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Australian Ship SS Taronga Park readied for launch at Saint John Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., New Brunswick, Canada

Australian ship Taronga Park being readied for launching at Saint John Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co in New Brunswick, Canada. Shipyard workers use battering ram to dislodge supports from under keel of ship. Australian flag hoisted aboard the ship. A sign on the side of the ship reads 'Made in Canada for Australia SS Taronga Park'. Many shipyard workers descend stairs from scaffolding before before ship is launched.

Date: 1944, April
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065732
Herb Elliot wins a mile race in a record time in Dublin, Ireland.

Field and track events in Dublin, Ireland. A mile race gets underway as a gun is fired. Athletes run on the track as spectators cheer. Merv Lincoln leads after half a mile. Australia's Herb Elliot talks to reporter, Liam Browne, of Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE), after winning the race in a record time of 3 minutes 54 and a half seconds.

Date: 1958, August 6
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066596
Anna Roosevelt reviews troops and Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur Christens the Australian Destroyer, Bataan the during World War II

Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067066
Australian PM Robert Menzies gets off from a Boeing 314 Clipper for a meeting and is escorted by U.S. officials in New York.

Prime Minister of Australia Robert Gordon Menzies arrives for a meeting with U.S. officials in New York. Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies gets off from a flying boat Boeing 314 Clipper. Men stand in the background. The Prime Minister is escorted by U.S. officials. The officials and the Prime Minister walk on a bridge.

Date: 1941, May 8
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069463
Mr. and Mrs. Carlin arrive in Denmark in their amphibious jeep.

Mr. and Mrs. Carlin go round the world in an amphibious jeep. The amphibious jeep carrying Mr. and Mrs. Carlin and their children at a sea. Mr. and Mrs. Carlin of Australia arrive in Denmark. They get off the jeep. People standing at a pier in the background. The amphibious jeep is driven in the streets.

Date: 1951, August 16
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070973
President Marcos officiates ceremony and Asian Allies troops move into action to support military action in South East Asia.

Manila Summit Conference to review the efforts for negotiations of a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam war, in South East Asia. An official speaks. View of U.S. White House. A U.S. plane in flight as President Johnson attends a seven nation Summit Conference to be held in Manila. View of Manila city. Miniature flags of South Korea, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand. President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralín Marcos officiates ceremony. Asian allies soldiers standing. South Korean troops disembark the landing craft to support American military action in Vietnam. U.S. combat troops and U.S. Army helicopters are in action. Asian allies troops move into action in Vietnam.

Date: 1966, September 29
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071044