1960s
Irish 1960s/1970s, unemployed in London street, industry, interviews with Irish in London, workers, navvies, labourers, asphalters, building sites, welders, Irish diaspora in England, roadbuilding, squalid living, singing dirge, desolate Irish scenes, rural Ireland, bothies, coast, delapidated cottages, bleak areas, Irish types, Irish bleak scenery, rural squalor, rough seas, small boat fishermen, newspaper headlines, Irish household, Irish family at dinner, Galway station, workers, unemployed, loitering, working, industry, building site, canteen, playing instruments, Hilyhead, to ferry, ferry, view from ferry, heavy industry, irish shingle shots, aboard ferry, mining, drinking, Irish working man’s club, traditional music, singing, interviews, pub sax player, Gaelic football and crowds, train journey, Irish sitting room, kitchen, wash dishes, station, pan site, Irish in London, arrive train station
Paris motor show, British cars on show, Sheffield steelworks, silversmith, grinder, furnaces.
Dock strike, open strike meeting (circa 1960s), card vote, strike, dock activity, strike ballot.
Gemini Mission. Space walk, training, lift-off, NASA control room, space images.
Kennedy (col) speech re space exploration overlaid with space/rocket images, NASA control center, pan up rocket, good lift-off, c.u. lift off, rocket away, good space walk, isolation in space image, capsule in isolation, control center, space walk, onto moon surface, place flag on surface, Mandela speaks of peace at rally, Berlin Wall comes down
Burgess Meredith Narrates Moon Documentary.
Moon exploration.
V.good story on Moon exploration.
Documentary of NASA
Documentary of Moon Landing
House demolition, official explains demolition to owner, knocking door, household requirements, official inspecting house, official interview, high angle housing area, various housing styles, housing department interviews, town hall interviews with tenants etc, slums, rubbish dumps, demolition, MOI film re War Savings & campsite, women play cricket, campsite, girls picking potatoes, slums, pan slums, learning building trade, (1940s?), nuclear family, good continuous aerial over city (1940s) onto trams, industry, street scenes, cotton mills, heavy industry, clothes making, spinning, smelting, ironworks, textiles, Africa House building, stock exchange, Royal exchange, cotton, Manchester types, families, crowds along street, into factories, to work, voting in Manchester, vote counting, map, council meeting, chamber, industry, bus depot & buses leave station, library, bowls, policeman takes children across road, art gallery, firemen to engine, washerwomen, factory chimneys, industry, electricity grid, smoke, gas production, midwife and maternity ward, community nurse with mother, school meals, child examined, various child examinations, laboratories, hospital ward, dental examinations, medical tests, tuberculosis sanatorium, children’s hospital, laboratories, research work, elderly, officials, view along Manchester slums, children in slums, aerial over Manchester, shops, slums, pan slums, flats, new housing, planning.
Slums Manchester, pan over slum area, chimneys, etc, interview, interior kitchen, bathroom, living room, modern housing, high rise, slums, slum dweller interview, pan up slums, child to outside toilet, broken utitities, children bath time, children in bed, through slums, washing out, interviews,children in bed, new living, kitchen, slum clearance, plans, building new homes, slums, watch television, children, slum living, slum kitchen, pan potteries housing, interiors, interior house, writing letter, pan potteries, factories, slums from train, pan man and budgie, smoking, industrial river site, canal, pan slums, washing stairs, slum clearance, children play football etc, school playground, graveyard, skiffle band, dancing, pub and drinkers, poke fire, letter, pan across books.
tenants meeting, cockroaches, Hackney, slums, slum living, cockroaches, anti-rachman protests, tenants committee, tenants demonstration, industrial town scenes, houses & streets, school children, view along old homes street, new homes being built, Oldham slums, housing project, house building, steel-foundty, apprentices.
Kennedy Speech re Science & Space..
National Anthem sung, speeches including introduction from Dean of Rice University and L.B.J introducing Kennedy and Kennedy speech:
“….Delighted to be here on this occasion in a college noted for knowledge….in an hour of change….the vast stretches of the unknown….still outstrip our comprehension…50 ,000 years of mans history….we know very little….man emerged from his caves….only five years ago man learned to write….less than 2 months ago….the steam engine arrived….only last week did we discover penicillin….we will have literally reached the stars before midnight….no nation that expects to be a leader can expect to stay behind in space….Houston….will become the heart of an engineering community….NASA expects to double….to direct new space efforts over 1,000,000,000 dollars….space expenditures will soon rise from 40 cents to more than 50 cents a week for every man woman and child….we shall send to the moon from Houston a spaceship….and return it safely to earth….and do all this and do it right before this decade is out….will be done in the decade of the 60s….but it will be done….putting a man on the moon as a great national effort of the USA….George Mallory asked “because it’s there….well space is there….and greatest adventure man has ever embarked, thank-you.”
immigrants, vox pop, Jamaican scenes 1950s/60s, Jamaica life, immigrants in the UK 1960s/70s, vox pops, difficulty in getting rooms, vox pops, 1970s immigrant types, No Coloured signs, house types, pov houses, Lambeth, Brixton Market, vox pops, immigrat in house, house life, immigrant life, youth clubs, Battersea, Lambeth, immigrants along.
Coventry factory, jet engine making, shop steward, manufacturing 1960/70s, jet engine production, leaving factory, onto buses, feet along, into car, housing, shopping centre, shops, consumer goods in shops, window dressing, Red Robbo, strikes, anti-Robbo campaign (Ron Hill), Robinson, strike meeting, union march, banners etc, Robbo, Longbridge strike, pan heavy industry, workers cycle to factory, Labour Party conference, Bevin, Conference scenes, Attlee speech at conference, C.U.s audience listen.
lager louts in Wales, Disco, lager louts, drivers view of street, Mods & Rockers at seaside town, mods & mopeds, vox pos mods & rockers, mods & rockers Clacton, good mods & rockers.
Space Images & Kennedy Speech Space Speech, Apollo Rocket Launch, Moon Walk, Space Centre, Moon Landing, montage travel, Mandela welcomed in Durban & Mandela Speech
Preparing & Launching of MR-2. Monkeys used, Chimps arrive & into capsule, Project Mercury, prepare for t/o, chimps medical, chimps prepared, prepare for t/o, take off, re-entry splashdown, ship to craft, recovery ships, heli to capsule, capsule recovered, to ship, chimp alive.
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