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Modernization of Japan in 20th Century leading to World War 2

Opening scene shows cartoon depiction of a samurai and a Meiji-era soldier. A cartoon depicts the Bakufu opening Japan to the Western world. A Japanese communications worker is seen climbing a pole to install communications lines. A steam locomotive moves along railroad tracks being installed in the country. Glimpse of European style Japanese calendar (October 1856) being adopted. A Japanese photographer using flash powder and hooded camera. Men walking on a sidewalk in European style fashions. Cartoon showing Japanese inviting outsiders to help them build up their military power. View of three Japanese officials posing for camera. View of a British sailing vessel displaying the British Red Navy Ensign. Japanese troops on maneuvers with realistic smoke and battlefield conditions, supervised by French military advisors. Reenactment of French fighting Prussians in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. Impressed by the German victory, the Japanese solicited German advisors for their army. View of German troops goosestepping and then of Japanese troops also goosestepping. National Diet building in Chiyoda City (1-7-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). View of Japanese legislators and then of the entire legislature (Diet) in session. Views of Japanese military leaders, including General Hideki Tojo, who also served as Prime Minister of Japan. Views of several such military leaders in uniform, exiting automobiles. Japanese soldiers marching through Torii gates.

Location: Japan
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040804
Britain ships military tanks to the Soviet Union during World War II

British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.

Location: North Sea
Date: 1942
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040848
Newsreel 'Britain mourns, Soccer champs die in plane disaster'

British European Airways flight 609 airplane crash near Munich kills champions of Manchester United Soccer team. Wrecked aircraft of the Munich Air Disaster is seen off the runway at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. Men standing near the wrecked plane. View of a news stand in England, United Kingdom, where British people are buying newspapers with news of the aircraft crash. Photograph of the players of the football team. Twisted wreckage of the plane seen covered in snow. A nearby home partially wrecked in he crash. Two officials walking around the crash site.

Location: Munich Germany
Date: 1958, February
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040875
A view of thick fog in the UK from pollution, and also heavy rains, ice, and weather forecasting efforts.

A British police officer (or "Bobby") directs traffic through thick fog pollution (sometimes called "London fog" or "Pea soup fog") in England, caused by burning of soft coal. Next seen shows a British man trying to walk against a heavy wind on an icy sidewalk with difficulty. Rain and ice are shown streaming off a roof top, and a man in a raincoat runs for cover on the streets of Britain. View of exterior of an Air Ministry building, and then of technicans inside using modern computers and tape reading devices to monitor and forecast weather for Britain. A man unloads a reel of data tape from a machine and loads it into a tape reader. View of hands on switch board of early computer device. Automated printer prints reports. Weather forecasters sit at a table together viewing weather pattern maps and hand drawing other weather maps. Seen returns to outdoors during a storm. View of a woman dropping some items that slide away from her on an icy sidewalk. She slips and slides on the ice behind them. Two other women are showing trying to walk on the ice. One woman falls down on the ice and high winds blow the other woman forward as she runs across the ice and then falls.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040896
German fighter and bomber aircraft engaged in various missions during World War II.

A sign in German alluding to Greater Germany. ME-109 fighter aircraft takes off from dirt field. Junkers JU-88 bombers in formation. German pilots at controls of JU-88. British Spitfire attacks a JU-88. Gunners on bomber fire at Spitfire. German ME-109 arrives and engages British Spitfire in dogfight. The Spitfire is hit and descends, smoking, then crashes flat and burns. JU-88s continue and drop bombs. Dorner Do 17 bombers are also seen dropping bombs. Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in flight. Views from pilot's cockpit. Formation of Ju-87s. View from cockpit of Ju 87 during dive bombing run against ground target. Smoke seen due to bomb explosion. Formation of Ju-87s with pilots in cockpits. View from cockpit as Ju-87 makes dive bomb attack against allied ship engaged in evasive maneuvers, with bombs falling near it.

Location: Europe
Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041022
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hickam and Wheeler Air Force bases in Hawaii

Mix of actual footage and period dramatized scenes. Japanese fleet at sea on its way to attack Pearl Harbor in World War 2. Japanese fleet commander aboard carrier ship asks all personnel to face Tokyo and worship. Pilots take off. Pilots seen in cockpit. Japanese bomber planes in flight. (Dramatized) bombing on Pearl Harbor battleships and fuel storage tanks. Hickam and Wheeler Air Force fields are hit. Interior views of cockpit of Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft spot the British ship Prince of Wales and Repulse on their way to Singapore. A Japanese flier radios sinking of the British ship Prince of Wales. (World War II period).

Location: Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA
Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 10 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675041051
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