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Dramatizaion shows David Livingstone and party finding Lake Ngami, Livingstone couple talk about their future

Dramatization. Dr. David Livingstone’s party finds Lake Ngami, a shallow lake north of the Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana, Africa. A San Bushman points David Livingstone towards Lake Ngami. David Livingstone and his entourage rests by the Lake Ngami. Back in Kolobeng (in present-day Botswana), David Livingstone mulls over between further exploring and living a sedentary life with family. Mrs. Mary Moffat Livingstone holds her newborn baby. David Livingstone pulls out and unfolds a map showing southern Africa. David Livingstone sits beside his wife, Mary Moffat Livingstone. David Livingstone and Mary Moffat Livingstone talk about their future. David Livingstone cuddles his newborn baby.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078560
Doctor examines dead bodies of plague patients to prevent its spread in North Africa.

A U.S. Navy training film about the prevention and cure of plague in North Africa (likely Libya or Algeria). Aerial views of different areas in North Africa. Map of the world shows areas affected by plague. Areas in Africa, South America and Asia with maximum cases of plague. Doctors make efforts to prevent plague as they discuss. Native African woman on a street. Dead bodies of African civilians who died due to plague, lying on ground. Doctors examine dead bodies and dead rats to check for spread of plague.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077552
Jan Christian Smuts of the Union of South Africa in Tunis, North Africa.

Tunis, North Africa. Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, General Sir Harold Alexander and General Dwight D Eisenhower step down from the stairs of Eisenhower Villa Headquarter. Three of them standing in their army uniform engaged in a discussion.

Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030845
Korean film depicts German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's plan of world conquest and shows montage of German military action scenes from World War II

After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the front of the German chancellery in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675074090
African unrest in 1960: Anti-apartheid demonstrations, assassination attempt on Verwoerd, and riots and arrest of Lumumba in Congo.

Riots and uneasy conditions in South Africa and Congo during the year 1960. South African natives demonstrate against apartheid racial discrimination and passbook requirements. Protestors at Sharpeville shown burning passbooks. Policemen fire at peaceful demonstrators in what became the Sharpeville massacre of May 31, 1960. Next scene shows attempted assassination of Premier Verwoerd by a white farmer. A photographer takes photos as an aide holds Verwoerd after he is shot. Next scene shows riots in Congo, Africa after elections. Rioters dispersed by local police forces. The United Nations peace keeping forces arrive in Congo. Premiere Patrice Lumumba arrested and policeman ties his hands with ropes. View of Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko in military uniform.

Date: 1960
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056510
Lend Lease materials transported across the world by convoys of American and British ships in World War II

Opening scene shows Lend Lease military equipment covered with canvas, at a port in the United States, during World War 2. A B-26 bomber with wings removed outboard of its engines, is being maneuvered for shipment at a port in the United States. A Lockheed P-38 airplane is moved on a crane and then rolled along a pier toward the stern of the U.S. Light Cruiser, USS Phoenix (CL-46) which is docked there. Wings of a Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout plane can be seen on the Phoenix. Two more P-38 aircraft are rolled along the pier, past another Brooklyn class Light Cruiser at the end of the pier. (Her triple 6-inch gun turrets are noticeable.) Crated supplies are seen being lowered into ship cargo holds. An American M2 light tank being lowered from a crane. An American M3 Lee tank being secured in a ship. Numerous tanks in a ship’s cargo hold. Next, a convoy of ships carrying war materiel overseas is seen at sea. A U.S. Cruiser plunging through heavy seas. View from her bridge overlooking her triple gun turrets, as her bow is awash in waves. A formation of U.S. battleships, led by a Nevada class Battle Ship armed with twin over triple forward gun turrets. She is followed by what appears to be a modernized Pennsylvania class Battleship and other battleships. A British Battle Cruiser followed by another British warship. Various Allied battleships firing their heavy guns. Animated map tracing the “Lend-Lease” routes across the North Atlantic to Iceland, the British Isles, and Murmansk. Map also shows routes by sea and air to the West Indies, Brazil, and South Africa and West Africa, and then by air across Africa, to egypt and the Middle East. Other routes are shown to Suez, Iran, India, and China, as well as trans-Pacific routes to various places. American soldiers crowd the upper deck of a troop transport ship. A military chaplain conducts religious services aboard ship at sea. More views of ships in convoys. A U.S. Navy Kingfisher float plane in flight over the water. A barrage balloon aloft. A U.S. Navy Catalina PBY flying boat in the air above a fleet of supply ships in a vast convoy.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051755