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Men and women dance aboard United States Lines flagship S.S. Leviathan.

United States Lines flagship, the S.S. Leviathan on its way to Cherbourg and South Hampton from New York City, USA. Recreational pursuits aboard the ship. A man plays violin and people dance aboard SS. Leviathan. Couples of men and women dance on ship deck. A stylish young 1920s woman in with flapper style dances the Charleston or something similar on the ship deck, with enthusiasm.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039798
German internees being repatriated in 1919, after the end of World War I

Some 2000 Germans, interned at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, are being repatriated after the end of the war, in 1919. They arrive by train at the port in Charleston, South Carolina, where they assemble with their personal belongings. They are assisted and supervised by U.S. Army soldiers. They board the USS Martha Washington transport ship. Another large ship is seen behind her at the pier. U.S. Navy officers and sailors are seen watching as the passengers board. Among the passengers are civilians who had been detained as suspected spies. They are boarding the ship with members of their families. A small child and a babe in arms are seen as well as other children. After boarding, passengers and crew line the deck of the ship. "USS Martha Washington," is clearly displayed on her side. She is seen moving slowly away from the pier and getting underway. to Germany.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030401
USAF Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft on missions to England, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Karachi, Manila, Japan, and Australia.

View of a United States Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft in flight overhead. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a C-141 inflight. A flight engineer and navigator at their respective stations in the aircraft. C-141 aircraft from the 437th Military Airlift Wing, at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, taxis on the ramp at RAF Station, Mildenhall, England. A C-130 on final approach, passing thatched roof cottage and stone house nearby. A C-141transport aircraft flying low over a highway as it descends to land at the Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany. The C-141 touching down on the runway. View of trams running in the city of Frankfurt. Quick closeup of airport control tower at Torrejon Air Base, near Madrid, Spain and camera pans to a C-130 aircraft parked on the ramp. View from the air of the las ventas bull ring, in Madrid. The Banco Central building as viewed from the Plaza de la Cibeles, in Madrid. A MAC C-141 taxiing to park at the Incirlik Airfield, Adana, Turkey. Flowers in gardens at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. Brief sunset view of an unidentified mosque. view of the passenger terminal at Karachi International Airport, Pakistan. Camera pans across a ramp to a MAC C-5 aircraft with its nose loading doors open. View of the Pasig River and buildings, from aircraft flying over Manila, Philippines and ground-level view of a central square. A crowded shopping area in Japan. The Sidney Bridge (and opera house in background), Sidney, Australia. A C-5 inflight departing a coastline. Crew members in cockpit of a C-5. A navigator with sextant mounted in roof of aircraft.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021083
Americans during various dance performances and protests in the United States during the roaring 1920s.

The life of Americans in the 1920s. Women dance the Charleston. A man dances the Charleston with a woman. Musicians play in the background. Patrons of Steeplechase Park, in Coney Island, on a spinning wheel. Clown steer a woman to where her dress gets blown up from a hidden air jet. Women on the boardwalk in batihing suits and being arrested by police. A man lifts up a woman during the dance performance. A sketch shows women applying make up. Several scenes showing the gap between the people who could accept the modern ideas and those who couldn't. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Views of Steelmaking at steel factory plants. A scene with the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK. People protesting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, accused anarchists. Various banners during the protests.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032134
African American women on farmland and a disabled man in a wheel chair in South Carolina, United States.

African American life and education in rural South Carolina, United States in the 1930s. Group of young African American women, possibly students, stand under a tree posing for the camera, and then they turn and head into a building. Two African American children clean the exteriors of a house with brooms. Disabled African American man sits on a wheel chair. Man greets the disabled man. View of a grave yard or cemetery. Child climbs into school bus. African American boy stands by the side of a car. View of building (possibly school building) and farm land in southern U.S state of South Carolina.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031581
Dramatization depicts: members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington during civil war.

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War and the reconstruction. Prewar conditions on the Cameron estate in Piedmont, South Carolina. The members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington are introduced. Men and women reading a newspaper outside a house. The newspaper headlined read: 'If the North carries the election, the South will secede'. An abolitionists meeting. They discuss about the news. The Stoneman library in Washington. Women cleaning the library. One of the woman leaves. A man enters and talks to the woman. They argue and the man leaves the room. The woman cry. Man portrayed as Leader of the Senate Charles Sumner in the library. He looks at the books kept on a table. He arrives near the woman and talks to her. A woman and a man talking amongst themselves in a room. Other man enters and talks to them.

Date: 1916
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076594