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Crowd of men and women dispersing at the end of a large outdoor event, Paris, 1900
View of large crowd dispersing after a large outdoor event in a stadium setting in which many individual wooden chairs are arranged for the spectators. One woman is a particular focus of attention. She approaches the camera through the thinning crowd and steps up on a raised platform of some kind, while the cinematographer records. She then steps down and to the side. Women wear long dresses and elegant hats. Many women carry parasols.Two men wear large white kerchiefs, under their straw hats, that drape down their necks, for protection from the sun. They walk past the camera and look back.
Panorama of wreckage along waterfront in Galveston Texas, United States, following hurricane of September 8,1900.
Panorama of hurricane damage to waterfront in Galveston in Texas, United States. A large schooner lies on its side in the harbor. Several boats seen in water. Black smoke from a smokestack of a boat. Several men standing on the docks. Erected tents seen.
U.S. Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan explains why troops are needed in India and Burma during World War II
World War II film about the China, Burma, India (CBI) Theater of Operations. A soldier is seen filling out a form seeking information about him and inviting him to write in questions about anything he hadn't learned through normal information channels. Scene shifts to Information and Education Department of the Burma-India Command, where it is being processed by a soldier. Lieutenant General Dan I. Sultan, commander of Burma-India Theater, is seen next, seated at a desk, with wall map of the region behind him. He is appearing in an information film intended to inform troops under his command. He notes that more than half the troops who filled out the information form, asked why American troops were stationed in India and Burma. He refers to the recent recall of General Stillwell and the splitting of CBI into two theaters (China and India/Burma). He states that the purpose is a path toward Japan. An animated map shows China (that narrator notes has been fighting Japan since 1937). Animation shows Japan walling off China from the outside world, by seizing her ports, and then concentrating its grip on the Eastern part of the country. Without access by sea, the allies had only one option to assist China in the fight against Japan. That was to open the Burma Road. Film shifts to scenes of Japanese bombing of Shanghai and Chinese civilians abandoning the city. Wounded and injured Chinese fighting fires while tending casualties in an open area. Glimpse of Chinese soldiers near one of their few large artillery pieces. A gun crew manning one of her few antiaircraft guns. Chinese jam road in trek to the unoccupied provinces of the country. Chinese carrying casualties on stretchers, making do without ambulances. Chinese coping in the face of all kinds of shortages. In contrast, well supplied Japanese troops are shown in formation. Japanese troops, military vehicles and equipment are seen. Japanese firing machine guns and heavy artillery against Chinese positions. Japanese armor and long lines of troops engaged against the Chinese, who continue to resist in spite of shortages and hardship. Chinese soldiers without shoes, marching in a column.
United States Navy 3rd fleet carriers shell Japanese oil reserves in the South China sea.
U.S. Navy carrier planes hit oil fields in the China Sea. A storm in the China Sea. U.S. Navy 3rd fleet carriers on a ship. A diagram shows an arrow on the South China Sea. The fleet moves forward towards Japanese bases. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese targets. Carrier planes return back to the ship. A plane crash lands on the ship. The pilot of ship is hurt and stuck in the cockpit. The crew runs toward the plane and gets him down. A diagram shows an arrow from the South China sea to IndoChina, Saigon. A tanker is torpedoed by U.S. planes. Bombing on Saigon. An oil reserve on fire. (World War II period).
The Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse-Tung poses with the U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Hurley in Chongqing, China
The Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong and the U.S. Ambassador to China in Chongqing (Chungking), China shortly after the end of World War II. Chairman Mao followed by other Communist leaders leaves the aircraft. Chairman Mao poses with the United States Ambassador to China Patrick J. Hurley.
Japanese Expedition in China continues to Ningsia Hui by truck. Views of life and culture in China.
Animated maps show route taken by Japanese expedition in China. Expedition looks at map to locate their next destination. Their Safari passes through the Chinese desert. Luggage on truck. Safari proceeds to Yellow River. Expedition unloads the truck, stuck in mud at bank of river. Truck passes away. View of mountains and entrance. Men with mules. Life and cultures of China: Views of different buildings and life of Chinese people. People with carts and camels. Traffic policeman at crossroad and signals. Landmarks and monuments in China. Ancient pagoda tower structure and also the Haibao Pagoda and temple in Yinchuan Ningxia China. Sleeping statue of Buddha. Expedition seated talks. View of ceremony. Troops ride horses.
