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Political prisoners stage a play in Valencia, Spain, during era of fascism under General Francisco Franco
An organized theatrical group of prisoners stage a play at a prison in Valencia, Spain. The leading character is a missionary who preaches the Christian Gospel to Native American Indians. Prison audience applauds. Painting of Virgin of Merced, Saint of pardon, Saint of prisoners, adorns the wall of the theater. Director and staff of the prison applaud. (World War II period).
Spanish Civil War. Soldiers recruited to fight fascist rebels. President appeals to nation. Irrigation project undertaken
Fascist Rebel bombardment of Madrid, during Spanish Civil War, angers population and promotes recruitment into the Republican Army. A group of men march down a street with a small boy, who appears to be in boy scout uniform, in the front rank, carrying a flag. Recruits are seen being organized into marching groups. Sidewalk in front of a railroad station is filled with new recruits. They march under direction of Republican soldiers. Motorcade of automobiles carrying Manuel Azana Diaz, President of Spain, stops surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, in Valencia. The President steps from his car, enters a building, and delivers a speech emphasizing the democratic election of the government and decrying the need to defend it and the soil of Spain from fascist rebels. Scene shifts to several men in rural area, discussing the need to complete new irrigation projects in time for new defense of Madrid. They already have their pump and must build the pump house. One man types on a typewriter while another sketches the plan to pump water from the Rio Tajo (Tagus River), to irrigate crops. View of horse-drawn wagon loaded with cement for construction. Two men discussion construction plans. Masons using rudimentary methods to erect a pump house. Later view of pump house as men work on the roof. Men digging irrigationl canal from the river and upward toward the agricultural fields. A soldier who hitched a ride on a truck, jumps off. View of a letter he wrote a few days ago, on May 4th. He arrives at his house and is greeted by his mother. Farmers trimming plants in field to be irrigated. A boy calls one of them, his father, to come home.
Madrid-Barcelona Express train derailed killing 30 and injuring 60.
View of train wreck site where Express train derailed and plunged down steep embankment in Catalonia, Spain. The event occurred on the Barcelona-Valencia railway line between Mora La Nueva and Els Guiamets. Reportedly, 40 persons were killed and 60 injured in the tragedy. Views of the fallen train and cars. Workmen repair track high above on the railroad bed. Communist sabotage is blamed
Bomb destroyed civic building in Madrid, Spain; items from Liria Palace spread on lawn after fire during Spanish Civil War
A fleet of aircraft in flight over Madrid, Spain. View of the damaged National Museum of Anthropology (C. de Alfonso XII, 68, 28014 Madrid, Spain) with rubble and bomb damage around. A hole-riddled and damaged portrait of a woman holding a skull in her hand. Next scene shows the Palacio de Liria (Liria Palace). Many items are strewn on the lawn of the palace, having been evacuated during fire in the palace. Smoldering ruins of parts of the Liria Palace (C. de la Princesa, 20, 28008 Madrid, Spain). A statue on the lawn presumably of a member of the House of Alba (possibly Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba). Chairs and furniture scattered on the lawn. A royal carriage hastily moved onto the lawn. A man sitting inside another royal carriage. Desks, chairs, cabinets, sofas, and other furniture all over the garden lawn. Views of the damaged palace. A stuffed polar bear on the lawn. Piles of books and behind them a suit of armor. Close up views of many library books piled on the lawn, having been moved during the fire.
Bomb wrecked buildings and churches, male and female soldiers, refugee families, and German Condor Legion aircraft during Spanish Civil War
Destruction caused during Spanish Civil War in Spain. Buildings and churches seen alongside a bridge in Spain. Bomb wrecked buildings and churches. Heaps of debris seen. Spanish civilians fires rifles, including both men and women soldiers or combatants. Crowds gathered in streets during a demonstration. Dirty and ragged refugee families living in caves after destruction of their towns and villages by war. Children eating in caves. Photograph of Francisco Franco, Dictator and Head of State of Spain. Aerial views of German aircraft of the Condor Legion seen in flight, including Stuka dive bombers, Junkers JU 52 transports, and a Heinkel He-111 E taking off. X symbol of Condor Legion aircraft seen on tails of some of the aircraft. Some bi-planes are also seen as they taxi on an airfield with German pilots or crew nearby.
Farmers work on irrigation project in midst of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War. Map of Madrid and road to Valencia, showing Aganda bridge across Jarama River, where Nationalists attack from their front lines. Republican troops being mustered in village square to proceed south and counterattack. Closeups of some of the soldiers. Scene shifts to farmers working on an irrigations project. They tamp down the ground and carry wooden sections of sluice that they connect together to carry irrigation water. View of a farmer walking along the newly erected sluice, with river in the background.
