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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazis in US; protest in NYC; Germans in US

    563 J: (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K: New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 03:13:00 563 L: New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the Grand Central Palace. MS...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign dignitaries visit Czechoslovakia

    (Czech Newsreel Material) Railway station sign: Petrovice. MS of locomotive passing camera. CU of Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia seated in train, talking with his under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Clementis. Other men talking in group. LS of crowd in Czech station. LS of Tito in window of train acknowledging throng's greeting. Train moving off. Crowd waving. Tito at window. Train into station in Prague. Tito off train's steps, greeted by Prime Minister Fierlinger and others. Shots of crowd at station waving to Tito. Car driving off from station. Huge poster on building with Tito's ...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- American Embassy in Prague; "Rude Pravo"; Medical Teaching Mission

    1150 P: Prague, Czechoslovakia. LS American Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt driving his car up to the Czech Palace entrance. LS Steinhardt and secretary, William Kugeman, walking in the lobby of the Palace going to Minister's office. LS Steinhardt and Kugeman walking in lobby of Czernin Palace. LS Mr. Jean Masaryck, Foreign Minister, who was reading Czech papers, stands up, goes to door, and welcomes Mr. Steinhardt. MS Steinhardt and Masaryck in office discussing the results of the elections. CU Steinhardt speaking and smoking. CU Masaryck listening, talking, and smoking. Shots of both men t...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Meeting of the Constituent Assembly

    First Meeting of the Constituent Assembly Elected on May 26, 1946. LS exterior of Parliament. LS entrance of Parliament. In FG the Russian Pennon on the Ambassador's car. LS the facade of Parliament. LS one of the lobbies of Parliament. Shots of the civil servants placing sheet of paper and pencils on the places of the members of the Government. Shot of the coat-of-arms of Czechoslovakia above the seat of the president of the Chamber of Deputies. LS Deputies entering and taking their seats. MSs British and Russian Ambassadors speaking and shaking hands before the sitting of the Constituent ...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: Press office; Ambassador's office

    July 13, 1938. Silent: US Embassy. EXT of embassy. Shot of flag being hoisted at embassy (taken from Place de la Concorde). CU street sign "Rue Boissy D'Anglas". CU street sign "Avenue Gabriel" on other corner. Main entrance to embassy at 2 Avenue Gabriel. Cars driving in and out. Leblay camera: US embassy, EXT. Dr. Serge Voronoff and wife enter embassy. Voronoff's chauffeur and Pekinese dog. Ambassador Bullitt arriving in car, shaking hands with Walter Lippmann who remains in car. CU Ambassador's car's license plate CD - 5F. Wall camera, Mag. 8: US Embassy, INT, Main entrance hall. Shot, t...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: sorting mail; Passport office

    Using Wall Camera: US Embassy, Post Office. Mail bags arriving from French post office. Mail being sorted. Clerk from Military Attache's office comes to collect mail. Asst. mail clerk J. Dawson Kiernan opens diplomatic pouch. Mail bags to be shipped to Moscow and Madrid. CU, Chief mail clerk E.L. Knack taking mail from diplomatic pouch and sorting. CU, EXT post office doors with sign, "Pouch Room - No Admittance" and "Mail Room - Bureau de Postes" Archive Vaults in basement of Embassy, Asst. Superintendent Anderson comes down corridor testing doors. CU Anderson opening and closing vault doo...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: Ambassador's office; Office of Counselor

    665 P: Using Camereclaire: US Embassy, Ambassador's Office. (Sequence depicting daily morning routine.) Ambassador William C. Bullitt enters office, sits at desk, rings for personal secretary Carmel Offie, lights Camel cigarette. Offie enters with cables and mail, converses with Ambassador. Ambassador reads mail. CU Ambassador at desk, talking on phone with Minister of Finance Marchandeau, reading Embassy document addressed to French Foreign Office, signing document, standing at bay window overlooking Place de la Concorde, talking with First Secretary and Acting Consul General Robert D. Mur...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- State Department Library; Passport office; Div of Communication and Records

    665 NN Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, man at desk. Typing. Mo...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Members of Parliament; Westminster

    London: WS of Palaces of Westminster silhouetted, River Thames in FG. Government ministers and officials arrive at Palace of Westminster in midst of crisis over German aggression. Personages include: Hon. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour; Hon. William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies; and Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty. Shots of Big Ben. More members arrive, including: Lord Parmoor; and Charles Alrred Cripps, Member of the House of Lords. Scenes of streets, traffic, pedestrians, and members of Parliament approaching gates. St. Stephen's Ta...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- League of Nations; Eden in Geneva; London crowds re. political crises

