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  1. 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 ...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

  3. Bookmark

    Bookmark found in a book on eugenics, 1997.7.2.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rally, NYC

    Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind. 03:21:58 Second speaker with curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany...". Man, older, waiting behind curtain. 03:24:22 LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue) include: Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.

  5. Pamphlet

  6. [Magazine]

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship to South America; speeches

    Dinner conference aboard 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). 01:00:29 CU, Admiral Emory S. Land (Chairman). 01:00:54 Speech by George S. Messersmith, Assistant Secretary of State, on intra-state American relations especially with South America [sound cuts in and out]. He mentions "good neighbor" policy. 01:04:04 Applause. Quick shot of Breckinridge Long, Former Ambassador to Italy, talking. CU, Brazilian Ambassador to the US. CU, Land. CU, Messersmith listenin...

  8. Shirt worn by former prisoner of Auschwitz upon liberation

    Shirt worn by Sara Yablonowicz upon liberation of Auschwitz in Nazi occupied Europe.

  9. Book

  10. 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.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine

    1125 I: The Zionist Congress meets in Tel Aviv to render homage to its president Chaim Weizmann and his laboratory in Rehovot on December 24, 1944. Several hundred delegates representing different Jewish districts in Palestine participate. EXT shots of the cinema where Congress held. Sign reads, "Jane Eyre." Tickets checked. Crowded room of smartly dressed people. Dr. Weizmann makes his way to an armchair, shaking hands. Ben Gurion, president of the Jewish Agency, speaking. 05:02:45 Dr. Weizmann speaks with Israeli flag behind him. People listening. Clapping. Crowd listening. Ben Gurion spe...

  12. Photogaph album belonging to a United States soldier

    Contains a photo album compiled by a US soldier, handed to Lt. Colonel Hands, US Army during WWII.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees, Jewish Brigade in Palestine, Jewish Agency

    Young Jewish refugees, having escaped the Germans, arrived at the Athlit Camp near Haifa wanting to join the Jewish Brigade. 05:13:08 Yellow stars pinned to coats and vests. General shot of the recruiting. 05:13:27 Several young Jews stand before the table to sign up. MS, Jews signing up, Yellow Star of David is apparent. 05:14:28 General shot of young Jews entering the Recruiting Department of the Jewish Agency of Tel Aviv. 05:14:45 CU, sign of recruiting bureau in Hebrew and English. 05:14:58 The Mobile Jewish Brigade of Tel Monte - a special armed Jewish brigade authorized by the English...

  14. Tag

    Tag worn by Rita Buchholz as a child on a transport sponsored by the US Committee for the Care of European Children. She sailed from Lisbon on August 20, 1941, aboard the Mouzinho, arriving in New York on September 2.

  15. Völkischer Beobachter (Berlin, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Munich newspaper tracking Adolf Hitler's "success" in Austria.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938 Chaim Weizmann & others

    02:28:16 EXT of The Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot. INT scenes, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's lab, research, main entrance, name of institute. Dr. Weizmann leaving the Institute by car in company of Brig. Harrison, Commander of the Sarafand Army Base and 2) with Gen. Haining, Commander in Chief of British troops in Palestine. 02:29:54 City walls of Jerusalem, convoy/vehicles at bottom of hill, pedestrians walking on road. Western wall. 02:30:39 Jerusalem street scenes, automobiles and pedestrians. 02:30:58 Dr. Weizmann leaving the Sieff Institute by car with Gen. Haining, Commander in Ch...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

  18. Book

  19. Book

  20. Book

    Book of poems given as wedding gift.