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ZUM4923739: Apr. 04, 1954 - Like a gun... looks this new Astro-Tele-Objective with a focal-distance of 100 cm. Put on movie or other cameras it is possible to make shots of far distance. The objective, some meters long is the biggest attraction on the Photokina, the international fair, opened on Saturday, April 3, at Koln, Germany / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4924638: Apr. 04, 1954 - Two Hollywood film stars arrived in London today to appear in a thriller film” Tiger by the Tail”, to be made at Nettlefold Studios. They are 24 years old Constance Smith, and Larry Parks- the man who played Al Jolson in two pictures, Keystone photo shows: Larry Parks seen with Constance Smith, at the Mayfair Hotel this evening / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4905436: Jan. 01, 1954 - Thirty-five people in comet Air Liner Crash. Stewardess who took the place of her friend. Thirty five people (29 passengers and 6 crew) lost their lives then a B.O.A.C. Comet Airliner crashed into the sea in flames in the Mediterranean, soon after leaving Rome yesterday. Included in the dead was 23 year old stewardess Miss Elaine Baker of Southern Rhodesia - who was taken ill in Karachi with ear trouble / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4905844: May 23, 1978 - Left to right: Mali's Colonel Moussa Traore, Nigeria's Colonel Seyni Kountche, Gabon's President Bongo, Rwanda's General Juvenal Habyariamana, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, Ivory Coast's President Houphouet-Boigny, President Giscard d'Estaing, Senegal's President Leopold Senghor, Zaire's President Mobutu, Togo's General Gnassingbe Eyadema, and Central Africa's Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4906161: Jan. 01, 1954 - Britons going well in the Monte Carlo Rally.: Some of the competitors taking part in the Monte Carlo Rally arrived at Clifton's garage, Sidcup, Kent, at 3:30 a.m. this morning. Theirs cars were checked and serviced before continuing their journey to dover on their hazardous 2,050-mile run to the South of France / Bridgeman Images