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French General Charles de Gaulle, arrives at the White House, in Washington, DC, United States.

A 1940 Packard long body sedan, carrying General Charles de Gaulle, comes up the drive to the White House. A group of U.S. military officers, and civilian officials, standing under an awning, greets him.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054734
Food and gasoline rationing practices in the United States during World War II.

Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039954
Exteriors of diverse owned stores in Little Syria area on Washington Street in New York City, United States in the late 1930s.

Stores of various ethnic proprietors in Little Syria area of New York City, circa 1940. Exterior of "Anthony Coulapides" cigarette store. Man and woman in front of the "A. Sahahi and Co Inc" importer store. A Greek shop with a street address of "37." A Greek shop selling "Harem Oriental Pastry". Another shop with a Greek sign, followed by a shop with a Hebrew sign.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939, July
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074860
The Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, United States.

Monuments in Washington DC, United States. Several ducks swimming in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) with the Washington Monument behind, and Capitol visible in distance. A street lighted in the night. View of the Potomac River, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the U.S. Capitol, in single view, early morning. A street in downtown Washington DC. Cars moving on a road and buildings on either side of the road. The U.S. Capitol building (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States) seen in the background. The Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) in view. Equestrian statue at George Washington, at Washington Circle in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Capitol viewed at dawn, along an empty Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington Monument, seen from space between buildings. Equestrian statue of Civil War hero, Major General John A. Logan (Washington, DC 20005, United States), at Logan Circle, Rhode Island Avenue and 13th St. NW. The U.S. Capitol dome. View from Memorial Bridge, of Lincoln Memorial and Washington monument (in distance).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1972
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066408
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt announces the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

In a speech from the White House, American President Franklin D Roosevelt announces the signing into law of the Selective Service Registration, the first peacetime draft in United States History. President Roosevelt proclaims that the first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 shall take place on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of October, 1940 between hours 7 AM and 9 PM.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050184
American singer Jerry Jones arrives to perform a stage show in Washington DC.

A film version of the legendry 1940s stage show in the United States. American singer and dancer Jerry Jones arrange the show. Jones along with his other men standing inside a building and reading a paper about a show. They perform stage shows in several places. They perform the shows in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC. The Capitol building. The artists inside a building in Washington DC where they are to perform the show. A woman arrives in the building and talks to Jerry Jones. Jones talks to her about a soldier who was killed in the Pearl Harbor. He addresses the artists and talks about the show to be performed. People arrive at the theater to watch the show. Several dignitaries and officials also arrive. People applauding. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076599
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