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A magician performs magic with a demon

Dramatized scenes: A demon in period costume named Mephisto meets a magician. He shows the demon a vacant swing. The magician conjures a woman sitting in the swing. The demon makes the young woman disappear from the swing, surprising the magician. The magician conjures another young lady in the swing as well as a skeleton. The magician conjures the two young women back on stage. The two women hold the men’s hands and they bow in front of the audience.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1900, February 28
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080684
A ghost spooks a guest and a hotel landlord

Dramatized scenes: A hotel landlord enters a room with a guest named Josh. The guest inspects the room as the landlord places some chairs. The guest takes a seat beside the landlord who tells him a rumor of a ghost in the room. The guest becomes frightened, but the landlord calms him down. A clock behind them. The ghost appears behind the two men, slapping the cheeks of the guest. The guest hits the landlord, knocking him off the chair. After an argument, the guest and the landlord sit on their chairs again. The ghost reappears and hits the landlord on the cheek. The landlord gets up and knocks the guest off his chair. Each one accuses the other of striking him. The ghost reappears behind the landlord, scaring him out of the room. The ghost sits on the landlord’s vacant chair. The guest raves beside the ghost.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1900, February 28
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080685
An apparition disturbs a hotel guest inside his room

Dramatized scenes: A hotel maid helps a middle-aged man retire in his bed. The maid leaves the man in his room. An apparition appears as soon as the man falls asleep. The ghost takes the man’s blanket away, waking him. The man grapples with the apparition for his blanket unsuccessfully. The apparition disappears with the blanket. The man looks for the apparition before it reappeared. He struggles with the apparition until he caught it. The man ties the apparition with a sheet and places it in a trunk. The apparition reappears outside the trunk. The apparition annoys the frightened guest in the hotel room.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1900, March 21
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080686
Former United States President Herbert Hoover reports to President Harry Truman on international food security issues as part of his round-the-world food survey.

Former United States President Herbert Hoover returns to Washington DC from an international food security survey mission done at President Harry Truman’s request. Former President Herbert Hoover disembarks from an Air Transport Command (ATC) plane. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson shakes hands with former president Hoover as welcome to Washington DC. Former President Hoover and Secretary Anderson walk together from the tarmac, enter the White House together. Former President Hoover reports, showing documents to United States President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson inside the Oval Office of the White House.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1946, May 13
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078842
United States turnover of decommissioned warship to the Republic of China (ROC) in San Diego, California after WW2

United States turnover of former US destroyer-escort warship to the Republic of China (ROC) under a lend-lease arrangement after World War II in 1946. Sailor hoists the Republic of China flag onboard ship. Decommissioned United States Navy destroyer-escort with Republic of China flag docked in San Diego, California. Republic of China Navy Commander Lin and United States Navy Commander Herbrandt salute to sailors. Commander Lin and Commander Herbrandt shakes hands onboard. Republic of China Navy seamen stand in formation, wearing the standard navy uniform. ROC seaman training to aim using artillery. An ROC sailor demonstrates rope knotting. Republic of China and United States sailors play Chinese Checkers and dice onboard as destroyer sails to Republic of China. The decommissioned USS Magnet (AM-260), acquired by the Republic of China as ROCS Yung Ning, sailing the Pacific Ocean.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078846
Scenes containing sunrise and nature, Genesis reading by the crew of the NASA Apollo 8 Mission

Various scenes of sunrise and nature with reading of verses from book of Genesis in the bible by the crew of the Apollo 8 Mission. Clouds pass over during an impending sunrise. The sun rises. Astronaut Bill Anders reads “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness”. “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Says Jim Lovell. Sunrise by a lake. Apollo launch site during sunrise.

Location: Florida United States USA
Date: 1968, December 24
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078849
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