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Pope Pius X is elevated to sainthood in Rome, Italy
The canonization of Pope Pius X in Vatican City. Nearly half a million people gather for the ceremony of canonization. A funeral carriage transports the glass casket containing the remains of Pope Pius X. Priests wearing Jerusalem Cross vestments watch the procession. The remains of Pope Pius X heads towards St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. A large crowd gathers at the St. Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro 00120 Città del Vaticano Vatican City). Italians clapping. Priests carrying the canopy and banner of St. Pius X in St. Peter’s Square. Pope Pius XII sits on the sedia gestatoria while carried though by footmen. The late Pope Pius X is elevated to Sainthood. Italian woman makes the “Sign of the Cross” while kneeling on St. Peter’s Square. A man carries a girl who fainted from the heat. Pope Pius XII gives blessing to people. A tapestry depicting St. Pius X hangs in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Allied officers accept surrender of a German unit in Cordemais France; scenes of relief work for citizens and elderly in France.
Scenes in France near the end of World War 2, a sign "Cordemais" on a damaged building (likely the train station at Cordemais, France). A white flag of German surrender flies in the breeze. American sldiers stand near the building as a German surrender delegation approaches, led by negotiator Hauptmann Reinhold Mueller, to arrange handover of the St Nazaire enclave. A US Army soldier translator is seen speaking to the German officers and taking notes. French negotiator representatives are also seen, including one in black beret with a paratrooper insignia on his uniform. Red Cross representatives are seen taking notes. German and Allied officers (American, British, French) at the surrender conference. French civilians repair railroad tracks damaged during the war. French refugees are assisted by Red Cross workers. Troops board a train and it departs. A sign "Chantenay" (presumably at the train station in Chantenay-Villedieu). Group of people including boy scouts waiting to greet relief train as it pulls in to station. Close up views of the faces of men and women waiting to greet the train with civilians on board. Red Cross nurses walk quickly on railway tracks after train to greet it as it pulls into station. Men and women on train wave. Women, infants, and children first are seen getting off the train at an evacuation center. Scene changes to a snowy woods area and a large dwelling in the woods. A elderly woman collects firewood. An elderly man collects burnable twigs from trash cans and puts them in a bag. Three different older men shown filing a metal item in a vice with a metal file. Man picks up a small frame with a photo depicting a French officer in uniform. Grave site of a French soldier with cross marker and combat helmet hung from the cross top. Ground level view of a line of graves of French soldiers killed in World War 2, each with a helmet hanging on the cross grave marker. An old French woman praying with a rosary. A old woman sitting by a window. Another old woman huddled beside a wood stove rubbing her cold hands and pulling her blanket shawl higher on her shoulders. An old man taking tea in bed. A man rings a doorbell (hanging from a cord) in front of a hospice. Elderly man smokes a pipe and another lights his cigarette from it, women knit. Close up views of faces of elderly French people. Elderly dine at long tables in large hall. French people standing in a line outside a shop. Dix Francs currency of France shown. Views of young women typing and sewing. A diagram of human figures shown. Scenes from a house: An old woman knits, an old man reads, a young woman greets them with kisses.
Red Army attacks and pushes Germans back in Poland. Marshal Zhukov directs the Soviet Offensive.
Red Army advances against German forces in Poland. At the front Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Soviet officers look at a map. (Marshal Zhukov has cotton stuffed in his ears.) German ME-110 aircraft dive bomb Soviet positions. Soviet Ilyushin II-2 aircraft bomb German positions. Smoking terrain of battlefield. Soviet troops cross river in small boats. Soviets conduct an amphibious assault. There are explosions on the opposite shore. Russian infantry advances under German fire, cutting barbed wire and marking position of land mines. Soviet tanks and artillery fire. Marshalls Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy look at a map. Shells explode and Soviet infantry advances past German antitank barricades. At the command post Marshall Georgy Zhukov looks at a map. Views of German defensive fortifications, including Barbed wire entanglements; concrete forts and bunkers, one with barbed wire on top and a periscope on a steel turret. German antitank barricades along the river. (World War II period).
President Herbert Hoover presents National Geographic Society award to Admiral Byrd, in the White House garden, Washington DC.
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, in an open car, with his father, Richard E.Byrd, Sr., his wife, Marie (Donaldson Ames) Byrd and his son, Richard, in front of Union Station, in Washington, DC. Admiral Byrd conversing with President Hoover, in the White House garden, as the President presents him an award, from the National Geographic Society, recognizing his achievements in Antarctic exploration.
Frederic Joliot-Curie makes a speech in Paris, France on France's progress in atomic energy.
Report on the atom in Paris, France. Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist in an office. He makes a speech on France's progress in the atomic energy. A man seated in front of Curie in his office.
Dr. Leo Szilard and Dr. George Pegram appear in moving picture at Physics Laboratory in Columbia University
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
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