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U.S. sailors visit and enjoy in various places of Europe.

A film on the life of sailors aboard United States Navy ships. An officer looks through a telescope. He sees land as the ship approaches Copenhagen, Denmark. He explores a land area. Sailors stand at attention aboard the ship. Officers inspect the sailors. They board a liberty boat to take them to shore. The ship underway at sea. The sailors visit various countries and places in Copenhagen. The sailors talk to Danish women. They eat local delicacies in Europe. United States Navy sailors buy from a street vendor in Copenhagen. View of London, United Kingdom. A sailor asks a British policeman for direction on the street. Greek Army Evzones marching in Athens, Greece. The sailors walk in the streets. Buildings along the sides of the street. The sailors return to the ship. The ship in the Panama Canal. The sailors aboard the ship.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077266
Various cities in Europe being liberated from Nazi occupation (WW2)

Allied campaign against the Axis powers in 1944 during World War II. People gathered outside the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy celebrate their liberation from occupation by Nazi Germany. Allied soldiers in trucks move past the cheering crowds. Pope Pius XII addresses the people from a balcony. Victory parade in Paris, France at the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) on August 26, 1944. French children clapping. People cheer as they carry banners. In Bucharest, Romania soldiers loaded onto trucks drive past crowds cheering after their liberation. On 3rd of September 1944 people cheer on the streets of Brussels, Belgium as Allied troops enter. A woman sits on top of a moving Jeep. In Belgrade, Yugoslavia on October 20, 1944 people celebrate their liberation. In Athens, Greece women carry a Greek flag and a flag being hoisted after their liberation.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065885
Greek athletes run in formation to Syntagma Square in honor of the Unknown Soldier

Greek athletes run in formation to Syntagma Square and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A large crowd of spectators watches from across the street. Three athletes accompany an official who lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Leof. Vasilisis Amalias 133, Athina 105 57, Greece). The runners then depart in formation, followed by motorcycle police escorting the Royal Family in their open car. King Paul of Greece is then seen approaching the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, from the side and then laying a wreath. Assembled several paces behind him, are several high-ranking military officers and civilian officials. A troop of ceremonial Tomb sentries are lined up to his left, all dressed in the traditional Evzones uniforms. The bas relief figure of a dying ancient Greek warrior is seen on the wall of the enclosure. The King and his entourage move toward the street, where a parade ensues, led by men in white shirts who dip their flag in salute. Civilian marchers carry the traditional Greek Land Flag of white cross on blue field.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048178
Dramatic and animated presentation about production of alcohol and its taxation process in United States.

Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Dramatic raid of alcohol and tobacco tax division on illegal moonshine stills in a forest in the southern U.S. Officials of the Alchohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service walk in woods. Illegal moonshiners sit in woods with rifle in hand and sacks on ground. Horse cart in the woods. Barrels of alcohol. Men fight. The officers dynamite and explode an illegal still. Animation shows the ancient time when men discovered the intoxicating effect of alcohol in different parts of world like Greece and China. Taxes on alcohol. Excess grain used by colonial government and process of making alcohol by grain. Alcohol making industry at a farm and exchange of necessary goods with alcohol. Alcohol making industry at small scale and factory of alcohol. The production of alcohol starts in1866 and reaches 15 million dollars and 90 million barrels production rate. Truck in 1950s driving into a brewery plant. View of giant cooper brewing kettles in brewery. The process of brewing beer. Production of beer is shown, with grains like barley and rice passing through machines and into brewing kettles. Alcohol as main source of revenue. Officials work at the permissive branch for administration of laws related to liquor, tobacco, cigarette paper and tubes production. Women and men sitting at desks. Women doing typing and clerical work reviewing forms and applications. Worker adds mash through a tube to a giant kettle in a distillery. In the Seagram's bourbon whiskey distillery in Louisville Kentucky, workers assemble wooden barrels, prepare flaming barrel lids for bourbon barrels, and they pound stoppers in barrels with a mallet and prepare them for shipment while an IRS inspector looks on. Government official of the IRS supervises production, packaging and labeling services in the factory. Seagram name and Louisville location seen printed on the barrels.

Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026148
Royal Hellenic air force aircraft takes off from Seoul air base in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War.

Far East Air Force operations in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. C-47 (DC-3) aircraft parked at Seoul air base (K-16) airfield. A sign on the aircraft reads 'Royal Hellenic Air Force'. Officers stand near the aircraft as they talk amongst themselves. Patch on left shoulder of uniform reads 'U.N.Hellenic Flight 13'. Greece bullseye ensign painted on aircraft fuselage and tricolor on tail. Officers walk away from the aircraft and wave at one of their Greek Flight C-47s taxiing past. Airmen enter a quonset hut having a tall striped flagpole in front of it. A sign reads 'RHAF 13th Greek Flight'. A sign on a bullet pockmarked building reads 'Seoul City air base'. Two Republic of Korea airmen and a small boy, converse with an American airman. A Jeep and a truck pass in background. The Korean airmen walk away, eating something and the boy follows them, with hands in pockets.

Date: 1953, April 24
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078205
Iranian students work in laboratory, professor teaches anatomy, Muslim woman in medical consultation, rural road in Greece

Various landscapes showing rugged mountain terrain, Ancient Greek ruins and fortifications in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Iran. Iranian students, including one woman, measure chemicals inside laboratory. A professor teaches anatomy using a 4d model during a lecture. Professor points to lungs of model. A Muslim woman in medical consultation with a young female doctor and nurse. Donkeys carry bales of hay in Greece. A farmer leads donkeys to side of the road as a transport truck drives near. View of rural road in a mountainous village in Greece as seen from driver’s seat. Cars and pedestrian crossing new bridge. View of a small mountain village in Greece.

Date: 1962, August
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078542