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Sydney Australia 1944 stock footage and images

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100 yard dash and diving contests at New South Wales Championship in Sydney,Australia

Swimmers participate in 100 yard dash at New South Wales Championship in Sydney,Australia as large number of people gather around the pool to watch them compete. Participants dive from a high platform into the pool.

Date: 1928, March 3
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038374
South Pacific Diving Club divers dive in Kiama Blow-hole, Sydney, Australia and come out.

Kiama Blow-hole in Sydney, Australia. Water splashes over shore. People and car on road at shore. 25 feet deep cliff. Members of South Pacific Diving Club at Blow-hole. Diver dives into hole. Divers in water, others sit on rocks along sea, and one jumps into the water. Water falls in sea from rocks above. Divers swim below water fall.

Date: 1967, January 19
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026418
People wave as The Queen Mary ship carrying the U.S. troops docks into the Sydney Harbor, Australia (WW2)

The Queen Mary troopship docks in Sydney Harbor, Australia. The ship carries the U.S. troops. A small boat floats nearby. Smoke comes out of the stack of the ship. People at the harbor wave at the ship. (World War II period)

Date: 1943
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033562
World wide demonstration in various nations supporting Polish solidarity and freedom from military rule, during Poland crisis.

Crisis in Poland after the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. World wide demonstrations and protests against the military rule in Poland supported by Soviet government. A large crowd of demonstrators in Tokyo, Japan protests on roads carrying banners and their leader addresses on a microphone. A solidarity leader addresses an assembly of demonstrators in Lisbon, Portugal. Protesters assemble at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Girls with Polish flags sing freedom songs. Hans Dietrich Gentscher from Federal Republic of Germany addresses the people assembled. U.S. Senator Henry Jackson and Dr Jerzy Milesewski support the solidarity and Polish people. A huge demonstration in London with people holding banners and placards in support of solidarity in Poland. Civilians demonstrate on the snow covered roads of Ottawa in Canada. People shout for freedom of Poland. A leader reads his speech. A large crowd assembled to support solidarity in Washington DC, United States. U.S. Ambassador to United Nations condemns the Soviet supported military rule in Poland. German Confederation Labor leader supports Polish solidarity during a summit in Germany. A crowd demonstrates in Philadelphia and marches for Polish solidarity. People in a church pray for freedom and prosperity of Polish people.

Date: 1982
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056627
New Guinea natives carry supplies for the Allies and the Allies bombard a Japanese held island in the South Pacific.

War between the Allied Forces and the Axis troops in the South Pacific during World War II. New Guinea Papuan natives carry arms, ammunition and supplies for the Allies in a boat. An overnight camp of the Papuan people. The natives carry the supplies across mountains and makeshift bridges. The Australians inspect a Japanese submarine in Sydney Harbor, Australia. They remove the firing mechanism of the torpedo and the instrument which helps a torpedo to find its way once fired from a submarine. U.S. and Australian naval forces move towards a Japanese held island and bombard it. The sailors load and fire artillery. Smoke rises in distance as the shells hit the targets. U.S. Marines survey the damage. Dead Japanese soldiers. A lone U.S. Marine with captured Japanese prisoners.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033548
U.S. propaganda film during WW2, "Know Your Ally: Britain" showing war battle scenes and scenes of life in England

'Know Your Ally: Britain' - An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi German propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance during World War II. Scenes in the United States of a college football game as a player makes a touchdown and a crowd erupts in loud cheering. Football team at blocking and tackling practice on a practice field. A World War 2 tank fires. British and American soldiers fire artillery and infantry forces running on a battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Views of soldiers of China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Allied troops march. Idaho, United States and Britain on a map showing population. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians on a road including cars and double-decker buses and pedestrians showing congested space in Britain. People talk to their neighbors. British policemen seen. British citizens emerge from underground transit system. Groups of British men, women and children in crowds are seen. Image of British Bobby police officer with hand up and narrator relates that British police do not carry a gun. Newspaper headlines about a strike, a catastrophe in Britain. Animated map of the Great Britain shows that it is surrounded by sea. Ships at sea. An old man and a boy sitting on a stoop with a model of a tall masted sailing ship. Brief views of cities in different parts of the world, including Sydney Australia; an unidentified South African port; an aerial view of the city of Wellington, New Zealand; parliament and government buildings in Ottawa, Canada; a large passenger ferry boat passing by with the skyscrapers of Manhattan New York City in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072087