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Dignitaries greet and receive the British Queen Mother, arriving at Versailles, during her visit to Paris.

Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) visits Versailles in France. Her Rolls Royce Phantom car pulls up to the entrance of the Versailles palace. A man opens her car doors and moves aside. A uniformed officer holds the door and salutes, as the Queen Mother steps from the car and is greeted by a bearded gentleman in a turban, and French diplomats. She greets people in the receiving line and then enters the palace. Many press reporters and photographers follow. Later, the Queen Mother arrives by car, again, this time, dressed for dinner, wearing a triple pearl necklace. She is greeted cordially and escorted by a diplomat. Exterior views of Versailles, including the equestrian statue of Louis XIV.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1956, March
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055994
American sand British Planes carry supplies to blockaded Berlin

America and Britain conduct Berlin Airlift operations, flying supplies to blockaded East Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade. Blockade lifted. Refugees flee East Germany and move to West Germany.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058356
General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces Joint British-American film, "The True Glory"; scenes of German forces massed for war

A film titled 'The True Glory' based on Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces the film and speaks about Nazi defeat on Western Front in World War II. Animated map shows Germany and surroundings darkened on a world map. Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler giving an impassioned and animated speech. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels stands with other German officials. German troops parade. Massive columns of German soldiers marching in formation. German men beat drums. Barrel of a naval-type heavy gun firing. Huge explosion on the ground. Views of the German Atlantic Wall defenses including large fortifications and bunkers. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of the German High Command, inspecting the massive gun emplacements and coastal bunkers.

Location: Europe
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060090
Baseball game being played by British teams in the UK during World War II.

Scoreboard reads ‘Next Saturday - USA Bears Vs Brad Bros’. The opposing teams run side by side toward home plate to start the game. One team's bench with players, and bat boys (some barefoot) seated in front of a picket fence, with spectators on benches and a club house behind them. View of game action from spectators perspective, behind home plate. Batters hitting and driving in a run. A lone American soldier watching in midst of the spectators. Players coming off the field to their bench at end of an inning. Spectators in stand watching the game. Items left after the game include several English shilling coins. A man's hand reaches down and picks up two shillings.

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060410
British Royal Navy Phoenix unit being towed by tugboat across English Channel prior to D-Day invasion in World War II.

Towing of Phoenix units across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Tugboat pulls away from Phoenix unit (Mulberry Harbor). Tow line pays out from stern of tug. Phoenix units in the background. Crew of tugboat secures line. Phoenix unit being towed by tugboat.

Location: English Channel
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060442
British and American soldiers taken prisoners by German forces in the Netherlands during World War II.

Allied soldiers taken prisoners in the Netherlands during World War II. Camera pans across German soldiers moving single-file along a stretch of woods. Destroyed allied equipment and supplies in a glade. German soldiers rummage through abandoned things and pick up a tin of cigarettes, which they share. They smile as they smoke them. German infantry with small arms and panzerfaust anti-tank weapons make their way along a tree line. German bicycle troops moving along a divided highway. German infantry rushing toward a group of houses, and engaging Allied troops in suburban area firefights. Lots of gunfire and smoke. Allied soldiers being taken prisoner. A paratrooper's chute on the roof of a dwelling. Allied prisoners of war being escorted and held under guard, in a ditch next to a rail line. Parachutes that got entangled along the rail line. Many scenes of Allied prisoners being marched under guard.

Location: Netherlands
Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675061174
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