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American forces prepare for war; ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell addresses officials (WW2)

Continental Army cavalry riding horses and soldiers marching in an American Revolutionary War reenactment. Continental Army soldiers carrying the wounded on their backs under heavy rain. United States Army soldiers marching in New York City during World War II. Views of enormous numbers of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers seen approaching camera position and from above. A soldier with an Army Service Forces (ASF) patch marching. Close up of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patch. Commanding General of the ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell smiling. A notice detailing the War Department Reorganization effective March 9, 1942. Army Ground Forces commander Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair. Army Air Forces Commander General Henry H. Arnold. General Somervell and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Soldiers advance towards a battlefront. Wounded are evacuated from the area. The soldiers stand in formation. Officials seated at a desk. General Somervell addresses them and speaks on the value of war material. A dead German soldier in tank. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers scattered on the beach in the Pacific. Tires and scraps for use by the army. A newspaper advertisement reads “Your scrap will save some brave boy’s life!”. Ceiling prices listed in grocery store during wartime. Japanese planes bombing Malaya and Singapore. Burned houses after Japanese bombardment in Asia. A burning house in China. An oil tanker explodes and burns after being bombed at sea. Tanks advance towards the front. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and wife Soong Mei-Ling (Madame Chiang). An airplane in flight, bombarding a target area. Prisoners of war standing. Dead bodies lying on the ground. Destroyed area after an enemy attack. The soldiers and the tanks advance towards the battlefront. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. Allied flags on display such as the Soviet Union and England.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062664
U.S. exports, imports and domestic commerce by land sea and air. Census Bureau reports on American industry

New cars being offloaded from a ship at a port. Seaman and dock workers watching over railing of freighter, The "Chesire" with home port of Liverpool England. Closeup of the ship, Tara Maru, with home port Osaka, Japan. A Greek freighter in port. Passengers in rapid transit train traveling beside super highway of many lanes in the United States. View of car and truck traffic on busy highway. A Boeing 727-100 airliner and other passenger aircraft around runways and on tarmac at a civilian airport. Glimpse of various late 1960s and early 1970s cars and trucks on crowded section of highway during heavy traffic. People boarding a bus. Logs, steel tubes, and bulk cargoes being moved. A truck full of lumber. Cargo being loaded on an airplane. A cargo ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. Bureau of Census workers compiling data using early computers, with views of keyboards and tape drives. Bureau reports being placed in envelopes and mailed. Factory workers carrying lunch boxes. Men in business suits carrying brief cases. Entry gate of a prison, with view of permiter fencing and guard tower visible. View upward from inside the prison wall, with barbed wire atop the fence. A court building.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070328
Otto Gradenigo works on Marine models in Oakland, California.

Otto Gradenigo works on Marine models of tall sailing ships and other vessels in Oakland, California. He is in a rush to complete the ship and marine models for the 1932 Chicago World's Fair. Miniature reproductions of various vessels can be seen, with Mr Gradenigo working on the scale models.

Location: Oakland California USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023624
German engineer, Reinhold Tilling, conducts the first successful mail-rocket flight, on Dümmersee near Osnabrück,Germany

Men carefully move a Tiling mail rocket from a boat on a canal, handing it up to others on shore. Row boats are seen in the canal and sailboats on the lake (Dümmersee) in the background. The rocket is carefully carried with fins folded and placed on the ground. Reinhold Tiling with his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, prepare the rocket for launch. View of rocket, being held,sitting on its nose. In next scene, the rocket is placed on its launch pole,in the marsh, behind a man sitting in a boat.The launch team raises the rocket. In next scene,viewed at a safe distance, the rocket emits smoke, rises rapidly, and slowly turns toward the lake (Dümmersee). Next, the rocket is seen on the surface of the lake with its wings open, as the team, standing in a boat, recovers it. A completely new sequence begins on Sunday, August 21, 1932,with more rocket launches at Atterheide-Osnabrück. Several Tiling rockets are seen laid out on the ground, with their wings opened. Closeup of a single rocket. Still photographs of show a rocket early in launch and another of rocket curving away later in the flight.

Location: Germany
Date: 1931, April 15
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024388
League of Nations meeting regarding disarmament, and World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Thanassis Aghnides speaks on disarmament policies at League of Nations meeting in Geneva, Switzerland before outbreak of World War 2. Montage short shows military action (cavalry charge, biplane aircraft overhead, and aerial bombs-away view of bombing of a city) and civilian deaths of woman and child as casualties in World War I. British politician Arthur Henderson speaks at the opening of the 1932 World disarmament conference. League's Year books which give details about world's arms and trade in arms. Shows factories and industrial landscape with smoke pouring from chimney stacks, and loading operations at a dock for the ship named Baradine.

Location: Geneva Switzerland
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029406
Scenes of the Netherlands, 20 years after completion of the 18-mile dam (the so-called "afsluitdijk") across the Zuider Zee

Map shows Zuider Zee, and towns of Marken and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Animated map shows where the 18-mile dam, the so-called "afsluitdijk", across Zuider Zee was completed in 1932. Areas that are being reclaimed in the resulting body of water (Ijsselmeer) are shown. Colorful scenes of docked fishing boats. Man with a box full of eels, which are the only fish still obtainable since the waters in Ijsselmeer are too shallow to support other fish. To promote tourism, Dutch people are seen wearing traditional costumes. Children in the native costume.

Location: Netherlands
Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029905
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