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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin; Soviet people

    Red Army scenes in Red Square: thousands of troops march, horses galloping. Extensive, good scenes. Scenes shot by Julien Bryan in the Soviet Union (also at Library of Congress) include women from ballet company bathing on beach. More of Red Army in Red Square. Julien Bryan footage along the Rhine River, with views of ruins, castles (Maeuseturm, Drachenfels) Maps, highlighting White Sea, Volga, Caucasus, Siberia, intercut with footage shot by Julien Bryan. Includes nurse with toddler; kindergarten children at small tables. Rare view of toppling of church domes during Soviet anti-religion ca...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Franz Werfel; Thomas Mann; Aldous Huxley

    1104 Y (01:47:13-01:48:42) 1104 Z (01:48:42-01:54:52) Beverly Hills, CA. LS, CU Franz Werfel (author) working at his desk. LS, MS, CU Thomas Mann (German expatriate author) reading in his library. Hollywood, CA. MS, CU Aldous Huxley (philosopher and author) reading to his wife. CU, Mrs. Huxley. LS, MS Igor Stravinsky (musician and composer) with his wife and Mme. Nadia Boulanger (teacher of music composition) having tea in garden. CU, Igor Stravinsky. CU, cut-away Mme. Nadia Boulanger.

  3. Lenin/Stalin

    Lenin's body with Stalin looking at it. Woman with arm around Stalin and whispering in his ear, being hugged, Stalin signs something for young women. Sync of Stalin, 1937 (followed with English voice-over). CU, Pravda, started by Lenin. Paintings of Lenin and Stalin plotting the Revolution, revolutionary troops marching.

  4. 16th Soviet Congress

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 88, Part 1. Release date, 11/05/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "16th Soviet Congress Pledges Intensive 5-Year-Plan Support." Moscow, USSR. Stalin, Litvinoff and other chiefs of the New Russia perfect program for great agricultural and industrial drive, involving millions of workers, which is intended to put nation on a par with rest of world in production of raw material, foodstuff and manufactured goods. CU, young Stalin with Molotov, followed by lots of workers strolling around. Stalin chats with army officer, Kalinin in group. Stali...

  5. Einstein

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 100, Part 7. Release date, 12/11/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs, New York, NY. "Einstein arrives!" German scientist here for lectures tour and scientific research. CU, Einstein. Arm in arm with fellows across ship's deck. LS, Einstein surrounded by reporters and cameramen. CU, Mrs. Einstein and her husband. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:18:54 1: Diegel wins first open match play golf championship. 01:20:08 2: Villages combat flood ravages as high water recedes. 01:21:31 3: Male chorines shine in dress rehearsa...

  6. Einstein

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 3, Part 3. Release date, 01/05/1931. According to UN Offical Motion Picture Release: "Throngs Acclaim Einstein's Arrival at Pacific Coast" San Diego, CA. Mount Wilson's Observatory helps to prove scientist's theory of relativity. Many of world's eminent astronomers join in making noted German's visit one of keen interest. CU, ship SS Blegenland, girls in middy blouses wave plumes for him. Einstein down gangplank, poses. (Most views of AE are out of focus.) ECU face, outdoor amphitheater. Einstein's wife is also in the picture. Other parts of the newsreel incl...

  7. Helen Keller immortalized in marble!

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 17, Part 5. Release date, 02/20/1931. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs - New York, NY. Helen Keller immortalized in marble! Noted blind humanitarian poses for sculptured portrait. CU, Helen Keller posing. CU, conversing by finger code. CU, Helen Keller smiling. Other parts of newsreel include: 01:39:32 1: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge christens giant ship named for husband. 01:40:27 2: Idaho girl wins tahoe dog derby in driving snowstorm 01:41:28 4: News Paragraphs - Alexandria, VA 01:42:57 6: News Paragraphs - Miami, FL 01:43:46 7: New...

  8. Soviet Revolt feted

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 6, No. 310, Part 3. Release date, 12/12/1934. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: Other Big News Pictures Include: Moscow turning out in a monster celebration of the Soviet Revolution. Sound of Soviet marching hymn, Stalin and officials watch parade. Parade with banner of Stalin. CU, Stalin and Voroshilov. Paraders carrying Lenin's banner. Cut-in spectators. More parades/banners. Stalin and Voroshilov. Parade. Overhead with Stalin banner. Shooting across water showing buildings, Kremlin. Overhead shot works releasing balloon.

  9. 1933 events

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 31, No. 58, Part 3. New York City, NY. NRA banner at Post Office, huge New Deal parade. Chicago, IL. Flags, James Farley making speech at opening of World's Fair "Century of Progress". Ormond Beach, FL, John D. Rockefeller playing golf. Washington, DC. JP Morgan being sworn in as witness by Senate Investigations Committee. 01:53:24 Los Angeles, CA. Prof. Albert Einstein on deck being photographed as he arrived for visit in US from Germany. Back Einstein, as ship nears pier. Einstein wearing a broad brim hat coming down gangplank. Scenes are before Einstein was exiled...

