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Renaming of Paris Street in honor of Général Philippe Leclerc de Hautclocque

French official arrives by car to officiate at ribbon-cutting ceremony renaming the Avenue d'Orleans as Avenue du General Leclerc, in honor of Général Philippe Leclerc de Hautclocque, who formally liberated Paris, entering along this street, at the head of his French 2nd Armored Division, in 1944. The French official is greeted by a young woman wearing a sash. Members of the French 2nd Armored Division are seen holding unit flags. The official unveils the new street sign on the corner of a building decorated with tricolor bunting. A member of the French 2nd Armored Divison poses on top of a sherman tank, parked in the square. The official cuts a ribbon..

Location: Paris France
Date: 1948
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038979
Irrigation of carrots and bananas in Palestine.

Landscape of a desert, a young man works on irrigation ditch in foreground. Two young women watering young trees for settlement. Men adjusting sprinklers for field of carrots. Sprinklers in action irrigating farmland. Woman in rubber boots and a man, irrigate new banana grove. In foreground workers finish the building up of cement canal for irrigation. Men planting banana trees and erecting sprinklers. Bananas loaded on to a cart.

Location: Palestine
Date: 1945, January
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038999
Vignette about importance and value of family members working together

Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 12 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039051
United States airmen inside control center monitoring movements of munitions within storage and handling complex.

Film opens showing a nondescript blue building with a white shed attached. A tall signal tower stands nearby. View shifts closer to the buliding. A large truck is parked across the street. Sign near the building reads: "635th MMS, RACAF Field Office. U.S. Air Force airmen leave the building and peruse bulletin boards on the white shed. Inside the building, several airmen are seen seated at control stations observing large visual displays. One of the airmen makes marks on his display, while one of the other airmen is speaking into a microphone at his position. Closeup of airman annotating information inside display boxes (representing storage locations in the facility).Sequence is interrupted briefly, as cameraman begins new slate while focused on the center airman with the microphone, who then resumes speaking into the microphone, while also annotating the diagram in front of him. Similar views continue to end of film.

Location: U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base Thailand
Date: 1969, April 30
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039061
Harry S Truman sworn in as President of United States of America; Roosevelt's funeral procession moves through streets.

Harry S. Truman sworn in as President of United States of America at White House after the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chief Justice, Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries at White House. United States flag flying at half-mast in honor of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also views of crowd gathered for the funeral of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Funeral procession moves slowly through streets of Washington DC. Men and women weeping. Funeral parade reaches the final resting place at Hyde Park, New York.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039101
General Douglas MacArthur settles dispute between the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and the National Collegate Athletic Association (NCAA).

At request of President Kennedy, General Douglas MacArthur arbitrated a dispute between America's Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). (The NCAA objected to the AAU's monopoly on the selection of U.S. Olympic teams and sought to participate in the process. The AAU, traditionally sole representative of the United States in international athletic matters, sought to continue as such.) Opening scenes show MacArthur and representatives of the AAU and NCAA being photographed by newsmen at his apartment at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, in New York City. They settle down at a conference table. MacArthur is seated at the head of the table. To his right are: Walter Byers, NCAA Executive Director; and Dr. Mason W. Cross, NCAA President. To MacArthur's left are: William P. Russell, U.S. Track & Field president;AAU attorneys, Pincus Sober and Albert Wheltle; Don Hull, AAU executive director, and Louis Fisher, AAU president. In change of scene, competitors are seen in the women's 60 yard dash at the Olympic Track and Field trials in Los Angeles. It is won by Marilyn White, who poses smiling for the camera. A large sign shows the bar set at 15 feet 8 inches for the pole vault event. Dave Tork, of West Virginia is shown gracefully clearing the bar and landing in a bed of foam rubber. Next, 5 contenders are seen in the mile run event, which is won by Jim Grelle, who puts on a burst of speed in the last half lap of the race. Grelle smiles for the camera.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1963, January 21
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039144
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