100th anniversary celebration of the first cargo of the British tea in London, England. Cargo unloaded at St Katharine Docks. Cargo being packed on backs of elephants for a parade to the auction rooms at Mincing Lane. People and elephants in a parade.
A documentary film on poverty stricken Indian people entertaining themselves in India. A goat balances on a stand. Two British children watch monkeys perform. The master plays a drum. Master makes monkeys perform. People watch the animals perform. Goat walks around the master. A monkey sitting on the goat. The master makes the goat to balance on a pot.
Officials assembling to honor fallen Polish Resistance heroes. A speaker stand displaying the Polish Military Eagle Insignia is set up in a square in Warsaw. Demolished and damaged buildings are seen in the background. Cars arrive carrying officials. Polish military and police stand along the square and many people are assembled behind them holding flags of all sorts. Closeup of well-dressed civilian officials presenting an official Government citation for Kyzyzem Grunwaldu (the cross of Grunwald). A Polish general stands with officers of Allied forces, including British and French, and a Polish civilian official. A group of uniformed Allied military men and women standing in front of war-torn ruins. Polish troops parade followed by Polish girls and boys carrying a large banner. View of numerous crosses marking graves of fallen in the ruins. Camera pans over scene of desolation and destruction. Wreaths placed at a memorial site among the ruins. Crude lettering in concrete wall reads something about being part of the wall where Resistance Fighters were killed. Details and date are obscured. Multiple scenes of bombed out and destroyed buildings. A man walking away through rubble.
Visitors strolling at the Hagenbeck zoo (Tierpark Hagenbeck) in Stellingen, near Hamburg, Germany. A herd of ponies coming out of a large zoo building, into an open yard. Ostriches mixing in a yard with zebras. Young people enjoying the antics of brown bears and zebras. A man and woman smiling as they watch the animals. A male lion, in his pen, walks toward the camera, as does a rhinoceros (missing a horn) in his pen. A father holds his young daughter up so she can see better. A number of mountain goats are climbing down rocks in their enclosure. A British soldier is amongst the visitors watching the animals. View from behind spectators watching elepants in their large outdoor area. Closeup of elephant's eye. Two elephants in harnesses are seen at work, lifting large iron radiators from rubble at the side of a road in town. They place the radiators on a flat bed trailer. Next, they tow a large steel framework from the rubble. A large group of spectators watches these goings on, and some feed one of the elephants, putting a piece of fruit in its trunk. The keeper directs the elephants to other heavy objects in the rubble, which they pick up and carry with their trunks, placing them on the flat bed trailer. With crowds still watching, the zoo keeper leads leads the elephants as they pull the loaded trailer along the street, while pedestrians watch. (World War II period).
Opening slate reads: "First Utility of airplanes was in National Defense." A huge formation of large military bi-planes is seen in formation. The Next slate reads: "In the Navy." Curtiss 28 TS-1 airplanes lined up for takeoff on the deck of the U.S Navy's first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley (CV-1). The first in line takes off. The others wait their turns, with engines running. View from aircraft above, of the Langley cruising with aircraft parked on her deck. Slate refers to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Closeup of Charles Lindbergh wearing a flying suit with helmet and goggles. Slate refers to Commercial flying advances. View of passengers boarding a British Inperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Argosy airplane.
Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
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