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  1. Silver Exhibition

    Date released
    12 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    063
    NoS ID
    120169
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: As shining as the hopes of the flu-fighters is a collection of rare silver borrowed from officers’ messes to raise funds for a Service Families’ Association. Valued at £100,000, the...

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  2. Drum Dance

    Date released
    12 Mar 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    063
    NoS ID
    120170
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: An exhibition of a different sort...of native dancing by Boscoe Holder’s dance troupe at London’s "Cote D’Azure" club. Exciting and colourful, the dances come from the Caribbean Islands...

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  3. Catamaran

    Date released
    9 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    080
    NoS ID
    120231
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A new type of sailing craft, probably the fastest in the world, takes the water. Developed from the "twin-log" dugouts of the Pelopenesians thousands of years ago, the "cat", with only 140...

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  4. Orchids

    Date released
    9 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    080
    NoS ID
    120232
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Inland now to St Albans, where exotic flowers usually associated with trade winds and the tropics, are cultivated by orchid expert David Sander. From tiny seeds these future blooms pass...

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  5. Sauna Baths

    Date released
    9 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    080
    NoS ID
    120233
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The sauna bath - a Scandinavian institution, has been introduced to fashionable Kensington. Tired businessmen, weight-conscious women, and even showgirls, like four dancers from the Windmill...

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  6. Crane and Egg

    Date released
    16 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    081
    NoS ID
    120234
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: There are few more awe-inspiring demonstrations of sheer power than a giant crane in action. Steel monsters like this can shift in a few hours loads that would take men days. But it’s still...

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  7. Boxer Puppies

    Date released
    16 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    081
    NoS ID
    120235
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A day in the life of Lady Pixie, 3-year-old boxer, and fourteen podgy little NoSles of mischief - survivors of her litter of sixteen!

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  8. Pidgeon Palace

    Date released
    16 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    081
    NoS ID
    120236
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At Denham in Buckinghamshire, the Faircloughs have a garden anyone can be proud of. But at the bottom of the garden there’s something really original - a palace for more than 250 racing...

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  9. High Heels

    Date released
    16 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    081
    NoS ID
    120237
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Still on the subject of originality we take a look at a Norwich studio where for the first time the high heels of women’s shoes are being individually decorated with delicate hand paintings...

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  10. Service Boat Racing

    Date released
    23 Jul 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    082
    NoS ID
    120238
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Sailing vessels on Plymouth Sound...a lovely picture recalling England’s great maritime traditions, for it was against this background that West Countrymen like Sir Francis Drake found...

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