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  1. Swiss village no.2 at the Paris Exposition

    The Swiss village at the 1900 Paris Exposition after the Swiss drove home a herd of cattle. Women in Swiss national costume walk in a line. Man tips his cap to the camera as he walks toward it. Women and men grasp hands, form a circle, and dance.

  2. Champs de Mars at the Paris Exposition

    The Champs de Mars in Paris during the 1900 Paris Exposition. Women stroll with parasols. People walk. Two women stroll with umbrellas. Stone wall. Large crowd. Building. Base of the Eiffel Tower. Building. People stroll with parasols.

  3. Panorama of the Eiffel Tower at the Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the 1900 Paris Exposition and exterior views of the Eiffel Tower. People walk under the Eiffel Tower. MS, base of the tower. Camera pans up showing the rest of the tower and back down to the base. Man takes his cap off and smiles into the camera. A man gestures toward the camera playfully.

  4. Panorama from the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    The Paris Exposition in July 1900 taken from the moving platform that was put on the boardwalk for the Exposition. People run on the moving boardwalk. Street vendors. National pavilions for the Paris Exposition are in the BG. Sign: "Champ de Mars Porte Rapp." Children fight in the corner. Pan taken from a bridge of a large building, trees. People walking.

  5. Palace of Electricity at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic film of the 1900 Paris Exposition of the Palace of Electricity, a pavilion that provided the energy for the other exhibits. Crowd in front of the Palace of Electricity. Row of empty chairs outside. Men stand and look toward the camera. Base of the Eiffel Tower. People stroll. The Palace of Electricity. People walk toward the Palace of Electricity.

  6. Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the new moving platform installed on the boardwalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Children stand making playful gestures. One boy rubs a piece of paper on his forehead and hat. Some people walk on the platform, others stand still, others move off the boardwalk. Boy pulls a man off. A man hops on, takes his hat off, and smiles. Woman gets on the platform and smiles at the children. Man gets off the platform and cuffs a boy on the side of the head. CUs, people on the platform.

  7. Elevator ascends the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition

    The 1900 Paris Exposition filmed from the new elevator in the Eiffel Tower showing the ascent of the elevator and an aerial shot of the Champs de Mars and the exposition. The tops of pavilions, the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower. Entire buildings can be seen. Lanterns inside the Eiffel Tower. The tops of buildings, people walking along the Champs de Mars. Aerial shot of the busy Champs de Mars.

  8. Roswell McClelland

    Roswell McClelland was the US Representative to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Switzerland before serving as a US Ambassador to the Republic of Niger. In this interview with Claude Lanzmann, McClelland recounts his personal experiences, his motivations, and his work with the WRB. The interview was filmed at the home of James MacGregor Byrne and June Byrne in Chevy Chase, MD (friends of Mr. McClelland). FILM ID 3432 -- Camera Rolls #63-68 -- 01:00:30 to 01:28:35 01:00:30 CR63 Claude Lanzmann and Roswell McClelland sit at a round table with notes and binders laid out between them. The wooden ...

  9. Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc in southern France

    Newsreel film of Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc near Marseilles. After Exodus passengers were forcibly disembarked at Haifa, they were loaded onto three British ships and returned to Europe. On arrival in France, they refused to disembark and spent three weeks during a heat wave at Port-de-Bouc in August 1947. Amid worldwide publicity, British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin then decided to return the passengers to Hamburg, where they were re-incarcerated in refugee camps. The three British ships outside harbor entrance at Port-de-Bouc. Runnymede Park ship and probably Ocean Vigour and Em...

  10. AFS ambulance drivers assist evacuation of survivors after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Large group of German SS stand in front of barracks at Belsen. According to the American Field Service (AFS) records, these SS men were transported out of the camp in AFS ambulances. A British soldier in a brown uniform smoking gestures at the group of SS. Rotated view of camp grounds with lush green trees. Camera shifts to the correct position to show a memorial sign erected in May 1945, "This is the site of the infamous Belsen Concentration Camp liberated by the British on 15 April 1945." Pan, barbed wire fence and camp ruins. Entrance gate open to dirt road and camp grounds. Brief view o...

  11. Early Nazi Party parade in Nuremberg

    Crowds line the streets of Nuremberg waiting for the parade of SA troops to begin. Title in German. Camera films spectators on moving vehicle through the empty street. A title seems to mock the KPD by saying that they KPD would claim that the lanes in the street were very narrow, and that only a few curious people made up almost the entire crowd. SA men with packs and swastika flags marching on cobblestone. More German titles. Large crowds line the parade route. Several men in uniform near cars. German title indicates an enormous mass gathered on Saturday and Sunday for the NSDAP event. Dru...

  12. Schaap travels to Palestine via Italy in 1935

    Maurits Schaap visited his brother Meijer in Palestine in December 1935. Maurits showed the films to the Jewish community of Rotterdam after he returned. "ROTTERDAM-PALESTINA vice-versa, Camera: Mau Schaap. Caricaturen: Joseph Rosenberg. Chanoekah 5696" Title card: "VERTREK STATION D.P. met opnamen van Rotterdam - Parÿs - Milaan - Monza - Venetië - Triëst". Busy train station after 11AM. People moving about the station and getting on and off trains. The cameraman, shown to be Maurits Schaap from the title card, boards a train and films through an exterior window of the departure and the lan...

