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European immigrants come to America in sailing ships on difficult passage across the Atlantic ocean circa 1900

Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship in rought waters of the Atlantic ocean. Next, a man who was an imigrant from Europe being interviewed, tells how travelers in Steerage didn't want to move because the ship was rolling and shaking so badly. In between views of persons being interviewed, the camera pans and shows closeups of travelers lying about on the deck of a sailing ship, in good weather, so they could get some fresh air and sunshine. (A woman immigrant notes that they were forced to do this by the crew.) Another woman talks about prevalence of head lice and delousing procedures.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039770
Europeans go through immigration processing at Ellis Island in the early 1900s

Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.

Date: 1910
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039771
Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey on sailing ships to America around 1900.

European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039769
U-boat activity on shipping in World War 2; NATO Naval operations protecting oceans during the Cold War

Responsibilities and assets of NATO's SACLANT. View from cockpit of aircraft landing on deck of U.S. aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVA-20). Scenes of Atlantic ocean during World War 2. Periscope of German submarine breaks surface. Point of view inside a submarine as seen through periscope looking at a target ship. American convoy underway during World War 2 in the Atlantic Ocean. Underwater shot as a submarine launches torpedo at Allied ship. Allied freighter ships being struck by torpedoes. Underwater view of submarine. A torpedoed ship sinking, with only its bow sticking up in the air and then sinking under the ocean. Views of empty German submarine pens in Brest or Lorient after end of World War 2. Next scene shows a Douglas DC-4 passenger airplane as it passes by the Empire State building, while in flight over Manhattan Island, New York City. Steamships in terminals on the Hudson River. Tug boats and barges in New York harbor. Ocean-going cargo ships pass by the Statue of Liberty. Vehicular traffic in the streets of Norfolk, Virginia. A sign reads 'US Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia'. View of ships and harbor at Norfolk Naval Station. Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT). NATO officers in the "great map room of SACLANT" at the Headquarters. World map placed on a wall. Scene from 1952: U.S. Navy Captain briefs Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and also SACLANT. Map shows areas of SACLANT responsibility extending around the Atlantic from Southern Europe around past Iceland to the maritime provinces of Canada and down to the U.S. coast.. Surfaced submarine launches Regulus missile. Scene from 1960: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) underway. Aircraft parked aboard the aircraft carrier. View of Naval Air Base at Oceana, Virginia. Douglas F4D flies above runway as another lands. Navy F8 aircraft parked on ramp. Canadian Naval Base at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with views of derricks, cranes, piers, and warships.

Date: 1960
Duration: 5 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054543
United States Coast Guard patrols the North Atlantic for icebergs with International Ice Patrol.

United States Coast Guard resumes iceberg patrolling in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of International Ice Patrol Rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean hit the bow of the US Coast Guard ship. United States Coast Guard crew hold on to rails onboard. View of an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. Silhouette of a sailor observing an iceberg. US Coast Guard crew observe iceberg from the ship’s bow. Various icebergs from Greenland floating in the Atlantic Ocean. United States Coast Guard USCGC Tampa (Coast Guard Cutter No. 48) sails next to an iceberg. Consolidated B-24 Liberator flies in front of iceberg.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078841
Ships and ocean liners underway in the Atlantic Ocean and aircraft in flight over Europe.

A film on the development of air power in the United States. Scenes depicting travel by ocean going ships, preceding air travel. Animation of a small ship moving away from the east coast of the U.S. Actual footage of a large sailing vessel of the early clipper ship variety sailing in the ocean. Animation of a small ship sailing to the Great Britain. Real footage of a four-stack ocean liner, which appears to be the RMS Aquitania, sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. Animated map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of the U.S. and England. An R-34 dirigible airship in flight. The R-34 moored to the ground with a large craft around the gondola. A British Bristol fighter aircraft in flight. Animation of the maps of the U.S. and the Great Britain coming closer together, figuratively, through the speed of air travel.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051055
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