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News in Flashes: Stop Press

Date released

3 Oct 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1940

NoS ID

041954

Story no

5 / 6

Discovery of diamond field leads to rush of prospectors.

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South Africa - Diamond Rush

Date released

20 Jun 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1359

NoS ID

020137

Story no

3 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Diamond Diggings Opened. DESCRIPTION: In the Transvaal, 140 diggers wait to stake their claim in a new diamond field. They’re off to make themselves millionaires. SHOTLIST: GV of...

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German Artillery in the Transvaal, who were taken Prisoners with their Flag

Date released

4 Oct 1915

Series name

Eclair Journal

NoS ID

047171

Story no

5 / 7

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Disaster: Air Crash Near Rome

Date released

28 Feb 1955

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2207

NoS ID

072279

Story no

9 / 10

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Floods in South Africa.

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Diggers Stake Claims in New Diamond Rush

Date released

8 Jan 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1759

NoS ID

040871

Story no

3 / 5

New diamond field in Transvaal attracts fifteen hundred prospectors.

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World Middleweight Wrestling Championship

Date released

30 Nov 1931

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

145

NoS ID

138351

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Hotel for High Seas

Date released

28 Dec 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1699A

NoS ID

024426

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hotel for High Seas. DESCRIPTION: The Transvaal Castle, the new 33,500 tonner for the Union-Castle South African Mail Service, carried out successful trials over the Arran measured...

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The Great Trek

Date released

2 Jan 1939

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

39/1

NoS ID

096711

Story no

5 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

One hundred years after, the modern South Africa remembers the ‘Voortrekkers’ descendents of the original Dutch settlers who left Cape Colony to open up the interior and founded the Transvaal.

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Snakes Alive

Date released

4 Mar 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2022

NoS ID

027279

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Snakes Alive. DESCRIPTION: John Weimann sets a world record in South Africa, spending 72 hours in a pit of poisonous snakes. But his record is immediately challenged by David Field -...

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New Liner

Date released

23 Jan 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1651

NoS ID

023957

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Liner Launched. DESCRIPTION: About to be launched at Clydebank was a new hotel class liner, the 33,000 ton Transvaal Castle. To name her and send her on her way was the task of Lady...

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