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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. British counter-propaganda short

    Cartoon title: Official Films presents... "Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk assisted by the Gestapo Hep-Cats." Produced by Leslie Winik. Counter-propaganda film made to mock the Nazis by reversing and repeating newsreel shots of Adolf Hitler saluting and his troops goose-stepping from "Triumph of the Will" to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing to the popular British tune of the day, The Lambeth Walk. Uses reverse, stop motion, and jump cuts. Footage reproduced in rhythmic sequnces by an optical printer. Adds appropriate slide whistle and Bronx cheer sound effects.

  2. Frankfurt: food; DP camp Zeilsheim

    (MUN 376) City of Frankfurt - Food, Frankfurt and vicinity, Germany, August 19-20, 1946. LS, CUs cattle grazing in field near Heidelberg. CUs, cattle. SEQ: weighing and registering wheat. Middle-aged man and woman walking along path in park, same with man and child. MS, carton of cigarettes being exchanged for marks. LS, CU, black market dealer refusing to accept money, takes wrist watch in exchange for a package of food. LS, building which is part of DP camp at Zeilsheim. SEQ: people rummaging through garbage dump at Bad Vibel. CU, tin cans and refuse. INTs showing rooms in prosperous farm...

  3. Helen Keller with Ford

    Detroit, Michigan. Helen Keller visits Henry Ford. By remarkable development of the sense of touch Keller is able to understand what is being said to her. Note how she listens with her hands to what Mr. Ford is saying. Keller feeling the lips of Henry Ford. Miss Sullivan, Keller's teacher, in BG. Additional Ford reels (200 FC 440 (b-g)) follow until TC 01:09:39.

  4. Prague; field surgery; London; German submarines

    Color footage. A man waking up in a military cot (very underexposed). Two windows behind his bed provide a small amount of light for the shot. The man sits up in bed and speaks to the cameraman. Col. Zabin walks down street in Prague in his U.S. Army uniform carrying a shoulder bag. He tips his hat to the cameraman, cars in BG, and a civilian in FG. Col. Zabin boards a streetcar. He removes his helmet and tips it to the cameraman. Pan of streetcar full of civilians, Col. Zabin walks in front of the car as the camera pans, large "N" inside of a circle on streetcar. MS, pan of castle with the...

  5. Soviet Revolt feted

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 6, No. 310, Part 3. Release date, 12/12/1934. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: Other Big News Pictures Include: Moscow turning out in a monster celebration of the Soviet Revolution. Sound of Soviet marching hymn, Stalin and officials watch parade. Parade with banner of Stalin. CU, Stalin and Voroshilov. Paraders carrying Lenin's banner. Cut-in spectators. More parades/banners. Stalin and Voroshilov. Parade. Overhead with Stalin banner. Shooting across water showing buildings, Kremlin. Overhead shot works releasing balloon.

  6. Samuel Insull returns to US to face fraud charges

    "Insull Return Triumph for Uncle Sam," Jersey City and Princeton, NJ. Editor's Note: The return of Samuel Insull after a chase halfway around the world once more demonstrates the power of the federal government. None can long defy its authority or escape its justice. Good LS of the SS Exilona coming into port. CS, Insull, Jr. CU, Insull. Insull leaving car, and coming to camera. CU, Insull saying that he will not grant an interview. CU.

  7. DPs in Germany

    (LIB 3894) Displaced Persons, Krefeld, Germany, March 9, 1945. LS, large group of displaced persons in courtyard including Russian, Polish, French, and former German political prisoners. MS, French civilian with French flag. Russians playing musical instruments, singing, dancing. SEQ: Long line of prisoners receiving bread and soup. MSs, Russians gathered around open fire and cooking. INT, DPs cleaning prison cells. CU, Russian playing accordion.

