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Post-World War 1 events in Russia
Crowd milling about in Kronstadt, West of Saint Petersburg,Russia, as group of Russian sailors, soldiers and civilians, marches in their midst carrying a Sign reading "Peace, Freedom, and Bread." On March 7, 1921, The Bolshevik government sends 60,000 troops under command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky to quell the disturbance. They are seen marching in the streets. Next scene shows women looking amongst the fallen for their relatives. View of Leon Trotsky (Commander of the Red Army) walking with some of his staff. View of human remains. Brief view of Lenin. Trotsky writing at his desk. Narrator mentions the State Security Agency called "Cheka," being replaced by the Joint State Political Directorate (AKA OGPU). Narrator calls it the Political Police. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov is seen walking with a group of Soviet workers and politicians ostensibly charged with overseeing the OGPU. Another scene shows Molotov conversing with Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin). Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin stands to Stalin's left. views of Stalin. Lev Kamenev, a leader in Moscow City politics. Russian families on a train platform preparing to travel in box cars (to Siberia?). farmers harvesting grain in Russia. A woman shopkeeper cuts a loaf of bread in pieces and weighs them on a scale for sale to a customer. American foodstuffs provided as aid to Russia. Some of the American food being unloaded at a pier. American Relief Administration Chief, Herbert Hoover, standing at a port. Food being distributed to Russian citizens, and to children. Newspaper of March 14, 1923, announces the Lenin suffers a stroke. In January, 1924, a newspaper headline announces that "Lenin is dead." Lenin seen in coffin. Funeral cortege, including principal Soviet leaders, carries the coffin outdoors in falling snow. Spectators watch and others follow in the solemn funeral march. Narrator states that "Stalin,Zinoviev, and Kamenev force Trotsky into exile." Soviet citizens are seen at hard labor under new "Five year plans."
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to U.S. Congress, speaks in Union Square, New York City
Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, the first woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (served April 1917 through December 1918). A pacifist, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and champion of humanitarian causes, she is seen addressing a group from a speakers pavilion in Union Square, Manhattan, New York City, in September, 1924. She accepts a glass of water from an associate (unseen). Closeups of Rankin leaning over the railing above an American flag, as she speaks to assembled group of men and women. From further away, several men and women associates can be seen at work behind her in the pavilion. Views from behind and to her right, with listeners below and cars parked in the square. Street scene in background. As before, Ms Rankin leans forward to be better heard. (There is no evidence of microphone in use.)
Tsetse fly and mosquitoes cause diseases in Central Africa
A documentary ' Medical missions in Africa'. A map of Africa with a highlighted Central part having high temperatures and heavy rainfall. This climate leads to diseases like malaria. Malaria carrying mosquitoes, tsetse fly causes sleeping sickness.
British 8th Army tanks advance and fire in North Africa.
British Honey tanks (American Stuart light tanks, initially provided under Lend Lease) in North Africa. Two single columns of British 8th Army tanks roll along desert roads in North Africa. Tanks fire at night and flashes occur. (World War II period).
British 8th Army tanks, trucks and infantrymen advance in the desert of North Africa.
British Army Cruiser tanks in North Africa. British 8th Army tanks roll along desert roads in North Africa. British soldier atop a tank turret. Tanks, trucks and infantrymen move along the desert. (World War II period).
Churchill, Brooke, and Smuts on ship in North Africa (WW2)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands with a Naval Officer and Sir Allan Brooke, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, aboard a British warship en route to North Africa. Churchill and Brooke don life vests and relax on deck. General Brooke, Prime Minister Churchill and British Field Marshal Jan Smuts stand on deck in their life vests. Churchill descending a ladder on the ship. Churchill, Brooke, and Smuts, aboard a launch entering harbor in North Africa. Scenes of congested pier at the port. Jeeps and troops crowd about to see the Prime Minister and members of Imperial General Staff, as they slice through the crowd to meet up with General Bernard Law Montgomery. Winston Churchill, smoking a cigar, walks and converses with General Montgomery. View of Prime Minister Churchill, cigar in mouth, deftly stepping across from one ship to another. Crew of the first ship cheers him and he doffs his hat and flashes a V for victory hand sign. (World War II period)
