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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship en route to South America

    SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). On deck playing, in swimming pool, sunbathing. 01:23:16 People sit around table with sailor. 01:23:59 Games. 01:25:24 Standing around pool, diving. 01:26:40 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats relaxing on deck, talking. 01:28:35 Practicing a play on Neptune deck. 01:30:39 Fooling around. 01:31:18 Eating, buffet.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- South America, 1938

    On board the SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). Conference of Admirals Hutchinson I. Cone, Emory S. Land, and H.A. Wiley. 01:34:21 INT, Mrs. Woodward, wife of Thomas Woodward of the Maritime Commission, in bedroom, at desk. Man cleaning room. 01:34:59 Harbor, view of Buenos Aires, ship. 01:35:40 Flags, other ships go by and are moored. 01:36:57 People on shore, disembarking. 01:37:53 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats talking. 01:39:02...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Buenos Aires

    INT "Casa Rosada" [Pink House], the official residence and executive office of President Ortiz in Buenos Aires. MS, CU, Weddell, Breckinridge Long, President Ortiz, and Foreign Minister Cantilo talking on couch. 01:43:03 Group of men in suits, including men from before. 01:44:58 Buildings, trams, horse and carts, in front of US Embassy in Buenos Aires, guards. 01:45:50 INT, staircase. Weddell and his butler. 01:46:54 Plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. 01:47:43 Shaking hands and greeting visitors for official reception. 01:50:16 EXT, embassy, cars coming and going. 01:51:43 Guests outside. 01:52:...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of SS Brazil in Uruguay, 1938

    "Brazil" sign on SS Brazil boat (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). LS, MS, view of Montevideo, Uruguay from boat. Shots of harbor, steamship, boats, people. 02:01:49 Flags on building. 02:02:13 Officials on patio at government house, including Admiral Emory S. Land, Ambassador Breckinridge Long, Alberto Guani (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Don Fermin Carlos de Yereugi, and Leslie Reed (US Charges d'Affaires). Suited men talking. In garden at the President's residence: ...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Embassies in Rio de Janiero

    MTT 672 N October 20, 1938: Entering Rio de Janeiro harbor in SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). Rain. City. 02:13:00 Crowds and reception committee on dock waiting, including Ambassador Caffrey and brass band. 02:14:10 Unloading cargo. Sign on crane, "Deutsche Maschinenfabrik A.G. Duisburg." 02:15:15 Ship turning. INT, SS Brazil at official reception with Ambassador Breckinridge Long, President Vargas, and Admiral Emory S. Land, dining, foreign ships. 02:17:...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ruins/statues in Warsaw

    LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. 02:25:57 CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz). 02:26:20 Dunikowski chiseling marble with a cigarette. 02:26:38 LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior with guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered with flowers. MS, a marble slab fixed on a pillar with the names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West. MS, another slab with the names of the German-Russian campaign. MS, soldier parading. 02:28:03 LS, Warsaw with people, trams. LS, Russo...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- War Crimes Trial: "Butchers of Auschwitz"

    "The Trial of Forty German Butchers of Auschwitz Camp," November 24-26, 1947. LS, building in which the trial of Auschwitz takes place. Market scene. 02:36:45 MS, crowd listening to loudspeaker on steps of building. MS, crowd outside of building listening to prisoners' examination. 02:37:05 VS, German prisoners jumping out of lorries and marching into the Court of Justice. 02:37:22 VS, Maria Mandl, head of women's camp at Auschwitz, between two Germans. 02:37:58 LS, old women jumping out of lorry and going to the Tribunal. CU, President of the Tribunal, Alfred Eimer, verifying identity of t...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Church/religious ceremony in Warsaw; Cardinal Hlond

    November 16, 1947: Cardinal August Hlond arriving in car. Priests, clergy entering the heavily damaged All Saints Catholic Church in Warsaw, including Hlond and Mgr. Sigismund Kaczynski, ex-member of the Polish government in exile at London. 02:46:03 Religious procession on street. Archbishops of Poland talking to Hlond in Kaczynski's office at the residence of the Cardinal of Warsaw. Reverend Michael Kolbuch, Provincial of Poland and father of La Salette Congregation, bowing to Hlond. Children offering flowers. 02:48:16 October 18, 1947: Destroyed church St. Alexander's Church at "Place of...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Cemetery in Łódź; dead honored

    October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 Nove...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign press in Warsaw; printing press; film production in Łódź

    October 17/18, 1947: Mr. Victor Grosz, director of the press and information department, presiding over a meeting of foreign press correspondents in Warsaw, including Larry Allan (AP), Sydney Gruson (New York Times), Nicolas Carroll (Kensly Papers), Mr. Kantiouchin (Agency Tass), two women, and Mr. Marechal (France). People entering room, sit around table talking, many smoking. 03:10:27 Taking notes. Grosz talking. 03:11:30 November 11, 1947: Tram, building with door marked "Czytelnik" (an evening press), people leave and enter. 03:11:57 Man fixing mold frame of printing press. Printing new...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Swiss troops in Bern, Switzerland

    Swiss target practice near Bern. LS, men in civilian clothes with guns returning from shooting practice. 04:33:42 In street, outside Hotel Suisse, trams. 04:34:16 Posters announcing the Federal Shooting Contest (in German, French, Italian). Frontier guard soldiers with binoculars in the mountains. 04:35:00 Soldiers with backpacks, horses, machine guns. 04:36:27 Soldier on small bridge with gun. Peasant passes by. Soldiers sit by house on lookout. 04:37:46 Staff of mountain infantry regiment in office. Colonel looking at map, giving orders. 04:38:34 LS, village, church. 04:39:21 Streets in B...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Breda, Netherlands

