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The first Women's Liberation March held in London, 1971 and UK high school student scenes.

Women protesting for women's rights and equal rights march along Oxford Street towards Trafalgar Square in London as part of the first Women's Liberation March in 1971. A Maison Lyons department store is seen in the background, possibly 362-366 Oxford Street. In addition to the Woman's Power Symbol, signs displayed include "Women Unite for Women's Liberation," "Free 24 Hour Nurseries," "Women's Lib Means Peoples Lib," "Equality Now," and "No Sex Discrimination." Scene cuts to UK high school students in hallway between classes. A girl closes her locker door while talking to another girl. Cheerleaders gathered at a UK high school. Boys playing basketball. Girls standing and cheering. Still photo montage of early film stars.

Date: 1971, March 6
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079022
Activities of United States Information Service in various foreign countries

Opening scene shows a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) secretary provides a couple in Germany with information about American schools. Views of students in Saigon, South Vietnam, attending USIA English language classes. View of London, England, showing the Art Deco BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place (Portland Pl, London W1A 1AA, UK) and All Souls Church, Langham Place (All Souls C of E Church, 2 All Souls' Pl, London W1B 3DA, UK). A man is seen delivering a can, containing the USIA monthly film documentary, to the BBC. View of Broadcasting House of BBC in Marylebone, England. In Iran, a Douglas DC-4 passenger plane takes off, carrying newspaper reporters and Iranian officials to look over an American technical assistance project which is seen from the air. In Tokyo, Japan, a man working in a private publishing company begins translating an American book. The book is open on his desk and contains an illustration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A page of the book, written in Japanese, is shown being reproduced on a type of mimeograph machine.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024537
Britain ships military tanks to the Soviet Union during World War II

British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.

Date: 1942
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040848
USAAF P-47 and P38 fighter groups accompany B-17 bombers on mission to Emden, Germany in World War II

Groundcrewman fueling tank of a P-47 thunderbolt aircraft of 8th Air Force in England. P47s and P-38s take off to escort B-17 bombers on mission to Emden, Germany. One P-38, tail number 42-67057, is from the 338th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group. Scenes of American B-17 bombers in formation, escorted by P-47 and P-38 fighters. B-17s from the 95th Bomb Group (13th Bomb Wing) at Horham, UK, and B-17s from the 305th Bomb Group (40th Bomb Wing) at Chelveston, UK. Gun camera scenes of German fighters being hit by P-47 gunfire. Planes flying over clouds. Flight of four P-38s joins the formation. P-38 gun camera views of German fighters being destroyed. Scenes of crew members inside B-17 bombers under attack by fighters and flak. German fighters attacking the formation of bombers head-on.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034816
A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA.

A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA. The manufacturer's name, ' THE SENTINEL WAGGON WORKS LTD, SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND ' written on the truck. The loaded truck moves uphill. Additional information on this truck: This is the Sentinel S4 steam waggon, Number 9095. Built 1933 by Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, England and exported as a demonstration vehicle to the USA with a works driver. Within a short time the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, requiring it to be returned to the UK. Many of the salvageable parts, especially those used to convert it to left hand drive were then fitted to a 6 wheel waggon No 9142 which was sent as a replacement. This vehicle was later purchased by the Pocahontas Coal Company of New Bedford. After a very short working life it was displayed at the Long Island Motor Museum, and Steamtown before being reaptriated to the UK in 2003.

Date: 1934, July 18
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029851
Harry S Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill discuss the problems related to Germany in Potsdam Conference, Berlin (WW2)

Reconstruction of the buildings and denazification in Berlin, Germany after World War II. Men at a farm cultivate crops. The wreckage of the IG Farben plant. The German soldiers speak to an officer. A German war criminal. The rail goes on for the criminal. People burn Nazi books. The people stand around the burning books. . The people read a poster on a wall. General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the US, Marshal Georgy Zhukov of the Soviet Union and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery of the UK sign a joint agreement. The three of them stand together. The U.S. Capitol building. The foreign ministers get down the steps. Aerial view of the United States. The delegates including U.S. President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated around a table during the Potsdam Conference. They discuss the problems. A close up of Truman looking into some documents. Stalin smokes a cigarette. The delegates discussing problems. The funeral ceremony of the President. The soldiers fire guns. Truman attends the ceremony. Churchill in a vehicle. Truman gets off an aircraft. Delegates in the Potsdam conference. Newspaper headlines reads Russian declares war on Japan. The first A bomb explosion. The newspaper headlines about the war. Truman, Stalin and delegates at the Potsdam Conference. A flag of the U.S. and people celebrate the victory. Newspaper headlines about the Japanese surrender.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069649