    French intertitles: "Societe des Nations." French Assembly convenes. INT, delegates and speakers. CU documents pertaining to Africa. French intertitle: British foreign minister arrives Geneva for talks. Anthony Eden accompanies British Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Simon speaks to camera (mute). Title: The political situation in and around Downing Street. Crowds. British police holding back jostling crowds. Downing Street, London. Area of Westminster: Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin, Anthony Eden, Hore Belisha, and others arrive for talks at Downing Street during ...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- German aggression and European political crisis

    League of Nations scenes during political crisis and German aggression. EXT and INT scenes, including arrivals, speeches. Those seen include: Pierre Laval, Haile Selassie, Leon Blum. Speech by Blum on Italian sanctions. Speech by Laval. London scenes of Downing Street & Westminster. Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden, other ministers.

  12. Aerial views of Berlin devasted by bombs & shelling

    Aerial views from plane flying over severely bomb damaged Berlin, including shots of damage to marshalling yards, airstrip, and factories. Long travelling shot with clear views of buildings, housing, and ground from plane. More of other city areas, flying lower. Bomb craters on ground along canal or river. Flying lower over bomb damaged Berlin zoo, showing empty cages.

  13. Children refugees; Nazi atrocities

    A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 1: Masses of children wandering in war-ravaged cities begging, stealing, and scavenging for food. CUs mental and physically retarded children. Portraits of the "next generation", comparisons to fascist leaders of WWII. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice massacre at gravesite. Nazi footage of Hitler Youth, Hitler, von Rundstedt speech. CUs starving children. Packed courtrooms at Nuremburg, Germany and trials of captured SS men. Hitler speech (narrated in English). Ruins of German...

  14. Children refugees; rehabilitation in Europe

    A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 2: European children roaming among debris, hunger lines and mobs contrasted with peaceful suburbs in the US and loss of US soldiers abroad: "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it." UNRRA supplies are loaded on ships in the US and later distributed to orphans in Europe and Asia. Emphasis on international teamwork to help refugees, teach children, and rebuild/restore/repair nations. Ruins are cleared. Money pitch: "The price of peace." Ill and deformed children. "What seeds of destiny will sprout from within t...

  15. War Crimes Trials/war criminals

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, popes. German war criminals are tried and executed. German concentration camp scenes. Trial of some Japanese war criminals.

  16. Poland

    A documentary motion picture on apparel, handicraft, and folk dances in Lowicz, Kosow, Jabia and Warsaw, Poland. Shows colorful, distinctive native dress. Illustrates ceramics, wood engraving and wool spinning. Edmund Bartlomejcyk demonstrates his wood engraving. Teacher-artist Marya Werten displays her work. Adults dance the Resseto, Arkan and Kampostanc.

  17. Army film detailing the history of the US

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 2. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Dramatizes later European migrations to the US stressing the strength brought to the US by her immigrants. Shows luxury items (cars, radios, etc.) which contribute to US life. Depicts educational facilities, recreational activities (including many sport scenes), and prohibition era scenes.

  18. Army film showing US involvement in war from 1917 to 1938

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 3. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. A crane moves a large object. Aerial views of highways and tall buildings. People pour out of subway stations and masses walk along the street. Men, women and children walk into a church and various shots of them attending service. The narrator talks of war and how Americans "bend over backwards to avoid it." Cars pass on the street and a beach is crowded with people. A presumably dead body lies in a field and a few others float up to a desolate shore. 05:02:48 A tile card reads "1917." Several can...

  19. Army film showing Japanese troops, Nazi conquests, the bombing of Warsaw, and neutrality

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 4. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. A newspaper man calls out, "Nazi Spy Gang Captured!" on a bustling street. People sit in a movie theater and the screen reads, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." They watch a dramatization of Hitler saying the Constitution should be destroyed. German American children march in a parade carrying Nazi and American flags and others play instruments. In Madison Square Garden, people recite the Pledge of Allegiance while giving the Nazi Salute. A man is held back by guards. Hitler and Mussolini are seen on th...

  20. Army film showing Nazi aggression, refugees, FDR & Hull

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 5. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Cranes move scraps of metal in a junkyard and protestors carry picket signs saying "Embargo Japan." A sign over a doorway reads, "Mr. Acheson Assistant Secretary of State." Dean Acheson sits at a desk and summarizes the conflicts involved with exporting goods to Japan. 05:22:15 "April 9, 1940." Hitler looks over a map with other Nazi officials. A graphic shows the Nazi party taking over Western Europe. "May 10, 1940" is superimposed on a CU of soldiers marching in boots. People sit in their homes a...