Destruction due to avalanches in Northern Italy. Snow covered buildings and huts. People remove snow with spades. People remove snow from a damaged house. Heavy snow on the ground and houses. People struggle to clear it and search for avalanche survivors. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
Carnival day in Viareggio, Italy. The town of Viareggio holds a Carnival street celebration a day before the beginning of Lent (a solemn period of penitential commemoration until Easter for Roman Catholics). A giant float with a giant papier-mâché effigy depicting an old man and a mouse moves along a road in the carnival. Men dancing on the float. Gigantic papier-mâché cartoon figures are on display in floats. A large group of people on both sides of the float move with the procession. Buildings on both sides of the road. Caricaturized African tribesmen effigies are displayed on a float. Men in stereotypical African costumes dancing on African float. Gigantic papier-mâché effigies moving mechanically on floats. Crowds gathered on the sides watch the procession. Several floats of different forms move in the procession. Men dancing while perched on floats. Papier-mâché effigy’s eyebrows moving upward mechanically.
Hundreds of villagers honor their patron, Saint Paolino, on the anniversary of his victory over the Turks in the crusades. Villagers carry 90 feet tower like shrine through the streets of Nola, Italy during the festival.
Views of a huge parade in Rome, Italy. Premier Benito Mussolini along with high leveled Fascist officials sees thousands in a parade to mark the anniversary of the nation's entry into the World War II.
The American battleship, USS Arkansas (BB-33) underway off the coast of Naples, Italy. She is greeted by the Amerigo Vespucci, a full rigged three-masted sailing vessel used for training by the Italian Navy (Marina Militare). As the ship's pass each other, the crew of cadets aboard the Italian ship can be seen assembled in formations aloft amongst the sails. The crew of the Arkansas stands on her deck. Later, Italian Crown Prince Humbert (Umberto, Prince of Piedmont) boards the Arkansas to welcome her to Naples. An honor guard of U.S. Marines stands in formation. The Prince personally greets the Arkansas's officers.
Three nations sign pacts to preserve Mid-European peace, in Rome Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, and Premier Gyula Gömbös of Hungary sign Agreement to help maintain peace in Europe. The pact is also signed to stimulate trade and improve commercial relations between the signatories.
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