  13. Schaap visits Palestine and returns to Holland

    Continued from Film ID 4101 when Maurits Schaap visited his brother Meijer in Palestine in December 1935. Maurits showed the films to the Jewish community of Rotterdam after he returned. Streets of Tel Aviv, recording signs and activities within the city. Title, "Autotocht naar HEBRON-DOODE ZEE en JERICHO". Visiting Jericho and the Dead Sea. 02:04:51 Man sits down for a haircut and a shave. 02:05:23 Reflection of cameraman Schaap in a mirror inside the barber shop. Architecture of an ancient amphitheater and the campus of a university. Lectures and people working in a laboratory. 02:12:23 T...

  14. Prewar Jewish life in the Netherlands; Haamstede Airfield; Jewish orphanage

    Street scenes in the early 1930s in Rotterdam. Salomon Schaap (on far left) and Naatje Keizer Schaap (in middle), the cameraman's parents, walk together in the streets, arm in arm. Shop sign. They enter the cheese shop they owned. The family lived behind this shop. The man in the light-colored suit who follows them into the shop is Emanuel Schaap (died in Mauthausen in 1944). Maurits exits the car and gets a hair cut in barber shop. Man waves. Visit to a vegetable garden owned by a sister or aunt. Older man with a yarmulke and Naatje. They walk towards the camera. Louis Schaap, the camerama...

  15. Building a synagogue in Rotterdam; celebrating Hannukah

    Street sign, "Walenburger Weg." In Rotterdam. INT, wood workshop. Building a synagogue in the late 1930s close enough to the Schaap family home so the elder Salomon Schaap could walk there; the synagogue was not destroyed during WWII. 06:22:07 Star of David on door. Men carry wood into doorway. Menorah in INT of workshop/store. Hebrew letters on tiles Men unload materials for work on synagogue. 06:26:08 INT, crowd of religious Jews. Cantor sings. Men in top-hats and tuxedoes. Bride and groom under pieces of cloth. Light candles. Wedding. Bride and groom smile and shake hands. Little boy lig...

  16. Children at school in Palestine; daily life in Holland; Carnival parade; El Al flight

    Titles, "Haifa" and other locations in Palestine. Street scenes. Children in school/nursery in Palestine, wearing costumes, performing a play. Outdoor exercises with teacher. A young couple walks down steps through a yard toward camera. 06:35:15 In Holland, rose garden. Outdoor marketplace crowded with people. Flag of Netherlands flies atop domed building. Elders sit outdoors at the seaside café in the Hague, drinking mineral water. Woman in lab-coat seen earlier with puppies at kennel. Woman looks at dogs. Men gesture to camera near automobile. Man with back to camera speaks on ornate tele...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship launching at Swedish harbor; Red Cross ships with POWs

    1021 V (09:06:25): Managing Director Heden in office. Gothenburg ship-building and launchings: Tug attending launching. Bows of ship. LS, stern of ship and harbor. Deck of a newly-built ship, waiting to be put to sea since the outbreak of war. View along the deck. Ship entering floating dock. Ship-building yard showing lower deck plates of ship. Director Heden and his wife ascending stairs prior to launching. Ship's side with flag decorations. Launching platform with ship's bows. View of shipyard. MS, launching platform. Mrs. Heden coming down steps with bouquet. Launching of the ship. Gene...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- King; Lotta Women's Auxiliary Organization feeding soldiers

    1021 C (09:17:20): Swedish King Gustav V playing tennis. King (with glasses and hat) autographs papers for children. 1021 F (09:20:50): Man at desk, writing, reading. Two men exiting office, walking. Military review, parade. Various shots, soldiers talking, civilians in BG. CUs, tanks. 1021 X (09:24:59): September 25, 1944 (Lavender) Lotta Women's Auxiliary Organization. Several shots of Swedish soldiers in winter uniforms walking to open-air kitchen run by the Lottas in the snow. Soldiers standing around eating. Soldiers at a Lotta field kitchen set up in front of a tent (ground covered wi...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Finnish refugee children; US embassy; Propaganda; Smashed windows

    1021 VVV (09:26:42): Finnish Refugee Children at Falun, Dalecarlia, September 1944. Finnish refugee children's home at Falun. General view of home. Children dancing in small circle. CUs, children. CU, young matron of home. CU, small Finnish child. LS, children on lawn in front of the house, running into the house. CU, Finnish boy sitting on steps. 1021 parts of AA and ZZZ (09:28:45): AA: Various EXT shots of building of "general interest" to MOT cameramen, including the American Embassy in Stockholm, the American Legation, and a Nazi building. Shots of entrances and signs. INT, Press Depart...

  20. Hungary and Slovakia

    Silent with Hungarian intertitles. "HATARMEGALLAPITAS: A magyar- szlovak hatarmegallapito bizottsag 1067 negyzetkilmoetert csatolt viszsza Szent Istvan orsagahoz." Animated map of Hungary/Slovakia. EXT scene, troops marching (difficult to see due to high contrast of the film print). Waterfall. MS, troops marching, mountains in BG. CU, three soldiers plotting their course. VS, soldiers. "MUNKACS: Az ujoncok eskiitetle alkalmaval tuntettek ki Munkacs hos vedoit, akik a januari cseh tamadast visszavertek." This is the town where military troops swear their allegiance to Hungary. Large crowd, c...