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Flood relief activities in Netherlands. NATO aircraft air drop supplies

NATO assists Netherlands in flood relief operations. Netherlands troops work on dikes. View from inside a U.S. Air Force C-119 aircraft dropping relief supplies, including inflated rafts, over flood threatened areas of Netherlands. Netherlands troops dump material from a truck to reinforce dike. Troops and civilians work on dikes.

Date: 1953, February
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045133
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th birthday.

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th birthday at the Soestdijk Palace (Amsterdamsestraatweg 1, 3744 AA Baarn, Netherlands) in Baarn, Netherlands. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (husband of Queen Juliana) and their daughters, Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene, accompany Queen Juliana. Many children are gathered outside the royal palace to greet the queen with balloons. Some children present helium balloons to Queen Juliana's daughters. Thousands of balloons are set free in the sky. A small child carrying balloon stands in a window. Small boy holds flowers in hands. Queen Juliana watches the balloons in delight. Prince Bernhard smokes a cigar. Princess Marijke (Princess Christina of the Netherlands), the youngest daughter of Queen Juliana, carrying a balloon while standing in a window. A small Dutch boy brings flowers. People lining up to give flowers to Queen Juliana.

Date: 1949, April 30
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050160
Communism growing over Central and Eastern Europe after World War 2, and development of Marshall Plan.

Events after World War II. Harvesting in U.S. farms. Closeup view as a tractor plows fields. Men on horseback driving sheep. Woman serves a Thanksgiving turkey dinner to her family gathered at a nice dining room table in the United States. Her children look at the food with smiles. Contrasting scenes show Europeans starving amid post-war ruins. Women and children looking for food. A child in a soup line. Women wait in a line to receive grain that is weighed on a scale (possibly Soviet area). Globe spins. Joseph Stalin and other Soviet officials watch a military parade in Red Square in Russia. Retrospective scenes of the meeting of Russian and U.S. troops at the Elbe River late in World War 2. Communist rally in Paris. A protester holds up a hammer and sickle symbol. A demonstration of protestors in Athens, Greece, and another Communist demonstration in Rome, Italy. Map depicts communist control growing over Central and Eastern Europe early in Cold War. High aerial view of Washington DC with a lower altitude airplane flying over the U.S. Capitol. Exterior view of State Department (Old Executive Office Building) in Washington DC. View of Secretary of State James F Byrnes working at his desk. Byrnes speaks of U.S. role in world affairs while at a conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Scenes from a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in 1947. Scenes changes to North Portico of White House. Swearing in ceremony of George C. Marshall as Secretary of State. President Harry S Truman shakes hands with Secretary George Marshall. Night view of London landmark buildings. View of door at No. 10 Downing Street in London. View of brutal winter conditions in Europe in February 1947. Citizens try to dig out a train stuck in snow. Women in line in Britain for a rationed good, still saddled with its own postwar reconstruction. Narrator relates that Britain was unable to continue to provide massive military and economic aid to the Greek regime and appealed to the U.S. to handle the situation. Secretary of State Marshall and President Truman seen talking together in front of a fireplace mantle. Marshall boards aircraft for a visit to Moscow. Truman in a White House meeting, seated at oval table with his advisors and cabinet. Truman addressing joint session of congress on March 12, 1947. He asks for funds for Greece and Turkey. Globe highlights USSR. Door sign reads 'Policy Planning Staff - George F Kennan - Director'. Director Kennan seen at his desk. He advocates a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Reconstruction in Europe. Ground level and aerial views of bomb destroyed European cities, and workers cleaning up rubble. Brief scene from the meeting of 16 nations in Paris on July 3, 1947. Scenes from United Nations meeting held in Lake Success New York in September 1947. George Marshall at podium addressing delegates of UN. Russian delegate Andrey Vyshinsky commenting on Marshall Plan. Signing of Marshall Plan agreement by international delegates meeting in Paris in September 1947.

Date: 1948
Duration: 8 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053100
The 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division prepare for a mission in the Netherlands (WWII)

Allied airborne operation in Netherlands during World War II. Map showing the cities of Arnheim, Nijmegen, and Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division prepare for a mission in the Netherlands in World War 2. Troops listening. Paratroops board C-47s and fly to their objectives. Glider troops prepare to take off. They board the U.S. Army gliders (Waco CG-4). Waco CG-4 gliders take off and seen in flight. Aerial views of aircraft and ground below. View of gliders landing at Eindhoven. Troops assemble for their initial objectives. Troops hold rifles and pass away on Jeep. Allied troops enter the town of 't Zand on September 18, 1944 as Dutch citizens greet them.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044543
The Dutch people walking on the streets in Netherlands.

A documentary film titled 'The Netherlands' on the geography and the people in the Netherlands. The map of Europe. The map outlines Netherlands. Germany and Belgium also located on the map. Another map locates North and South Holland. Windmills in an area. A man and woman walking on a street with children. The woman with a child in a stroller. Traffic passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. A steam boat underway on a river.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063268
The farmlands and windmills in the Netherlands.

A film about the geography of the Netherlands. Dikes on the land to keep out sea water. Trees in the far background. Farmlands in the Netherlands. An animated map locates the Rhine River and smaller rivers in the Netherlands. A windmill pumps water from the land and into canals. Cattle and sheep graze on a farm. A man working outside a building on the farm.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063269