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Life under Soviet domination in Eastern Europe following World War II

Legislators entering a hall in Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Inside,an image of the Small Coat of Arms of the Republic of Czechoslovakia (1920) dominates the scene. New scene shows Gustav Husak, acting Prime Minister, delivering an address urging support for the Communist Party. The next sequence shows violent Communist-led demonstrations, as armed trade unionists riot in the Prague streets, attacking the offices of the political opposition. Police attempt to restore order. On February 25, 1948, the communists achieve a Czechoslovak coup d'état. On February 27th, Czech President, Edvard Benes, receives a delegation including communist Premier Klement Gottwald and the 12 new members of the cabinet, at the Presidential Palace. He is seen signing documents accepting the communist cabinet. Change of scene shows Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, giving a speech rejecting the change. (He remained in office, but died under suspicious circumstances on On March 10, 1948.) View of Masaryk in his casket. Mourners at his funeral.The Czech Parliament Building with flag at half staff. President Benes seen strolling, using a cane, accompanied by his wife, Hana Benes, in the garden of their summer home, Benesova vila, in Sezimovo Usti. Narrator notes that he refused to sign a new constitution drawn up by the communists. He died of natural causes at his villa on September 3, 1948. Scenes of his funeral and of him in his casket. Views of Benes' state funeral, with mourners lining the streets. View of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Narrator describes circumstances using Churchill's term "Iron Curtain." A communist parade in an Eastern European city. A person who was roughed up on the street. View of East German uprising in 1953, being suppressed with Soviet tanks. Uprising in Poland in 1955 being put down by local police and Russian soldiers. Polish musicians playing and examples of Polish political cartoons permitted under relaxed communist rule.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064332
Children of many countries at play. Barriers between East and West Germany. Soldiers in places of international tension

Children in various countries at play. British boys playing soccer on muddy field surrounded by trees. Boys playing on bicycles along a paved path in an otherwise fairly barren landscape, possibly in the Middle East. Boys and hitting and catching a ball (probably in South Asia). American boys and girls pulling on a rope in a tug of war game at a park in the United States. Asian children in a school yard playground. African children seated in a circle as one runs around them in a game. An Asian boy flying a kite. Barbed wire and title of film: "In pursuit of Peace." German boys playing in mud near apartment buildings. Concrete Berlin Wall barrier nearby topped by barbed wire. An East German policemen monitoring a no man's land between East and West Germany. East German police in a guard tower at the barrier. Sound of dogs barking. Several soldiers in practice drill with an artillery piece . One armed soldier wears brown beret with crown and wreath insignia. An automobile is stopped by a sentry as it enters a military compound. A soldier in the compound wears Pakistani military insignia. Sentry checks papers of car's occupants. An Arab man looking through binoculars. His hat displays insignia badge of the Arab Legion with crown of the Hashemite Kingdom flanked by two crossed swords surrounded by a wreath. Sound of call to prayer from minaret is heard in background. View of ancient wall with statue of a woman and child in center, flanked by two outlook towers. A cross is displayed on face of wall between the statue above and an entrance way below. A soldier in steel helmet with netting, looks out over a stone wall (near time frame of Arab-Israeli Six Day War). Barbed wire and an arid valley are seen in the middle east. Two different shots of nuclear weapon test blasts or atomic bomb blasts are then seen. The first includes view of blast wave particles or shock wave approaching the camera position.

Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037565
Vietnamese soldiers move into action in grassy field and ravages of war in South East Asia.

The plight of South East Asian refugees, with focus on role of international organizations in South East Asia. Vietnamese soldiers move into action in grassy field during Vietnam war. Ravages of war showing damaged homes and ruins. Trucks being driven and refugees carry their belongings.

Date: 1980
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071913
A USAF C-119 Flying Boxcar in flight behind a camera ship in East Asia.

A United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar in East Asia during the Korean War. The Flying Boxcar on the way to a cargo drop zone. The tail of a camera ship and two C-119 Flying Boxcars behind the camera ship. A C-119 Flying Boxcar against the cloudy sky. A C-119 Flying Boxcar in flight. Interior of the cockpit shows a pilot and a co-pilot in position.

Date: 1951, January 18
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072152
Enlisted men put up Combat Camera Group insignia on buildings in South East Asia.

Combat Camera Group insignia being put on buildings in South East Asia. A United States Navy photographer looks through a movie camera. The photographer turns a small crank. A man hangs up a sign on the side of a building. Two men in dungarees put up a sign. Two men take photographs. Enlisted men put up a sign on a building. The sign is a Combat Camera Group insignia. A commander looks out of a window. He watches the men. Two men take down the insignia and hand it to men in the foreground. Men hand the insignia to two men up on a ladder. The men install the Combat Camera Group Photographic insignia. The men look at their finished work. The insignia shows a movie camera on a tripod superimposed on a part of the world.

Date: 1966, July
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054296
A briefing on fire arms and re-assembling of M-14 rifles in South East Asia.

Re-assembling of M-14 rifles in South East Asia. Students sit on benches during a briefing on fire arms. The Pacific Ocean in the background. Men around a table work on M-14 rifles which are broken down. A man works on the bolt section of the M-14 rifles during the reassembling. Students re-assemble the rifles. An instructor looks on. He explains about a weapon to a large group of students. A student stands and asks a question. The class seated on benches listens to the instructor.

Date: 1966, July
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054297
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