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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran

    Iran: Ancient minarets in Teheran. Russians accepting planes with US insignia. Lend-lease. Natives assemble freight cars. Trains going through mountains, railroad yards. Russian soldiers.

  2. 1936 Olympics: female athletes; sailing

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 2: Women athletes do mass calisthenics, flags of various nations fly from the masts of sailing vessels taking part in the Kiel regatta; Hitler and Goering look on.

  3. 1936 Olympics: gymnastics

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 3: Opening shot of a woman jumping over the horse in Women's Gymnastics competition. Other events include: balance beam and parallel bars). Men's Gymnastics events include floor exercises, horse, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia is first on the flying rings, Konrad Frey of Germany wins on the parallel bars, Aleksantevi Saarvale of Finland is first on the horizontal bar.

  4. 1936 Olympics: fencing; wrestling; boxing

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 4: Fencing, Graeco-Roman wrestling, and boxing events are held, Endre Kabos of Hungary wins the sabre contest.

  5. 1936 Olympics: pistol shooting; track

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 5: Capt. Ludwig Stubbendorf of Germany wins the combination cross country equestrian event, Van Oven of Germany wins rapid fire pistol shooting event and Ullmann of Sweden wins precision pistol shooting event; garlands of victory are placed on brow of winners of the track events.

  6. 1936 Olympics: diving; swimming

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 6: Shows fancy diving and swimming events.

  7. 1936 Olympics: diving; swimming

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 7: Japanese athletes participate in fancy diving and swimming events.

  8. 1936 Olympics: aquatics

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 8: Japanese swimmers triumph in aquatic events.

  9. 1936 Olympics: aquatics; Olympic flame; flags

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 9: Japanese and German swimmers dive, bell rings, Olympic flame burns in stadium, flags of participating nations fly.

  10. 1936 Olympics: crowds; Hitler; races

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 10: Shows crowds in stands at the German Arena, Hitler, Goering and Goebbels among them; relay races are held; garlands of victory are placed on the brows of US, British, and Finnish contestants.

  11. 1936 Olympics: marathon

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 11: Marathon. Closing ceremony?

  12. 1936 Olympics: marathon; closing ceremony

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 12: Kitel Son of Japan wins marathon race; Ernest Harper of England, Second; Shoryu Nan of Japan, Third; Erkki Tamila of England, Fourth; Vaino Muinonen of Finland, Fifth; Johannes Coleman of South Africa, Sixth. Closing ceremony. Cameras. Note: There are no titles at the end of the film.

  13. Pogroms in Ukraine, 1919-1920

    Silent with English intertitles. "Ataman Grigorieff's pogrom in Elisavetgrad 15-17 May 1919." "The corpses in the mortuary." MS of corpses on the ground. "A common grave (men)." Still photo of men, many wrapped in prayer shawls. "A common grave (women)." Still photo of women's corpses laying on the ground. "A group of massacred brought to Poltava...egam Joseph, Aguz Jacob, 5 September 19." Still, MCU of four corpses laying on the ground, INT. "The pogrom by Ataman ... in Rzhistsheff*, Governm. Kieff, 14 June 1919." Still, MS, bodies lined up outside, on the ground, alongside a brick buildin...

  14. Reunion of Ukrainian child survivors of Auschwitz

    Reunion of child survivors, now adults, of Auschwitz concentration camp (this appears to be taking place during the 1960s). VS, CUs, faces of men and women as they greet each other again for the first time since their time spent together in the concentration camp. VS, scenes of liberation of orphaned children (back in the 1940s). Children on buses, leaving the camps and being sent to new lives after the war. In Kiev, a large group of child survivors process to an eternal flame and place flowers and wreaths around this flame in a public plaza in Kiev (in the 1960s again). The camera pans the...

  15. Kiev: the last days before war

    Various scenes of the last days before war in Kiev. VS, main street of Kiev, people go about daily business, a soldier stands with a gun on a street corner, a newspaper is shown, dated September 1941. In the newspaper there is a war-propaganda picture featuring soldiers and workers alike defending their homes, with a caption that reads "All to the defense of Kiev!" German tanks and heavy artillery roll into town, Wehrmacht soldiers in uniform lounge about, smoking. CU of official letter, in Ukrainian, from German military authority with regulations. A large building is shown with a swastika...

  16. Liberation of Kiev

    Liberation of Kiev. VS of the city. Soviet troops take the city by storm, routing the German forces. Tanks roll in. A huge icon, perhaps of Jesus, is shown covering the side of a demolished building. A woman cries. Soviet troops greet and embrace women, who thank them for liberating the city. Children walk about. VS, children, women, destruction and rubble in the streets, etc. VS, on a train of German official Hans Frank and advisors discussing plans for the region. Animated maps of Ukraine and Kiev city map. 01:13:37 Translation: They [Soviet army soldiers] reached Kyiv's suburbs. The flas...

  17. Lvov; POWs

    Lvov, scenes of corpses on the ground. Frozen corpces tended by relatives, they are taken out of mass graves. VS, railcar on fire, scenes of fighting, soldiers in the field, artillery fire, MS of a soldier with a camera, shooting the war around him, he is kneeling down, protected by a large piece of stone. Another shot of the cameraman, filming in the grass beside the railroad tracks, the railcar behind him has been destroyed. POWs, some with their hands raised above their heads, walking through the city streets. VS of Jewish prisoners, panning large group of Jewish male prisoners who are l...

  18. Arrival of Berlin Youth Theater in Odessa; Solomon Mikhoels

    Title in Ukrainian, translation in English: "Hello to the Western European revolutionary artists! Odessa. Train from Berlin with members of the Berlin Youth Theater." LS, train station, arrival of train in station, passengers disembark. Crowds of civilians are gathered on the platform to greet them. Intertitle translation: "Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish State Theater of Moscow(GOSET) greets them." CU, of a young man smiling for the camera, notes identify him as Veniamin Zuskin, a Jewish actor. CU of Mikhoels speaking. Crowd clapping after Mikhoels finishes speaking.

  19. Visit to Ukraine by Soviet writer Marietta Shaginyan

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Soviet writer, Marietta Shaginyan, biographer of Lenin, visits the Ukraine. Speech to Dykanka kolhoz youth (members of a collective farm group) in Armenian or Russian (not certain of language of speech as this story is accompanied by voiceover narration in Ukrainian, and the original sound of the speech is not heard, and was perhaps never recorded). Translation of Ukrainian narration: Narration about the writer: Youth from Dykanka kolgosp [Ukrainian translation of 'kolhoz'] in the Poltava Region welcome the honored writer Marietta Shaginyan. The writer took und...

  20. Jewish folk dance performed by Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Intertitle: "The Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe is performing." Four Ukrainian couples performing Jewish folk dance; they are members of the official Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe. VS, group of young men and women performing traditional folk songs and dances for a large crowd. Shots alternate between the performers and the crowd cheering. Part of this story takes place in the small Ukrainian village of Dykan'ka in the Poltava Region