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German occupation, martial law, and Danish resistance in Denmark during World War II

Film about Denmark after the Nazi German occupying force declared martial law and state of war with Denmark, in 1943-44 during World War 2. It was made by Danes and smuggled out of Denmark during that period. Opens with view of a church building and flocks of birds. Views of German army troops marching into Copenhagen, Denmark on April 9, 1940. SS troops dressed in black, marching. German soldiers carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, goosestepping. A fire burning at site sabotaged by Danish resistance elements in 1943. Derailed trains carrying goods to Germany. Fire at a German factory. Danish workers with bicycles staging a strike in protest German measures in response to resistance actions. Danes gathered in outdoor observance memorializing those killed by the Germans. A shop owned by German sympathizers (Quislings) destroyed by other Danes. People gathered on street on 29 August 1943, when the occupying German forces attacked the remaining Danish garrison and declared martial law. Announcement posted in Danish on a wall. View of Danish Naval vessels ordered scuttled by the Danish Admiralty, including the coastal defense ship,Peder-Skram, seen in front of a large building, the submarine, Havfruen (not seen) and others seen sunk at docks in Copenhagen harbor. Bullet hole through a glass window. A week later, on Sunday, 5 September, 1943, a German Panzer light tank is seen moving on a street, as pedestrians go about their business in Copenhagen. German soldiers patrolling on a motorcycle with sidecar. A man holding his hands up as he is hustled through a crowd under arrest by a German in black uniform (possibly Gestapo or SS). Motorcycle driving through pedestrians on the sidewalk. Spectators line a fence by an open field near a building labeled "Badstue Badminton." One, a woman, speaks through the fence to a Danish soldier interned there. View of the quarters of the Royal Guard at Rosenborg, occupied by German soldiers and with Nazi flag flying above it. Civilian relatives of interned men wait outside army headquarters for news about them. A courtyard, during a mass funeral, is filled with memorial flower wreaths covering the coffins of Danish soldiers and civilians killed by the Germans. Camera focuses on a wreath from King Christian of Denmark, among the many others. Two German soldiers march up a path at the Royal Residence Amalienborg, where King Christian is arrested. Views from moving camera as Danish flags are seen flying all over the city of Copenhagen, on 26 September, 1943, to celebrate the King's 73rd Birthday. The major exception is the Nazi Gestapo headquarters in the "Shellhus" (the prewar Shell Oil offices) shown in isolation. Views of people moving their belongings on hand carts after their homes were taken over by Germans. The slogan in English, "Do it well and do it now,"is seen left by Danish resistance fighters where they sabotaged a German military installation.

Location: Copenhagen Denmark
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036548
U.S. Air Force pilot successfully lands a B-52 aircraft without vertical stabilizer

Pilot successfully lands a B-52H (6-032) airplane with its vertical stabilizer tail torn off at Eaker AFB, Blytheville, Arkansas. The B-52 plane gets damaged during a test flight over northern New Mexico. The vertical stabilizer was ripped off due to buffeting stresses during turbulence (loss of structural integrity). Pilot Charles "Chuck" Fisher lands safely after five hours of flying without tail. Crew and ground support staff on the airfield look at the torn tail.

Location: Blytheville Arkansas USA
Date: 1964, January 10
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036635
Prime Minister Lester Peterson of Canada and United States President Lyndon Johnson meet and sign agreements, at White House.

Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada and United States President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) meet at White House. Helicopter of Prime Minister Pearson lands in the White House. President Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Pearson. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Pearson sign a multi-million dollar power and flood control project in the Pacific Northwest. Dignitaries at the meeting watch and clap at the signing off the pact. Another pact signed between the two leaders on making an international park at the summer camp of late President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Campobello Island off the Coast of New Brunswick.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1964, January 21
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036638
Engineers and workers from various nation work to save ancient Egyptian temples of Pharaoh Ramses II from flood of Aswan Dam.

Opening slate reads: "ANCIENT ART SAVED, Engineers To Move Treasures of the Nile." A sightseeing river boat plies waters of the Nile river approaching the Egyptian Temples of Ramses II, on its banks, in Nubia. Visitors are seen taking photographs in front of the four 65 foot statues of Ramses II in the facade of the Temple, while engineers are cutting them into pieces that will be reassembled 200 feet above the coming flood created by the new Aswan Dam in Egypt. Camera pans over smaller images and inscriptions at the site, and many embossed images cut into huge stone pillars. Statues inside the Temple tower above a man standing near them. Closeup of two of them. View of engineers making measurements on a wall filled with hieroglyphics. Four more interior statues well as the exterior statues of Ramses II are seen in stages of disassembly A worker standing beside the huge head of Ramses II statue .Camera pans over the ancient site. (Narrator states that the international effort to save and move the temple will cost 36 million dollars, with Egypt and the United States, each contributing one third, and the United Nations obtaining the rest from member nations.)

Location: Egypt
Date: 1964, January 23
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036643
Couple visits an Eichler X-100 experimental house with modernistic features displayed for the public in San Francisco.

An Eichler X-100 experimental house with modernistic features displayed for public in San Francisco. A couple arrives to visit the house. They observe the new concepts. Innovative applications of glass and plastics seen in the house. Domed skylights seen. Gardens inside and out, with an Asian influence. Modern kitchen with dining table that opens in the middle to reveal a stovetop.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1956, October 29
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036651
Britain, France, and Israel attack Egypt following nationalization of the Suez Canal.

Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal leads to war as Israel attacks Egypt, and France and Britain embark troops for transport to a joint staging area at the island of Cyprus. View of commercial ships in the Suez canal. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. in discussion with officials. French troops embarking a transport ship in the port of Marseille, France. Brief glimpse of their destination port at Cyprus. British troops boarding airliners to take them to Cyprus where they will reinforce the existing British garrison. British and French carriers and warships assembling in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. A flight of four British Hawker Hunter jet fighter-bombers are seen flying in formation. Closeup of one inflight, with rockets mounted beneath its wings. Closeup of a rocket under its right wing. Scene shifts to another Hawker Hunter armed differently. It displays four outer wing rocket rails on each wing, carrying three rockets each. Auxiliary fuel tanks are installed on pylons under each wing. View of the White House in Washington DC. Inside, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles discuss the Suez situation. Next, speaking at a press conference, President Eisenhower states , "the United States was not consulted in any way about any phase of these actions, nor were we informed about them in advance." He asserts America's intent not to become involved and to bring the matter before the UN General Assembly where their is no threat of a veto. He states his intent to "keep in contact with Congressional leaders of both parties," and expresses hope that the United Nations can bring an end to this "tormenting problem." View of the United Nations General Assembly building in New York City. Inside U.S. Secretary of State, Dulles, is seen seated next to America's UN ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Glimpse of the General assembly with all delegates seated.

Location: Middle East
Date: 1956, November 1
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036656
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