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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Liberating Soviet soldier

    Voice over in Russian. Tank driving up the street as people on either side wave. Soviet soldier with bouquet of flowers gives woman a kiss. She pours from a bottle into the mug of a Soviet soldier. CU soldier drinking. CU of man in uniform smoking.

  2. YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague

    Man operates a movie reel projector, children watch and cheer the movie. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. Man sings to a classroom. Man plays piano. Boys play basketball. CUs of Czech language booklets. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Young men learn how to play basketball. Large buildings in Prague. CUs, signs for the YMCA. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. A group of people in a room sing together and perform hand motions to the song. Camera tracks backwards over Charles Bridge. The Prague Castle. CUs, basketball players. More city scenes of Prague, streets, build...

  3. Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946

    Red Cross banner in the center of large memorial wreath- crowds of people- men women and children, this is POSTWAR footage, 1946. Polish soldiers are milling about, several military vehicles. Civilians: men, women and children, some with Red Cross armbands, a group of nurses, etc. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. In the BG a wooden coffin is moving past on the shoulders of some soldiers. White flags drape the gates to the cemetery. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery.

  4. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Woman selling newspapers on the street. Cut to scene behind the American Embassy where, according to Julien Bryan's book "Siege", all the Americans were during the Siege. Scene of Americans practicing for heading underground during an attack, American flag in the ground, sand bags, etc. They are trying to string the flag so that it will somehow be visible from the air so that the Germans will not bomb them. Several of the men are wearing armbands. VS, sandbagging the American embassy in Warsaw. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. ...

  5. Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936

    EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, and it drives away. VS, several CUs of the faces of the villagers. Lfe in this farming community, young children playing, men getting water from the central well, a young girl riding a bicycle,...

  6. Kindergarten - Pestalozzi Froebel Haus

    Berlin - Kindergarten scenes at the famous and historic Pestalozzi Froebel Haus, part of the Pestalozzi educational movement. Girl with baby doll, kids playing indoors with blocks, stomping down wooden slide. Nurses change babies, toddlers, beds, eating, washing dishes, cutting apples.

  7. Farming in central Poland

    Farmers harvest crops in central Poland. They fill their baskets. Country road and horse drawn carriage carrying bundles of hay. More scenes of country life. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. Trees line the road where a horse drawn carriage passes by.

  8. Lithograph of Israel from Arthur Szyk’s visual history series of the United Nations

    Postwar lithograph by artist Arthur Szyk depicting a visual representation of the history of Israel. Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist who fled Nazi-controlled Europe for London in 1937, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. He started his career in book illustration and was considered one of the greatest modern practitioners of the art of illumination. His widely published caricatures made him one of the most famous political satirists during World War II. In 1945, he was commissioned by Canadian philatelist Kasimir Bileski to create illustrations for a series of sta...

  9. Farming in central Poland

    The pastoral countryside of central Poland, a thatched roof house along the river/canal. Four children, barefoot and in peasant dress stand along the water and smile awkwardly for the camera. LS of their house. Townspeople of Lowicz entering the church, in peasant dress. Large ceremony for Easter Sunday. One man, whose coat seems more contemporary and who is also wearing a tie, looks suspiciously at the camera. He then turns to his friend to tell him about the camera, another man turns to look as well. Cut back to the fields, four women and one man tend to their crops.

  10. Paris under German occupation

    Aerial view of German military parading on a street. Camera pans along the street. Shots of a brunette woman (featured in Film ID 2720) being playful with the German in dark-rimmed glasses. Two blondes, not seen before. Rooftops of Paris and the Eiffel Tower in the distance, scenes of Germans at Versailles. Camera focuses on two German officers walking towards camera, including the officer leading the meeting in Story 4414 at the left. As the men exit the grounds of the palace, women converge on the men and attempt to hand them pieces of paper, which the men ignore. Brief scene of a checkpo...

