5min @AP_Archive clip - Holiday in Blackpool - #1938

text from youtube "Workers receive pay before leaving on their holidays, and one goes home to tell his wife the happy tidings. They pack, and leave for Blackpool. At Blackpool, the beaches are crowded, and donkey rides, sea trips, and shellfish are in great demand. Even the famous ballrooms and Amusement Parks are well patronised, and Dancers perform the Lambeth Walk and the Blackpool Walk, not, perhaps, as expertly as it is done in one of the shows. After the holiday, the workers return, broke but happy."

1min #movietone clip - The Democratic Republic of #Congo is set to mark the 60th anniversary of its #independence from Belgium today

text from youtube " Leopoldville, Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo) - 29 June 1960

1. Aerial of then Leopoldville
2. Wide of government building - three men in foreground
3. Close of flag being lowered
4. Mid of Parliament Assembly
5. Close of then DRC Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
6. Lumumba shaking man's hand
7. People clapping
8. Mid of Lumumba amongst crowd
9. Close of Lumumba
10. Mid of flag pole, pan down to stairs of building
11. Man entering building
12. Close of Congo Guard
13. Mid of flag on flag pole
14. Wide of crowd of people
15. Mid of parliament building with trees in foreground
16. Various of flag poles
17. Wide of crowd of people
18. Various of building
19. People walking in street

STORYLINE:

The Democratic Republic of Congo is set to mark the 60th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on Tuesday.

On June 30,1960, the African country declared its independence from the European nation after years of colonial rule.

Huge celebrations took place on the city's streets and the newly elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba received congratulations from members of both Houses of Parliament.

Congo was created in 1885 by Belgium's King Leopold II, who recruited the British-born American explorer Henry Morton Stanley to make a secret expedition to carve out a state in the heart of Africa - one that was nearly 80 times the size of Belgium.

Congo first provided ivory, then latex from wild rubber trees that was much in demand after the creation of the pneumatic tire. The companies' method to boost rubber production was savage: Villagers were given higher and higher quotas and, when they were not met, villages were set ablaze, families butchered and the hands of survivors severed. It's not known how many millions were slaughtered and maimed. "

1min 27sec The Mighty Oak Tree - 1948

text from you tube "English oak is being cut for the panelling in the new House of Commons.

Houses of Parliament shot from Millbank, with Victoria Gardens in the fore. Pan Library shots of ruins of old House of Commons, bomb damage several shots. KIDDERMINSTER - MS chopping of trees. Men use hand saw, sawing base of oak. Tree begins and falls out of camera. Men chopping branches off trunk of tree. Mechanical saw sawing section of trunk. (2 shots of 2 types of mechanical saws). Trunks being automatically loaded onto a trailer. Trailer drives away out of camera. MS trunk being mechanically planed."

3min 44sec @AP_Archive clip - Indira #Gandhi Becomes PM - 1966 | Today In History | 19 Jan

text from youtube "On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi was chosen to be prime minister of India by the National Congress party."

2min 37sec @AP_Archive clip - clip - Naughty Jay Rider - 1967 | The Archivist Presents | #227

text from youtube "There are so many pay-and-ride disposable bikes in London these days. When I see them lying around I often think of Coin-Coin and his antics.

In Kings Road, Chelsea, visiting Frenchman "Coin-Coin" stops the traffic with the craziest bit of cycling ever to bring swinging London to a halt!

GV Coin-Coin riding his cycle in and out of the cars on the Kings Road, Chelsea. MS ditto (x2). MCU crowd looking on. GV Coin-Coin riding between two cars. MS ditto (x2). MCU crowd looking on. MS pan Coin-Coin rides up behind a bus and put one wheel on board. MCU crowd. MS Coin-Coin riding down centre of the road. MS policeman walking up to Coin-Coin. MS Coin-Coin riding amongst the cars. MCU ditto. MCU policeman walking up to Coin-Coin. MS Policeman talking to Coin-Coin. CU policeman. CU Coin-Coin pan to policeman. MCU policeman writing down particulars in his book. MS ditto. MS Coin-Coin offers the policeman a ride on the bicycle. CU crowd. MS pan Coin-Coin driving off in his car. MS ditto."

