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Italy conquers Ethiopia

A newsreel titled 'Victory crowns Italian march through Ethiopia.' Film opens showing Italian troops riding in a column of armored personnel carriers. Closeup of Italian soldiers riding in one. An open truck moving uphill on sandy ground helped by Italian infantrymen who push on its sides. Italian soldiers manually moving an artillery piece up a shallow slope, as viewed through a thicket of bamboo. Soldiers running beside a canvas covered army truck that is out of control and rolling rapidly backwards downhill. It stops suddenly, as it hits a tree. An airplane is seen maneuvering low over some hills. Next, white smoke rises from the area. Italian infantry running freely and rapidly towards a native village of houses made mud, sticks, and thatch. Gunfire is heard. Then, two Italian officers are seen standing near some Ethiopian tribesmen prisoners seated on the ground. Italian Colonial troops carrying a wounded comrade in a sling. View from an overlooking hill of Ethiopian tribesmen prisoners in an outdoor enclosure. Closeups of some of the prisoners. Italian officers standing near a large stack of captured arms. Closeups of the stacked rifles and of an artillery piece. More prisoner closeups. Stacks of captured small indivual boxes containing rifle cartridges. Marshal of Italy, Pietro Badoglio, and another officer are seen at TC:01:06 through 01:10. Italian troops marching past the frame and propeller of an aircraft completely devoid of covering. Glimpse of Italian Camel Corps contingent. Mounted Italian cavalry dressed in ponchos and carrying the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, ride over a small bridge. A good number of Ethiopian tribal men and some women dancing and singing as Italian officers and troops pass on horseback. The Ethiopians bow in unison. The leading Italian officer salutes. Closeup of Italian officer by the Kingdom of Italy flag.. A large number of Ethiopians, some carrying large umbrellas, follow the Italians.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675038317
Military officials and Ethiopian leaders attend a tribal ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, italian East Africa.

Tribesman hold flags of the Kingdom of Italy, and branches gathered in a field, for a festival ceremony in Italian-occupied Ethiopia. Native Ethiopian tribal leaders in white robes take shelter under umbrellas. Tribal Chiefs, military officers and other dignitaries on the stage. The principal military official greets the crowd. A tepee-like bonfire appears to be made ready in the center of the field. The tribesmen begin the ceremony by charging and throwing the branches into a pile. Buildings in background are decorated with flags of the Kingdom of Italy.

Date: 1940
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675038833
A dramatization about a young physician's training in obstetrics at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois

Film 'The Fight for Life' dramatizes experience of a physician in obstetric practice at a Chicago hospital. View of engraved stone reading: City Hospital, 1932, over archway, at entrance to a Chicago hospital. Medical staff walk in hallway. A nurse enters maternity center where doctors stand beside a woman in labor on a table.The principal doctor monitors the fetus heartbeat. The mother becomes stressed and the anesthesiolgist helps her. Physician places newborn infant on cart and nurse rolls it away. View of baby. Nurse and doctors attending the mother express alarm over her blood pressure.They administer oxygen and several doses of medicine by hypodermic. But the patient dies. One of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) is clearly moved by the event, and seems deep in thought as he leaves the hospital, not even noticing the receptionist who bids him good evening as he passes her.

Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023140
Captain Gable and two airmen inspect a U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress during filming of 'Combat America'.

The United States Army Eighth Air Force 351st Bombardment Group shooting for the film 'Combat America' in England. A United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress parked on the strip. Captain Clark Gable talking to GI in overalls. Captain Gable turns toward camera, and talks to someone off screen. Captain Gable and crew member in overalls, standing close to the B-17. An officer walks into picture, salutes and shakes hands with the Captain and carries on conversation. The three men walk under a wing of B-17 where they make a check on the super-charger. They inspect the landing gear,propeller, and flap. Captain Gable holds the propeller. Wing surface and antenna of the plane. The men check guns on the lower turret of B-17, then move to tail section where they check horizontal and vertical surface of the plane and the machine gun. Tail gunner of the B-17 sticks head out of window and talks to someone off screen. Top turret gunner does the same. Captain Gable, the officer, and crew member enter side door of B-17. B-17 taxis on runway and takes off. Old insignia on plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, February
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020482
U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, attends dedication of Captain James Cook monument at Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.

Dedication and unveiling of the Captain Cook memorial monument at Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii (Kaumualii Hwy, Waimea, HI 96796, United States). American navy launch, from the USS Pennsylvania, arrives and sailors tie it to a dock at Waimea, Kauai Island, Hawaii, as spectators watch from the dock platform, above. The launch displays the American flag as well as that of the United States Secretary of War. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis with his daughters Alice Brooks Davis and Cynthia Davis, disembark from the ship. They are joined by another gentleman, followed by a U.S. Navy Captain. Secretary Davis and his party pose for the camera. The captain also appears momentarily, saluting Secretary Davis. A U.S. Navy band and sailors are seen standing near a veiled monument. Camera focuses on a large British Red Ensign flag hung above the crowd, along with the Hawaiian flag and the American flag. U.S. Naval officers render military salutes as other ceremony participants give civilian hand-over-heart salutes or stand at attention. Ceremony guests are seated as American Boy Scouts distribute programs to them. Next, a contingent of British Marines is seen in formation on the square near the monument. The camera focuses next, on a contingent of American sailors, who came ashore from the USS Pennsylvania. Two little girls, Cecelia Cruikshank and Molly Gouveia (one American and one native Hawaiian) pull ropes to unveil the monument. British officers place a wreath from the King of England. The band plays again, as participants salute. U.S. Major General, Fox Conner, Commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army, poses in front of the monument and is joined by Naval officers from a British Cruiser.

Date: 1928, August 16
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022671
Presentation about planned Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power plant in 1966; various uses of electric power.

Men speaking about a planned new nuclear power plant from Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company. They talk about safety and security of environment and other issues related to the plant. Model of the power plant is shown and color scheme of buildings in the Haddam Neck project is discussed. Map of United States showing location of power plant at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Next segment shows various potential uses of electric power that will be generated by the power plant: Skiers ride a chairlift at a Vermont ski area. Skiers at top of mountain put on skis and prepare to ski on the snow covered mountain. A farmer milking a cow with an electric milking machine. Students in a school classroom in New Hampshire, with a male teacher seen assisting a young student. A man seated in a red leather chair in front of a stone fireplace in a hunting lodge somewhere in New England. View of stadium lights and elevated wide view of Fenway Park baseball stadium in Massachusetts, home of the Boston Red Sox. View of colored stage lights at Jazz festival in Rhode Island and view of jazz musicians playing together at the festival (presumably Newport Jazz Festival), including Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet. A trio plays bass, trumpet, and saxophone. Aerial view of lights illuminating runway and approach at an airport in Connecticut. View of workers in heavy industry and machine parts in factories. Exterior view of Sikorsky Aircraft headquarters building, with sign" Sikorsky Aircraft, Division of United Aircraft Corporation." A Sikorsky S-62 helicopter is seen lifting off from a landing site in front of the building.

Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023822