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Life in a section of the South Bronx, New York City

A Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. Camera pans down front of an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, in the South Bronx, where people are sitting on the apartment house steps, watching men playing stick ball in the street. A 1954 Oldsmobile car turns into the street, keeping to the left to avoid interfering with the ball game. Closeups of players. One tries to take the stick of another. Players watch as a ball, hit high on a building, bounces its way down. A left-handed batter gets set, with a cigarette in his mouth. View down the Avenue. Two men walk along an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a pile of trash. Men seated alone, one backwards on a chair; another on a fire escape; one on a park bench; one in a doorway; and another on a box in front of a store. Two small boys sitting with their shoeshine boxes. Boys playing with a frisbee and two playing catch with a baseball on East 139th Street between Cypress and St. Ann's Avenues. Youth wearing sleeveless sweatshirt painted with picture of a skull and words:"Cara Gons," on it. Police officer in a patrol car parked at a curb. Another patrol car (at 2:48) driving west along 149th street at Bergen Avenue. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes down some steps and through doorway into a building. Another "Latin Crowns" is worn by a youth doing pullups on bottom of fire escape, outside. A boy swings on the same bar. Several youths start to tussle and an older one steps in to break it up.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020824
Scenes from the life of Princess Margaret of Great Britain

Life of Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Interspersed are scenes from various periods of Princess Margaret's life, from early childhood through adulthood. Princess Margaret greeting women with babies. A young Princess Margaret shakes hands with a courtier. Her older sister, Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) is ahead of her. Sister Elizabeth helps Margaret cross a log as parents, King George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, look on. Teenaged Princess Margaret with King George VI picking flowers. Princess Margaret inspects troops wearing white uniforms. Princess Margaret with dancers in native costumes during a state visit to South Africa. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret play a game with sailors on deck while crossing the equator. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret riding black horses. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret accompany their parents, the King and Queen of England, during a wedding. Princess Margaret as a bride’s maid for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later known as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Princess Margaret attends the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a white dress. Queen Elizabeth II is crowned as the Queen of England. ( Notes: The scene with Princess Margaret at the coal mine was photographed in Calverton Colliery, near Nottingham on 7 April, 1954. Near the end of the film, King George VI is seen at his coronation in 1936.)

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044023
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet arrive at 10 Downing Street in London, England.

Dignitaries arrive at 10 Downing Street in London, England. A sign board reads 'Downing Street'. People walking down the Downing Street. British Home Secretary Samuel John Gurney Hoare arrives the 10 Downing Street in staff car. Secretary Hoare gets into the building. Photographers take pictures. French Premier Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet arrive at 10 Downing Street.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064184
German bombing campaign against England and British air defenses during World War II

Formation of German Dornier Do 17 bombers headed for England in World War 2. View of German crew members in cockpit of bomber. Closeup of German Messerschmitt bf 109 fighter aircraft in flight. German fighter shoots down a barrage balloon that bursts into flames and falls from the sky. British gun crews on the coast firing 3.7 inch antiaircraft guns. Flak bursts around a German Heinkel He 111 bomber. Formation of He 111 bombers dropping bombs. German bombardier bending over bomb sight inside a bomber. View of ground below. Bombardier hitting bomb release control. View through forward canopy of bombs falling from the aircraft. German bombs striking and exploding in England. Smoke rising from explosions and fires. German aircrew pleased with results. German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers peeling and diving with their characteristic whines as they drop bombs on waterfront targets in England. British Royal Air Force Spitfire fighters rising to engage the German aircraft. Britons on ground look up to watch dogfights at high altitude overhead, marked by contrails in the sky. British gun camera footage of German warplanes being shot down. Wreckage of destroyed German warplanes. A flight of three spitfires flying overhead. Firemen directing streams of water on burning buildings in London. British citizens clearing rubble. Local Air Raid wardens Antiaircraft Gun crew on a British ship talk of the German aircraft they've shot down.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032048
Rescue operations after the Nazi air raids in London and use of an American radar in the European Theater during World War II.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021726
Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and other dignitaries, and troops at 10 Downing Street in London, England.

British Foreign Secretary Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, and other dignitaries walk in and out of a building in 10 Downing Street in London, England during World War II. Mobilized British troops on the street. A huge crowd of civilians waiting at 10 Downing Street. Ministers arrive in staff cars and enter a building. British troops don helmets. A group of British troops leave Westminster Abbey. Lord Halifax and other dignitaries walking out from the building in 10 Downing Street.

Date: 1940
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064190