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James F. Byrnes being sworn in as the Secretary of State at a ceremony in the United States.

A swearing in ceremony in the United States. New Secretary of State James F. Byrnes being sworn into office by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. The oath of office being administered to Secretary Byrnes. President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Byrnes. U.S. representative in the United Nations Edward Stettinius greets Secretary Byrnes. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the World Security Charter. Signatures of representatives of different nations on the charter.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066613
German Generalleutnant Dittmar formally surrenders to U.S. soldiers in Magdeburg, Germany during World War II.

German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)

Location: Magdeburg Germany
Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066638
Modernization of Afghanistan transportation and housing in period 1950 to 1960.

Contrasting examples of changes in transportation and housing in Afghanistan during 1950 to 1960. Cattle draw a plow to till a piece of land in the past.. A tractor being used nowadays to till a farm. Men work on a farm with hand cultivators. Nomads migrate from an area on foot. In contrast, a truck is seen being used as a current means of transportation. Men ride on mules and in horse-drawn carts,as they move from one area to another, in the past. In contrast, a man gets into his automobile. People milling about on a street in a village. View of buildings and factories replacing former villages. Machines in operation inside a factory. New homes for factory workers.

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066736
Sheep raising and various products obtained from sheep being sold for export from Afghanistan.

A herd of sheep grazes along a mountain slope. in Afghanistan. A herd of sheep grazes on a farm. Men herding sheep along a road. Men loading wool and hides, for export. Merchants push a wagon heavily laden with hand-woven Afghan wool rugs for export. The rug merchants lay some of their products on pavement at a market. Two merchants display silk cocoons, an important export commodity. A man sorts skins of new born Karakul sheep, which earn millions of dollars annually in exports.

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066739
Views of the city and points of interest in Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan during its modernization after World War II

Film opens panning across the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. High mountains dominate the background. Scene shifts to a street in the city, with a mosque at its end. Buses travel along the street and numerous pedestrians walk along its sides. Camera focuses on the Kabul River and bridge over it in the Nakhās district of Kabul. A car drives past a monument in a park-like setting. Pedestrians walk along a street, and give way as a bus passes in the center. Views of several mosques in the city. The National House of Parliament, overlooking the city from a hill on the outskirts. A blue and white flag flies from its roof. View of the Tajbeg Palace. Construction taking place in the city of Kabul. Masons pass bricks, one at a time as they build a new structure. A herd of pack animals carrying building materials to a building site. Buildings of modern design.

Location: Kabul Afghanistan
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066740
Morrison and Knudsen construction company building dams in Afghanistan

Opening scene shows view from vehicle traveling from the Pakistan border over the Spinbaldak-Kandahar highway. View from above of a yellow truck on that road and arriving at the Morrison and Knudsen (MK) construction company headquarters near Kandahar. Views of the buildings to house and otherwise provide for MK employees. View of several camels walking away from the camera in a desert area. An MK crane lifts a drag line bucket in process of laying out a canal. An old man and a young boy watch the process. View of the MK-built dam across the Helmand River that will supply canals with water for irrigation. The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, arrives with aides to inspect the project. (Narrator notes the King was present at the gate-opening of the dam in 1949.) An MK engineer converses with the King. View of water flowing for the first time into a new canal. (The water approaches a man walking in the dry canal.) Engineers converse while standing above a canal construction site. Below, teams of Afghan workers work on the canal sides. An Afghan surveyor, using a transit, to lay out the center line for a canal, waves his arms to an assistant in the distance. Closeup of man driving a stake and another holding the line that will mark the center line. Earth moving equipment being used to prepare the canal bed. Closeup of machine wheels turning. Glimpse of freshly-dug long canal

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066743
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