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British antiaircraft fire at German V-1 Buzz bombs attacking London during World War II.

British antiaircraft batteries fire furiously at German V-1 Buzz bombs over London. One V-1 is seen running out of fuel, with a puff of smoke, and then descending to strike the city. Other V-1s are seen descending to strike. View of the Thames River with Tower of London, Southwark and Cannon Street Rail Bridges in view. Wrecked buildings and rubble on streets. Views of terrible destruction from the Buzz bombs.

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053988
Sir John Dill, Dutch officers, and other officers enter the War Office building and meet in London during World War II.

Army officers enter the War Office building in London early during World War II. Exterior view of the War Office building (later the Old War Office) and traffic on Horse Guards Avenue in London. Dutch officers get out of car and enter the War Office building. Nelson's Tower at Trafalgar Square seen in distance. Sir John Dill, Vice Chief of the General Imperial Staff, enters the War Office building. Number of officers enter the building. Interior views of an office in the War Office building, with Director of Public Relations at War Office, Major General John Hay Beith, Richard De Rochemont and Maurice Lancaster seated in the office. The officials converse with each other.

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064201
Children play in a London park on a Sunday afternoon during World War II.

Day time life in London at a quiet moment in World War II. British children on swings in a London park on a Sunday afternoon. Boys and girls on a seesaw of the playground. A baby seated on the grass. Children have water from community drinking taps in the park, using a shared communal drinking cup that is chained to the tap.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020893
Film about 1919 Railroad strike and its effects on Londoner's following World War I

Opening slate states: "The Railroad Strike, Scenes at the London Terminal and at the overcrowded bus and tram routes." People are seen walking about in a London train station after World War 1. Baggage is piled up on one section of a platform. Army officers climb onto an open car filled with luggage, and wave as they drive away. A large queue of people is seen at a bus station, where double decked buses are loading and discharging passengers. Women board a horse-drawn wagon as an alternate way of traveling. Back at the train station, Army officers help a woman from a car and then climb aboard it themselves with their luggage. A family sits atop a flat railway cart with luggage underneath. More views of too many people trying to get on too few buses. Scene shifts to Piccadilly Circus where pedestrians walk near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and the Criterion Theater.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026083
View of maps, Arab residents and narrator relates conquest of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

The history of Israel. A map of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. An Arab shepherd man in a desert area plays a musical instrument used to guide the animals. An animated map shows the areas captured by the shepherd warrior David and the area where the Philistines fought in Judea.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047419
New Japanese ambassador to Kingdom of Italy, presents credentials at Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy (WW2)

Zenbei Horikiri, the new Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Italy, presents his credentials to King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome, Italy during World War II. Hokiri stands with an Italian officer during the ceremony at the Quirinal Palace. To his right, behind him, similarly dressed, is Shun'ichi Kase,secretary to Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka. (Shun'ichi later served as chargé d’affaires in Italy commencing in 1943.) Japanese and Italian officers are part of the two-nation entourage that emerges from the palace following the event. They proceed down the steps of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale, Piazza del Quirinale, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) and across the Piazza del Quirinale, where camera shows a glimpse of one of the statues at the Obelisk and Fountain of Castor and Pollux (containing sculptures of Castor and Pollux as horse tamers). Next, a motorcade of the officials' cars drives out of the palace complex, past two guard posts.

Date: 1941
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675026803