  11. Home movies: Hitler's major domo swimming; swans; rowboat

    Amateur films of "Hausintendant" Arthur (a.k.a. Willy) Kannenberg, major domo/house manager to Adolf Hitler. Lily pond, swans, rowboat, swimming (possibly a male relative of Kannenberg; similar facial structure). Teasing and feeding swans from end of rowboat. 01:04:20 Kannenberg swimming and frolicking with a blond woman, probably his wife Freda, from the rowboat. Surface dives. Both climb into boat. 01:08:55 Swans among the lily pads, filmed from rowboat. 01:11:25 The blond woman and Kannenberg in hats, in the boat. Two swans at water's edge.

  12. Goering's private train (Sonderzug) and staff; Luftwaffe officers at HQ Eastern Front; Romanian air force visitors

    Events seen may be 1941 to 1943, many are 1942. Brief scene of rifle practice at shooting range in Rominten, near Goering's HQ (train) with Luftwaffe men, including Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer (see also Film ID 2551). Goering in summer uniform under trees with Romanian air force visitors including tall dark officer, & German officers, including Adolf Galland. (May be 4 October 1941 according to Goering photo album #39 at LOC) 01:00:32 - 01:00:36 glimpse of Goering's valet, Robert Kropp, walking unobtrusively behind the group, very close to the train. Goering & others w...

  13. Warsaw park and schoolboys

    EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. Man in Polish uniform or police walks along the street with a woman in contemporary dress. Woman with a young child and carriage. CU, a group of small boys walk along the street wearing caps with a shiny insignia and the number "21" on them. Some smile, others look at the camera as they pass through the frame.

  14. Yiddish production (?) of Shakespeare play in Russia

    An excerpt from a stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet."

  15. Burnt Polish villages; Polish government signing agreement

    Burnt Polish villages in 1944. Destroyed homes, children gathering firewood and water in the snow. Destroyed bridge, train tracks; large columns of refugees. New Polish government signing agreement in 1945.

  16. Coal factory; workers

    Mining factory. INT, very dark, man fuels fire. Men shovel into the fire. A train with bars of coal drives by. The coal mining compound, INTs, EXTs, LS. CUs, signs warning of electricity and gas. Shots of the machinery and process and workers. 01:08:10 People boarding a train. Men sitting outside on break, smoking. Men at their lockers preparing to leave.

  17. Warsaw park scenes 1936

    CU of a baby in a carriage. MLS, from high angle, babies in Saxon Garden (Ogrod Saski) in Warsaw, with their mothers and/or nannies. The building with arcs is the former Saxon Palace (Palac Saski). VS of the scene in the park, babies as far as they eye can see. 01:23:45:20 CU of one baby in a stroller that stares directly at the camera while eating, followed by the mother madly rocking her baby, VS of very sleek looking, shiny, new baby carriages. Cut to group of young school children touring the medieval city wall of Krakow.

  18. Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936

    Short shot of a horse drawn carriage pulling up in front of Holy Cross Church in Krakow, Poland. A group of adolescent girls walk along the street toward the church, a wooden cart without a horse is parked along the road.

  19. Large Nazi banner with swastika acquired by an American soldier

    Large red Nazi banner with mobile swastika brought back from the war by Ernie Pels, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II (1939-1945).

  20. DPs emigrate from Bremerhaven, Germany to the United States; scenes of postwar life in Salzburg, Austria

    Bremerhaven, Germany: CU of Julien Bryan's name written in chalk on the side of a railcar, he used this as his camera slate. Port: MS of part of the ship the "US Army Transport General William M. Black," passengers wave from the deck of the ship to the camera, a banner on the lower deck of the ship reads: "America Welcomes Its New Citizens," camera pans to upper deck of ship where a banner reads: "Ship to Freedom." The passengers and the US military aboard the ship wave to the cameras. New slate, Salzburg, Austria: US Information Center on a buys street corner. Austrian civilians gather to ...