The world premiere of the movie 'Bright Victory' at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The Spanish Colonial Revival style high bell tower and neon sign “Fox Carthay Circle Theatre” are seen. Men adjusts the two searchlights at the Carthay Circle Theatre. Man turns a fitting on one of the searchlights. The two searchlights flicker before they turn on fully.
A wall clock hanging on top of a window. Camera shows American inventor Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. Glass laboratory bottles and tubes on display. Footage circa 1920 of Thomas Alva Edison showing early lightbulbs to colleagues. A carbon filament light bulb lights up. Camera moves closer to show the glowing carbon filament inside the lamp. Early filmmaking in the United States. A man cranks a Kinetograph, the first movie camera invented by Edison. A belly dancer performs in one of Edison’s early films. A film rolling. A boxing match filmed by Thomas Edison. A cameraman records the boxing match inside Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Exteriors of the Black Maria studio showing the turntable and wheels underneath. 19th century women wearing summer dresses strolling in film captured by Edison. Cameramen sent by Edison films people on the beach and in amusement park rides. Edison having lunch with other inventors Henry Ford Sr., Harvey Firestone Sr., and Alexander Graham Bell. View of Edison’s study. A light bulb is turned off.
A Ghanaian student walking to her university in the United States. Sign reads “Chapel Hill site of the University of North Carolina which first opened its doors in January 1795”. The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus grounds (Bell Tower, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, United States). The Ghanaian student joins with a group of white female American students on their way to class. A book (Theatres and Auditoriums) on table. A professor conducts his lecture. Cigarette smoke in classroom as student watches lecture. The African student opens and writes on her notebook. A Japanese student listens to the professor. The professor points to a diagram on the board using a ruler. American students walking on campus. Ghanaian student walks to the university scene and costume shop. Sign reads “The Playmakers Scene Shop and Costume Shop”. The Ghanaian student looks at costume sketches with other costume design students. A professor assists the students during their practicum. The professor and a student insert pins on a mannequin. Ghanaian student talks to a girl wearing glasses. The professor helps the Ghanaian student with sewing costumes. Sign reads “Department of Dramatic Art”. A woman enters the door of the department. Theater Arts students in costume rehearse for a play. Students working with sounds during a television production course. Ghanaian student with headphones during her practicum. An actor dancing on stage. Ghanaian student directs a live presentation of a school play while her professor acts as a cameraman using large video camera on tripod. “On The Air” sign turns on. Theater Arts students acting in a Shakespearian play. Ghanaian student acts with a female professor in a modern play in front of other students.
United States Army doctor and medics treat an injured soldier’s leg in bed during the Vietnam War. The patient winces and reacts to pain. Doctor applies gauze on soldier’s leg. Military officials salute to a coffin draped with the American flag. Soldiers carry caskets of dead American soldiers, killled in action, into transport aircraft. Young United States soldiers board a plane. African American soldier assists another soldier reversing a motorized cart. Aircraft takes off. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter flying at sunset. Sunset in Vietnam.
View of the training center at the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Buildings in the Imperial Japanese Navy Flying Department Practice Club. Exterior of Japanese cadet barracks at early morning. Japanese Naval Air cadets sleeping in long lines of arranged hammocks. Loudspeaker sounding to wake cadets. A man makes an announcement through the siren. Navy cadets rise from their hammocks at reveille. Cadets rolling and tying their hammocks. They put their rolled hammocks back into place. Japanese naval cadets jogging on the grounds of the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps. Japanese cadets in formation at morning quarters. Japanese officer on platform giving commands thru microphone. Japanese cadets in formation singing the national anthem, Kimigayo. Japanese calligraphy inscription. Cadets in formation; open formation for exercises. Hundreds or thousands of cadets doing early morning exercises (taisou). Japanese sailor ringing bell near barracks.
Artistic depiction of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marines in Vietnam. Soldiers of the 5th Marine Division march in at Camp Pendleton . A medical officer holding a mass inoculation gun. An officer wearing a helmet that reads “EMBARKATION”. The Marines load supplies into the back of a truck. Marines boarding the helicopter carrier USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) bound for Vietnam. A Marine kisses his wife while holding his daughter before he leaves for Vietnam. Family members wave goodbye to departing Marines. A Marine kiss his daughter’s cheek. A drawing depicts Marines boarding a helicopter to Vietnam. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter shooting at enemy positions in flight. Boeing CH-46 helicopters landing in Vietnamese jungle. Artistic depiction of Marines fighting in the Vietnam War. Marines in fox hole. Marines stand and point their bayonets at wounded North Vietnamese abandoned on the battlefield. Navy corpsman treats wounded Vietnamese soldier. Body of dead Vietnamese soldier and recovered weapons gathered on the field.
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