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King George V and other officials review boys in formation of young boy cadets at a British academy. in England

King George V and other officials review uniformed boy cadets in formation at Academy in England. King talks to the smallest boy and comes away smiling. .

Date: 1916
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040050
Queen Mary reviews units of the British Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War I

Queen Mary, of Great Britain, reviews elements of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), including motorized ambulance unit. All WAAC members in uniform, in formation. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040051
State funeral procession for British Nurse Edith Cavell.

Following a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, coffin bearing Nurse Edith Cavell's body is carried out and put on gun carriage. Mourners attend the funeral. Mourners, sailors with wreaths, nurses and other services in procession with horse-drawn carriage move on road. Soldiers lift the coffin. Coffin transferred at a ship for its transport to Norfolk for burial at Norwich Cathedral. (This state funeral followed disinterment of Cavell's body in Belgium, after her execution on October 12, 1915).

Date: 1919, May 19
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040081
Young men and women parade in streets of Tehran, Iran, protesting British rights to Iranian oil reserves.

Young men and women parade in a street with placards and banners in support of Mossadeq (Mosaddegh) and nationalization. Military passes in trucks. Policemen line up outside palace. Young man arrested. Stones on the road after demonstrations

Date: 1951
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040186
British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of Royal Air Force No. 41 Squadron at RAF Station Hornchurch in World War II

A Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 of No 41 Squadron RAF (Squadron code: "EB" on its fuselage) is readied for take-off by a ground crew at RAF Hornchurch, during World War 2. A Squadron Spitfire fighter aircraft lands. Spitfire planes in flight as seen from the tail of a slower flying camera plane (bomber). The Spitfirers buzz it from the rear in mock attack passes. Various views of the fighters maneuvering about behind the camera plane. As film ends, the Spirtfires begin to join up into formations

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041013
British Royal Air Force fighter pilots write their combat reports during the Battle of Britain in World War II

Film opens showing several Royal Air Force fighter pilots writing combat reports, as they sit in a Squadron operations room, during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. Closeup of one report, shows it is on a prepared Combat Report form. On the one shown, the pilot describes an engagement with German Dornier bombers on a blitz run on September 20th over Dover, at 12 thousand feet. The pilot notes the number of attacks and their intervals, at the bottom of the form. Scene shifts to closeups of other pilots completing their reports. (These pilots are probably with RAF 222 Squadron, flying Supermarine Spitfire airplanes out of RAF Station Hornchurch, in Essex, England.)

Date: 1940, September 20
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041017