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  1. The Desert Shall Blossom Like the Rose

    Date released
    1 Feb 1932
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1890; Super Issue No.: 32/9
    NoS ID
    089662
    Story no
    3 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The Viceroy of India opens the Lloyd Barrage, bringing fertility to over five million acres. It took 8 1/2 years to construct and is an all-British engineering triumph!

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  2. News in a Nutshell: Rough Seas on the East Coast

    Date released
    13 Feb 1936
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    36/13
    NoS ID
    093157
    Story no
    10 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

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  3. The State Visit to Sweden

    Date released
    14 Jun 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1410A
    NoS ID
    020998
    Story no
    1 / 1

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Royal Tour of Sweden. DESCRIPTION: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were greeted by King Gustav and Queen Louise, when they arrived at Stockholm on their three day visit to...

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  4. Canal Zone - Soviet Pilots Arrive

    Date released
    20 Sep 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1424A
    NoS ID
    021196
    Story no
    1 / 10

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canal Zone - Soviet Pilots Arrive. DESCRIPTION: After the seizure of the Canal by Egypt, the departure of many experienced Suez pilots was, almost immediately followed by the arrival of...

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  5. Warsaw Listens to Gomulka

    Date released
    1 Nov 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1430A
    NoS ID
    021285
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Warsaw Listens to Gomulka. DESCRIPTION: A remarkable scene witnessed in Warsaw, Polish people in their tens of thousands were seen converging on the main square, to attend a meeting to...

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  6. Ceylon Floods

    Date released
    9 Jan 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1492A
    NoS ID
    022129
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ceylon Floods. DESCRIPTION: From the air it was possible to grasp something of the immensity of Ceylon’s flood calamity. At one time the flood-waters engulfed almost half the island....

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  7. Trouble in Venezuela

    Date released
    30 Jan 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1495A
    NoS ID
    022184
    Story no
    7 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Venezuelan Riots. DESCRIPTION: Caracas, the morning after a revolution, in which a would-be dictator (General Jiminez) was deposed at a cost of some three hundred lives. The capital...

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  8. Peter Collins’ Fine Win

    Date released
    3 Feb 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1496
    NoS ID
    022191
    Story no
    7 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sports Car Race. DESCRIPTION: Buenos Aires - and the 1,000 kilometre sports car race, which was won by Peter Collins and his American team-mate, Phil Hill. During the race, Collins had...

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  9. Two Kings Meet

    Date released
    17 Feb 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1498
    NoS ID
    022219
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King Feisal & King Hussein. DESCRIPTION: King Feisal of Iraq paid a visit to his cousin, King Hussein of Jordan, in Amman. The occasion marked one significant reaction to the union...

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  10. Cuban Grand Prix

    Date released
    3 Mar 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1500
    NoS ID
    022247
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cuban Grand Prix. DESCRIPTION: World Champion Juan Fangio was kidnapped from his Havana Hotel. His team members told the police how Fangio was carried off at gun point by Cuban rebels...

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