A group of people celebrates during a carnival in Brazil. People wearing costumes dance in a large ballroom. A band is playing. A woman in a costume stands on a platform. Band members wearing festive hats.
A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's journey to Antarctica during the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, in their ship, The Quest. A view of St. Paul's Rocks off the coast of Brazil. Booby birds seated on St. Paul's Rocks. The birds take off.
Fishermen collect Nazi rubber from sea in Fortaleza, Brazil. The native fishermen on boats. They collect German rubber bales of Nazi blockade runners sunk at sea during World War II. The fishermen load the rubber sacks in a vehicle. The rubber sacks are then rolled inside a building
Thomas Edison with his original tin foil phonograph (recording and playing device), that was produced in December 1877. Edison stands near a NBC microphone and shows operation of his tinfoil phonograph, also referred to in press of the late 1800s as a Talking Machine. This footage was shot on the occasion of a recognition ceremony for Edison on October 20, 1928, where he was also presented the Congressional Gold Medal by President Calvin Coolidge. This original tinfoil phonograph had been given by Edison in 1880 to a representative of the English Patent Office who visited the Menlo Park lab. The machine had been exhibited in England. It was repatriated for this 1928 event by the South Kensington Museum in London. British diplomat Ronald Ian Campbell, partially visible on the left in this footage, presented the phonograph back to Edison. Today it is on display at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey.
Kittens at a zoo in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Two kittens of a leopard family play in a cage in the zoo. Kittens with their mother in the cage. The father leopard looks on after the parents were separated.
Committee for Hemisphere Defense holds a meeting for Economic Solidarity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Members seated at the Conference table. Documents in front of the delegates. Delegate from Chile serves as President of the Committee. A speaker speaks during the meeting. Newspaper men gathered at the end of the room. They note down the speech. Cameramen take pictures. Sumner Welles and Ruiz Guinazu seated in the table.