1min 50sec @AP_Archive clip - Post Early for Xmas - 1943 | The Archivist Presents | #176

Text from youtube "CU knot in handkerchief tilt up to face of man with worried expression. MCU man looks at knotted handkerchief with cat. CU cat seated on man's lap with a knot in his tail. MCU man knots tie. MCU man in bed knots sheet. GV man suddenly remembers and jumps out of bed. GV he runs to desk and pulls our Christmas cards, begins to write. CU pen dipped into inkwell. CU cards, CU pen, CU cards. CU parcel as string knotted. CU parcel addressed then parcel and cards collected up. GV man, still in pyjamas, dashes from house then realises his mistake, he goes in and reemerges dressed. GV man rushing off. 'Post Early for Christmas'."

2min @AP_Archive clip - Pearl Harbor - 1941 | Movietone Moments | 7 Dec

Text from youtube "On this day in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The world knows that the Japanese attacked the American Naval Base without warning, these pictures show something of how the civil population suffered.

Japanese planes fly over and fires rage in Waikiki. Refugees run hither and thither. AA guns fire and the injured are cared for. The children play in a communal nursery. Afterwards, shots of wreckage and a damaged car. The story ends with pictures of a captured Jap. two man submarine which helped in the attack against the US Fleet in Pearl Harbour. 

2min 48sec #movietone @AP_Archive clip - #Palestine Partitioned - 1947 | Today In History |

Text from youtube "On November 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews."

2min 42sec @AP_Archive british #movietone clip - Stir-Up Sunday - 1929 | The Archivist Presents

Text from youtube "Did you make your Christmas pudding on Sunday? It was officially Stir-up Sunday! Here’s actress and singer Alice Delysia helping out with puddings in 1929. "

3min @AP_archive clip - I gotta bet - 1961

text from youtube "I like a little flutter now and then. I also always keep my eyes peeled for British Movietone cameraman Paul Wyand. He often makes a cameo in newsreel stories and he's in this one about betting shops. He's the first man we see, being naughty! I love it!

Street betting! What a hole-and-corner business it was! And what types the street bookies were! But now, the betting shop is here at-last, and there are official, as well as private shops, quite ready to take your money. Our pictures show how a punter can legally play the horses without going to the courses.

Key scene. CU street bookie standing on corner. MS man passes him bet. MS to LS street bookie running away. MS man walks into betting shop. MS punter same. CU Sign 'Betting Laws'. Man looking at race card on wall. CU finger going through the runners. GV punters placing bets. MS same. MS punter hands cashier bet. CU man writing on time print register. CU duplicate copy passed through grill. MS man looks at copy and walks out. MS man walks into street. CU telephonist from Totalisator Investments receiving man's bet. CU another. MCU betting slip. GV interior toll office. GV same. MS same. MCU betting slip passing on rollers. MS more. CU clock. MS starter raises the flag. GV horses at start. MS starter on stand raises tapes. CU sign their off. TS tace. CU printers on course. MS race - finish. MS man chalking up result on black board. CU same. CU man at grille waiting for pay out. CU cashier hands man the winnings. MS punter walks away with winnings. MS to LS street bookie running away"

2min @AP_Archive clip - Speedy Women - 1931 #movietone

Text from youtube "I love these feisty women speeding around Brooklands!

Miss Barbara Cartland organizes Brooklands races to prove feminine skill on the track. The winners - Princess George Imeretinsky and Lady de Clifford.

Close shot of women drivers with Miss Cartland speaking. Close shot of start with the women driving. Elevated shot of cars on track. CU of hands of women at wheel. Elevated shot of race. Close shot of woman re-fuelling at track station. Ground shot of cars. Sub.1. Close shot of women seated on car. Close shot of winners. Speaking to camera and being clapped. Close shot of women powdering her nose in car."

