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Croydon London England United Kingdom 1932 stock footage and images

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Newsreel "50,000 homing pigeons start in season's first race"

Several men give water to the pigeons in cages. Many cages in rows. The men open the cages and release the pigeons. The pigeons fly in the sky. The men watch the flock flying.

Date: 1933, August 9
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041255
The B-17, "Memphis Belle," on a War Bond Drive tour in the U.S.during world War II

Crowd gathered at an airfield in the U.S. to go aboard the famed "Memphis Belle," during a War Bond Drive in World War 2. People going up a stairway set up by the B-17F parked on the ramp. Scene shifts to Major Robert Morgan, pilot of the aircraft, as he stands on a bunting-decorated platform in front of the Memphis Belle, with crew members behind him. Major Morgan gives a talk about War Bonds. Camera pans over a sizeable crowd gathered for the event. When it returns to Major Morgan, he is holding the crew's mascot, a black scotty dog named "Stuka."

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046276
The world’s first commercial jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, departs Hatfield airfield for delivery to BOAC (British Overseas Airways Company)

The British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) receives their first delivery of the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner. Employees working at de Havilland gather to witness the departure of the aircraft from the company’s Hatfield airfield aerodrome (Hatfield, Hertfordshire; 3NM NE of St Albans). The de Havilland chief test pilot, John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham, climbs the airstair to board the aircraft. The BOAC de Havilland Comet airplane, registered G-ALYP ("Yoke Peter"), taxis for takeoff. The de Havilland Comet airplane takes off from the airfield. The Comet jet airplane in flight.

Date: 1951, April 2
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049704
River Don Works steelplant at Sheffield.

Interior of the River Don Works steelplant and forge shop at Sheffield (later Sheffield Forgemasters). Exteriors of steel mill shows stacks emitting smoke. In the mill, molten steel poured. Men at furnace. Steel block is heated and shaped. Men fuel the giant furnaces, standing at some distance due to the heat.

Date: 1948, November
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051807
Sailor gives a soldier a haircut aboard LST (Landing Ship, Tank).

U.S. sailor gives a soldier a haircut on deck near 40mm mount. Other soldiers chat and smile. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051843
Group of U.S. and British officers attend a conference in Wilton House, Wilton prior to D-Day landings of World War II.

Allied officers attend a conference in Wilton House, Wilton shortly before D-Day landings during World War II. Group of U.S. and British officers attend a conference at Southern Command (Wilton House). British General Miller at his desk.

Date: 1944, May 25
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074618