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FBI agent William Sebold (posing as Harry Sawyer), and successful filming of members of Duquesne spy ring in the United States.

Aerial view of Christ Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado, Brazil. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), John Edgar Hoover, narrates this 1944 clip and talks about enemy agents in the United States during World War II, before America's entrance into the war. German and Japanese suspects seen in South America. A German fleet carries German agents aboard merchant and cargo ships. German agents in formation on deck of ship, shown debarking the ship after receiving instructions. Japanese and Nazi German colonies being established in South America in large cities and in remote areas of Patagonia. Automobile industries, hotels, shops, and other industries established by Nazi German agents. German signs and Nazi Swastikas and Nazi flags shown on some buildings in South American countries including Brazil. A Nazi flag. A view of German factories in South America. Photographs of Adolf Hitler in a school building where young boys and girls are being instructed by their teacher. German pilot shown operating a passenger airliner; aerial view of from aircraft of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, including port and city areas. A dramatization depicts well planned accidents in the factories and sabotage attempts to slow production of goods bound for the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) receives reports about planning of German attack on the Panama Canal. A woman watching a teletype machine as a report arrives. A man in a radio room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation receives information and turns to type out a report on his typewriter. Men and women convicted as spies are seen together in a room with U.S. federal agents. The spies are taken in a police van. Man serving as projectionist seen running a film projector. A film of Fritz Duquesne case in the FBI office shows FBI Agents' successful secret filming of members of the Duquesne spy ring. The film is shown being loaded onto a projector and then played. FBI agent William Sebold (posing as spy Harry Sawyer) is seen with Fritz Duquesne and other spy ring members: Pedestrians and vehicular traffic on a New York street corner as Sawyer and Duquesne prepare to meet. German spies sit together in a hotel room in New York City, recorded by hidden camera. Heinrich Clausing, a spy ring member and former cook on the cruise ship SS Argentine is seen. Also seen is Hartwig Richard Kleiss putting on his hat and smoking a cigar. He's shown giving money to Sawyer for purchase of a spy camera, according to narration. J Edgar Hoover notes that German agents communicated through a Long Island radio station that was secretly controlled by the FBI. Hartwig Kleiss is seen showing the blueprint plans of the steamship SS America, including plans for its secret gun emplacements. Fritz Duquesne is shown in the film, removing diagrams of various American arms that he had concealed in his sock Japanese agent Takeo Ezima, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, is also seen meeting in the hotel with Harry Sawyer.

Date: 1941
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054487
Brazilian President Getulio Vargas resigns and Jose Linhares sworn in as the next President in Brazil

President GetĂșlio Vargas resigns after 15 years as President of Brazil. Brazilian troops in tanks and army vehicles guard the President's Palace. Soldiers with rifles in hand. President GetulIo Vargas in his palace balcony. He prepares to depart from the palace. Jose Linhares being sworn in as the next President of Brazil. Jose Linhares shakes hands with Brazilian political leader Monteiro. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063525
Brazilian rubber farmers working for Ford Motor Company plant small rubber trees in a field in Brazil.

Ford Motor Company rubber production in Brazil. Brazilian farmers work in a field in Brazil, possibly part of Ford's Belterra rubber plantation. A group of Brazilian natives picks sprouted rubber tree seeds from the ground and put them in hats. Men use a wooden platform to determine the location of holes to be dug in the ground with sticks. Women drop seedlings in the holes to plant new rubber trees. A boy holds a hat full of seedlings. Small rubber tree plants. A group of men dig up small trees and cut tap roots of the trees. Workers dig up a large hole and plant small trees in it.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064715
Young Brazilian men and boys learn English during a class at the "School Henry Ford" in Brazil.

Young Brazilian boys attend a class in Brazil. A boy writes 'School Henry Ford' on a blackboard. He writes English sentences on the blackboard. A teacher reads from a book while the students write in their note books. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. The classroom scene shown in this clip may be at the school in Fordlandia. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064717
A group of Brazilians in a boat heading towards a beach in Brazil.

Brazilians in a boat in Brazil. A group of Brazilian people in a boat. Men get off the boat at a beach. View of a hillside and a forest area on the beach. Sailboats ashore. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia rubber plantation built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. This clip likely shows scenes of the Finlandia rubber tree plantings. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064718
Native Brazilians catch fish and views of small huts and a church in Brazil.

Brazilians in a boat in Brazil. Two Brazilian men in a small boat. A man throws a fishing net. Children with overturned bats on a beach. Small huts on the beach. A group of people seated on the steps of a church. Men pray inside the church. A group of people in a boat. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. Though this community does not appear to be Fordlandia, it may be a nearby community of Ford rubber plantation workers. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064719