48min compilation clip of lots of short #movietone clips (list & timings in post) 1928-1929: Life in England (with real sound)

Found via a digg email. Text from youtube "Compilation of very early sound-on-film scenes of everyday life throughout England in the late 1920's. Scenes taken with early Movietone sound cameras. Compiled/remastered all footage and sound

0:08 - Feeding Seagulls in Polperro (May 9, 1928)
1:03 - Dock scene in Porthleven (May 24, 1928)
1:29 - Farm in Bedfordshire (Mar 29, 1929)
3:02 - Fishermen in Bognor (Feb 1929)
4:15 - Hop pickers in Kent (Sep 6, 1928)
7:10 - Diggers in London (Feb 1929)
9:02 - SS Olympic dock workers in Southampton (Jan 17, 1929)
10:35 - School in Bognor (Nov 15, 1928)
12:39 - Street scene on Guy Fawkes Day (1929)
13:28 - George Lansbury speaks on London slum conditions (Oct 29, 1929)
15:45 - Turkey market in Attleborough (Oct 10, 1929)
16:02 - Livestock auction in Newark, Nottinghamshire (Jan 8, 1929)
19:38 - Floral dance through the streets of Helston (May 8, 1928)
23:11 - Dancer auditions at the London Pavilion (Oct 25, 1929)
26:50 - Horse race crowd in Epsom, Surrey (June 6, 1928)
28:23 - Saint Leger horse race in Doncaster (1929)
29:10 - Large fox hunt in Leicestershire (Nov 4, 1929)
33:18 - Devizes motorcycle club (1929)
34:37 - Duchess of Bedford returns to London (1929)
35:34 - Flying beagle meet (Nov 30, 1929)
39:20 - R100 airship above Cardington, Bedfordshire (1929)
39:58 - Oxford University rowing practice in the Thames River (1929)
43:04 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell speaks in Surrey (May 16, 1929)
44:23 - Lady Astor speaks in Buckinghamshire (Aug 18, 1929)
45:31 - Honoring bishop of York in Yorkshire (Jan 1929)"

8min #movietone @ap_archive clip - Man On The Moon - 1969 | Movietone Moments

Text from youtube "It's estimated that about a fifth of the world's population shared the fantastic achievement of Apollo 11, following, through the immediacy of electronics, Man's first landfall in Space. Movietone is proud to present, through animation and actuality, the highlights of the whole epic voyage from blast-off to the Sea of Tranquility and the departure for home. "One Small Step for Man - One Giant Leap for Mankind" - Neil Armstrong, Apollo Eleven Commander - First Man on the Moon.

MS astronauts L to R Collins, Aldrin & Armstrong. Sequence: Astronauts have parts of their space suits tested. GV astronauts in full-space-suits towards & into lift. MCU map of moon surface. CU Sea of Tranquility on map. GV rocket firing. MS television picture of supports falling away. GV rocket lifts off. LS firing of retro-rockets & breakaway of Space Capsule. Animation: Command Ship drawing lunar module from 3rd stage of the Saturn Rocket. Map: showing flight route. Animation: Armstrong & Aldrin entering lunar module & module away from command ship. GV, MS & CU group of men gathered around a sports car listening to radio. LAS typist with radio beside her. CU her hands on keys, pan to radio. TV picture lunar surface. LS lunar module simulator crashes during practise. MS moon surface from approaching lunar module. Animation: lunar module landing. CU man's wrist watch showing 17 minutes past 9. MS TV pic. lunar module touches down, "the eagle has landed". GV interior Mission Control superimpose. 'Americans on the Moon, Apollo 11 touch down 18 min. past 9'. Animation: lunar module on moon. CU moon surface from Command Mod. MS family in sitting room watch television. CU sign 'BBC 2 Colour' & lunar module. CU kettle onto gas stove. CU hand turns knob. CU egg broken into frying pan. MS woman's head through serving hatch. GV family watching TV. MS poodle climbs into armchair. GV mother brings in sandwiches. Animation: astronauts down steps of lunar module. MS flickering TV picture of Armstrong's feet down onto moon. CU wrist watch at 4 mins to 4. MS TV picture Armstrong on moon. GV family watching TV. MS TV picture Aldrin steps down onto moon. Sequence: TV picture of Lunar Horizon (x3). MS astronauts & lunar module. Animation: astronauts collecting rock samples (x2). MS astronauts setting up 'Stars & Stripes'. LS astronaut in pre-flight lunar gravity test simulating effects of 1/6 in gravity. Astronauts running on moon's surface. Animated sequence of machine to be left on moon. Boy watching TV. Dog in chair. Paper through letter box. Animated sequence of lift off from moon. Animated sequence of docking manoeuvres with command module (voice over of Richard Nixon talking to the Astronauts). CUs of Astronauts before flight, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong. CU astronauts on moon. Animation: moon surface. MAN ON THE MOON 3 astronauts together - preparing and being dressed (Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin). Walking into camera along corridor. Into lift. Count down and take off. Apollo 11 in flight - booster falls away. Animation: docking of space ship with lunar module, astronauts leave mother ship and enter module. Crowd of people around car listening to radio. Typist with radio at her side. Zoom in to moon surface. Library - Lunar module in training - crashes - pilot ejects. Tracking shots over moon surface. NASA control room: (sound only) describes landing. Shots of lunar module landing. NASA control room. Family watching TV - making breakfast and eating in front of TV screen. Sound - "One step for man etc". Taken from TV screen... Astronauts on moon surface. Houston Training Centre: Lunar gravity tests. Taken from TV screen... various shots of the walk on the moon. Newspaper headlines - various. Animation: showing lift off and docking. Close shots of faces only of the three astronauts. Tracking shot of moon surface. see story number 95016a/2 for cuts

