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America wins the Davis Cup international tennis team competition against Australia in Brisbane.

Davis Cup international tennis team competition between Australia and America in Brisbane, Australia. Spectators in the stands. American players include Ham Richardson and Alex Olmedo. The crowd cheers while watching the game. Olmedo is playing men's singles against Australian Ashley Cooper. America wins the competition. An official presents bouquets to the players.

Date: 1959, January 5
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047732
Rodeo contest in Brisbane, Australia with Australian and American competitors

A rodeo in Brisbane, Australia. Native indigenous Australians carrying spears do a dance demonstration. Spectators sit and watch the Rodeo event between the diggers and the Yanks (Australians versus Americans military personnel in Australia during World War 2). A rider climbs a horse. The horse bucks the man onto the ground. The spectators cheer while watching the rodeo featuring numerous riders on bulls and horses. A woman competes also. The Australians win the rodeo contest.

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067069
Visit of Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky in Brisbane, and Prime Minister Holt hosts a boat trip in Sydney, Australia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of Vietnam visits Australia during the Vietnam War. Brisbane: Demonstration against visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister. People shout with placards in hand. Police restrain crowd and escort Prime Ministre Ky. Placard reads 'Go home murderer and take Holt with you' and 'Stop Ky'. Nguyen Cao Ky and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt pose in Sydney, Australia. Sydney: Boat in sea. Prime Minister Holt waves. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky and his wife wave from a ship.

Date: 1967
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026423
The United States mobilizes and joins Allies in World War II. A montage of numerous World War 2 period images.

Film opens with views of goosestepping German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers during parade reviews in their respective countries. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse. American battleships burning in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decorating a soldier in Manila, Philippines. Air raid sirens sounding in Manila and residents hurrying to take cover. Heavy black smoke rising from a bombed site and emergency vehicles responding and rushing to several bombed and burning locations. A burning rickshaw amidst other bombing rubble and bodies of victims. U.S. Army General MacArthur greeted by Australian officials at his headquarters in Brisbane, Australia. Sign reads: Headquarters UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES in Australia. American flag flying on tall flagpole. View from ship underway in supply convoy. A battleship seen on horizon and a destroyer passing the camera ship. U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the "Lend Lease Act" of 1941. A U.S. industrial plant with four tall stacks emitting smoke. A steam locomotive belching steam. A locomotive pulling an open car and some tank cars. New 1941 Plymouth automobiles coming off a production line. A new M3 Medium Tank in a U.S. factory. View of Liberty Ships, including the "Zebulon Pike" and the "Henry Knox" under construction at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Terminal Island, California. U.S. Navy Destroyers constructed at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. One is being launched, next to DD-446 (the USS Radford). A formation of U.S. Navy aircraft including Curtiss SBC Helldiver scout bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. A tight formation of U.S. Army Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bombers in flight. A formation of U.S. Army Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft in flight. Closeup of a U.S. Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. Several huge gun barrels for guns under construction at a U.S. war plant. Large artillery shells lined up in a manufacturing plant. U.S. Army M3 Medium tanks under construction at a factory. Steam and smoke rising from a U.S. industrial plant. Aerial view of open pit iron mine. Sparks shooting up inside a steel plant. A virtual "forest" of oil derricks in the Western U.S. Coal being transported by railway. View from stern of a warship in a convoy. An Atlanta-class light cruiser leading three destroyers at sea. Transport ships in convoys to places like Australia, Britain, and the Middle East. Troops on a pier near a large transport ship. A stack of wartime supplies on a pier next to a ship destined for Russia. Glimpse of wake from a U.S. warship having triple guns astern. Silhouette of a U.S. Navy Enterprise-class Aircraft carrier, with an aircraft taking off from her deck. The aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. U.S. Army soldiers marching on parade, followed by numerous jeeps with machine guns mounted in their rears. Young men being drafted into the U.S. military. A draft lottery being conducted. New recruits doing calisthenics. Trucks pulling artillery pieces. B-18 Bolo bombers flying over U.S. tanks. Closeup of M3 tank. Cavalry fording a stream. Soldiers on motorcycles. Troops crossing a pontoon bridge. A loaded troop ship. A troop transport at Newfoundland. Sentry in Trinidad. Troops encamped in Bermuda.Troopship docked in Greenland. Troops disembarking in Iceland. Formations of Curtis P-36 Hawk aircraft. Douglas DC-2 aircraft factory. P-36s with engines running. M3 tank suspended on factory crane. Officials of Pan American nations siding with Allies. Allied troops including Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Greek, Czech, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian. British warships. British Hawker Tempest aircraft. British commandos. Russian troops on parade. Chinese troops on the Great Wall of China.

Date: 1942
Duration: 6 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046085
General MacArthur takes off from Brisbane, Australia for Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War II.

Allied Supreme Commander for South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur en route to Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War 2. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Rear Admiral Van Hook at Archerfield in Brisbane, Australia. They await the arrival of General MacArthur. A car arrives at the airfield and General MacArthur gets out of the car. The General being greeted by the Admirals. General MacArthur and the Admirals aboard MacArthur's personal B-17 Flying Fortress "Bataan" as they confer. Three officers aboard USS Phoenix underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of Allied ship underway in far background with a sailor at a blinker in the foreground.

Date: 1944, February 27
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059383
The Repair Squadron of the 81st Air Depot group in Brisbane, Australia assembles a CG-4A glider.

United States CG-4A, a cargo military glider being assembled by repair squadron of 81st Air Depot group in Brisbane, Australia. Men assemble CG-4A glider. Old type tie rods are being removed. Clevis pin from old type tie rods is being removed. Comparison of new tie rod clevis pins with old ones.

Date: 1943, August 28
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038130
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