Brief scene from a prison camp in World War I, with German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers under guard by Scottish and other British troops. Scene changes to American and British soldiers examining a wrecked German biplane in a field. Many soldiers gather around the plane. A Scottish Highlander soldier wearing a kilt examines the cockpit. A British soldier cuts away the German cross symbol from the left wing of the airplane as British and United States soldiers watch.
March 1921 occupation of the Ruhr (Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort), with Allies occupying industrial areas to enforce German reparations payments after World War 1. A British soldier with a rifle polices a perimeter as local citizens watch in Germany. A wagon train of horse-drawn wagons, manned by soldiers from France or Belgium, moves along cobblestone street by a lake and assembles in a town square. A crowd of spectators is lined up at the edge of the square. British officers maneuver a British Mark IV tank into the square where French and British officers confer. Many children are seen watching at edge of the town square. An officer moves some of them back from the camera, as he walks by.
British women preparing for air raid blitz during World War 2 Battle of Britain. Blacking out windows. Woman putting on a gas mask. Man stacking sand bags. Air raid shelter being constructed near bank of a river. Radio receiving station. A man communicates through the radio station. Scnes of communication lines and transmission lines warning of incoming attack. German bomber aircraft in flight. Many views of aerial towers with speakers broadcasting warning sirens. British police in motorcycles and in cars driving with loud sirens blaring to warn population of air raid. British civilians going down the entrance of underground air raid shelters. British defenses ready anti-aircraft artillery batteries.
German air defense forces scramble to intercept British aircraft during World War II. German anti aircraft gunners are alerted and run to man their battery of 8.8cm FLAK 36 guns. Fw-190A-3 fighters take off to engage British aircraft. Glimpse of German pilot in his cockpit. An Me-410 heavy fighter, with cross on its fuselage, seen ahead through his cockpit window. Aerial view of aircraft maneuvering in dogfights at high altitude, generating condensation trails. Another glimpse of a German pilot in his cockpit. Aircraft falling in pieces. An aircraft falls trailing smoke. German gun crew cheering. More fighter aircraft leaving contrails. German gun crew watching the skies. A German Me-109 in flight. Partial view through German aircraft cockpit window of another aircraft in flight, ahead. Scene shifts to flaming wreckage of a British warplane on the ground. A German officer speaking to a British RAF pilot, near the wreckage. He gives the pilot a document. German soldiers surround a parachute billowing on the ground. Scene shifts back to the RAF pilot looking through the aircraft wreckage. He wears sun glasses and a bandage can be seen on his left eye. An armed German soldier guard now stands with him.
British Open Golf Tournament in St. Andrews, Scotland. Kel Nagle, Arnold Palmer, and Roberto De Vicenzo battle it out to win the British Open Golf Tournament. Torrential rains disrupt play for a while. Kel Nagle goes on to win the title after defeating Palmer and De Vicenzo. (This was the 100th Anniversary of the first British Open, but it was the 89th British Open contest. The gaps were due to suspensions during World Wars 1 and 2.)
British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.
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