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Policemen investigate bombed areas and damaged buildings in Manchester, England

Riots break in the city of Manchester, England as a bystander is killed. Policemen investigate near a bombed area on a street. Men look at the damaged area. Concrete pieces spread on a street. Broken window panes of a shop. A damaged building. People and policemen stand on street. Bombs kept in a building. A power grid. A house beside the power grid. A tree in the foreground.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068180
Film about Allied bombing campaigns against the Axis powers and Japan all over the world during World War II.

Opening scene shows British Avro Manchester bombers lined up on a field in England during World War 2. British air crew board a bomber that taxis out for takeoff. View from inside the aircraft as it lifts off on takeoff and then towards its tail on climb out. Gunner seen manning machine guns as his turret rotates during flight. Formation of Manchester bombers en route to Axis military targets in German occupied France. View from bombardiers position of ground below. The bombardier seen and bombs dropping, as viewed from another bomber in the formation. View from a bomber of railroad yard and an airport with bombs exploding on the ground. Manchester bombers on return flight home over the English Channel. They pass below formation of U.S. B-17 flying Fortresses heading toward France. Close aerial view, from below, of the formation of B-17s overhead. Scene shifts to North Africa, where American Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous aviator of World War I, talks pilots of Major General Jimmie Doolittle's Bomber Command. Closeup of General Doolittle smiling outside a tent. A B-17 takes off. An Army cameraman seen inside at a window of the B-17. He is to record an attack on the Sicilian port of Marsala. View from a bomber of bombs exploding along the Port's coast, and of bombs passing the camera as they fall to earth. View from below of a B-17 with battle damage to its left elevator. View from a returning B-17 as it lands at its base in North Africa. Airmen walk around a B-17 that crash landed. One airman walks under part of a bomber tail destroyed by Axis gunfire. Scene shifts to the South Pacific and Allied air attacks against Japanese targets. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers headed toward the Japanese held island of Nauru. Views of bombs striking the island. Scene shifts again, this time to Attu in the Aleutian Islands. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boat seen in flight. A task force of U.S. Navy warships in Aleutian waters. American amphibious landing on Attu. Arms and supplies piled up on a beachhead. American forces firing artillery. Infantry search for Japanese soldiers in hiding. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. American wounded carried on litters. A formation of B-24 bombers headed toward the Aleutian island of Kiska. Closeups of crew members in a B-24. View of glaciers and volcanic mountains below. A bombardier releasing bombs on a Japanese submarine base and airdrome. view of bombs falling. Formation of B-24s releasing their bombs. A gunner in a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese planes and then firing in a low level strafing attack. A U.S. fighter plane lands back at its base on a water-covered runway, raising waves of water that cover cover it.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033504
Fascist Oswald Mosley addresses rallies and riots break out in Manchester and London, England.

Oswald Mosley, head of British Union of Fascists, at a rally in Manchester, England. Hecklers object to him and his Union Movement message. Policemen try to control the situation. Many people receive injuries. A man with a bleeding head injury. A woman thrown to the ground. Oswald holds another rally on Ridley Road, Dalston, London. A large number of people protest in the street against Oswald and his movement. He speaks into a microphone but is drowned out by the protesting crowd as policemen hold people behind a human chain. When Oswald cannot be heard over the disturbance he stops the speech as riots break out. Men engage in fisticuffs. 54 men are arrested in connection with the fist fighting and photographers take pictures as Oswald leaves.

Date: 1962, February 8
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042812
A large number of Britishers participate in a 100 mile walking race from Blackpool to Manchester in England.

A 100 mile race walking competition from Blackpool to Manchester in England. A large number of British citizens participate in the speed walking race. Men walking at high speed during the race. People gather along the sides of a street. The winner, 43 years old Vie Stone, is awarded by an official.

Date: 1954, July 30
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062763
Design description of the British Lancaster Bomber and differentiation from other bomber aircrafts

Aircraft recognition training film. British Lancaster Bomber in England. Lancaster moves on runway and takes off. Lancaster is the modified version of Manchester bomber used earlier. Differentiation of Lancaster from other heavy bomber aircraft. Drawings contrast the design of the British Lancaster with the following: Manchester, Russian TB-7, German FW-200, British Halifax, American B-17E, British Stirling and American B-24 heavy bombers.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030721
Amoskeag Falls during 1936 Manchester New Hampshire flood.

Amoskeag Falls Bridge over the Merrimack River with raging waters during the Great Flood of 1936 (New England) in Manchester New Hampshire. Remnants of a house is seen going over the falls and floating under the Amoskeag Falls Bridge. Workers stacking sandbags at the Amoskeag Falls Dam power house in an effort to save it. View of Amoskeag Falls Dam powerhouse surrounded by flood water. Two Martin B-10 bombers in flight over an overflowing river. View from a Martin B-10 rear cockpit as United States airmen push food supplies out of bomb bay. Package dropping from a B-10 over Pennsylvania.

Date: 1936
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079788
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