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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. Army film documenting Axis powers, Lindbergh, Willkie, and FDR speaking to Congress

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 6. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Winston Churchill signs a document for more ships. A map shows US bases along the Caribbean to protect the Panama Canal. In Berlin, Hitler shakes hands with Japanese diplomats. A sign reads, "Mr. Berle Assistant Secretary of State" and he speaks of the pact of Berlin and the alliance of the Axis powers. Text states, "Pact of Berlin Sept. 27, 1940," people cheer on the street and flags wave. Hitler salutes and shakes hands with officials. Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany, Galleazzo Ciano of Italy, ...

  16. Army film continues with Willkie, Hull, and the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 7. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. They fire at a US submarine and it explodes. Newspaper headlines read, "U.S. Ship Torpedoed," "S.S. Lehigh Sunk," "U-Boat Attacked!" and others. An American flag floats in the water. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, gives a speech saying, "If today, our Navy should make secure the seas for the delivery of our munitions to Great Britain, it will render as great a service to our country and to the preservation of American freedom as it has ever rendered in all its glorious history." Wendell Wilkie...

  17. Development of German campaign in Poland

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 1: maps the Hanseatic cities and Danzig. Shows World War I combat scenes. Describes the Polish Corridor settlement. Shows German refugees driven from Poland. Describes Hitler's proposed highway across the Corridor. Shows Polish Foreign Minister Beck and the Danzig defense corps. Von Ribbentrop enplanes for Moscow. London workers dig air raid shelters. Shows Polish President Moscicki.

  18. Polish mobilization; German troops

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 2: describes Polish mobilization showing armor and aircraft. Shows burned farmhouses of German settlers in Poland. Danzig militia fighting Poles and German columns marching into the city. German cavalry, armor, horse-drawn artillery, and infantry enter Poland. Skirmishers advance. Artillery and machine guns are fired.

  19. German campaign in Poland; German military; destruction

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 3: German engineers repair a bridge over the Vistula. Tanks ford the river and motorized columns cross the bridge. Reconnaissance planes fly over. Stukas dive-bomb a supply train and grounded Polish aircraft. Shows closeups of the wreckage.

  20. German campaign in Poland; trooops; Danzig

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 4: German cavalry and motorized infantry advance. Civilians greet German columns. Armor advances through flaming ruins. An informer points out a Pole accused of war crimes. The Schleswig-Holstein shells Danzig.