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Hollywood actors and actresses awarded during 33rd Annual Academy Awards in Santa Monica Auditorium, California.

The 33rd Annual Academy Awards banner on Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (1855 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90401, United States) in Santa Monica, California. A car arrives at the auditorium. Hollywood stars arrive. People sitting in the auditorium. Eva Morris announces name of Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Peter Ustinov comes to the stage and takes the award. Hugh Griffith announces the winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Shirley Jones accepts the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Greer Garson announces the award for Best Actor. Burt Lancaster receives the award for his leading role in Elmer Gantry. Yul Brynner announces Elizabeth Taylor as the winner of Best Actress for her role as Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. Elizabeth Taylor come on stage to receive the award amidst long applause. People in auditorium clap and cheer. Audrey Hepburn announces the winner for Best Picture. Billy Wilder, the producer of the film The Apartment, accepts the Oscar.

Date: 1961, April 20
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024256
Luther Burbank's house and gardens in Santa Rosa, California.

American botanist and horticulturalist Luther Burbank puts on his hat as he poses at home in Santa Rosa, California. Exteriors of Luther Burbank’s house (204 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404, United States). Vines cover the exteriors, pergola, and veranda of the house. Children play in the street. View of the gardens.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066854
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combat operations at Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.

U.S.LST-129 and the second USS Seaward (LST-278) next to each other, in rough surf at rock strewn Orange Beach III, Peleliu, in the Palau Island group, during World War 2. These two LSTs collided and suffered damage on October 2, 1944. View of airfield with U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft parked. An F4U landing on the runway. Another aircraft takes off. Construction equipment and tents seen on airfield. A PBY Catalina aircraft takes off. Change of sequence shows battlefield with bare trees. F4U aircraft flying low and slow, with landing gear extended, drop bombs, raising heavy smoke clouds, at Japanese positions just beyond a nearby ridge.

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022857
Ships and airplanes navigate in fog, submarine depth charged by destroyer (WW2)

Douglas C-47 Skytrain flying in fog. A radar mobile station with rotating radar dish. C-47 lands on airfield under low visibility conditions. A fighter landing on aircraft carrier deck of a United States Navy aircraft carrier. Large U.S. battleship at sea. Sailor wearing deck-communications helmet. Close up of interior ship siren sounding. United States sailors wake up and jump out of bunks while siren sounds. A radar dish rotating onboard a ship. Hands actuating fire control triggers on a battleship. Multiple U.S. naval ships firing guns night and day. Battleship hit by guns. Battleships firing artillery on enemy ships and shorelines of islands. Submarine underwater. A U-boat submarine periscope seen above water surface. A United States Navy crew operates radar gunnery control system in destroyer, tracking a nearby submarine. Navy captain with sailor at the helm on destroyer. Destroyer shoots depth charges into water. Depth charge flying in air and then detonating in the ocean shortly after its release. Explosions under water destroying the U-boat submarine. Consolidated PBY Catalina flying above a naval flotilla. United States ships navigate through fog. (World War II period)

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079146
"Dear Diary," wins the $10,000 California Breeders' Stakes race at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia California

Crowds in Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California (285 W. Huntington, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States). A horse gallops as it enters the racetrack. A portly man, wearing glasses, reads a newspaper. The starting gate opens. The horses leave the barrier stalls after the race started. Horses race around the racetrack. Men in coats and fedora hats watch the race with binoculars. View of horses racing in track. Audience watch the horse race. "Dear Diary," "Morning Breeze" and "Hasten Henry" finish one two and three for the California Breeders' Stakes 6th race at Santa Anita park, Arcadia.

Date: 1938, December 31
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079047
Destruction in coastal northeast USA from the 1944 "Great Atlantic Hurricane" (First example of a named hurricane in the US)

Views of The Great Atlantic Hurricane lashing at northeast United States areas (after having already hit the North Carolina Outer Banks), and views of the aftermath and early cleanup following the storm. Regions shown include Atlantic City, Long Island (where it came ashore as a category 3 hurricane on September 15, 1944), New York City suburbs, and parts of New England. High surf flooding boardwalks and coastal cities. Trees bent over and snapped in high winds. People walking with difficulty in the high winds. Streets of towns submerged in water. Coastal docks destroyed and large boats scattered high onto shore areas. Trees, poles, and wires downed over roads and homes. Entire homes moved off of their foundations and placed down the street. The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" was the first example of a named hurricane by the Miami Hurricane Warning Office, which later became the National Hurricane Center. The name was meant to reflect the hurricane's size and intensity.

Date: 1944, September 15
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034857