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The Isle of Capri, Italy, filmed in 1938 Title

The Island of Capri, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, in the Campania region of Italy. View from hotel terrace overlooking buildings in valley with mountain in background. Trees, mountain, and sea viewed from different part of the terrace. Downtown scene shows pedestrians at a square, and a building with inscription: "capri l'isola che non si scorda mai" (capri,an island that one never forgets). (This compliment is attributed to Benito Mussolini from his visit there in 1925.) Scene shifts to views downward over terraced walkways reaching down toward the ocean. Views of cliffs and ocean. Views from the hotel terrace, again, of dark clouds and sea. A different sequence showing the sea from various points of view on the Isle. Nine local boys and two girls, pose for the camera.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048070
Comprehensive overview of Rome, Italy, covering some notable architecture and various commercial industries and activities of Romans.

An Italian documentary about Rome, Italy. Opening scene shows people going up and down the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti). The steps ascend a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti. At the top is the Trinità dei Monti church (Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 3, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). A man sits on a concrete pillar reading Time magazine. A man sips an espresso in front of the Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Roma RM, Italy), with obelisk and fountain on the Piazza della Rotonda in front of it. People patronizing shops along Via del Corso. A woman tries on a fashionable dress in a designer boutique, as the proprietor stands nearby. A woman looking closely at necklaces in a jewelry store window. A woman customer trying on jewelry at a shop. Woman takes off ring from finger. Closeups of her hands with rings on them. Elegant, jeweled necklace displayed in a shop window. Neon signs in entertainment district at night. Two women in a bar. Behind them is the bartender, and on the wall is a large reproduction of the Reclining Venus, by Venetian painter Giorgione. A doorman at the entrance to a night club. Inside, patrons crowd the floor, dancing to rhythmic Latin music. Tourists partying inside the night club. Abrupt change of scene shows smoke rising from the stack of a steel plant. Inside men are seen working near a furnace. Sparks fly from welding. The welder seen working over a huge metal part. Next, women and a man are seen handling armfuls of wool. Other women operate a spinning machine creating thread from the wool. View inside a dress maker shop where a woman removes a dress from a form. Several women are busy making dresses in the shop. Supervisors examine the works in progress. A shoemaker is seen working at his bench. Customers in a shop look at new woolen blankets. People doing banking at a teller's window. The teller annotates a customer's bank book. A group of well-dressed men and women mount motor scooters and proceed to a park where many other scooters are parked. Sports fans fill the area around a soccer stadium. Some are buying tickets at booths. Crowds enter the stadium. View of stadium filled with fans. Players run on the field as fans applaud in the stands. It begins to rain, and fans pull up coat collars. Most of them raise umbrellas.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675027084
Expansionist policies of Japan, Italy and Germany converge, leading to World War 2

