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Freedom Village with repatriated Korean War POWs
VS a blond man is helped from a truck with a tarp as a man checks a list; a man holding a bundle of his belongings is helped down and others follow / A sign in English and Korean, "Welcome Gate to Freedom" with a tent beyond / VS...
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British POWs at Britannia Camp in South Korea
VS The men inside the tent drinking, eating, and smoking; a nurse talks to a man holding a cup / VS the returnees sit at tables with paperwork; one speaks to a man wearing a beret and smoking a pipe while filling out paperwork; his face...
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Repatriated British POWs return to Britannia Camp in South Korea
Tilt up of sign, "Britannia Camp" / A Red Cross truck drives past men standing at attention; "...Homeward Bound" on the bumper / Men seated in the dimly lit interior of the truck / same scene with the tarp covers opened and cheerful...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Post Korean War: color guards on parade
Post Korean War / military parade / British soldiers marching /Australian soldiers marching / Turkish soldiers marching / color guards and soldiers from various countries marching / South Korean color guard and soldiers marching / LS 4...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US generals review UN military in South Korea after end of Korean War
Military band marching past camera / two shots of US Marines marching in formation past camera / Australian soldiers marching in formation past camera / South Korean soldiers marching in formation past camera / three shots of US soldiers...
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Admiral Earl Mountbatten relinquishes NATO Mediterranean Command
Title superimposed on Mountbatten being rowed, "Rowed by Admirals - Novel Farewell Salute for Earl Mountbatten" / Numerous officers of the SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) with a microphone in front of them / Lady Edwina...
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British troops head to Suez Canal
Title: "Suez Crisis - British Carriers Rush Troops to Mediterranean" superimposed over British soldiers marching / WS HMS Empire Ken coming in to Famagusta Harbor / British troops disembark // title: "Portsmouth, England" superimposed...
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Anti-British demonstrations in Madrid over Gibraltar and Queen Elizabeth II's upcoming visit
Title "Three Days of Riots Over Gibraltar" superimposed over ride shot of Rock of Gibraltar, plants in fg / looking down on harbor / pan British fleet in harbor / ship and boat in harbor, flag flying in fg / title "Madrid" superimposed...
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Rafts of entire Malayan village floats to safety from Communist terrorists
Title: "Malaya - Dramatic Flight From Red Terrorists" superimposed over raft moving past camera / WS rafts on river / MS Malayan person sitting on raft / the Menteri Besar (chief minister) and soldiers on way to new site / Menteri Besar...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Partial film portrait of Republican presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower focusing on his birthplace, attending West Point, Africa campaign, and D-Day
Card: "Paramount News issue no 13" / title card: "The Eisenhower story" / title card: "The motion Picture Industry, in the Public Interest, presents a special feature: 'The 'Eisenhower Story,' first of two special features on the coming...
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Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill lay wreaths at Cenotaph during Remembrance Sunday ceremony
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 26" / title "Britain Remembers Her Heroes" superimposed over soldiers at attention at ceremony / birdseye view ceremony at Cenotaph, crowd along side, people on rooftop / closer shot / pan dignitaries...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) celebrates its 5th anniversary and NATO its 7th anniversary
Title "NATO marks seventh anniversary" superimposed over NATO flag flying / NATO flags being raised at SHAPE headquarters outside Paris / French Prime Minster Guy Mollet standing to left of Supreme Allied Commander in Europe US general...
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Queen Elizabeth II attends dinner with the British Army at the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London
Title: "London -- The Queen Dines with the Army" superimposed over royal procession up hallway toward camera / bagpipe player, followed by two of the Queen's Gurkha Orderly Officers, lead royal procession up hallway at the Royal Hospital...
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Major Robert Turp demonstrates Sterling machine gun; in sand, mud, cold in Dagenham, London, UK
Title card: "Britain's New Sub-Machine Gun - 6 Pounds, 575 Rounds a Minute;" picture fades in of man placing gun on rack with others / Major Turp in lab coat demonstrates firing Sterling submachine gun / CU gun in his hand holding it...
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Princess Margaret presents new colors to British regiment stationed in Wuppertal, Germany
Title "Princess Margaret in Germany" superimposed over Margaret standing in front of First Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, with two officers on either side of her / Margaret, colonel in chief of the regiment, walking along with officer in...
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King Hussein, on UK visit with his new wife Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, sits in fighter jet and rides in tank
Title card: "Royal Visitors -- Jordan's King and Bride in England" / MS King Hussein in uniform exits limo and shakes hands with dignitary / row of British jets with pilots standing in front of them / Hussein in pilot's jumpsuit and...
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NATO air maneuvers involving planes and pilots from US, Canada, Britain, Greece, and Norway
Card: "Paramount News issue no 94" /title "NATO tests its wings - biggest drill since War" superimposed over shot from ground of warplanes flying overhead in formation / pilots running across tarmac towards parked planes / pilot getting...
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Historical reenactment unit Fort Henry Guard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada performs field maneuvers for US Marines near Arlington, VA
Title "Good-neighbor ceremony - US Marines, Canadian guard join ranks" superimposed over Marines marching in formation past Marine Corps War Memorial illustrating the Battle of Iwo Jima / VS Fort Henry Guard from Kingston, Ontario in...
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Great Britain successfully tests its first nuclear weapon in Australia
Title superimposed over a fireball: "Films just released - Britain's First Atom Explosion" / An aerial view of one of the barren Montebello atolls with structures / Tall craggy rock formations // HMS Campanica and HMS Narvik / Men...
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Retrospective from news archives of Britain's Queen Mary who died on 3/24/1953
Title: "Queen Mary -- A Symbol of Royalty Passes…" / LS at dusk EXT Big Ben and Houses of Parliament / CU side view silhouette lion statue / CU posted notice for Tuesday, 24th March, 1953 on the death of Queen Mary "While sleeping...
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Britain tests its all-weather Javelin fighter jets
Title: "Aerial Close-Up: Britain's All-Weather Fighters" superimposed over follow of Gloster "Javelins" R.A.F. Delta Wing jet fighter, taking off / WS Javelin planes lined up on field / CU pilot in cockpit / MS starting Javelin Jet;...
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Scenes in Port Said after Egypt nationalizes and blockades the Suez Canal
Title card: "The Middle East situation - Report from the Suez Canal" / aerial shot of Port Said and ships anchored in Suez Canal / three aerial shots of Port Said / three aerial shots of ships anchored in Suez Canal / shot from shore of...
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Jewish refugees arriving illegally in Haifa are transferred from the San Demetrio ship to the Empire Heywood for transport to Cyprus in 1946
Low angle tilted up British soldiers assist sick female refugee walking down gangplank / soldiers lined up on dock, badly listing San Demetrio docked with Empire Heywood cargo ship behind it / MS British soldiers escort Jewish refugees...
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at start of Tehran Conference during World War II
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill walk up to round table inside Soviet Embassy, large group of officials and Soviet officers also standing around table / Stalin and Churchill standing at table /...