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Battle of Stalingrad during Christmas and New Year, 1942, and continuing until February 2, 1943

The final struggle for Stalingrad during World War Two. Christmastime, 1942 in Moscow. Russian civilians obtaining fir trees for Christmas celebrations. A large beautifully decorated Christmas tree set up in the Hall of Pillars, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Men and women couples dancing in the hall to music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Smiling Russian children at play indoors, on slides, on a carousel ride, and playing hand games with one another. New Year's eve is different. World War 2 Soviet war production workers in a munitions factory greet each other but continue working without stopping. On the Stalingrad front lines, the Soviet Army marks the New Year, 1943, by launching artillery barrages, through the night and continuing unabated well into the next day. Russian Sukhoi Su-2 light bombers drop incendiaries on German positions. Brief partial glimpse of a Russian Sherman tank. Soviet Army soldiers using flame throwers. Soviet troops moving across ice and snow on armed Aerosan ice gliders. Batteries of Soviet Katusha rockets fire barrages. Soviet infantry and tanks advance across vast barren snow-covered terrain. Animated map depicts Nazi German military forces being pounded on several fronts. A solitary horse standing in midst of Stalingrad destruction and ruins. Scene from February 2, 1943 as Soviet soldiers, symbolically, fire the last shot in the Battle of Stalingrad. A smiling Soviet soldier then places a cover over the muzzle of the field artillery piece. Scenes of the battle's aftermath. Russian officers hug one another. The Soviet Union flag is hung from a city building. Numerous German soldiers surrender under a white flag of truce. Many surrendering German Generals are seen.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041529
View of the city of Oakland and its African American citizens.

View of San Francisco skyline as seen from across bay in the City of Oakland, California. Buses and heavy vehicle traffic on the streets of Oakland. Montage shows scenes in Oakland, including an orchestra band playing and various sports such as ice hockey and baseball. Narrator describes contrast of wealthy areas of city with poor areas of city. African American citizens along streets and sidewalks and near apartments and homes. Black woman walking with child. Black American children play. Black American men on streets. Still images of African American citizens in Oakland during World War II.

Date: 1974
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029946
Mack Avenue Plant Building of Ford Motor Company in Detroit Michigan.

Exterior view of Ford Motor Company's Mack Avenue Plant building, with "Ford Motor Company" written over garage bay, across the front of the building. Poles at the sides and a broad roadway in front of the building. Plant operated as main assembly location for Ford vehicles from 1903-1906.

Date: 1921
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030946
Verrazzano Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York

View of cars driving West along the Belt Parkway, approaching the exit to the Verrazzano bridge, adjacent to Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City. Views of traffic on the bridge and across the Narrows to Fort Wadsworth, on the Staten Island (Borough of Richmond) side of the bridge. The only vehicles seen on the bridge are two trucks headed North toward Brooklyn on the upper deck (The lower deck has not yet been opened to traffic.) A ship is seen moving under the bridge as it enters the upper bay heading toward New York harbor. Work barges are seen near the bridge pier, as construction work is still in progress. (Note: The Verrazzano Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the United States.)

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033335
Chicago city views; representatives arrive and attend Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago.

Daytime view of Chicago landmarks, including Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago. Exterior view of Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News newspaper building. Cars, traffic, and pedestrians on sidewalks along streets of Chicago, including Michigan Avenue, with Prudential Building rising in background. Democratic National Convention of 1968: Democratic representatives from all states descend from a parked United passenger airplane at airport outside Chicago. They greet and shake hands with each other. Cars on roads approaching city of Chicago. Posters in the city welcoming the democrats including one on a highway overpass that reads, "Welcome Delegates. Democratic National convention." Another, smaller fountain in a city park of Chicago and view of buildings along street. Convention attendees inside International Amphitheater hallways, moving from room to room and registering. An African American boy wearing a hat with a "McGovern" sticker hands out stickers endorsing George McGovern. The boy shakes hands with a delegate and smiles. Delegates in conversation together. Staff assisting delegates, man typing at typewriter, monitoring television feeds. Men journalists in a room working at typewriters (has appearance of a newspaper or journalist news room also.) Several African American women typing.

Date: 1968, August
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036504
Monuments, buildings and traffic on streets in various cities of Illinois, United States

Film 'This is our Land' focuses on the state of Illinois in the United States. A bridge over a river. A view of the river through the bridge. The highway running alongside the river. A man sits on a bench under a tree overlooking beach and Lake Michigan, with downtown buildings and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. The skyscrapers of the city. Automobile and streetcar traffic on the downtown building-lined city streets of Chicago. People walk on pedestrian sidewalks. Pedestrians and automobile traffic in the capital city Springfield. The Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. A view of the Capitol dome. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. A child rubs nose of the sculpted face of Abraham Lincoln.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067573