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Elizabeth II crowned as the Queen of the United Kingdom

The 1953 coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II at the Westminster Abbey in London, England. People gathered at the Parliament Square Garden at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster, near the Big Ben. British nobles and peerage in elaborate attires. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watches the ceremony. Coronation Maids (Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill; Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stuart; Lady Moyra Campbell, Lady Mary Russell, Lady Anne Coke) trailing behind Queen Elizabeth II. The Bishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher crowns Queen Elizabeth with the St. Edward’s Crown. A large crowd gathered outside the Buckingham Palace. People cheer the new Queen as Elizabeth II acknowledges them.

Date: 1953, June 2
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049153
General Matthew Ridgway takes over from General MacArthur in Korea.

Major events of the year 1951. War takes place in Korea. Artillery fired and Koreans captured. News paper headline symbolizes removal of General MacArthur as the Chief of the United Nations forces in Korea. General Matthew Ridgway takes over as the Chief of the United Nations forces. Dead prisoners of war lined up. General Eisenhower with Korean representatives in Korea as they sign an agreement for a buffer zone. (Korean War)

Date: 1951, December 24
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049173
Soviet Red Army officer talks about a soldier who lost his life during World War II.

Heroes of World War II in Soviet Union. A poster of a Red Army soldier who lost his life during World War II. An officer delivers a speech about the heroes of World War II. New recruits listen to the officer with the poster in the background.

Date: 1945
Duration: 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049400
Japanese Americans at relocation center in United States during World War II.

Relocation of Nisei people in United States during World War 2. Japanese Americans arrive at the Manzanar relocation center (internment camp). Family members exit a bus. A young boy looking unsure as he observes the camp. New internees undergo medical examination. They participate in Americanization classes. They train themselves in self government. Block leaders are presented citations at a meeting. Japanese-American children internees are looked after in day care centers as men and women go to work. Young boys and girls seated at a table. Internees at Manzanar working in an experimental laboratory house for extracting rubber from guayule shrubs to increase rubber production during the war. Japanese American internees working in cultivating the guayule shrub. View of a project at the Parker camp where internees were working to irrigate desert land. View of sugar beet fields where internees could work. View of Manzanar war relocation center with mountains behind. War time propaganda narrator promotes the relocation centers as "setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049421
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and life boats save many lives as Ocean liner SS Morro Castle, burns at sea.

Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Date: 1934, September 8
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049567
Ships destroyed during Pearl Harbor attack salvaged in Hawaii.

Aftermath of Pearl Harbor attack. An animation shows a map of Japan as a fictional character Tojo makes a call from Tokyo to Nagasaki and other cities disseminating the news of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He rejoices at the attack. The United States Navy ship Arizona capsized. Wreckage of damaged ships like Nevada, West Virginia, California. Navy personnel along with civil technicians start the salvage of United States ships. Men work on the ships. Ships like California, Nevada and West Virginia underway after repair. Sailors and supplies aboard the ships. Military preparations in United States to counter the Japanese attack. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049607