1min 26sec @AP_Archive clip - Before Amazon - 1937

Text from youtube "Do you do all your shopping online? Let's go back to the old fashioned way!

New York offers Magic Key to solve every problem but one. Description by Beryl de Querton.

Shoppers plug in bulb to release goods required. Packets fall into conveyor. Assistant takes money, bill being added up by electricity."

3min 44sec @AP_Archive clip - Indira Gandhi Becomes PM - 1966 | Today In History | 19 Jan

text from youtube "On January 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi was chosen to be prime minister of India by the National Congress party."

1min 50sec @AP_Archive clip - Piggy Bank Heaven - 1964

Text from youtube "Spent all your money on Christmas presents? Or is there still something in the piggy bank?

A young Dutch boy took his piggy bank, to be opened at a savings bank in Amsterdam - but they could not find a key to open it. To the dismay of the young customer they had to break it open. To cheer up the small boy, he is shown a collection of money boxes owned by the Bank Manager. He started collecting these in 1952 and has 4,400 of them, the largest collection in Europe, and the second largest in the world. This hobby is known as Argyrothecology. 

Medium shot of little boy handing his piggy bank to cashier. Medium close up of little boy - cashier breaking open piggy bank. Close up of broken piggy bank. Close up of little boy crying. Cashier lifting boy across counter. Long shot of cashier and boy entering money box room. Close up of many different money boxes. Close up of little boy looking at a money box. Close up of Laurel and Hardy money boxes. Medium close up of little boy looking at rocket launcher money box. Piggy bank boxes. Little boy picks up piggy bank. Little boy walks out holding piggy bank.

1min 40sec @AP_Archive clip - #Shops Are Thronged - #1931 | The Archivist Presents |

Text from youtube "Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I love this footage of shoppers on Oxford Street in 1931. I’m going to buy all my gifts locally this year, no Oxford Street for me – too crazy! 

Londoners find full value for the pound in customary expedition in search of Christmas gifts. Cameraman on top of car taking shots of crowds walking along Oxford Street. Shots of same crowds walking along. Shop window display. Shoppers can same.

Feet of people walking. Street vendors selling wares. Little boy stands and watches one mechanical toy. Good shot of top of Selfridges with Xmas decorations. Father Xmas in alcove bows. (This is not a close shot). Panning to street below. Group of girls with faces pressed hard against window, taken from inside same."

2min 48sec #movietone @AP_Archive clip - #Palestine Partitioned - 1947 | Today In History |

Text from youtube "On November 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews."