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700 World War II Canadian Veterans take over 535 rooms of Hotel Vancouver due to housing shortage after the end of WW2

Opening Slate “Houseless vets take over hotel”. View of Hotel Vancouver (The Pacific Centre and TD Tower Vancouver stands on the site today. 700 and 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) after the end of World War II. Banner says “ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU! Come and Get Them”. A Canadian serviceman, sitting in the information desk, points to his right to a veteran. Men and women line up to register. A white sign says “Please! Register Here”. A Canadian veteran speaks to a woman holding a baby. Canadian veterans lining up. Canadian veteran speaks to a hotel personnel behind the front desk. Veterans, neatly dressed in coats and neckties, pose together. Veterans and their wives have breakfast together. A veteran and his wife read a “Month” magazine together as they sit in a mattress on the floor. Veteran reads a book and smiles as he lies on his side in bed.

Location: Vancouver Canada
Date: 1946, January 5
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078994
Society figures welcomed by Boy Scouts and crowd in London, United Kingdom during World War 1

British women, wearing thick coats and elaborate headdresses, are being welcomed by a gentleman and two rows of Boy Scouts as they exit a car during World War I. Streetcar behind is labeled "Aldgate Ilford " They enter an unidentified building with a large sign outside advertising "Scouts" Also on on the building is a poster advertising an April, 1917 meeting with "Nourishing Food" and "Come Early" with the partial title "The Lycell ". Two boys in the crowd drink porridge from pitcher and bowl.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1917
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078998
Scenes of women in various roles and fashion during the late sixties

A stylist grooms a woman, wearing fashionable go-go boots and polka-dotted micro mini dress. An British women's rights and feminist organization, marching on the street holding signs and placards with messages like “Equal Pay NOW!” and “Free Contraception” during the first women's liberation march. The crowned Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles. Women wrestlers. A female wrestler throws her opponent, a black woman, on the wrestling ring floor. A mass wedding inside a stadium in Japan. Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles with Miss World 1966 runner-up contestants (Miss Brazil- Marlucci Rocha, Miss Greece- Efi Fontini Plumbi, Miss Yugoslavia- Nikica Marinovic, Miss Italy-Gigliola Carbonara). Two policewomen, patrolling the street together, salute at the camera. Opening sequence of “Echo Newsreel” featuring a scene of various topics, such as the Big Ben Tower.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1969
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079020
Devastation in Budapest and widespread sympathy in Hungary and Europe for freedom fighters during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956

Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest. Two men running away from the crossfire in Városliget (Budapest City Park in Hungarian). Soldier climbs down from tank in park. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Abandoned Soviet tanks in Andrassy Avenue. Budapest City Park in flames. Tanks roll in Budapest, with many cheering Hungarians standing on top of tanks. A Roman Catholic priest, wearing black robes and biretta, blesses and offers prayer to victims of battle. Woman, wearing a headscarf, cries. The kneeling crowd stand up and clap for the freedom fighters. View of the Soviet War Memorial at the Tiergarten in the British sector of West Berlin. West Germans demonstrating behind the Brandenburg Gate ( Brandenburger Tor ) Demonstration in West Berlin. Demonstrators holding flags and a sign saying “Ungarns freiheit ist ermordet worden. Was wird aus unseren Freiheit?“ (“Hungary’s freedom has been murdered. What will become of our freedom?” in German). West Berlin police walk past demonstrators. West Berlin police fire water cannon and retaliate at demonstrators. French demonstrators in Paris walk in a somber funeral procession for the Victims of the Hungarian Revolution. French demonstrators rallying against oppressors of Hungary as menace to the liberty of France. Rioting French students vandalize and put to flames the Parti Communisie France (French Communist Party headquarters in Paris. French students run out of the burning French Communist Party headquarters. Firefighters spray at the building to contain the fire. The remnants of the French Communist Party headquarters after the flames were put out. Hungarian rebels in Budapest. Hungarian Communist books and leaflets, such as Szabad Nep and Lenin) being burned. Communist flags being burned.

Location: Budapest Hungary
Date: 1956, October 26
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079030
American voters from various backgrounds cast their votes during WWII

A secretary, Helen Shaw, registers before polling officials during the 1944 elections. A man and a woman sign a logbook before voting. Hollywood actor, Lewis Stone, searches for his name and signs a logbook before voting. A matron signs a logbook. A farmer, wearing a fedora, filling out a ballot. Hollywood actress signs a logbook before voting. Americans of different occupations line up to sign a logbook before voting. An elderly shipyard worker fills out his ballot. During World War II, British-American stand-up comedian and USO Entertainer, Bob Hope, searches for his name on the voters’ index and goes inside the polling station. Man closes curtains to vote. View of man’s feet while voting. View of woman’s feet slightly crossed. View of voters’ feet behind the curtains. Man casts his vote in metal containers inside polling station. Ballot inserted in glass ballot box. Man enters polling booth. Election volunteer tally using a machine. A woman casts her vote in Precinct 7-A. Newspaper says “Millions at polls First Texas, North Carolina Reports”. Shipyard workers on top deck of ship end a day’s work to head to the polling stations to vote, walking through ship structure on their way out.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079034
Engineers and scientists in Station 2- Bermuda of the Mercury-Atlas 6 Network anticipate launch of “Friendship 7” in Cape Canaveral, Florida

View of Bermuda coast at sunrise, location of Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A scientist checks telemetry data coming from a teleprinter. View of stamping of document using automatic stamper, the scientist hands the printed data to a woman assistant. The woman assistant hands the document over to the tracking and telemetry control. Telemetry communicators speaks through microphone in headphones. Telemetry scientists and engineers work on computers in Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. Telemetry scientist, wearing headphones, jots down notes. Telemetry engineer, wearing headphones with a built-in microphone, speaks, saying, “Displays and recorders have been calibrated.” The telemetry communicator inside the control acknowledges with a “Roger, thank you; flight, this is MNO” A telemetry communicator with a British accent radios his colleague.

Location: Bermuda
Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079052
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