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Montage of images pertaining to Nguyen Ai Quoc, an early 20th Century Vietnamese nationalist.

1920 photograph of Nguyen Ai Quoc, Vietnamese Nationalist, with two comrades. A letter from him to comrades in 1924, written in China. Images of French and English newspaper articles about Nguyen Ai Quoc, referring to him as an Annamite. A 1931 handwritten dossier compiled on Nguyen Ai Quoc. Picture of him with associates.

Date: 1931
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Vietnamese
Clip: 65675044092
Benito Mussolini and his troops invade Ethiopia; war and unrest leading up to World War 2.

Actions of Italy leading up to World War II. Animated map shows Japan and the Sea of Japan on world globe. Benito Mussolini gives a speech. Italian troops invade Ethiopia. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie addressing the League of Nations. Ethiopian native leaders and tribal soldiers gather with Emperor Selassie and pledge allegiance to him and Ethiopia at a rally against the Italian invasion. Ethiopian fighters with spears and bare feet battling well-armed Italian soldiers in vain. Newspaper heading reads 'Mussolini invades Ethiopia'. Italian aircraft drops bombs on Ethiopia. President Franklin Roosevelt in his speech denounces the Italians invading Ethiopia, noting that civilians including women and children "were being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air." Animations depicting the rapid speed at which the earth can be traveled by air compared to formerly by ship. Thatch roofs huts being burned by Italian soldiers in Ethiopia. Similar scenes of civilian dwellings being burned by Japanese forces in Manchuria circa 1931. Mussolini, Hitler, and Goering meeting and discussing plans over a map. The three leaders are seen smiling and laughing. Camera view from low near Hitler's feet showing Adolf Hitler raising his hand in a Nazi salute. Brief scenes of fire burning through buildings in a war torn city; German forces digging ditches or foundations; Civilians waiting in line for food relief; children putting on gas masks and raising rifles while in prone position during a training exercise; dead bodies of war victims in China.

Date: 1936
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023566
Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Mukden Incident), forming Manchukuo, as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

A Japanese militaristic propaganda film about the material and spiritual strength of Japan. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Map of Asia. Image of an artillery shell followed by animation of large blotch marks covering large sections of Asia. Scenes of Japanese troops marching in countryside and on railway beds. Sign in English 'Soochow'. Troops loaded into open rail cars and a steam engine pulling the train out of a station. Troops resting along a roadway, with civilians walking by among them. Some of the soldiers water and care for the horses. Many signs in Japanese in an urban center. Some depict warfare and conquering of territory. It appears to depict the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria known as the Mukden Incident or the Manchurian Incident, part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A parade on a city boulevard, with leaflets dropped everywhere blowing on the ground. A dragon costume controlled by many people. Children marching in a group. A regiment of Japanese soldiers marching in formation. An entrance way covered by the angled, draped flags of Japan and Manchukuo.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025039
Students demonstrate at railroad station in Shanghai, China.

Girl students demonstrate and march in China, protesting Chiang policy of appeasing Japan. Students gathered at railroad station. Girls with umbrellas walk along rail track. Engine of train emits smoke. Students block the rail tracks and demonstrate. One student distributes sweets among other students gathered at the railroad station. Students with banner around rail tracks.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052434
Sign for china berry in Indian sign language by General Hugh L. Scott, United States.

General Hugh L. Scott of Smithsonian Institute, is seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General Scott demonstrates a sign for China berry.

Date: 1931
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033103
A Poland China pig sent as cargo in the inaugural flight of Air Freight plane, Kansas City, Missouri.

An Air Freight plane in Kansas City, Missouri. A man load crates of chicken and eggs into the plane. Men open a cage and a Poland China pig comes out from the cage. Pig fed before sent as a cargo in the plane. Man loads crates onto a vehicle and it pulls away from the plane.

Date: 1931, August 13
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048703