking...
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BUILDING IN A BALLOON
At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon, inflated by an electric fan heats the perennial problem of British builders - the weather....
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COPTER PLAYS STEEPLEJACK
A Sycamore helicopter was used to air-lift the new spire for the church of St. George at Colerne RAF Station in Wiltshire. The spire is twenty five feet of prefabricated glass fibre. As it is lowered the white plastic cross, which was to...
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PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
The latest idea from the building industry is to construct fibre-glass houses. These need little or no outside maintenance. They're built of glass-fibre panels which are particularly strong for their weight. A three bedroom house would...
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""MAN AND HIS WORLD""
St. Helen's Island in Montreal is the site of the vast International Exhibition which will open next year, with the theme ""Man and His World"". It is known as ""Expo '67"", and is claimed to be the first of its kind ever held in the New...
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LONGEST IN EUROPE
Costing seven and three quarter million pounds to build is the new bridge across the River Scheldt in the Zeeland Province of Holland. It's three miles long and saves thirty miles on the journey between Rotterdam and Belgium. Disclaimer:...
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MINISTERS ON THE MOVE
Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle has been to have a look at the third largest bridge in Europe. It will carry the London South-Wales Motorway over the River Severn. Meanwhile the Prime Minister was at Liverpool to re-open the famous...
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PRESTON BY-PASS
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KEEP THE WHEELS TURNING
The main reason for Mr Marples' visit to the new M6 motorway was to see a road laying train which can lay a mile and a half of motorway a week. This train was specially imported from the States at a cost of nearly four hundred thousand....
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TRANS-ATLANTIC NEWS
BRITISH COLUMBIA FLOODS - Severe flooding, following heavy rains in British Columbia, have almost isolated the town of Squamish and damaged property to the tune of millions of dollars. ® FEATHERWEIGHT BRIDGE - In Quebec Province,...
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BRITAIN'S NEW OIL REFINERY
The first of Britain's post-war oil refineries to come into use covers a site of over 2,000 acres at Stanlow, Cheshire. The new cooling tower, when finished, will be the biggest of its kind in the world. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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FESTIVAL - SUNDAY OPENING CONTROVERSY
To open on Sundays or not to open on Sundays - that was the question that superseded earlier controversy over the use of Battersea Park for the Festival Fun-Fair at all. The decision is: not to open on Sundays. Disclaimer: British...
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FESTIVAL SITE GROWS
A glance at the site of the Festival of Britain shows that good progress is being made. The new bridge across the Thames giving additional access to the South Bank is complete. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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THEIR MAJESTIES VISIT FESTIVAL SITE
The site of the 1951 Festival of Britain begins to take shape. Their Majesties, inspecting progress with Mr Morrison and others, made a prolonged tour of the South Bank area, where the exhibition is to be held. Disclaimer: British...
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LONDON AIRPORT'S NEW LOOK
London Airport, one of the world's largest International Air terminals, is undergoing a reconstruction programme which includes a new passenger and control building, part of a £21,000,000 scheme. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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""TOPPING OUT"" THE TALLEST
Mr Norman Prichard Chairman of the LCC Housing Committee was present at the ""Topping Out"" ceremony of a 25 storey block of flats. The tallest in London, which will comprise 88 maisonettes and 52 flats. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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NEW ATOMIC PLANT
An Atomic Power Reactor is being built at Dounreay on the coast of Caithness. 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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THE TOWERS OF LONDON (in colour)
Some 250 tall buildings have changed the face of London since the war. For 260 years, the dome of St. Paul's has towered supreme above the City. Part of Sir Christopher Wren's design for London after the Great Fire, it lived through that...
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ATOMIC POWER STATION
At Calder Hall, Cumberland, Britain's first Atomic Power Station is nearing completion. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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ROCKET TESTING SITE
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FORTH BRIDGE - CLOSING THE GAP
Just up river from the famous Forth Railway Bridge, the new road bridge is rapidly nearing completion. It'll be one of the four largest suspension bridges in the world. Two huge cables - spun from 12,000 steel wires will support the road...
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WATER FOR DURBAN
Natal's great seaport, Durban, has grown so fast that the question of water-supply has been a really big problem. The solution is a new dam, on which work began as long ago as 1939; it's on a horseshe bend of the River Umgeni about...