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  1. Factory/prison

    White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women and children standing around a sign, they are very poor. Children look directly at the camera. LS, across the lake of a chateau. Translation of Russian narration with Ukrainian citation at beginn...

  2. Liberation by Russians; crowds; Polish prisoners

    Crowds of people waving and rejoicing as the Red Army troops enter the town. Troops marching prisoners (perhaps Polish) along a road outside the city, then cut back to the center of town. Lvov: more crowds of people, fists in the air, cheering the Soviet liberators. Men climb up onto tanks and throw pamphlets and newspapers at the crowd. The crowds lift the soldiers up onto their shoulders. Cut to a field with damaged vehicles, Polish prisoners laying on the ground, walking along a road. A band plays in the street. VS of an acrobat-contortionist and a clown performing for groups of soldiers...

  3. Warsaw ghetto and Stutthof liberated

    Warsaw ghetto, women walk and stand about on a street, some with armbands. Children play a game. LS of Stutthof concentration camp liberated by the Soviets. VS of camp: barracks, piles of hair, pan, clothing, a man and woman standing upon a mountain of shoes, Zyklon B (poison gas) canisters, ovens. More scenes of the camp, road, barbed wire, etc., ends on CU of stone tablet/memorial plaque, engraved on wall, that reads: "Bojownikom O Wolnosc Pomordowanym W Sztutowie W latach 1939-1945 [To all who fought for freedom and were tortured at Stutthof in 1939-1945.] Translation of voiceover narrat...

  4. Samuel Insull returns to US to face fraud charges

    "Insull Return Triumph for Uncle Sam," Jersey City and Princeton, NJ. Editor's Note: The return of Samuel Insull after a chase halfway around the world once more demonstrates the power of the federal government. None can long defy its authority or escape its justice. Good LS of the SS Exilona coming into port. CS, Insull, Jr. CU, Insull. Insull leaving car, and coming to camera. CU, Insull saying that he will not grant an interview. CU.

  5. Helen Keller and violinist

    Helen Keller thrilled by the playing of Jascha Heifetz, famous violinist. Semi close shot of Heifitz playng violin, while Keller holds her hand on violin. CU, Heifitz playing violin. CU, Keller facing camera. NOTE: Footage of fishing scenes follows this story, from 01:02:59 - 01:03:42.

  6. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."

  7. FDR at New York World's Fair, 1938

    President at New York World's Fair. General view, President arrives. Car passes camera. Speakers stand, photographers, radio broadcasters. CU, corner stone. President holding trowel. President laying stone. General shot of crowd, monument in BG. CU, Eleanor Roosevelt introduces her husband. Presidential address to the National Education Association, FDR at microphone: "Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. Such things did not need as much emphasis a generation ago....The torch of free thought and free learning still...

  8. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Warsaw ghetto [many scenes same as Library of Congress footage on Film ID 2257]. German Jews arriving in Warsaw Ghetto. "Aufnahme Lager" [Intake point] Exteriors and interiors. Close views of individuals. Tracking shot inside. Jewish Council building, visitors. Inside the Chairman Adam Czerniakov's office. Meeting with Czerniakov at his desk, with candelabra. Street scenes, peddlars, children, shopfronts. Women, with armbands, shopping from carts. Cobblestone streets. Scenes of Jewish police menacing people with truncheons, moving them through the street. Scenes "directed" for Nazi propagan...

  9. Hemingway and Mencken with troops; Hong Kong scenes

    "Hong Kong - Fortress!" Paramount News presents first and exclusive pictures of the new Hong Kong, a city armed for defense. Paramount News fanfare over opening titles. CU, Arthur Menken (Paramount News staff cameraman) introducing footage. General view of Hong Kong harbor. CU, waterfront skyscrapers. Street scene in Hong Kong. Signs (Chinese) on side of buildings. Street scene. Pulling rickshaw thru streets. Soldiers thru streets. General view of Hong Kong shipyard. Name: Hong Kong Dock Co. People working. Ship under construction. Men working on deck of ship. Large ships, sampans. Chinese ...

  10. Nobel prize winners

    "Nobel Prizes Presented in Sweden" - newsreel fanfare. In Stockholm, Sweden, amid traditional regal pageantry, the Nobel Prizes are awarded by King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. Brief shots of Max Born, German professor, receiving Nobel Physics Prize. Five Americans are Nobel Prize recipients: Dr. Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology in the field of chemistry; Drs. John F. Enders of the Harvard University Medical School, Frederick C. Robbins of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School and Thomas H. Weller of the Harvard School of Public Heath in Medicine-Physiology. Famed ...

