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People walk through ruins and are provided medical aid at a relief station after an earthquake in Jucuapa, El Salvador.

Hundreds die due to an earthquake in Jucuapa, El Salvador. People walk through ruins in one of the villages devastated by the earthquake. People stand in front of damaged houses and a destroyed church. People in a damaged building. Wreckage in the city. Body of a deceased man lying on top of rubble after the earthquake. Men carry coffins. Homeless girls line up at a relief station. Medical aid provided to people at a relief camp. Medic cleans the wound of a man. People walk through the ruins.

Date: 1951, May 14
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068335
Otto von Habsburg weds Princess Regina in Nancy, France

A royal wedding in Nancy, France. Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen enters the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers (66 Grande Rue, 54000 Nancy, France) in Nancy, the capital city of Lorraine, the ancestral land of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. At least 6 bridesmaids carry the 22 feet long train of Princess Regina’s wedding dress, made of tulle and brocade. Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, enters the church. Pope Pius XII conducts the wedding and gives his blessing to the couple. Princess Regina and Prince Otto von Habsburg stand after the marriage. People gathered to see the wedding. Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria and his mother former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma in a procession. People run to meet the wedded couple. Princess Regina and Prince Otto von Habsburg wave to the crowd.

Date: 1951, May 10
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068336
Memorial ceremony in Baltimore Maryland, for those lost in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, in 1915

Film opens showing mounted U.S. soldiers riding teams of horses pulling empty caissons signifying those lost in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915. They ride along a major thoroughfare in the City of Baltimore. Buildings along the street are decorated with patriotic bunting. Scene shifts to view from a pier, of a U.S. Navy single-funnel gun boat is seen making way, slowly In Baltimore harbor. Closeup of Group of women, dressed in white, aboard the boat, ares seen holding a large memorial wreath over side of the boat. Next, the camera shows a U.S. Aeromarine AS-2 Float Plane landing in the water. As it taxis in, the scene shifts back to the women on the boat, holding the memorial wreath. They are seen from behind, as they hold it high over their heads, and cast it over the side into the water. View of the women clustered in the bow of the boat as it moves slowly in the water. Other persons are present on deck, including at least one soldier and photographers and reporters. The U.S. navy ensign of stars flies from the bow. Closeup of the women in the bow, who now throw flowers into the water. Closeup of a woman (possibly Lusitania survivor). She stands next to the gun boat (now docked) holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a sash reading “Lusitania.” Next, the camera focuses on Lusitania survivor, British actress, Rita Jolivet, who stands on a pier with a building and automobile behind her. Scene shifts, again, to the ladies in white aboard the docked gun boat. Among those seen with them are two British Royal Navy officers in uniform. Final scene is of large public gathering at an outdoor pavilion. A military band is at the front of the gathering. Public figures are assembled on the stage. A color guard carrying American flags is moving through the crowd, toward the stage.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068355
Thomas Woodrow Wilson works at desk and soldiers with John Joseph Pershing on ship in the United States

U.S. troops leave United States during World War I. Exteriors of the United States Capitol. President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson looks out from a window. He works at desk. Close-up view of document that is U.S. declaration of war against Germany. U.S. Soldiers march on city streets, bound for war. American soldiers board ship. Soldiers crowded on deck of the transport ship heading for war in France. U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing on ship. Sunset at sea.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068364
1930s and 1940s automobiles cross Market Street Bridge in Youngstown Ohio, United States

Traffic on streets in city of Youngstown Ohio. Point of view shot from a moving car showing 1930s and 1940s vintage automobiles crossing Market Street Bridge in Youngstown.

Date: 1946
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068413
Aviation history; historic early flight scenes; first hand accounts from persons who knew and worked with the Wright brothers.

Views of traffic on a city street around the turn of the 20th century. A mix of horse and buggies and motorcars and bicycles. People waiting for a trolley car. Reenactment of persons using an early telephone and of early filmmakers at work with camera on motion picture film. The Wright brothers home at 7 Hawthorne Street, West Dayton, Ohio. The Wrights' former housekeeper, Carrie Grumbach, recalls December 17, 1903, a telegram arriving about the Wright brothers successful first powered flight. Glimpse of Wright brothers machine shop. Charlie Taylor, who had worked in their shop, speaks of being pleased at their accomplishment. View of the Wrights flying gliders at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Charlie Taylor describing how he machined and built the motor for the Wright brothers airplane. Glimpse of that motor or a facsimile. Men positioning the Wright brothers airplane for launching, and French citizens gathered to watch a demonstration of their airplane in France. French aviation pioneer, Henri Farman with two other men in his Voisin-Farman I airplane. They begin takeoff. Closeup of Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Other early aircraft in flight. A Wright Flyer passing over the Fort Myer drill ground in Virginia. An Army balloon in the background. Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, Frank P. Lahm, walks across the tarmac on an airport and speaks for interviewer (unseen). He speaks about the difficulty the Wright brothers had in convincing the U.S. Army of the value of their airplane. He tells that in December, 1907, Wilbur Wright was finally granted an interview with the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, which led to a contract, in 1908, with the Signal Corps. Moving imagesof Orville Wright and assistants bringing a Wright Flyer to Fort Myer, Virginia, to conduct flight trials for the Army. Views of the airplane being flown all around the area, watched by spectators. (This footage is a mix of 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and 1908 footage, taking off and flying, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.) After landing on the 9th of September, 1908, then, Lieutenant Lahm, accepts Orville Wright's offer to fly with him. Lahm climbs aboard the airplane, sits next to Orville Wright, and they are seen taking off and flying about for six minutes and forty seconds. (Lahm is the first. military officer to ever fly in an airplane.) The next scene shows the wreck of a Wright Flyer, in which Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge was killed and Orville Wright injured, on September 17, 1908.

Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068445