  8. Children: the Aryan ideal

    Title, "Gesunde Jugend/Starkes Volk" [Healthy Youth/Strong People]. More credits. Title, "Das himmelreich erringen keine halben, die Freiheit erlangen keine Feigen und die Zukunft gehört nur den Mutigen allein! Adolf Hitler, Parteitag der Ehre." Unclothed toddlers play on a beach and splash in the water. Children play in a yard, jumping and crawling on mats that lie on the ground. They do flips over a horizontal bar. CUs of children’s faces. The kids walk across a balance beam and go down a slide head first. 04:02:46 Children play hide-and-seek. They sit in a grassy field, run through a for...

  9. Mitten

    The mitten was used in the mountains during World War II in Italy.

  10. Miriam Winter photograph

    Contains Marysia Kowalska's first communion photograph. This photograph was taken while Miriam Winter was in hiding.

  11. Poster

  12. Czech treasury bond

    Contains a treasury bond from the Central Bank of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia in Prague that was purchased on March 16, 1943 by Dr. Hamberger ("Hedwig") and became due March 16, 1963.

  13. Verdoner children at home

    Francisca Verdoner Kan, as a young baby in her crib. Her mother Hilde is also in the scene. The crib is placed outside in the garden. VS, family members in the garden, three women and a man at the table eating. Yoka Verdoner, the eldest child is also present.

  14. Kan family in US postwar: Betsy's baby

    Color. Betsy walking a baby stroller down a sidewalk (similar to 01:09 on Film ID 2478). Grandparents walk down a sidewalk towards the camera. CU baby in white sleeping in the stroller. Betsy and the baby walking along the sidewalk with Betsy's parents-in-law.

  15. Glacier National Park; military parade

    Mountain shots, road, truck, lake. Pans across river/lake, houses on water front. Sign for park. 01:03:05 road, car. Dark shot - possible bear walking around. Military van passes. 01:04:39 sign for Apgar Cabin Camps. Log cabins, American flag. Sign for Lake McDonald Ranger station. Man walks past camera. 01:08:13 "Tom B Moore. W.M. Wayman" title. 3 women leave house. Then woman, man stands staring at camera. Cherries for sale. Sign for Robbinwood. Man and woman picking cherries. 01:10:35 woman taking picture of man in uniform. House shot, American flag, people outside. 01:12:29 Man in unifo...

  16. Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate on the Gripsholm; walk around NYC

    Color part of "November 1946 Gripsholm" reel. CU, Yoka and Francisca Verdoner on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm bound for the USA. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. CU, all three Verdoner children arm in arm on deck- Francisca, Yoka and Otto. MCU, Otto on deck, he is playing with what looks like a piece of 35mm film(?). There are some instances of overexposure on this reel of film. Yoka moving about on deck. Panning shot of the ship's mast and various displaced persons on dec...

  17. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal. 02:17:15 Hermann Wilhelm Goering: Death 02:18:08 Rudolf Hess: Life imprisonment 02:18:34 Joachim von Ribbentrop: Death 02:19:01 Wilhelm Keitel: Death 02:19:33 Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Death 02:20:00 Alfred Rosenberg: Death 02:20:34 Hans Frank: ...

  18. Verdoner family at the beach in Zandvoort

    Verdoner family on summer holdiay in Zandvoort, Holland, a beach resort town near Haarlem. VS, Yoka and Francisca digging in the sand with their mother and father. Playing in the sand with other children, also older children.

  19. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

    Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.

  20. WW I, Russian Revolution

    Fox Movietone Newsreel excerpts. Yanks parade in NY. The first volunteers march on Fifth Ave. Troops load into transport, crowded decks. Wilson selects first draft number. VP Marshall selects second. Troop ships pull away. GIs with dog mascots. AEF lands, marches in Paris. Crowds cheer, flowers thrown. Yanks march in London. "Last Pictures of the Czar" with family before Palace. Russian army in snow. Wounded soldiers return from front. Kerensky. Bolsheviks parade in streets. Trotsky in uniform, briefly reviewing troops. CU, INT Lenin, speaking off camera. Krupskaya writing and frowning. Dom...