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NATO treaty signed in Washington D.C., United States

Representatives of various states sign North Atlantic Treaty Organization treaty (NATO) in Washington DC, United States. Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, Lester B Person of Canada, Rasmussen of Denmark, Robert Schuman of France, Bjarni Benidiktsson of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg, Stikker of Netherlands, Halvard M Lange of Norway, Jose Caeiro De Mata of Portugal, Ernest Bevin of England sign the NATO treaty. President Truman shakes hands with Allen W Brakley. Brakley shakes hands with Dean Acheson. Acheson signs the treaty and delivers a concluding speech.

Date: 1949, April 4
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058360
Canadian and Newfoundland government officials sign confederation agreement

Canadian and Newfoundland dignitaries in a meeting regarding confederation of Newfoundland with Canada. Former Prime Minister Mackenzie King is seen. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent signs the confederation agreement document and gives a brief speech supporting the new relationship. Seated at the head of the Newfoundland delegation is Sir Albert Walsh, later named Lieutenant Governor. Other delegation members include Crosbie, Gruchy, Bradley, Smallwood, Winter. Sound of applause by the audience.

Date: 1949, April 1
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023017
Destruction occurs from various natural and man made disasters in year 1949.

People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051642
High profile celebrity weddings in 1949 including that of Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth.

High profile celebrity weddings in 1949. People gather to witness the wedding of Prince Aly Khan with Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth on May 27, 1949. Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan is the Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly. Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan marries in Château de l'Horizon (55 Av. Edith Joseph, 06220 Vallauris, France), near Cannes, France. United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley marries Jane Rucker Hadley at St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1949. Wedding cake at the wedding of Vice President Barkley. The newlywed couple is shown smiling.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051643
German film describing Allied attack on Dieppe, August 19, 1942, during World War II.

Film opens showing a map of French and English coasts bordering the English Channel. Dieppe is the focus of attention. Narrator states that British, American, and Free French forces, totaling a Division strength, attempted a landing at Dieppe. Animated map illustrates hundreds of Allied landing craft off the coast, protected by Cruisers and Destroyers. A reserve of transport vessels is shown in the Channel and a strong supporting force of Allied bombers and fighter aircraft. Active scene shows German coastal guns firing from bunkers on the French coast and German soldiers deploying to defensive positions commanding the beaches They fire MG 42 machine guns and a 77mm field gun. Shells from British naval artillery explode near German soldiers at shoreline. Explosions at Dieppe harbor from British aircraft bombs. German anti-aircraft fire directed against them. View of Dieppe castle. German soldiers taking up defensive positions on a city street. More explosions from Allied bombers. German soldiers firing a 12.8 Cm Flak 40 anti aircraft gun and black Flak clouds seen in midst of attacking Allied aircraft. German soldiers firing a vehicle mounted 2 Cm Flak 38 gun and quad versions of the same. Allied aircraft struck and trailing white smoke as it falls toward the water offshore. Glimpse of German soldiers in center of town. Low flying Allied aircraft and explosions from their bombs. German Fw 190 fighter planes heading to engage the Allied aircraft. Contrails at altitude from dogfights between Allied and German fighter aircraft. An aircraft struck and falling. Closeup of a burning British aircraft on the ground. Camera pans across German soldiers and buildings damaged and destroyed by Allied bombing. British soldiers being taken prisoner at the beachhead and later marched under guard in the town. A German General visits his troops at the beach front. Scenes of destruction after the battle. Dead bodies of Canadian and British Allied soldiers floating near the shore. Fire burning on a dock. Burning British Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank (LCT Mark VIII) with shell holes in it. More bodies strewn on beach. Knocked out British Churchill tank displaying number 9. Several destroyed and damaged British LCT Mark 8s. Names: "Calgary" and "Beefy"on destroyed Canadian Churchill tanks of the 14th Canadian Tank Regiment. Destroyed British speed boat with sailor's body on it. Other destroyed invasion craft. Several crashed British aircraft at water edge. Closeup of bullet holes near British roundel on one. More destroyed British Churchill and other tanks. Beaches covered with fallen Allied soldiers. British soldier helmets caught in barbed wire.

Date: 1942, August 19
Duration: 6 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038754
Battle of Dieppe in World War II

The Dieppe Raid, during World War 2. Relief map of France overlayed by Label "DIEPPE." Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft seen attacking German installations in the area, as German guns fire at them from deep fortifications. Closeup of German antiaircraft gunners on lookout for British aircraft as they fire a Bofors (4 cm Flak 28) point blank, from atop a hill. German gunners firing 2 cm Flakvierling 38 at the attacking aircraft. A German 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft gun firing. Views on the ground of smoke rising from bomb strikes. German soldiers gathered near a Renault FT tank (one inside it) on deserted street. One soldier holds a hand grenade. A huge explosion throwing up large amount of earth. German Soldier firing MG42 machine gun from inside a building. More huge explosions. Canadian soldiers on beachhead. Some carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft bombs vessels near the beachhead. A Churchill tank of the Calgary Regiment near burning landing craft on the beachhead. Glimpse inland of bombed buildings. View shifts to beach, again, and fallen Canadian soldiers lying in front of a burning landing craft. Wounded Canadian soldiers lying on the beach in front of a knocked out Churchill tank. German soldier giving a drink to a wounded Canadian soldier on a landing craft. Canadian soldiers being rounded up as prisoners of war, on the beach and walking under guard with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is being carried on a stretcher. Abandoned Canadian military vehicles on the beach. Canadian prisoners of war with hands raised, being escorted under guard. View of town from beach. Bomb damaged buildings in town. views of allied prisoners under loose guard: walking across a town square; on the beach; and helping injured as they walk from beachhead. View of town from overlooking cliff. Bomb damage is seen. Camera pans across the beach showing beached landing craft and damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment littering the shore. View from shore with Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours and cliffs in background. Churchill tanks and other equipment at edge of surf. Damaged fortifications in cliffside. Numerous dead Canadian soldiers piled up against a cliff on the beach. Others lying in front of German fortifications. Camera pans across fallen soldiers on the beach. Closeup of surf lapping at two Canadian helmets. More knocked out Canadian armor. A destroyed German fortification and heavy gun near the beach. More destroyed Canadian armor and fallen soldiers lying nearby. More knocked out Churchill tanks. Closeup on one named "Beefy." Closup of manufacturer's label on Churchill tank. A stack of Canadian soldiers' boots. A British Spitfire airplane crashlanded on the beach. Wreckage of a destroyed British aircraft. Closup of bullet holes in fuselage near the aircraft's roundel. A landing craft drifting in the surf. Scene shifts to the town, where canadian prisoners of war are being processed. They remove their helmets. A group of French boys (some in boy scout uniforms) march along a road. Captured Canadian commandoes in black uniforms marching under guard. Ambulatory wounded civilians walking along a sidewalk. POWs assembled in a large open space near a building where a field kitchen has been set up. German soldier puts soup into the helmets of the prisoners. POWs seated on ground eating their meal. Another look at the shore and detritus thereon. View shifts to the undamaged areas of the town and waterfront. Residents continuing on with their lives, as normal. Some conversing as children stand near a street vendor, who appears to be selling ice cream. Other city street scenes. A German soldier at an anti aircraft gun in the hillside overlooking the port. A contingent of German soldiers marching in formation along a beach road. German officers looking over a 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft gun position overlooking the beach. German troops marching below in background.

Date: 1942, August 19
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675032705