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Picturesque scenes of the Alaskan Valley.

View of a railroad bridge over a river in Kennecott, Alaska. Snow covered mountains in the background. View of a melting glacier. High speed water currents drifts through the mountains. A picturesque scene of the Alaskan Valley.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030416
Japanese Emperor Showa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun meet U.S. President Nixon and First Lady at Elmendorf Air Force Base

Japanese Emperor Showa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun (Nagako Kuni) meet U.S. Presidnet Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. Workers arrange a red carpet as a Japan Air Lines plane taxies on the runway. Japanese emperor and Empress disembark from the plane. Pat and Richard Nixon welcome them and shake hands. The dignitaries review honor guard. A military band plays and marches at the runway.

Date: 1971, September 26
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057405
Japanese Emperor Showa and President Nixon address guests and media as Empress Kojun and Pat Nixon watch at Elmendorf Air Base

Japanese Emperor Showa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun meet U.S. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. The dignitaries walk towards a platform near the terminal building and address the press and gathered audience. Nixon speaks at the platform. Pat Nixon and Emperor Showa stand by him. President Nixon invites Emperor Showa who takes a paper out and addresses the press. The dignitaries step down from the platform.

Date: 1971, September 26
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057406
Japanese Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun meeting with U.S. President Nixon and First Lady Patricia in Anchorage, United States.

Japanese Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon in Anchorage Alaska, United States. The dignitaries sit and talk in a conference room. Press reporters take photographs and video recording of the meeting. Empress Kojun (Nagako Kuni) smiles during the meeting and is wearing a hat.

Date: 1971, September 26
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057408
U.S. President Nixon and First Lady Patricia bid farewell to Japanese Emperor Showa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun at Elmendorf

Japanese Emperor Showa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun concluding their meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon at Anchorage Alaska, in the United States. The dignitaries walk out of a conference room and inspect honor guards. Japanese Emperor and Empress walk on a carpet and board a Japan Air Lines plane at Elmendorf Air Force Base. They wave hands towards the dignitaries and crowd arrives to farewell them. The plane runs on the runway. A limousine with the U.S. and Japanese flags which drove the dignitaries to the airport.

Date: 1971, September 26
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057409
Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian islands during WWII

Private Snafu Title Sequence. Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. A view of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. A Japanese soldier hops on the Aleutian Islands after emerging from the Pacific Ocean, only for a strong American soldier to stomp his feet when he opened “the backdoor to the United States”. Japanese soldier hops and dives back to the Pacific Ocean. View of Tokyo, Japan from the “Back door to the United States”. The cartoon depicts how harsh and challenging the environment in Aleutian Islands- having rain, snow, thunder and whirlwind gales. A seal resembling The Great Schnozzola (Jimmy Durante) replies with the Lower East Side accent, “Nevertheless, that’s the conditions that prevail.” View of a GI camp in the Aleutian Islands. Private Snafu sets out on an important mission, he changes his outfit according to weather. View of the vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, only grass in the tundra environment. After the narrator stated, “There are no trees”, a rabbit replied sarcastically “You’re telling me!”. United States Army Camp in Aleutian Islands covered in thick, gummy, mud. A serviceman is riding on two servicemen submerged in the mud. Inside a Quonset hut, American soldiers are playing dice. An earthquake rattles the Quonset hut and changes the position of the dice. Strong winds in the Aleutian Islands uproot Quonset huts, military installations and even the mountains. Soldiers struggle walking through a “Williwaw” (or strong winds in the Aleutian Islands) until it stopped, causing the soldiers to fall to the ground and the eggs a soldier was carrying to break. Private Snafu walks in the Aleutian Islands through different weather conditions in different outfits. Soldier drives a military jeep with skis in the snow. A cartoon B-17 covered in snow as it flies above the Aleutian Islands. An Eskimo sits around an ice fishing hole in the snow-covered B-17 wing. Private Snafu is wearing a steam whistle as he walks. Private Snafu changes his outfits according to weather condition while walking. Airmen run out of the Briefing Hut and dive in the watery air strip. Private Snafu dons a scuba diving suit to retrieve a B-17 submerged in the watery air strip. Private Snafu inside aircraft with fish. Private Snafu ejects the fish out of the aircraft. The fish activates a parachute to fall safely, only for it to drop into the gaping maw of the Schnozzola seal. The Schnozzola seal repeats his earlier dialogue to describe life in the Aleutian Islands.

Date: 1945, February
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079036