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Dignitaries visit a British aircraft shadow factory in Britain.

Royal Air force aircraft shadow factory at work during World War 2. A dignitary gets off a plane. He along with other important persons inspects finished Royal Air Force aircraft lined up. Dignitaries visit the aircraft factory. They get some information about the manufacturing process as they speak to the workers. Men work at machines in the factory. A fighter aircraft pulled out of a hangar. Dignitaries watch the aircraft in flight.

Date: 1940
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049629
British citizens clear debris after a German air raid in England during blitzkrieg of World War II.

Aftermath of German blitzkrieg (blitz) bombings in England (likely London) during World War II. Men clear debris. Debris piled up on a street. A woman holds a baby wrapped in a blanket. A poster on the wall in the background reads, "In an air raid: Always keep your gas mask with you." Two young girls sweep the street to clear the rubble. The two children smile.

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049638
King George V visits the British hospital ship HMHS Plassy during World War I

King George V of Great Britain visits the Royal Navy's Hospital ship, HMHS Plassy, at Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, on June 23, 1917, during World War 1. The original Lascar (Asian) crew of the P&O (Peninsular and Oriental) ship , is seen lined up, in whites, on the deck of the Hospital ship, as King George walks past them, slowly ,accompanied by captain, Edward de Walrond Wells Bruce, and officers of the ship's company. On another deck, the King and his party stop to greet the uniformed medical staff, including nurses. An aide introduces each medical staff person by name, and the King shakes hands with each and converses briefly with some. The King visits wounded in the ship's medical ward. He converses with one patient, before proceeding to visit others.

Date: 1917, June 23
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049922
A man addresses a large gathering of demonstrators in Iran during Oil dispute with British

A mass gathering in Iran during time of nationalization of oil industry in Iran. A large crowd gathered in front of a building. People on the roof of the building. A man addresses the gathering. People applaud. The flag of Iran flutters in breeze.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050595
Scenes of British Borneo under Japanese occupation during World War II

Opening scene shows map of Borneo, with several locations marked. A group of Japanese soldiers stands on a boat moving away from a wharf, during World War 2. Across from them a group of others, dressed in white shorts, shirts, and white hats, along with several Japanese soldiers, stand on the wharf. They wave farewell to the Japanese soldiers, some by saluting, others by raising and tipping their hats. The next scenes are taken from the moving boat and show a river and surrounding forests. View into the boat, where soldiers are seated. Very long canoes carrying many local persons wearing large conical straw hats pass nearby at high speed. A canoe, with roofed structures, navigates past a rock jetty in fast moving river waters. Japanese soldiers in pith helmets disembark from docked canoes and make their way uphill toward a camp. Sign identifying the camp. View from above, of barracks buildings at the camp. Camera pans across a wide region of landscape. Natives standing on platform, built around a huge tree, are chopping the tree down, under supervision of Japanese soldiers nearby. Closeup of the men chopping the tree. Views of the tree falling. Local farmers working in an irrigated rice paddy. Camera pans across a number of paddies. Buildings near the rice paddies.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675050778
British and Shanghai Municipal police marshal forces to maintain order during unrest in Shanghai

Crowd mills around outside Shanghai North Railway Station. Chinese officials talk among themselves. Barbed wire barricades on street. Truck parked along road. Chinese officials around barricades. Indian troops lined up on road. Hand rickshaw passes. Sign on iron fence reads 'Boundary Road'. Children and people lined up. Chinese troops march on road.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052435