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People watch mischievous pranks during a festival in Norway.
Celebration of a festival in Norway. Men balancing on floating chunks of ice, scoop smaller pieces of ice from the water of a pond, as spectators watch from the shore. The spectators are dressed warmly but still shuffle about to keep warm. A bride in classic white dress and a groom in top hat walk across the ice as those accompanying them carry humorous signs in Norwegian. (One alludes to a cup of coffee in the morning surely pleasing the bride.) Above the scene, a figure is seen, dressed as Poseidon (Greek God of Sea) carrying a trident. Next he is seen standing nearby as the wedding couple and their companions fall into the cold water. View of spectators, some high in trees high above the site. One person swimming and pulling another one from the water. Closeup of the Poseidon figure who is next seen prodding other persons into the cold water.
People gather to watch a dog show in Norway.
A dog show in Norway. People gather to watch the show. The owners displaying their dogs in the show. Dogs of different breeds are displayed. Last scene shows a man in uniform of the Norwegian Hirdin (paramilitary group associated with Vidkun Quisling)
German coastal guns at English Channel. Bomb damage in German town. Germany Navy in Norway. World War II
German Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder inspects coastal artillery units along the English Channel during World War 2. He arrives and is greeted by German Naval officers. They study maps on a table. He inspects the guns. A coastal gun raises its barrel, while under a camouglage net. Scene shifts to residents of a German town that had been struck by British RAF bombers. Local residents work to clear up the rubble. Views of bomb-damaged homes, with entire front walls missing. View of damaged kitchen in an apartment. Teams of men working to clear rubble. German children fill a town square to watch the demolition of an unsafe structure. Sign with skull and crossbones next to an unexploded bomb, warning that it is a dud and life threatening. German workers pouring concrete for an airfield. Scene shifts to Kriegsmarine activity in Norway. View of a fjord, and then to many German float planes in a bay near a city. German warships come under attack by British warplanes. German ships antiaircraft guns are brought to bear. German Focke Wulf FW-190 aircraft scrambled to engage the British. Views from German aircraft in flight over the area. Snow covered mountains. View from German ships in the North Atlantic. The German battleship, Gneisenau, underway. Formation of German warships underway. Two German U-boats moving on the surface. A motor torpedo boat. German Stuka, Junkers JU-87 dive bombers, in formation flight. Motor torpedo boat dropping depth charge.
Torger Torkle of Norway Ski Club wins the Eastern skiing championship in Gilford-Laconia, New Hampshire.
Eastern skiing championship in Gilford-Laconia, New Hampshire. Large crowd of spectators gathered to watch the Eastern skiing championship. The championship begins. Some skiers fall. Torger Torkle of Norway Ski Club wins the championship.
Farmers in Ukraine save crops from invading German forces in World War II Civilians prepare fortifications and defenses
Three Soviet harvesting machines in formation cut wheat in Ukraine before arrival of invading German forces during Operation Barbarossa, in World War 2. Several varying closeups of the harvesting operations and the farmers as they work. Tractor pulls a harvesting machine. Closeup of farmer teaching his wife how to operate the machinery. View of her at the wheel. People (mostly women and children) gleaning grain from the fields after the machinery has finished. Soviet soldiers carrying long handled scythes walk past the wing of an aircraft parked in a field, to join those in the harvesting. A windmill is seen in the far background. Civilians and soldiers work together with hand held tools to cut wheat. Closeup of woman twisting stalks to form a rope to bind the wheat sheaves. Views of soldiers carrying sheaves of wheat. People gathered around and atop a threshing machine. Workers,using pitch forks, toss wheat sheaves up to the threshers, who push them into the threshing machine. A tractor pulls a many wagons filled with flour, from a mill. Complete change of scene shows civilians hard at work building fortifications. Several ensuing scenes show civilians sandbagging and strengthening fortifications in other Allied countries, such as France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and China. Soviet men with shovels digging deep antitank defenses. Many hundreds of Soviet women at work with shovels building defenses along a hillside. A cadre of Soviet women, in uniform, march under command of a military officer, at a square in Moscow. Some appear to be carrying rolled up stretchers or litters over their shoulders, reflecting their role as nurses or medics. Red Cross nurses train for an emergency. One practices bandaging the arm of another. Several Red Cross nurses line up in a formation to march
United States 501st Parachute Battalion, boarding and jumping at Fort Benning (WW2)
Shows 501st Parachute Battalion, boarding C-47 aircraft and jumping at Fort Benning in Georgia during World War II. Views of German parachutists descending on Norway from Junkers 52 aircraft. Aircraft C-47s taking off and dropping heavy equipment parachutists as Curtiss A-12S lay smoke trails below. Troops advancing through smoke in fields.