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American staff car enters through a gate of a Russian Embassy building in Tehran, Iran.

American staff car on the streets of Tehran, Iran. 'USA' written on the car. Buildings in the background. The car enters a gate. A guard on the gate. The car arrives in front of a Soviet Embassy building during the Tehran Conference (project "Eureka"). A guard stands on stairs. British soldier Honor Guard stands in front of Embassy. Squad of British and Russian soldiers marches past Embassy. Cameramen take pictures. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, December 1
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053418
Prewar and wartime conditions of British, exchange of war material via lend lease, supplies rationed in Great Britain.

Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054686
Drying salmon, playing sport and natives row boats in an Alaskan village.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Salmon drying on sticks in the village. A native holds puppies in his arms. Men play a sport. A man holds a bundle on a stick as another man runs towards it. Houses in the background. Natives row a boat. The whaler underway. A boat with a native overturns. He rows the boat.

Date: 1915
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020847
The whaler Herman approaches first ice on its way to the Arctic.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at sea as it approaches first ice. Ice sheets in view. The bow of the ship breaks through young ice. Ship crosses between ice sheets. Large ice sheets in the water.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020849
Japanese and Japanese American civilians at school, and working in offices and banks in Hawaii

School, office and bank in Hawaii in approximately 1941-1942 showing people of Japanese descent around the time that relocation centers for Japanese civilians were opened in the USA. A woman sits with a child. A woman shows cloth to other women. Man points to a diagram of building to other men. A Teacher in a school writes on a blackboard. Men in an office discuss. Man at bank counter gives a packet. A man and woman work in office. Exterior view of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu.

Date: 1942
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026116
U.S. Army sentries silhouetted against the sky as they stand guard at a heavy gun emplacement in Hawaii.

U.S. Army sentries walking their respective posts near what appears to be a 16 inch gun pointed seaward. They and the gun are silhouetted against the sky. Views of a heavy gun zooming in on the front of the barrel where inscriptions read: "_ inch No.4 Ord. Dept. U.S.A. Mod of 1907 V" and "Waterford Arsenal 1910." U.S. Army artillerymen set up a heavy gun in hills of Hawaii. An armorer transports a shell to a heavy gun on a wheeled carrier. A gun crew loads and rams the shell into the gun. View from end of barrel as shell is loaded from the breech.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046028