A look at early computer games. Featured are Earl Weaver Baseball, Ferrari Formula One, Tower of Myraglen, and Shanghai. Includes a visit to Electronic Arts customer support department and an interview with author and game designer Douglas Adams. Featured studio guests include game designers Richard Seaborne, Jeff Lefferts, and Brodie Lockard. Originally broadcast in 1988. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZ36D5nQEc
"A fair crust and a fair trial for all."
Some mighty fine accents in this clip, as the street traders deny they have an unfair advantage over local shopkeepers.
Originally broadcast 7 December 1957
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27 June 1949
Cheering crowds line the streets as the royal couple continue their tour of the Channel Islands. During visits to Jersey, Guernsey and Sark, they meet islanders and discover more about their way of life. On the tiny island of Sark, Prince Philip voices his admiration for the conduct of the islanders during the war.
The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War II. In May 1940, Winston Churchill had ruled that the islands were impossible to defend due to their proximity to the French mainland.
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Not credited Narrator
HRH Philip (The Duke of Edinburgh) Contributor
HRH Princess Elizabeth (Princess of Great Britain) Contributor
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“In Londonderry, you see what unemployment really means and does to people.”
Panorama hears from some of the men in the city who have been looking for work for a long time.
Originally broadcast 17 October 1955
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11 March 1949
After being cut off from the rest of Europe for almost a year and having to rely on the airlift organised by the Western powers for supplies, the citizens of West Berlin seem remarkably resilient in this news report on Clement Attlee's visit to the city. Bricks are collected to rebuild housing, shops are open and work continues. Berlin is devastated but, incredibly, cinemas have been reopened and are showing the latest releases.
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Raymond Baxter demonstrates the latest in Christmas gift technology - the games console.
This clip is from Tomorrow's World.
Originally broadcast 20 December 1973
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Documents the invasion and capture of Angaur Island (Palau group) by the 81st ("Wildcat") Infantry Division in its first battle. In July 1944 the troops relax at Honolulu. Shows activities aboard a troop transport, including a ceremony at the Equator, en route to Guadalcanal for a practice landing in August. On Sept. 17 Angaur is invaded after a bombardment by ships and carrier planes. Contains many scenes of U.S. troops burning and blasting Japanese soldiers from their cave emplacements. Explains the tactics for securing "Suicide Hill." Shows Gen. Robert Richardson. A Treasury Department trailer urges the purchase of war bonds.
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07 June 1951
His Majesty King George VI is unable to attend Trooping the Colour due to ill health, so his place is taken by his daughter, Princess Elizabeth. The princess, riding side-saddle, wears a modified version of the regiment's uniform. The young Prince Charles rides alongside his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth (later known as the Queen Mother), and his aunt, Princess Margaret, in a horse-drawn carriage. The colour trooped is that of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards.
The horse ridden by the princess at this event was called Winston, while the music played at the beginning of the troop inspection is 'The Triumphal March (Glory to Egypt, to Isis!)' from 'Aida' by Giuseppe Verdi.
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HRH Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) - Contributor
HRH Princess Margaret (Princess of Great Britain) - Contributor
HM Queen Elizabeth (Consort of George VI ) - Contributor
HRH Princess Elizabeth (Princess of Great Britain) - Contributor
Prince Henry (Duke of Gloucester) - Contributor
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Directed by Walter R. Booth, this short is a wonderful example of early special effects, specifically the use of superimpositions, where the “Lilliputians” are filmed on an over-sized table-top set and then appear on screen alongside the normal-sized diner. The film features the same type of trick film as seen in J. Stuart Blackton’s and Albert S. Smithtrick’s Princess Nicotine which was made in 1909, eight years after the The Cheese Mites. The producer of this example of early British cinema, Robert W. Paul (1869-1943), was an instrument maker who became involved in film when he was requested to build a copy of Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, an early device for viewing films. As Edison’s invention was not patented in Britain, Paul went on to build his own version of it, as well as making his own films since Edison’s films were the only ones viewable on the machine. The Cheese Mites is the twenty-third film Paul was involved in, his earliest films having been made in 1895 and shown at The Empire of India Exhibition in London the same year. The following year, in 1896, Paul managed to build the “Theatrograph”, a device which enabled a film to be shown on a screen and so viewable by a larger audience. See also Paul and Booth teaming up on the excellent short Artistic Creation (1901).
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