  10. Helen Keller with Ford

    Detroit, Michigan. Helen Keller visits Henry Ford. By remarkable development of the sense of touch Keller is able to understand what is being said to her. Note how she listens with her hands to what Mr. Ford is saying. Keller feeling the lips of Henry Ford. Miss Sullivan, Keller's teacher, in BG. Additional Ford reels (200 FC 440 (b-g)) follow until TC 01:09:39.

  11. WW I, Russian Revolution

    Fox Movietone Newsreel excerpts. Yanks parade in NY. The first volunteers march on Fifth Ave. Troops load into transport, crowded decks. Wilson selects first draft number. VP Marshall selects second. Troop ships pull away. GIs with dog mascots. AEF lands, marches in Paris. Crowds cheer, flowers thrown. Yanks march in London. "Last Pictures of the Czar" with family before Palace. Russian army in snow. Wounded soldiers return from front. Kerensky. Bolsheviks parade in streets. Trotsky in uniform, briefly reviewing troops. CU, INT Lenin, speaking off camera. Krupskaya writing and frowning. Dom...

  12. San Francisco conference

    Reel 1: April 25, 1945 and June 26, 1945. Jan Christian Smuts, V. Molotov, Sec. Stettinius, and other delegates to the UN conference deplane and detrain in San Francisco. Shows US war casualties and flags flying at half-mast on Roosevelt's death. President Truman addresses conference delegates via radio. Secretary Stettinius confers with Anthony and V. Molotov. Conference delegates register, attend meetings, speak, browse through the San Francisco art gallery, and look at Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. Charts the UN organization and shows UNRRA supplies being loaded aboard ships.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky and his lawyer, Mr. Goldman, in Mexico City, Mexico. Trotsky reads in garden, works at desk, writing, reading the "Internationale", and greets guests on veranda. Mexican police guard entrances to building.

  14. Newsreel clips: Africa; UN condemns Nazi persecution of Jews; Pepper & Willkie; bombing of Italy

    Paramount News Vol. 2, No. 36. 01:36:36 "Africa - Fighting French and American Drive" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) US and Free French troops march in Tunis. Shows the Sultan of Morocco. 01:37:12 "Fighting French Manpower" French prisoners join the free French forces. 01:37:54 "The Yanks Still Come Home" US soldiers disembark. 01:38:30 "Holiday Train Wreck" (Voice of Henry Gladstone) The wreckage of two trains in Dixon, IL. 01:39:05 "United Nations Condemn Nazi Mass Slayings" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) Includes views of German persecution of Jews, book-burning, and concentration camps. 01:39:41 "T...

  15. Destruction of synagogue

    Dresden synagogue taken down.

  16. Bookburning

    Bookburning in Berlin, SA men and university students, throwing books into the fire, Hitler Youth march past, one view of university exterior beyond the bonfire, Goebbels speech (mute), fire scenes. (some scenes match the pre-title sequence of the completed film) 07:11:36 DIE DROHUNG. Still photographs of men. Shots out of Nazi train, men heiling, swastikas. At Dusseldorf train station. CU, drums, parade, marching. Funeral. Looting. Kristallnacht. Destruction of synagogue. 07:14:35 DIE FLUCHT. Refugees with luggage. Shot of St. Louis, ship, passengers on ship, waving, debarking with luggage...

  17. Bookburning

    07:15:44 Amateur footage of bookburning. Includes scenes of many others making speeches, students in their uniforms (of dueling societies?) and with swords, SA men, band with brass instruments and xylophone. 07:19:07 "The Nazi Plan" version of bookburning coverage, title reading "The Burning of Books." Ends with brief title regarding the dedication of the von Hindenburg, "Christening of the New German Aircraft." (no footage)

  18. Berlin street scenes (1936 Olympics)

    Various shots of Berlin street scenes during the 1936 Olympics. Olympic rings, banners. CU, statue. Flags. Sign: "Der Gruessen, Die Gaeste, Der Welt." Olympic rings. Flags. Torch, flame. Flags. Motorcade. Double-decker bus. Decorations erected in Berlin for Olympic ceremonies. Underground subway station. Flags. Putting flags up. Band playing. Crowd. Bicycles. Torch. MCU, street scene. Flags. Shot of street through reflection on automobile headlight. Auto traffic. CU, license plates. CUs, cars moving slowly, shot at street level (tires). Policeman directing traffic. Civilians walking, CUs fe...

  19. Olympic event (crew) at Lake Gruenau

    Sign, "Olympia Gruenau." Olympic rings, flags, stadium, civilians. Lake Gruenau (20 km from Berlin) surrounded by spectator stands. Sign, "ZIEL" Crowd awaiting Olympic sporting event, some people with binoculars. Crew boats on lake. CU, sign, "Reihenfolge bei 1000 mtr. ZIEL" Crew race. Spectators reading newspaper. More crew. Larger boat with men and Nazi flag. Man sleeping with binoculars. Foreign flags on posts.

  20. Zeppelin in Berlin

    Aerial shots of zeppelin in Berlin. Cathedral spires in BG. CUs, zeppelin with swastika. Nazi flag waving in FG. Olympic flag with rings. Brief shot of reflection on automobile headlight.