Wednesday, 10 October 2007

That's me on the left, behind Stanley Baldwin


Quite a few gems at Newsfilm Online, though they can take a while to download - the Crystal Palace fire, the Hindenburg disaster, a blackshirt rally, a supposedly 131-year-old woman in 1938 and so on.

Best of all is a (ten-minute?) piece on How Cinema Newsreels Are Made - evidently compiled by Mr Grayson with the help of Mr Cholmondeley-Warner.

Also liked this report on the 1987 general election, with a number of today's well known faces displaying their puppy fat. Keep your eyes peeled for a very young Oliver Letwin (the reporter doesn’t identify him) being defeated by Diane Abbott at Hackney.

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