    Dutch army near Breda, Netherlands. Soldiers on bicycles, motorbikes, tanks moving through Dutch countryside. 04:40:23 Soldiers in trench, camouflaged lookout. 04:41:12 Soldiers and civilians, flasks being filled with rations. Digging trenches. Soldiers and civilians drinking, smoking. 04:42:48 Soldiers marching, windmill in BG. Putting dynamite around trees, for blocking roads in case of attack. Machine gun. 04:44:06 Soldiers marching in farm and along road. 04:45:00 Filling wheelbarrows, digging trench. 04:46:07 Sitting in shelter. Machine gun.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- March of Time managing editors meeting

    March of Time managing editors conference. In office [sound is muffled]. Talking about President's aim of a fortified Guam, trade with Japan, and issues of the Philippines and Singapore (repeated 3-4 times) 04:52:16 Filling in chart/story board. 04:53:23 Editors looking at photographs, talk about cropping one. (repeated) 04:54:55 CU photo, many photos. 04:55:28 Men in room talking about the possibility of war and explaining why it hasn't taken place yet. (repeated 4-5 times) Outtakes related to March of Time Issue "War, Peace & Propaganda" - Vol.V - Issue 11, June 1939

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Copenhagen from church tower, harbor. 05:01:06 "Bruarfoss" ship from island. Dutch ship "Tilly," lines of steamships. "Hans Brog Danmark" ship. Greek flag painted on side of ship. 05:02:26 Trams, bicycles in Copenhagen street. Shops, traffic. EXT, conservative paper "Politiken" building with map of German invasion into Poland. News from the front on the EXT of "Berlingske Tidende" building, busy street, bicyclists.05:04:21 MS, Thorvald Stauning, Danish Premier Minister, in his office, writing. 05:05:10 EXT Ministry building, horse. Aerial shot of Raadhuspladsen, Copenhagen's main square...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Christiansborg entrance (Parliament and Foreign Ministry building). Amalienborg Palace, residence of the King. 05:08:14 Armed guards. CU, insignia with King's initials. 05:08:52 Oil tanks in Copenhagen harbor (Shell, BP, etc.) 05:09:24 Danish and German boats in harbor. 05:10:14 In Copenhagen, on street outside "Prwatbanken". Bicycles, cars, horse and cart, modern apartment blocks. 05:11:08 EXT, Shell Centralen petrol building. Street, City Hall, automobiles. 05:12:14 Train, station. Copenhagen power plant. 05:13:08 EXT, NSDAP headquarters, swastikas. Power plant. German freighter flyin...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign diplomats at banquets in Portugal

    LS, Palace of the President of Portugal in countryside, car pulls up, guard on duty. Reading papers, talking. Gen. Jordana visits the President at his villa near Estoril. Officials enter house, go upstairs. CU, valet hanging caps. Jordana leaves office. Soldiers lined up, people by fountain. Gen. Jordana (Franco's foreign minster), Portuguese Premier Salazar, and other officials arrive. Republican guard soldiers march, join the Chateau guard. Salazar and Jordana in banquet hall in Sintra. Salazar talks to Spanish Ambassador to Lisbon, brother of Franco. Other guests at table, talking. Chate...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Lisbon, gold mint

    Gen. Jordana reviewing Guard of Honor before leaving Portugal. Military parade, officials standing in moving car, saluting, soldiers on horses. LS, entrance of exhibition hall of the Ministry of Propaganda of President Carmona of Portugal. Men looking at exhibition paintings by Portuguese painter Henri Malta. Antonio Ferro, director of the Propaganda Ministry, admiring a collection of dolls wearing regional Portuguese costumes made by Miss Dalila. 05:30:31 Mint in Lisbon where gold money is made. Silver blocks transported in truck, loaded in stamping box. Men carrying gold blocks, weighing ...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Grand Council of the Rabbinate; Talmud School; Court of Appeals

    Grand Council of the Rabbinate of Tel Aviv (reunion to remind rabbis of the principal points of Jewish orthodoxy and urge them to induce Jews to practice the religion more assiduously). Entrance to the hall of the Grand Council; Grand Rabbi Amiel (in soft hat) and Grand Rabbi Toledano (in the turban) go to their seats at a table, other rabbis stand. Rabbis talking. Rabbi Amiel speaks, others listen. Rabbis Amiel and Toledano talk to each other. CU, rabbi with beard listening. 05:53:30 Talmud School of the Grand Synagogue of Tel Aviv under the direction of the Grand Rabbi David Prato. Childr...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews in Palestine

    EXT, shops, cafes, man with trumpet calls for shopowners to close. Wedding party going down stairs. Morning prayer at Tel Aviv. Men dressing, putting on tefillin, praying, reading in synagogue. 06:03:15 Jewish Passover week in Jerusalem. LS, crowd meets in front of Hurva synagogue, aerial views. CUs people's faces, singing and praying in memory of the Jews murdered by the Nazis. Rabbi speaking. Men walking downstairs toward the Western Wall, beggars line the wall, mosques in BG. Mass of people praying at the Western Wall. INT synagogue, Torah.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jerusalem, 1945

    In front of the Palestinian Police Headquarters in Jerusalem with guards, arrival of car of Gen. Inspector Rymer-Jones. Rymer-Jones exits car. Rymer-Jones at desk in his office, makes a telephone call. Group of men looking at a map of Palestine. 06:12:05 Horses with flags, car, military officers, soldiers lined up for inspection, camels. Marching in military procession, military vehicles, soldiers begin marching. Sign at far right reads "Palestine Police...and Training School."