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Movie depicts Idyllic life in American New England village, circa 1800

From movie "La Ciudad" (The City). Credited to Pare Lorentz. Opening credits text in Spanish. A reenactment of 18th Century life in American New England village. Reflections in water. Water gushing over an old water wheel at a mill. A sign over a structure reads 'Sias Farm 1791'. Old covered bridge spans river and waterfalls. Boys skinny dip swim naked in lake. Farmer drives a horse- drawn wagon on a path. Boy lying down in the wagon with head resting on a gunny sack next to a barrel of apples. Boy looks up at clouds overhead, daydreaming. Engraved granite milestone points to "Shirley" 3 miles and to "Shirley Village" 4 miles, the opposite way. Boy jumps off wagon as it enters village. Wagon stops at blacksmith shop, where farmer and blacksmith unload a damaged wheel as two boys and an old man watch.Blacksmith and farmer use hand-operated rollers to true-up broken iron strap from wheel. Old woman doing needle work. Young woman working on a loom. Man weaving a basket. Water wheel turning in water. View, inside mill, shows millstone, turning,as miller grinds corn. Farmers harvesting grain with scythes. White Wooden church with steeple.Graveyard with old gravestones.One reads: "Mary Day,died March 18, 1829,Aged 43." Blacksmith, at forge, repairing broken iron strap for wheel.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675031536
Colonel William Joseph Donovan gives a speech about American support to England on crisis in Atlantic in New York.

Colonel William Joseph Donovan gives a speech in New York. He speaks about American support to England on crisis in Atlantic. He holds papers in his hands. Books arranged in shelves behind him. A lamp in background.

Date: 1941, April 25
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024276
Preparation and planning of D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied Forces during World War II.

Film titled ‘D-Day Convoy’ based on invasion of Normandy (D-Day) by Allied Forces during World War II. Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill seated at Tehran Conference in December 1943. Other officials stand behind the big three. U.S. General George Marshall, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe Dwight Eisenhower and other officials seated at a conference table. Map of France details cross channel assault of France by Allied Forces. Map shows coastal locations to be attacked by Allies. Weapons and equipment from America pouring into England. U.S. soldiers arrive in England and train, for the invasion, on southern coast of England. U.S. B-26 bombers hitting German targets and smoke billowing up from exploding bombs. B-17 bomber in flight and bombs falling on German industrial targets. Gunners on B-17s defend against German fighter aircraft. American bomber explodes in flight after attack by German fighter airplane. German Messerschmitt fighter is destroyed. From edited film produced in 1947.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060452
British troops sit on ground by wooden fence in French town. Message on the fence reads: "Gott Strafe England"

British troops sit together, merrily, on the ground in front of a wooden fence in a captured French town during World War I. Above them, on the fence is a message left by retreating German troops that reads: "Gottstrafe England." (May God Punish England). During World War 1.

Date: 1917
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027260
Hitler views captured areas in Paris, Dunkirk, and Calais; in Germany Hitler make plans with officers for invading England

'Battle of Britain' from the "Why we Fight" series of propaganda films during World War 2. Adolf Hitler stands with other officers in Paris following Battle of France and views the Eiffel Tower. Elevated view from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching in streets of Paris and under Arc de Triomphe. Damaged buildings in Dunkirk after German invasion. Hitler and staff ride in car through street barely passable with rubble and destroyed buildings on either side. In Calais, view of bombed port area and German soldiers keeping watch from a bunker. Hitler looks through V-shaped rangefinder or sighting binoculars across the English Channel toward Britain. Scenes in Berlin Germany of Reich Chancellery exteriors and interiors where Hitler meets with German officers and plans with other officers for invading England. German soldiers guarding the building exterior; Hitler's staff shown examining maps. Pictorial, animated representation of the first phase of the plan showing attack of England from air by Luftwaffe. Phase two shows attack on coastal areas. Phase three shows the actual attack and the course the German army would take to invade Britain.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031679
Convoy of ships carries troops and supplies from the U.S. to England during World War II

A convoy of ships is seen heading from America to England during February, 1944. View from aboard a transport ship, with troops jamming her upper deck. Escorting war ships are seen ahead. Sailors on the foredeck, near a soldier explaining the use of a life preserver to others (unseen). Several sailors lounging near a 20mm gun position. View of sleeping quarters where cots are stacked four rows high. A soldier on deck, dealing cards to others in a circle of players. Closeups of some soldiers resting in their bunks. One is asleep. Another looks at a magazine. A picture portrait of his wife and two babies is seen balanced on his rifle, above his head. A third soldier is writing a letter and another is busy sewing something on his uniform. Back on deck, soldiers and sailors look at the sea as the ship makes way. The film ends showing the deck crowded with troops watching as the ship enters a harbor in England. A few use binoculars to view the shores.

Date: 1944
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049845