Film begins with peaceful scenes of Japan, including Mount Fuji; women in traditional Kimonos strolling among cherry blossoms; exquisite gardens; Geisha girls in traditional dress holding fans; and picturesque peasant farmers binding sheaves of grain. Evidence of Japan adopting Western styles and ways, shown by modern buildings, motor vehicles, and many Japanese in Western clothes going about their daily business on busy city streets. A Japanese stadium filled with spectators at a baseball game. One difference from an American baseball game is that the players are seen marching onto the field accompanied by a military band and later all sharing in raising the Japanese flag to start the event. View of line of players in jerseys as flag is raised (jersey team name Tomasyo?) Views of the baseball game underway. Baseball player with "Y" logo on front steps up to plate to bat. Scene changes to demonstrations of Japanese Navy as senior Naval Officers review Japanese sailors aboard a warship. A formation of Japanese warships underway. Closeup of a Japanese destroyer. A flotilla of Japanese warships being overflown by several formations of Naval aircraft. A flight of Kawanishi H6K Naval flying boats flying in loose formation. A parade of Japanese light and medium tanks including Type 95 Ha-Go tanks (some with offset turrets). View from rear of the parade. Many tanks crossing a field. Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, reviewing Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks and their crews standing at attention. Tanks raising dust as they move in formations on a road and in a field. Japanese infantry soldiers high step march in review past the Emperor on his white horse. Massed Japanese infantry on parade. View, again, of the high-stepping Japanese infantry marching past the Emperor as a segue to Italian infantry goosestepping on parade. Several views of such parades. Mussolini giving an impassioned speech to Italians from balcony on the Palazzo Venezia in Rome on November 4, 1938. A huge flat field filled with Italian SPAD XIII army biplanes parked in symmetric rows. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia speaking from a shelter, rallies his tribesmen to resist invasion by Italian forces. They are seen in tribal dress, armed with spears and ancient rifles, as they answer the Emperor's call. View of Italian L3 light tanks advancing across desert terrain. Italian cavalry charging. Italian infantry moving forward. Italian Caproni Ca.111bis light bomber in flight. Bombs dropping through the air. Barrages by batteries of Italian artillery. Shells striking a hilltop fortress. An open air stadium with one section containing many Japanese attendees waving Japanese flags. A Japanese statesman reading a speech in Japanese. View of the stadium filled with Italians. "Saluti" written on the edge of the section occupied by Japanese attendees. An Italian spokesman in black uniform welcomes the Japanese contingent. A Japanese translator stands beside him. Closeup of cheering Japanese who have heard the greeting translated. Scene shifts to Japanese infantry hi-stepping past Emperor Hirohito and immediately to Italian troops goosestepping and then to German troops goosestepping as they (according to narrator) march into Austria on March 13th 1938. View of German troops marching into Austrian town to cheers from civilians on sidewalks waving Nazi swastika flags and rendering Nazi salutes. Numerous utility vehicles carry German soldiers through the town. More German soldiers arriving in tanks and on motorcycles. Some arrive on horse-drawn caissons towing field artillery pieces.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038554
Views of the Panama Canal Zone

Views from a moving railroad train traveling from the Atlantic terminus of the Panama Canal. Commercial district and shops with signs identifying a large drug store, the Eastern Palace, and many small shops down side streets. A lush and well-to-do residential and business district. The train passes beside the Gatun lake. Passengers are seen next on a boat moving through the Gaillard Cut (formerly known as the Culebra Cut). Two women take pictures with their cameras, as another boat passes them. views of continuing construction activity high above in hills above the water with resulting debris being washed into the Cut. View from a ship entering the locks at Miraflores. Locomotive moving along track beside the locks.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068695
Renewed tourism in Western Europe five years after World War II

Transworld Airways Lockheed Constellation passenger airplane arriving from New York City and Shannon,Ireland. It taxis to parking ramp at Orly Airport, Paris, France. Closeup of another airliner shutting down on the ramp. Passengers walk across the ramp and under the tail of an Air France plane, on their way to the terminal building. They are greeted by a band of men in red huntsmen uniforms playing hunting horns. A railroad train in a picturesque setting. Patrons relaxing on a cafe terrace, at an Italian train station, as an electrified train pulls in. An excursion boat draws near to Chillon Castle On Lake Geneva Switzerland. More views of the castle, from its footpath. Ancient Greek ruins near the Mediterranean Sea. Saint Mark’s Basilica on St. Mark’s Square in the city of Venice, Italy. Many visitors walking in the square, and a flock of pigeons taking flight. The Palace of Versailles, viewed from behind statues in the garden. Chartes Cathedral, Chartres, France. St Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy. Views of Copenhagen, Denmark, including the Little Mermaid statue. A man rowing a boat on a lake in the Alps Mountains. Snow-covered mountains. Trains running in the mountains. Border guards of Italy and Switzerland on their respective sides of their mutual border at a train station. A train transiting the border. A Volkswagen Type 1 (Beetle) car and other vehicles being processed at a German border crossing.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060859
Several oil fields including Villeja, Montechino and Cento Pozzi in Italy.

A film titled: 'Through Oil Lands of Europe and Africa' on oil fields in several countries. A map locates Naples, Italy. Ships in a harbor. Mountains and buildings in the background. View of the oil field Villeja. The other oil field is Montechino. Another oil field Cento Pozzi. View of Salsomaggiore, an oil producing district. Houses in the district.

Date: 1926
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076908