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Naturalist George Hubert Wilkins stands near an albatross during Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1921-1922 expedition to Antarctica

A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's to Antarctica in 1921-1922 (shortly before Shackleton's death on January 5, 1922). An albatross on or near the island of South Georgia. Crew member, naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, walks around the bird in a circle, moving his hand toward the defensive bird. The bird takes off. An albatross seated on a rock.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065861
A penguin steals grass from another penguin on South Georgia island during Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica.

Views of Sir Ernest Shackleton's final expedition to Antarctica. Penguins on South Georgia island. The penguins seated in their nests. A penguin steals away grass from another penguin's nest. The penguins seated in nests.

Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065863
Ship Quest on its return journey after turning around at ice impasse on Shackleton's final expedition to Antarctica.

A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica. Ship Quest on its return after it fails to move any further. The ship underway in the Antarctic Ocean as it returns. The ship sails through ice floating on water surface. Seals on an ice pack floating on water. A crew member climbs up a ladder on the rigging of Quest.

Date: 1922
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065871
Churchill with high ranking British officers as he arrives in France during World War II.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in France during the Allied invasion of World War II. Prime Minister Churchill talks to two naval officers. Churchill puts on his Mae West and helps British Field Marshall Allan Brooke to put on his Mae West jacket (life jacket). Churchill with Field Marshal Brooke and Field Marshal Jan Smuts. Churchill comes down a companionway. A barge pulls away from a ship with Churchill aboard it. Dock workers run along a pier. People run to see Churchill and party. Churchill with British General Bernard Montgomery. Churchill walks up a gangway.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065874
Trees being cut to provide timber for bomber aircraft manufacturing in Canada during World War II.

Spruce trees being cut in Canada to get lumber for use in bomber aircraft during World War II. Narrator indicates the Spruce is ideal because it is the strongest lightweight wood. Lumberjack men cut the trees. Axes and large two-man saws used to fell the trees. Views of giant trees leaning and then crashing to the forest floor after being cut. Forests being cleared. Canadian women helping with wartime production work in a lumber mill receiving and guiding giant logs onto conveyor belt systems for processing at the saw mill. Cut spruce lumber being loaded on flat railroad cars for transport. Wooden planks attached to a crane hoist being loaded for transport.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065877
United States capture various islands in the Pacific Theater after defeating the Japanese during World War II.

Allied campaign against the Axis in 1944 during World War II. Exteriors of a building in Tehran, Iran where the Tehran Conference took place in 1943. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated outside the building after the conference. A map depicts United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. U.S. troops land at the Marshal Islands. Troops fire and advance in Palau islands. Soldiers wade through water. Flakes burst and explosions occur at sea near Saipan. U.S. troops advance inland in Guam. A blind soldier walks.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065882