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Thousands of people in Venice, Italy board a fleet of ships for Libya, North Africa to settle in colony

The greatest mass migration from Venice, Italy to Libya, North Africa. Thousands of people from Italy gathered at the Piazza San Marco during a send-off ceremony. A cardinal leads a mass for Italian settlers leaving for Libya. Crowds gathered outside the Basilica of St. Mark (P.za San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy). Italian settlers carry their belongings with their children. They board a fleet of ships for Libya to help settle into its colony.

Date: 1939, November 13
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070952
Crown prince of Libya being welcomed by the people in Tripoli in Libya

A film titled 'Native patriots hail, the first official visit of heir to throne' shows arrival of crown prince to Tripoli in Libya. He reviews an honor guard and gets into a car. Car moves away accompanied by royal escorts riding horses. The crown prince appears in a palace gallery as thousands gather on the street to look at him.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037697
British troops attack German General Erwin Rommel's Army as it flees Libya.

The British attack the German Army in Libya during World War II. British Royal Air Force B-25 planes bomb German desert supply bases in Libya. German General Erwin Rommel flees from the invading forces. A German fighter plane falls in flames. British 8th Army troops advance through rain and mud at Hell Fire Pass. Artillery fired and British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery at the front. The infantry advances. Wrecked and burning German motorized and mechanized equipment. Wrecked German aircraft in the desert. Many German prisoners taken. Commander of Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel, General Ritter Von Thoma taken prisoner and greeted by General Montgomery. The Swastika comes down and the Union Jack goes up.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047520
German Afrika Korps troops travel to Libya for the North African Campaign (WW2)

German Afrika Korps fly to Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. An outline of the African continent with word “AFRIKA”. German Afrika Korps soldiers rest outside tents in Southern Greece. They receive mails. A shirtless German soldier hammers a Quadriga cutout on top of an arch into place. Afrika Korps soldiers fall in line and receive food supplies. A German soldier fills his canteen from water fountain. Troops carry supplies and move. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft are parked on airfield. Afrika Korps soldiers load supplies into transport planes. Soldiers wearing life vests board the plane. Junkers Ju 52 transport plane takes off. German soldiers peer from the window onboard the aircraft. Soldiers cuddle a pet dog mascot they brought to the flight. Division title on uniform sleeve reads “AFRIKA KORPS”. Afrika Korps soldiers rest during the flight. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft landing in Libya. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft cockpit bears the Coat of Arms of Berlin. Pilot in the cockpit. German Afrika Korps in desert uniform climb out of the plane. Two aircraft flying over a makeshift arch. Sign on arch reads “15000 hinsatz”. Afrika Korps troops carry an engine. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Axis soldiers march to El Alamein, Egypt. An Italian Royal Air Force plane is parked behind. Fighter planes in the sky. A pilot jumps down from a German fighter plane. Axis pilots talking to one another. A pilot stencils a kill mark. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel confers with General Albert Kesselring. Italian Field Marshal Count Ugo Cavallero gets out of his car, meets Rommel and Kesselring. Italian General Ettore Bastico joins Cavallero, Rommel and Kesselring.

Date: 1942, August
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080078
United Nations Support Mission in Libya attempts to help calm unrest in city of Tripoli

Film begins showing areas of extensive cultivation bordering dual highway leading toward dense housing development in the city of Tripoli, Libya. Camera moves to positions successively closer to the buildings. Next, a white van is seen with some uniformed officials near it. It is passed by another white van, with UN painted on its side, and displaying a white flag. Another view of this van driving past a different camera location. This vehicle belongs to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). View from behind a civilian taking a photograph of the UN van passing. Scene shifts to center of the city of Tripoli, where a National Security Force soldier is seen next to a tank at a sandbagged position. Another view of the UN van with its flag, passing the camera on a downtown city street. Scene changes to a private car stopped at the side of a road, next to road sign identifying the entrance to the city of Tripoli. A National Security Force sandbagged position is just off the roadside. Soldiers are inspecting the contents of the car. A 1957 Chevrolet hardtop sedan is next in line. Closeup of that car being inspected. Soldiers and civilian officials question a man and search him. Damage to a building seen from a rooftop. An armored car and a tank on the street. Armed men occupying a deep circular position. Arab civilians, with small arms, pose in defensive position inside a vacant concrete building (possibly a parking garage) overlooking a cemetery. Camera pans across them crouched behind protective concrete wall. Scene shifts to downtown, Tripoli, where National Security Force soldiers run to occupy a heavily sandbagged bunker. From inside the bunker, a tank is seen parked on an alleyway. A street scene shows a tank moving very slowly along a street where a private car is parked. Glimpse of possible explosion on hillside in distance. Another view of tank moving slowly as it appears to be parking at side of city street.

Date: 1962, January
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039879
The tactical missile TM-61A in launch position and lifts off at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli,Libya.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. A covered Matador on mobile zero-length launcher being towed in the launch area. Matador wings being lowered to fuselage of missile on zero-length launcher by a crane. An airman talks into a walkie talkie. The Matador on the launcher. The nose section of Matador shows name 'Lee's Leaping Lena'. The tactical missile TM-61A in launch position in Libya. An airman flipping the switch. The engine starts and missile lifts off.

Date: 1955
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069389