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Russians, in snow at Paveletskiy Rail Terminal,Moscow, watch as Lenin's coffin is carried from train. Excavating for mausoleum

Russian city street scene. Coffin of Vladimir Illich Lenin being carried from his funeral train,at Paveletskiy Rail Terminal, Moscow. A large crowd of mourners, lined up on a snow covered hill, watch as soldiers and officials carry coffin and others carry wreaths, in procession. Soldiers with rifles accompany the cortege. Some spectators hold aloft banners and posters as they stand on hillside. Soldiers setting demolition explosives to commence building mausoleum to house Lenin's body at Red Square, Moscow. They are seen in hollow, below ground, in front of Kremlin wall. They lower something into hole and shovel some earth on it. Outside smoke rises and then an explosion raises cloud of earth and dust. A statue of Lenin, holding holding right hand aloft, stands next to the excavation site.

Date: 1924, January 23
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073448
The film titled 'Fights of Nations' employs professional African American dancers in skit about a brawl between two patrons

'Sunny Africa,Eighth Avenue New York' , part 4 of the film titled 'Fights of Nations' captures professional African American dancers in the roles of couples dancing at a cafe, ostensibly on 8th Avenue in New York City, United States. A man plays a piano. After dancing, the couples sit at tables and eat and drink. . One man, in a striped T-shirt, gets up and gives a wonderful demonstration of tap dancing. Other people applaud and cheer him. A waiter serves. The man in the striped T-shirt goes out. Another man sits near the Striped Shirt's date. They converse and dance. The man in the striped T-shirt comes back. and picks a fight with the man dancing with his date. The fight involves everyone, but finally ends with Striped shirt and his date dancing away merrily, together.

Date: 1907
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073465
A man consoles a woman after the death of her mother in the United States.

The film titled 'Child of the Ghetto' depicts sorrows faced by a woman in the United States. A woman weeps as she looks at her mother's dead body. A man consoles her. The woman sits in a chair in her house. Another woman comes and tells her to go out to work. At approx. 1 minute into clip, live scenes of Rivington Street, in New York City, with immigrants crowding the sidewalks and street vendors and their carts jamming the curbs. She seeks work but is rejected several times. She finally gets piece work at a garment factory and takes a pile of clothes to her house. She sews clothes and goes to the factory to deliver the garments and get paid. The factory owner's son steals money from his father and accuses the woman of it. The woman runs from the factory and arrives at her house. A policeman arrives at her house. The woman runs from her house and hides in the country. A farmer sees her and takes her to his house. She started living at the farmer's house. The policeman comes to fish near the farmer's house. He sees the woman and recognizes her. She asks the policeman to believe she is innocent. He does, and goes back to fishing. The farmer and the girl are happy.

Date: 1910
Duration: 10 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073469
U.S. Commander General Frank Howley receives an honorary degree during the inauguration of a library and a auditorium in Germany.

Inauguration of a library and an auditorium in Germany. View of the new library and the auditorium building dedicated by the Free University of Berlin. U.S. City Commander General Frank Howley and his wife arrive at the new library. Howley receives an honorary degree during the ceremony.

Date: 1954, July 1
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073515
Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile site.Combat troops respond to practice alarm in Washington DC.

Combat troops of the Military District of Washington respond to practice alarm during Cold War period. Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile sites. During a practice exercise Army soldiers go underground and close a hatch as a siren blows. The missiles in Washington DC are raised to be ready for enemy attack. African American member of the Old Guard receives phone call and alerts fellow soldiers. Combat troops of the "Old Guard" at Fort Myer, get up from their beds and respond to an alarm to defend the city. The soldiers pick up their weapons and equipment. U.S. Army tanks take up positions with the Pentagon building in the background. Views of the U.S. Capitol at night.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073542
Montage of German rocketry scenes from 1930s through World War II. Nazi surrender. Atomic bomb. Japanese surrender

German rocket pioneer, Gerhard Zucker, attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s. Location is Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven, on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Sturmabteilung (also called SA or Stormtroopers) carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. The rocket is set up on a launch stand. Zucker and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. It noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. German Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Next, is seen a later, more modern, rocket trial ending in failure. Two German engineers display a model similar to the pulse-jet-powered "buzz bomb" (V-1) employed by the Nazis in World War 2. A brief glimpse of similar American machine on sand flat, as narrator states German acknowledgement of knowledge gleaned from Dr. Robert Goddard's work. A German V-1 flying bomb (aka Doodle Bug) being launched in 1944, during World War 2. View of British houses of Parliament, London, England; an air raid shelter sign in City of Westminster. Londoners waiting out a raid in the shelter. Scenes of fire and destruction during German bombing of London, as narrator speaks about the more advanced German V-2 ballistic missiles employed later in the war. Londoners trudging through debris amongst bombed out buildings. Change of scene to U.S. infantry and armor advancing deep into Germany. Narrator refers to them overrunning rocket bases and other vital war-making facilities, near the end of the war. Glimpse of large number of German prisoners of war. Documents of military surrender being signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, in Berlin, May 8, 1945. Closeup of Keitel. Scenes of American forces operating in Pacific theater. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion. Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. U.S. soldiers and other service personnel return home and greeting loved ones at end of war. Aerial view of Pentagon building and surrounding area in Arlington Virginia near Washington DC. U.S. troops boarding a ship in San Francisco, bound for war again, this time in Korea (1950).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073558