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Swedish ship M.S. Gripsholm loads provisions for its voyage from New jersey, to repatriate Japanese Nationals and Issei to Japan during World War II

As film begins, an officer of the Swedish ship M.S. Gripsholm, is seen in the ship's frozen food storage area directing the placement of food provisions for their forthcoming voyage to Japan. Armed U.S. Navy sailors stand guard on the pier alongside the ship. Supplies are loaded through a side door of the ship. The captain and another ship's officer review some papers on deck. The Swedish flag flies from the railing behind them. View of the ship's port side from a boat (unseen) in the water. American flag on camera ship is seen as it motors away from the Gripsolm. Closer port side view of the ship. Sign on starboard stern railing reads: "Beware of propellers." View from camera boat approaching the Gripsolm's stern.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058291
Chicken thieves steal chicken at a farm in New Jersey

Dramatized checkin theft . African American man walks behind a hen house with a sack in his hands. Another man from the window drops a chicken into the sack. The two men look around as they steal, then one walks away with the sack containing stolen chickens. The other man jumps out of the window with a chicken in his hands. Two farmers chase the chicken thieves. One farmer carries a scythe and the other a gun, which he shoots. (Edison Studio, 1896)

Date: 1896
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065282
Ground personnel moving USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) airship across field in Lakehurst, New Jersey

Ground personnel moving the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) rigid airship across a field. The words “U.S. Navy” is written on the dirigible. The airship from stern to bow is moored to mast. The crew is seen standing underneath the airship. The USS Los Angeles airship’s back shows one of the engines. Navy men in uniform moving the stern wheel of the dirigible. A group of Navy men push the dirigible’s stern wheel around the field. View of the handling gear and control car of the USS Los Angeles Zeppelin.

Date: 1939
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079550
Hungaria refugee children celebrate Christmas at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, United States

Sign reads “United States Army Mess” in English and Hungarian. Hungarian man, a refugee, receives a cup of coffee from a mess hall server. Hungarian sign reads “Vegyen Amennyitakap” (“Take as much as you can” in English). Christmas garlands decorate the mess hall. A girl is served with sausages and beans on her cafeteria tray. A Hungarian family sits together at a table in the mess hall at Camp Kilmer. A Hungarian couple eating. Girl eating with a spoon. Red Cross nurses host a Christmas party for Hungarian refugee children. A nurse gives out small Christmas tree models to children. A girl receives a Christmas tree paper model. A man wearing a Santa Claus mask and costume gives gifts to children. Hungarian refugee girls each receive a gift from Santa Claus. Children sing Hungarian Christmas carol “Mennyböl az Angyal” (“Angel from Heaven”).

Date: 1956, December 25
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079689
Captain Ernst Lehman is interviewed aboard zeppelin Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey

Interiors of airship LZ 129 Hindenburg while moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station. In the reading and writing room, the airship's Captain Ernst Lehman answers questions from an interviewer about their flight to Frankfurt, Germany and future flights planned for the Hindenburg. View of dining room with chairs and tables and open window. In a staged scene, two men look out the observation windows and talk of seeing America outside. A man walks up staircase from B-deck. A little girl is seated on a dining room chair at the observation windows. She smiles, gets up, and demonstrates that the chair is so light that she can pick it up with one hand.

Date: 1936, May
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052069
End of World War 2 in Germany, the Four-power occupation of Germany after World War II, and the Berlin Airlift

Allied tank and tank destroyer firing and Allied infantry in Germany during World War 2. British, American, and Soviet troops escorting German Prisoners of war at the end of the War. Animated map shows line where U.S. and Russian troops met and zones of occupation in Germany and Berlin. It depicts routs of access into the Soviet zone of Berlin View from a vehicle driving through utterly destroyed part of Germany in 1945 with rubble and ruin of many buildings seen. Desperate German citizens facing shortages of food and necessities after the war, cooking on outdoor fire in a city street, and trying to clear some debris of destroyed buildings by hand and using buckets in a "bucket brigade." Bus service being restored and German citizens boarding. Vehicle traffic moving with a German police officer directing. Doctors perform physical examination of a German boy as a group of German boys wait in queue for examination. Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, with U.S. President, Harry Truman, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at the Potsdam Conference. Children receiving soup at a school in Berlin. Animated map shows routes through the Soviet occupation zone, used by Western Allies, to supply essential food and supplies through the Soviet zone of occupation to sustain West Berlin residents. It then depicts Soviet action blockading the road and rail routes to isolate West Berlin. Views of empty roads, rails, and canals. A DC-3 (US Air Force C-47) transport aircraft taking off. Men loading supplies on aircraft for delivery to West Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. A British Short S.25 Sunderland flying boat carrying cargo in the Berlin Airlift. Troops carrying supplies for airlift. A British Avro York transport aircraft taking off. A warehouse filled with barrels for Berlin. View from overflying airplane. Trucks resuming travel to Berlin after the Soviets finally lift the 9-month blockade. Normal supplies of food seen again, in West Berlin shops. Vehicle stopped at a checkpoint. Sign warning that: "You are leaving the American Sector." and similar ones at the French and British sector borders. Old road sign pointing to Potsdam, beside another sign warning of entering the Russian zone. Traffic moving between East and West Berlin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034239