  11. FDR speaks

    "Extra! - Democracy Faces the Job - Roosevelt's Historic Report!" Sync of FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech. Congress hears FDR on: 1. Threat To America; 2. All-Out Aid To Democracies; 3. Billions In Arms Loans; 4. Four Essential World Aims. FDR speaking: "It is untrue that an unprepared America can hold off the whole world. On appeasement tactics: such a peace would bring us security; we cannot afford to be soft-hearted. On US defense problem: I am not satisfied with the progress made thus far; the men in charge of the program...are not satisfied; none of us will be until the job is done. On ai...

  12. FDR speaks

    "Roosevelt Asks U.S. to Crush Hitler" Labor Day, 1941. Hyde Park, NY. FDR to camera: "American labor now bears a tremendous responsibility in the winning of this most brutal, most terrible of all wars. In our factories and shops and arsenals we are building weapons on a scale great in its magnitude. To all the battlefronts of the world, these weapons are being dispatched by the day and by the night, over the sea and thru the air. And this nation is now devising and developing a new weapon of unprecedented power toward the maintenance of democracy." Roosevelt speaking: "I give solemn warning...

  13. Sinclair speaks

    "Upton Sinclair Explains his 'Epic Plan'" Pasadena, CA. Upton Sinclair explaining his plan to end poverty in California.

  14. Protest parade against Hitler

    "News Flashes!" Hitler Protest, New York City. Shot of protest parade against Hitler's treatment of the Jews in Germany. Shot of Major General O'Ryan, world war Commander of the 27th Div, at the head. Crowd shot, shot of the marchers in Battery Park. Close shot of placards, including: "Hitler / This is not the dark ages." CUs, onlookers.

  15. FDR speaks

    "Roosevelt Reports to the Nation!" Editor's Note: "What the man on the street thinks of Roosevelt's report." FDR at desk speaking. Shots of Americans and US soldiers listening to radio address. "Man on the street" talks: Mrs. Benjamin Levy (housewife); Mrs. Gustav Denreuther (elderly woman); and Douglas Fairbanks, Esq. (speaking after he leaps over rail of ship).

  16. Sinclair

    "Upton Sinclair to Run for Governor," California. Upton Sinclair, noted author explains what he hopes to accomplish if elected. VCU, Sinclair. NOTE: Footage preceding this story from 01:38:07 - 01:38:45 is unrelated News Flashes.

  17. FDR at the polls

    "New Deal Dominates America" Hyde Park, NY; New York City, NY; Pennsylvania. Cartoon (from the library) of Uncle Sam at the crossroads. Good shots of FDR at the polls, giving his name to the registrar. CUs, Mrs. James Roosevelt, his mother. Casting their votes for Gov. Lehman. Shot of citizens lined up at the polls. CU, electioneering sign. Map showing how FDR carried all but the six shaded states in 1932, whereas today, other states have swung toward the New Deal. CU, Senator David A. Reed, Republican spokesman, and CU of New Dealer Joseph A. Guffey who defeated him. This was a blow to con...

  18. Bond Drive

    "Four Freedoms Set Key for Bond Drive" Arlington, VT; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Denver, CO; Winter Park, CO; Washington, DC. America digs in to complete $13,000,000,000 second war bond drive, greatest financial undertaking in history of the world. Paramount news presents inside story of first sales of new issue, human-interest pictures of Mr. Roosevelt and White House staff. Start of the campaign! Artist Norman Rockwell's paintings of America's great four freedoms, background theme of second war bond issue. Vermont: Norman Rockwell with models and paintings of "Freedom from Want"; "Free...

  19. Helen Keller

    BIOGRAPHY, with Mike Wallace. MS of Helen Keller, in her twilight years, being awarded at a ceremony. Helen reading braille while seated at a desk in her home. Opening credits and introduction, BIOGRAPHY with Mike Wallace. CUs and MSs of Helen surrounded by friends and being interviewed (no audio). Stills of Helen as a young child, then stills of her family home in Alabama, then stills of her mother. Excerpts from a silent film about Helen's life: shots of a young "Helen" walking, stumbling, thrashing, and crawling through the woods; her teacher and mentor arrives via horse and buggy but "H...

  20. Trotsky and other Russian leaders

    Russian Revolution. "Russian Republic" Bolsheviks. Opens with MS of an unidentified man in Russian army jacket speaking; then a group of Bolshevik leaders sitting at a long table in a meeting, Leon Trotsky among those present. Shot of 4 men standing outdoors, wearing uniforms in various states.