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Toscanini and various other Italian scholars in the U.S. work to uphold democracy and reject fascism during World War 2.

Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is seen in a room of his house, Wave Hill, in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Toscanini is handed a record by teenage boy (possibly his grandson) and Toscanini plays the record on a console phonograph player. He walks up and down in the room as he listens to the music. Narrator discusses Toscanini's rejection of fascism. and then names various other Italians living in the U.S. who similarly reject fascism: Next shot shows Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini delivering a lecture to a class at Harvard University. Italian writer Giuseppe Antonio Borgese leads a small workshop class at the University of Chicago. Italian American press publishers of newspaper Il Nuovo Mondo (Giuseppe Lupus, Aurelio Natoli, and Carlo Emanuele Prato) are seen gathered at a desk in New York City. An Italian editor, Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi, works at a newspaper establishment. An Italian priest and patriot, Don Luigi Sturzo, reads a book. Another close-up view of Arturo Toscanini.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078155
Frank Sinatra performs before WAVES in New York City.

Frank Sinatra performs at the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. He sings 'The Song is You'. Women military WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the hall. A conductor conducts the Station Military and Dance Band. Sailors play various instruments like the double bass, trumpets, and clarinets. (No audio).

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031231
Contestants of Miss America beauty contest wave at people and walk on a ramp in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Miss America beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants of Miss America on floats as they pass along the streets of Atlantic City. The contestants wave at people. Veterans in wheelchairs watch the parade. The contestants standing and posing. They walk on a ramp. The winner of the 1945 Miss America pageant, Bess Myerson, wears the crown and cape. Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, comes from the Bronx, New York. Bess Myerson smiling.

Date: 1946
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072228
A review of U.S. efforts, Post World War II, to place atomic weapons under international control.

Film opens showing logo of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Glimpse of several U.S. warships, ostensibly disarmed after World War II, berthed together. View on deck of one, from under triple guns. Aircraft being destroyed in explosions after the war. A troop transport ship returning American servicemen back home at the end of World War 2. Views of the deck jammed with servicemen waving to loved ones who are waving back to them from a dock. Bernard Baruch giving a speech at the first session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, at Hunter College, New York In presenting a proposal for International control over the spread and development of nuclear weapons and technology, He begins: "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead." (The proposal was rejected by the Soviet Union.) View of the United Nations building in Manhattan, New York City. Delegates at a UN session in the building. Boys and girls in a typical U.S. school class room. Younger children being weighed and measured in school. The teacher smiling and watching as happy children leave the school building at the end of school day. Another view, from across the East River, of the UN building in New York, with other Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings behind it on a sunny day. Flags of the United Nations on display outside the UN building. Views of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Lyndon Johnson addressing a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963. Behind him are seated President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Carl Hayden, and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John William McCormack. A submarine traveling on the surface of the water. An American B-52 Strategic bomber in flight. An American Atlas ICBM descending into a launch silo slowly. View of the missile as it goes down into silo and as silo cover slowly moves into place to cover nuclear missile. A sunset view over ocean water.

Date: 1963
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034071
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II

On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072899
Participants of a beauty contest walk on ramp and Jacquelyn Mayer receives title of 'Miss America -1963' in Atlantic City.

1963 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Participants of the 'Miss America -1963' beauty contest pose and walk on the ramp. An audience watch the beauty contest. A panel of judges give remarks. Miss Ohio Lass, Jacquelyn Mayer receives the title of 'Miss America -1963'. Jacquelyn Mayer is crowned. Photographers take photos. On the next day, Jacquelyn Mayer smiles and waves.

Date: 1962, September 10
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071408